Landfair Apartments

Landfair Apartments

In both appearance and building type, the Landfair Apartments was an oddity for Southern Californians. Aesthetically the Neu Sidelingen – the “new sensibility” – of the structure made it appear to be a transposed element of the flat-roofed municipal housing projects of central Europe.

The complex contains six apartments each with four rooms staggered in row facing east and two units with five rooms on the east side, pivoting away from the L-shaped building for privacy.

Since 1941, the apartments have been used as UCLA student housing since.

Adapted from Neutra – Complete Works by Barbara Lamprecht (Taschen, 2000), p. 128.

Project Detail

Year Built

1937

Project Architect

Richard Neutra with Peter Pfisterer

Client

University of California, Los Angeles

Location

Landfair Avenue at Ophir Drive
Westwood, CA

Current Status

In-Use

Julius Shulman photography archive, 1936-1997.
Richard and Dion Neutra Papers (Collection 1179). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles