PCAD - Allied Architects Association of Los Angeles (AAALA)

Exterior view of the Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 2013. Photo by Daniel Eidelson for the Pacific Coast Architecture Database

Exterior view of the Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, CA, from Overland Monthly, 08-09/1931

Exterior view of the Los Angeles County Hall of Records #1 (left), County Courthouse (center) and County Hall of Justice (right), Los Angeles, 1927; from the University of Southern California (USC), Libraries, California Historical Society Collection, Item #CHS-33190

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John Corneby Wilson Austin, George Julius Lind, Kemper Nomland Sr., Donald Berthold Parkinson, John Parkinson, Jesse Earl Stanton, Austin Cruver Whittlesey

Active 1921-1944

Firm Notes

John C. Austin, John and Donald B. Parkinson and Austin Whittlesey comprised Allied Architects Association of Los Angeles in work on third Los Angeles City Hall (1926-1928); according to the UCLA Department of Special Collections: "The Allied Architects Association of Los Angeles, California was founded ca. 1921 to provide municipal, county, state, and national governments with professional architects at a reasonable cost. AAALA did not accept or perform architectural services for private individuals or firms." (See Online Archive of California, "Finding Aid for the Allied Architects Association of Los Angeles Records, 1921-1944," accessed 03/27/2009) The UCLA Department of Special Collections maintains a collection of 25 boxes of materials on AAALA.

The Library of the Allied Architects Association of Los Angeles was absorbed by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Arts Library. This library had a fund for the purchase of architecture books that was donated by this group.

PCAD id: 54

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Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
City and County Building, Denver, CO		Denver	CO
City and County of Los Angeles, Civic Center, Los Angeles, CA		Los Angeles	CA
City of Los Angeles, City Hall #3, Civic Center, Los Angeles, CA	1926-1928	Los Angeles	CA
City of Los Angeles, Department of Recreation and Parks, Echo Park Clubhouse and Community Center Building, Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA	1925-1926	Los Angeles	CA
County of Los Angeles, General Hospital, 1200 North State Street, Los Angeles, CA		Los Angeles	CA
County of Los Angeles, Hall of Justice Building, Los Angeles, CA	1925	Los Angeles	CA
Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA	1926-1929	Hollywood, Los Angeles	CA
Patriotic Hall, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1926	Los Angeles	CA

Publications

"Make your Clients Their Own "Weather Man"", Architectural Record, 68: 2, 136, 08/1930. Snoonian, Deborah, "Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, California", Architectural Record, 152-155, 1/2005. "Sub-Contracts Awarded", Building and Engineering News, 25: 1, 01/1925. Koenig, Gloria, "Book Look Iconic LA: Stories of LA's Most Memorable Buildings", Echoes, 36, 88, 05/2001. Martin, Helen Eastman, History of the Los Angeles County Hospital, 1878-1968, 1979. Northcutt, John Orlando, Hollywood Bowl Story, 1962. Torrence, Bruce T., Hollywood: The First 100 Years, 114-115, 117, 126-127, 202, 1979. Palmer, Edwin Obadiah, Hollywood: The First 100 Years, 1: 210-213, 259, 1938. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 246, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 246-248, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Hollywood Bowl, 1924 to present", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 149, 1994. "Hollywood Bowl the perfect setting for Centennial pageant", Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 07/24/1950. Rasmussen, Cecilia, "WPA projects", Los Angeles Times, B3, 11/22/1993. Russell, Ron, "Shell game", New Times Los Angeles, 14+, 02/01/2001. Jewell, Edward Alden, "William Zorach: Sculpture for Architecture", New York Times, 119, 02/01/1931. Ritter, Paul, Planning for Man and Motor, 23, 1964.

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City and County Building, Denver, CO Hall of Justice History of the Hollywood Bowl Shell Long Beach City Hall Los Angeles City Hall Public Art Bibliography of Resources Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center

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