What follows is a brief guide to the art and architecture of the Central Library created by library docents Kenon Breazeale, Katy Go, and Sally Michaels. At the top of each page there are links to six chapters that provide more detailed information about aspects of …

Inspired by the tenets of the City Beautiful movement, library backers hoped to create not only a much-needed central library facility for a rapidly growing city, but an impressively sited, monumental building that would signal Los Angeles coming of age as a great metropolis.

2 天之前 · Take an hour-long tour through the Los Angeles Central Library. Your docent guide will share stories about the history, art, and architecture of L.A.'s landmark downtown library. Meet your docent in the Main Lobby in front of the Library Store.

While the Goodhue Building’s concrete shapes look forward to the streamlined architecture of the 1930s and 40s, an aspect of its design harks back to the 19th century. The original Central Library was a “literate building”, meaning that it was decorated with an extensive program of symbolic sculpture and uplifting inscriptions.

18 小时之前 · Through its Central Library and 72 branches, the Los Angeles Public Library provides free and easy access to information, ideas, books and technology that enrich, educate and empower every individual in our city's diverse communities.

2018年2月17日 · After nearly a century, the Los Angeles Central Library still reflects architect Bertram G. Goodhue's vision that buildings should be “literate,” using symbolic expressions to make them distinctive and eternal.

2016年5月4日 · This well-researched and compelling history of the Central Library was written by Stephen Gee and illustrated with Arnold Schwartzman's exquisite photographs. Implicit is the history and feel of Los Angeles, a city growing in spurts with few pauses to allow for reflection.

Goodhue and Winslow Architectural Drawings and Plans of the Los Angeles Central Library. The Los Angeles Public Library began as a private library association in 1872, comprising two rooms on the second floor of a downtown L.A. commercial block.

The library building is one of the most notable architectural landmarks in downtown Los Angeles. We invite you to start your virtual tour and discover the treasures of the landmark Los Angeles Central Library for yourself.

The Central Library is one of the last great US civic buildings to be decorated with an ambitious sculptural program. For the library, as with the Nebraska capitol, Lawrie and Goodhue were proposing a compromise modernism, one that sought to transform the Beaux-Arts style so closely associated with the City Beautiful movement into something ...