Watts Towers
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 | Watts Towers |
| Designer | Simon Rodia |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Date | 1921 to 1955 |
| Building Type | monument |
| Climate | mild, dry |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Modern Urban Vernacular |
| Street Address | E 107th St near Santa Ana Blvd |
| Notes | Idiosyncratic, exhuberant monumental urban art, created by one inspired individual. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Watts_Towers.html |
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Commentary
"One man's artistic fantasy is here given substance: fanciful spires pieced together over a period of thirty-three years from steel reinforcing rods and wire mesh, colorfully decorated with seashells and fragments of broken dishes and bottles."
— from Sylvia Hart Wright. Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture: From Postwar to Postmodern. p111.
Details
Watts Towers Arts Center
(213) 847-4646
1765 East 107th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90002
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Donald Corner and Jenny Young, University of Oregon. Slide from photographers' collection. PCD.2350.1012.1143.15. view of towers from street.
Bud Goldstone, co-author. The Los Angeles Watts Towers. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute & J.Paul Getty Museum, December 1997. Phone/Fax 310-568-1571.
Sam Hall Kaplan. LA Lost & Found: an Architectural History of Los Angeles. New York: Crown Publishers, 1987. photo of towers, p152.
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The Wonderful Towers of Watts — children's book telling the story of the towers
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