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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

Lawson Westen House Brentwood, CA "But perhaps th

Lawson Westen House
Brentwood, CA

"But perhaps the most unexpected characteristic of the house cannot be seen in a single brief visit or in a photograph ... sunlight through the irregularly placed windows seems to rotate gyroscopically on the curved walls."

-J. Giovannini, Los Angeles Times

Spa Study Model Culver City, CA

Spa Study Model
Culver City, CA

Stealth Culver City, CA "The dynamic forms do not

Stealth
Culver City, CA

"The dynamic forms do not imply speed, but change. "
-J. Giovannini, Architecture Magazine

Pterodactyl Physical Model "... the world we know

Pterodactyl
Physical Model

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

-A. Moody, Specifier Magazine

3535 Hayden "The essential state of incompletion

3535 Hayden

"The essential state of incompletion marks the Pittard Sullivan building… it acts as a self-conscious metaphor of a lack of definition that pervades our culture... this lacuna... is a space that opens up the possibility of wonder (or fear) of what cannot and should not be known."

-A. Betsky, Architektur Aktuell

Umbrella and Pterodactyl "It is the crystal made

Umbrella and Pterodactyl

"It is the crystal made by crunching together all the construction already on the site. Out of it a whole new universe of forms can grow."

-A. Betsky,
Architecture Magazine

Bi-fold skylights at Tin Can Los Angeles, CA

Bi-fold skylights at Tin Can
Los Angeles, CA

Gasometer D-4 Model Vienna Austria

Gasometer D-4 Model
Vienna Austria

Pterodactyl Culver City, CA “An exemplar of Mos

Petal House Model Los Angeles, CA

Petal House Model
Los Angeles, CA

Samitaur Los Angeles, CA "The project is thus bas

Samitaur
Los Angeles, CA

"The project is thus based on the canceling of contraries: a massive but aerial block, which is heavy but lifts off from the roof, a rigid but dancing infrastructure."

-A. Lavalou, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui

3555 Hayden Culver City, CA

3555 Hayden
Culver City, CA

Pterodactyl Culver City, CA "I think what’s app

Pterodactyl
Culver City, CA

"I think what’s appealing for me is the evolution of the workplace—it has to do with technology, the size of spaces that people need, and the fact that they move around. In Pterodactyl, the ground floor is pretty much an open plan. The second is broken down into nine “boxes” that are more privatized and have their own personalities. There’s another piece, which is harder to read in the drawings but very readily understood when you’re in the building itself, which is a bridge that allows you to walk the length of the building.

I think a building like that lends itself to a different sociology―it works...it’s very appealing to go in there and to see it. I think the configuration of the building facilitates the energy and enthusiasm of the people who inhabit it."

-Eric Moss talking to Aaron Betsky, Architect Magazine

8522 National Culver City, CA "... a different re

8522 National
Culver City, CA

"... a different relationship with history can be built up, gleaning awareness from past experiences while moving towards a concrete growth in the present. Everything consists of a conceptually unitarian complex, where old and new, despite being clearly recognizable, become integral parts of a new order superimposed over an earlier one… The common denominator for everything is Los Angeles, with its complex urban and social framework, and each project illustrates the contrast between continuity and discontinuity, symmetry and asymmetry, and order and disorder which seem to reflect the very characteristics of this particular context."

-F. Bonomo, L’Arca Magazine

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