AKA: UCLA, Towell Library, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA

Structure Type: built works - public buildings - schools - university buildings

Designers: Hodgetts + Fung Design Associates (firm); Hsin-Ming Fung (architect); Craig Edward Hodgetts (architect)

Dates: [unspecified]

University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) Campus, Los Angeles, CA

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The library was located near the foot of Janss Steps;

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Demolished upon the completion of the Powell Library Seismic Renovation, 1997;

PCAD id: 1364

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Publications

Betsky, Aaron, "Under the big top: Temporary Powell Library, University of California, Los Angeles: Hodgetts and Fung Design Associates, architect", Architectural Record, 181: 3, 94-101, 3/1993. Lamprecht, Barbara, "Bibliotheca temporaria [temporary tent structure library, UCLA]", Architectural Review, 193: 1156, 38-43, 6/1993. "Hodgetts and Fung: Powell Library, University of California, Los Angeles 1992", Architecture + Urbanism (A + U), 272, 10-31, 5/1993. "Bibliothèque provisoire Towell: Craig Hodgetts et Ming Fung", Architecture d'aujourd'hui, 290, 92-95, 12/1993. "Camping: Temporäre Bibliothek in Los Angeles", Architektur, Innenarchitektur, Technischer Ausbau, 102: 5, 46-49, 1994-05. "Bibliothek UCLA in Los Angeles, USA", Deutsche Bauzeitschrift, 42: 4, 49-54, 4/1994. "Craig Hodgetts, Ming Fung: Powell Library /UCLA, L.A.", Domus, 752, 1-3, 9/1993. Steinberg, Sue, "Playful, functional, prototypical?", L.A. Architect, 14-15, 2/1993. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 117, 1994. "Hodgetts + Fung: temporary Powell Library, UCLA, Los Angeles, construzione - built 1992, smontaggio - dismantled, 1997", Lotus International, 105, 54-59, 2000. Ho, Cathy Lang, "Inventing temporary beauty", Metropolis, 16: 9, 76-81, 131, 133, 5/1997. "Now you see it [three temporary structures]", Progressive Architecture, 74: 6, 104-111, 6/1993.

Links

Hodgetts + Fung