- City:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1938
- Designer:
- Richard Neutra
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
From Wikipedia: “Emerson Middle School’s main building was designed by architect Richard Neutra in the International Style of Architecture, and built between 1937 and 1938. It is a two-story, steel-framed structure with strong horizontals. The first-floor classrooms have large, 15-foot glass and steel sliding doors that open to extend the spaces to the outside, while the second-floor classrooms have stairs leading to rooftop terraces. Due to its streamlined and clean appearance, “Emerson Middle School was considered a leading example of 1930s Modernism,” along with Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater House and Walter Gropius’s House.”
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