https://dingbat2.com dingbat2.0 Tue, 19 Feb 2019 05:36:56 +0000 https://dingbat2.com en https://dingbat2.com/SPLASH-The-Dingbat-2-0-Publication Sat, 09 Feb 2019 05:40:31 +0000 dingbat2.0 https://dingbat2.com/SPLASH-The-Dingbat-2-0-Publication Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a MetropolisEdited byThurman Grant &amp; Joshua G. Stein Dingbat 2.0 PublicationThe Los Angeles Dingbat Apartment Dingbat 2.0 Competition Essays Featured Artists Press / EventsLinks / References Purchase the Dingbat 2.0 Publication from Doppelhouse Press here ︎ &nbsp;︎ Contact Dingbat 2.0 &nbsp; Dingbat 2.0 is the first critical study of the most ubiquitous and mundane building type in Los Angeles: the dingbat apartment. Often dismissed as ugly and unremarkable, dingbat apartments have qualities that arguably make them innovative, iconoclastic, and distinctly “L.A.” Praised and vilified in equal measure, dingbat apartments were a critical enabler of Los Angeles’ rapid postwar urban expansion. While these apartments are known for their variety of midcentury decorated facades, less explored is the way they have contributed to a consistency of urban density achieved by few other twentieth century cities. Dingbat 2.0 integrates essays and discussions by some of today’s leading architects, urbanists and cultural critics with photographic series, typological analysis, and speculative designs from around the world to propose alternate futures for Los Angeles housing and to consider how qualities of the inarguably flawed housing type can foreground many crucial issues facing global metropolises today.Essays by Barbara Bestor, Aaron Betsky, James Black, John Chase, Dana Cuff, Thurman Grant, John Kaliski, John Southern, Joshua G. Stein, Steven A. Treffers, and Wim de Wit. Photographic series by Judy Fiskin, Paul Redmond and Lesley Marlene Siegel. Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis DoppelHouse Press, 2016 Published in cooperation with The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design LA Forum Book Design: Jessica Fleischmann/still room The book successfully leverages the dingbat as a launchpad for surveying multi-family housing in Los Angeles, picking apart the prickly and multivalent nature of its creation myth and subsequent existence through the lenses of prior appreciation, scholarly interest, and post-war art production. It attempts to ground what could otherwise be a fetishization of Sputnik-era kitsch into a sprawling examination of the economic, social, and technocratic instruments developers, architects, and occupants used to design, build, and enjoy one of L.A.’s most unsung contributions to architectural-historical patrimony. The book’s central matter, the field guide to dingbats, will change the way you see L.A. -Antonio Pachecho The Architect’s Newspaper https://dingbat2.com/2-The-Dingbat-2-0-Publication Tue, 19 Feb 2019 05:14:29 +0000 dingbat2.0 https://dingbat2.com/2-The-Dingbat-2-0-Publication Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a MetropolisEdited by Thurman Grant &amp; Joshua G. Stein&nbsp;Dingbat 2.0 PublicationThe Los Angeles Dingbat Apartment Dingbat 2.0 Competition Essays Featured Artists Press / Events Purchase the Dingbat 2.0 Publication from Doppelhouse Press here ︎ &nbsp;︎&nbsp; Contact Dingbat 2.0 &nbsp; The book successfully leverages the dingbat as a launchpad for surveying multi-family housing in Los Angeles, picking apart the prickly and multivalent nature of its creation myth and subsequent existence through the lenses of prior appreciation, scholarly interest, and post-war art production. It attempts to ground what could otherwise be a fetishization of Sputnik-era kitsch into a sprawling examination of the economic, social, and technocratic instruments developers, architects, and occupants used to design, build, and enjoy one of L.A.’s most unsung contributions to architectural-historical patrimony. The book’s central matter, the field guide to dingbats, will change the way you see L.A. -Antonio Pachecho The Architect’s Newspaper https://dingbat2.com/2-Los-Angeles-Dingbat-Apartments Tue, 19 Feb 2019 05:15:11 +0000 dingbat2.0 https://dingbat2.com/2-Los-Angeles-Dingbat-Apartments Dingbat 2.0 is the first critical study of the most ubiquitous and mundane building type in Los Angeles: the dingbat apartment. Often dismissed as ugly and unremarkable, dingbat apartments have qualities that arguably make them innovative, iconoclastic, and distinctly “L.A.”&nbsp; Praised and vilified in equal measure, dingbat apartments were a critical enabler of Los Angeles’ rapid postwar urban expansion. While these apartments are known for their variety of midcentury decorated facades, less explored is the way they have contributed to a consistency of urban density achieved by few other twentieth century cities. Dingbat 2.0 integrates essays and discussions by some of today’s leading architects, urbanists and cultural critics with photographic series, typological analysis, and speculative designs from around the world to propose alternate futures for Los Angeles housing and to consider how qualities of the inarguably flawed housing type can foreground many crucial issues facing global metropolises today. The Los Angeles Dingbat Apartment The dingbat, even more than the occasional tower blocks below Hollywood or along Wilshire, is the true symptom of Los Angeles’ urban Id trying to cope with the unprecedented appearance of residential densities too high to be subsumed within the illusions of homestead living. -Reyner BanhamLos Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies https://dingbat2.com/2-Dingbat-2-0-Competition Tue, 19 Feb 2019 05:30:39 +0000 dingbat2.0 https://dingbat2.com/2-Dingbat-2-0-Competition Dingbat 2.0 includes essays by Barbara Bestor, Aaron Betsky, James Black, John Chase, Dana Cuff, Thurman Grant, John Kaliski, John Southern, Joshua G. Stein, Steven A. Treffers, and Wim de Wit. Photographic series by Judy Fiskin, Paul Redmond and Lesley Marlene Siegel. Dingbat 2.0 Competition n The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design’s&nbsp; 2010 Dingbat 2.0 Competition challenged designers to reimagine Los Angeles dingbat apartments for the 21st century. https://dingbat2.com/2-Featured-Artists Tue, 19 Feb 2019 05:36:56 +0000 dingbat2.0 https://dingbat2.com/2-Featured-Artists Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis DoppelHouse Press, 2016 Published in cooperation with The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design LA Forum Book Design: Jessica Fleischmann/still room Featured Artists Ed Ruscha Frank Gehry Judy Fiskin&nbsp; Paul Redmond Lesley Marlene Siegel https://dingbat2.com/HOME-The-Dingbat-2-0-Publication Wed, 27 Dec 2017 09:27:35 +0000 dingbat2.0 https://dingbat2.com/HOME-The-Dingbat-2-0-Publication The book successfully leverages the dingbat as a launchpad for surveying multi-family housing in Los Angeles, picking apart the prickly and multivalent nature of its creation myth and subsequent existence through the lenses of prior appreciation, scholarly interest, and post-war art production. It attempts to ground what could otherwise be a fetishization of Sputnik-era kitsch into a sprawling examination of the economic, social, and technocratic instruments developers, architects, and occupants used to design, build, and enjoy one of L.A.’s most unsung contributions to architectural-historical patrimony. The book’s central matter, the field guide to dingbats, will change the way you see L.A. -Antonio Pachecho The Architect’s Newspaper Dingbat 2.0 Publication https://dingbat2.com/HOME-Los-Angeles-Dingbat-Apartments Wed, 27 Dec 2017 09:27:36 +0000 dingbat2.0 https://dingbat2.com/HOME-Los-Angeles-Dingbat-Apartments The&nbsp;Los Angeles Dingbat Apartment The dingbat, even more than the occasional tower blocks below Hollywood or along Wilshire, is the true symptom of Los Angeles’ urban Id trying to cope with the unprecedented appearance of residential densities too high to be subsumed within the illusions of homestead living. -Reyner Banham Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies https://dingbat2.com/HOME-Dingbat-2-0-Competition Wed, 27 Dec 2017 09:27:36 +0000 dingbat2.0 https://dingbat2.com/HOME-Dingbat-2-0-Competition Dingbat 2.0 Competition https://dingbat2.com/HOME-Featured-Artists Wed, 27 Dec 2017 10:32:23 +0000 dingbat2.0 https://dingbat2.com/HOME-Featured-Artists Featured Artists Ed Ruscha Frank Gehry Judy Fiskin&nbsp; Paul Redmond&nbsp; Lesley Marlene Siegel https://dingbat2.com/Dingbat-2-0-Publication Sun, 11 Aug 2013 07:03:16 +0000 dingbat2.0 https://dingbat2.com/Dingbat-2-0-Publication Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis Dingbat 2.0 gives an often-maligned Los Angeles building type its long overdue moment in the sun, not only advancing a sophisticated typology of dingbats, but also reimagining the potential of the dingbat for the twenty-first century—at a moment when the imperative to create livable and modest affordable housing is more pressing than ever. – Ken Bernstein, Principal City Planner, Los Angeles Department of City Planning and Office of Historic Resources &nbsp;<img width="1000" height="1220" width_o="1000" height_o="1220" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e282fd85119aaea6e5c11708e3cc4bea414d7d5b77ef4bd336a7867911a24029/Dingbat2.0_BookCover.png" data-mid="8492797" border="0" data-scale="48" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e282fd85119aaea6e5c11708e3cc4bea414d7d5b77ef4bd336a7867911a24029/Dingbat2.0_BookCover.png" /> Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis is a publication which discusses the influence, both past and future, of the dingbat apartment building on urban development, cultural iconography and architectural history. Existing and historic conditions of Los Angeles’ dingbats and dingbat neighborhoods are examined through short essays by prominent architectural critics and urban theorists, as well as graphic and photo-documentation of dingbats and dingbat neighborhoods. Also included in the publication are winning and selected entries from the Dingbat 2.0 Competition, held in 2010 by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. In Los Angeles the dingbat grew out of the city’s rapid postwar expansion period and defined a pervasive vernacular that still weaves through the space of L.A.’s neighborhoods and the decades of their development. For more than half a century, this idiosyncratic typology has been studied, vilified, praised, and often misunderstood – as much for being ugly and ordinary as for being innovative, iconoclastic, and distinctly “L.A.” As a housing type, the dingbat has aided the sprawl for which Los Angeles is infamous, while simultaneously aiding in the creation of a consistent urban density achieved by few other cities. Dingbat 2.0 speculates on re-envisioning the Dingbat, and in so doing, offering visions for an emerging 21st Century Los Angeles. Essays by Barbara Bestor, Aaron Betsky, James Black, John Chase, Dana Cuff, Thurman Grant, John Kaliski, John Southern, Joshua G. Stein, Steven A. Treffers, and Wim de Wit. Photographic series by Judy Fiskin, Paul Redmond, and Lesley Marlene Siegel. The Dingbat 2.0 publication is available for purchase from DoppelHouse Press here. Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis Edited by Thurman Grant and Joshua G. Stein Published by DoppelHouse Press in cooperation with The L.A. Forum for Architecture and Urban Design <img width="288" height="133" width_o="288" height_o="133" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d31ad459a818d000124949efb4f1ceef48ec0e022da546e88dbd68518db6c089/Doppelhouse-Press-logo-small.jpg" data-mid="8452949" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/288/i/d31ad459a818d000124949efb4f1ceef48ec0e022da546e88dbd68518db6c089/Doppelhouse-Press-logo-small.jpg" /> Book design by Jessica Fleischmann / still room Cover drawing by Thurman Grant, based on concept by Jessica Fleischmann / still room