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| Architect | Simon Rodia |
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| Location | Los Angeles, California map | ||||
| Date | 1921 to 1955 timeline | ||||
| Building Type | monument | ||||
| Construction System | steel and concrete assemblage | ||||
| Climate | mild, dry | ||||
| Context | urban | ||||
| Style | Modern Urban Vernacular | ||||
| Notes | Idiosyncratic, exhuberant monumental urban art, created by one inspired individual. | ||||
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| Discussion | Watts Towers 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 | ||||
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Sources on Watts Towers
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. Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com
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Links on Watts Towers
The Wonderful Towers of Watts — children's book telling the story of the towers
Watts Towers at Archiplanet — Find, add, and edit info at the all-buildings collaboration
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