Orange Coast College, Science Building

Orange Coast College, Science Building

Recalling their design for the college’s Business Education Building, Neutra and Alexander’s Science Building at Orange Coast College is arranged in a T-shaped complex. Here laboratories and classrooms are joined by a small planetarium. The design directs attention toward the unusual structure with a curving pool which echoed the lines of the planetarium. The buildings’ gabled roofs were partially concealed by the covered walkways with broad overhangs that extend across the site.

Adapted from Neutra – Complete Works by Barbara Lamprecht (Taschen, 2000), p. 291.