Why You Should Forget What You Think You Know About Housing in L.A.

Photo by Lawrence Anderson, a really good architectural photographer

Formosa 1140, a condominium building in Los Angeles designed by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects, sits next to a public green space that was created out of part of its lot.

Article in New York Times on multi-family housing, May 5, 2023, by Julie Lasky

About Lloyd Kahn

Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include Shelter, Shelter II (1978), Home Work (2004), Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008), Tiny Homes (2012), and Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:

3 Responses to Why You Should Forget What You Think You Know About Housing in L.A.

  1. in case of interest, Lloyd
    sad….would have thought after FIFTY years on spot, he would have some sort of historical claim/rights…
    https://www.msn.com/he-il/news/other/one-of-a-kind-israeli-beach-house-to-be-destroyed/ar-AA1cHMJh?li=BBqrI8m

    https://www.thejc.com/news/news/herzliya-hermit-at-risk-of-eviction-after-50-years-from-elaborate-cliffside-cave-home-5MnKbzU6wrpvpoOhxVAZeA
    Herzliya hermit at risk of eviction after 50 years from elaborate cliffside cave home
    https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/wireStory/after-half-century-israel-moves-evict-squatter-cave-101133022

    https://citydesert.wordpress.com/2014/01/08/jewish-hermit-from-herzliya/

    After half a century, Israel moves to evict squatter from his cave home on the beach (msn.com)

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