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(W)rapper Los Angeles, CA Located along the Expo

(W)rapper
Los Angeles, CA

Located along the Expo Line light rail connecting West Los Angeles with Downtown, the project conforms to the City’s long term planning goal to increase density along mass transit routes. In a neighborhood that historically limited heights to 45 feet, the 235 feet tall (W)rapper implements a new scale, density and purpose for the area.

Unlike conventional high-rise structural systems based on columns organized along modular grid lines, (W)rapper is supported by a network of curvilinear steel bands originating from geometric center points. Each curving band is wrapped around the rectilinear building envelope, and folded around each vertical and horizontal corner of the building until it reaches the ground. The steel bands are coated with cementitious fireproofing and support the office floors without the use of conventional columns.

The steel bands are positioned on the building perimeter creating an open, column-free floor plan. The seventeen office floors are distributed as three different floor-to-floor height options – 13’-6”, 16’-6”, and 24’-0” – with a mezzanine hung from the ceiling above on the 24’-0” floor. The elevator and utility core of the building is offset to the south, freeing the office interiors, and providing the maximum floor plan flexibility.

The base-isolated structure is five times more seismically resilient than a typical American high-rise. This allows occupants to return to the office after a major earthquake where other high-rise building will sustain significant damage and require repair or demolition. The increased structural lifecycle of (W)rapper will reduce the carbon footprint of the project substantially over its useable lifetime.

(W)rapper offers the highest possible seismic safety rating and is the only high-rise commercial office building in America that utilizes such a base isolated structure.

Beehive Culver City, CA "The Beehive is part of M

Beehive
Culver City, CA

"The Beehive is part of Moss’s ongoing investigation of kinetics, structural transformation, and contradiction–what he terms the ‘balanced imbalance.’"

D. Hutt, Architectural Record Magazine

Strait is the Gate Culver City, CA "... the world

Strait is the Gate
Culver City, CA

"... the world we know topped with a world we would like to know".

A. Moody, Specifier Magazine

Culver City, CA

The Box Culver City, CA "Moss’ architecture exp

The Box
Culver City, CA

"Moss’ architecture explores the irrational and the agonized; he is attracted to the psychological realm of unresolved or irresolvable problems. "

M. Newman, Architecture Magazine

Strait is the Gate Culver City, CA "The main body

Strait is the Gate
Culver City, CA

"The main body of the building, however undistinguished, is not repudiated, but becomes the volume to which new elements are attached or added, establishing an unexpected dialogue between generic construction and anomaly."

L. Molinari, Lotus

Stealth Culver City, CA "… how to introduce non

Stealth
Culver City, CA

"… how to introduce non sequiturs into a building and make them sequiturs".

M. Pidgeon and E. Young, Architecture and Design Magazine

Hayden Tower Culver City, CA "The process of desi

Hayden Tower
Culver City, CA

"The process of design has to be personal. I’m not sure that the word design is useful if it simply signifies the resolution of a list of problems".
E. Moss, Gnostic Architecture

The City of the Future Los Angeles, CA "Moss’s

The City of the Future
Los Angeles, CA

"Moss’s projects strike me as such a form of education. The knowing spontaneity of his forms, the hands-on approach implicit in their strong, sculptural contours, the relationship they describe between a city’s vitality and the creative potential of its individuals: these coalesce into tangible lessons about how a city should face its future."

H. Muschamp, The New York Times

Austria Under Construction Venice, Italy "... It

Austria Under Construction
Venice, Italy

"... It’s both asset and liability simultaneously, so it fits us... It adds to a provisional vocabulary in architecture."

Eric Moss, The End of Architecture?

Petal House Los Angeles, CA "I would like to mak

Petal House
Los Angeles, CA

"I would like to make a premise out of the idea of the evolving premise. You come to the truth momentarily. Then you lose it again".

E. Moss, Architectural Monographs No.29

Samitaur Culver City, CA "He (Moss) is intereste

Samitaur
Culver City, CA

"He (Moss) is interested in the transitional, seeing danger in what is free and instinctual becoming method".

H. Beck and J. Cooper, UME Magazine

Jose Vasconcelos Library Mexico City, Mexico "...

Jose Vasconcelos Library
Mexico City, Mexico

"... where the order is extreme, the disorder is really a joy".

S. Holl, Progressive Architecture Awards

The Box ’I’ve long been interested in the ide

The Box

’I’ve long been interested in the idea that no matter how fragmented a building may appear, it should come together in the end’ (E. Moss)

A. Betsky, Architecture Magazine

Vespertine Culver City, CA "The architecture of E

Vespertine
Culver City, CA

"The architecture of Eric O. Moss is characterized by the fruitful coexistence of two approaches. One pursues a rational and logical definition of space... the other aims... to arouse emotion and wonder in the user".

M. Constanzo, L’Architettura Magazine

A+M House Santa Monica Canyon, CA "With an upsid

A+M House
Santa Monica Canyon, CA

"With an upside-down form that makes the most of a small plot".

Alice Morby, Hypebeast

8522 National Blvd Culver City, CA The new steel

8522 National Blvd
Culver City, CA

The new steel tube columns and wide flange beams are positioned over, under, around, and through the original trusses and posts, so that the built conclusion is a spatial amalgamation of two distinct construction types rarely found together in a single building.

Ince Theater Culver City, CA "... the quest for a

Ince Theater
Culver City, CA

"... the quest for an architecture that does not accept convention".

S. Stephens, Architectural Record Magazine

MOCA Housing Los Angeles. CA "The tradition of th

MOCA Housing
Los Angeles. CA

"The tradition of the original Case Study houses is one of investigation, invention, and discovery. Those houses - built and unbuilt - though different in many details, consistently embody their architects' willingness to challenge social, technical, planning and design conventions."

Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses

3555 Hayden Culver City, CA "... an effort to cre

3555 Hayden
Culver City, CA

"... an effort to create something ‘very free and malleable’ out of standard, hard materials..."

F. Anderton, The New York Times

Pterodactyl Culver City, CA "We can interpret the

Pterodactyl
Culver City, CA

"We can interpret the building in as many ways as we want…the possibilities are endless. "

A. Betsky, Architektur Aktuell

Gary Group Culver City, CA "The architecture of t

Gary Group
Culver City, CA

"The architecture of the Gary Group is too much… This is decoration that has embedded itself in the structure, function, and experience of the building to such a degree that it can no longer be separated out. "

A. Betsky, Architectural Record Magazine

Vesey Street Turnaround New York, NY "A different

Vesey Street Turnaround
New York, NY

"A different, unpredictable evolution is conceived as discontinuous leaps, not regular, systematic steps: asteroids on Jupiter, not Darwin on Earth. "

E. Moss, Gnostic Architecture

Stealth Culver City, CA "It leans, but is its inc

Stealth
Culver City, CA

"It leans, but is its inclination to fall or to straighten up?"

E. Moss, Eric Owen Moss: Buildings and Projects 2

3555 Hayden Culver City, CA "Indeed it is much to

3555 Hayden
Culver City, CA

"Indeed it is much too simple to say that Eric Owen Moss’s work is merely complicated. The line is simple and the inherent universal order is complex, but not simply for the sake of complexity, nor is it only spatial distortion or manipulation at the expense of orientation and fluidity".

M. Scogin

What Wall? Culver City, CA "… there is no issue

What Wall?
Culver City, CA

"… there is no issue of balance or equity involved. Things co-exist unevenly. "

H. Beck and J. Cooper, UME Magazine

Vespertine They look the same. They behave differ

Vespertine

They look the same. They behave differently.

E. Moss, Conversation with J. Kipnis at Sci-Arc

Umbrella Conference Room "His work can achieve an

Umbrella Conference Room

"His work can achieve an almost frightening intensity: A recent building for the Smiths has a steel-and-glass canopy Moss calls the Umbrella that looks like darting tongues of flame rendered in hallucinatory Art Nouveau style."

-M. Newman, Grid Magazine

A+M House Los Angeles, CA 2022 You think you know

A+M House
Los Angeles, CA
2022

You think you know.
And then you don’t.
You suddenly recognize.
And then you won’t.
Here a rule?
There not so.
Square in the sky.
Absent below.
Roof’s rectangular.
Basement’s not so.
Perhaps symmetrical.
Dissolves, but slow.
Walls incline,
Not all we’ve got.
Asymmetrical.
Yes, then it’s not,
From the canal on the north,
To the end of the lot.
Window’s a piece.
Windows in pieces.
Made out of rubber,
Including the creases.
The sea’s to the west,
Sails all around,
A building of options.
The tension abounds.

Glass Forest Culver City, CA "There is a compell

Glass Forest
Culver City, CA

"There is a compelling energy to these odd angles, and a sense of incompleteness. These buildings don't fade into the background. They force you to look.

There is tension to Moss’s buildings, as if their pieces might suddenly fly apart in all directions at the push of a button."

-Paul Goldberger

Mariinsky Theater Physical Model St. Petersburg, R

Mariinsky Theater
Physical Model
St. Petersburg, Russia

"Gentle forms are crystallized and merged into the metaphor of an iceberg."

-S. Pavarini, L’Arca

(W)rapper Roof Deck Physical Model

(W)rapper Roof Deck
Physical Model

Ince Theater Study Model Culver City, CA "Pythago

Ince Theater
Study Model
Culver City, CA

"Pythagoras grows out the limitless and disappears back into the formless"
-Eric Owen Moss: Buildings and Projects 2

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