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Jorge Pardo, 4166 Sea View Lane, 1988.

Constructed for Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles as part of Pardo's solo exhibition in 1998.

- Artist: b. 1963 in Havana, Cuba.

Immigrated to Chicago, Illinois at 9 with parents. Studied in University of Illinois and received BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Pardo known for his bridge between art (painting and sculpture), architecture and design.

- Description of house:

Typical/atypical California bungalow, U-shaped hacienda courtyard house plan (spanish word/arabic tradition), constructed of local redwood, completely covered exterior/completely transparent interior, all interior views of interior courtyard, no access from outwards towards inwards and vice versa, house reflects onto itself, individual lighting orientation in each room, different ceiling heights throughout the house,

- Location of house/Significance of location:

Built on Mount Washington Hills in Northeastern part of Los Angeles, amongst a suburban community, Los Angeles known for their post-war modernist domestic architecture - community includes many of these designed houses,

- Inspiration for house:

Spanish/Arabic hacienda courtyard house plan, modifications of the bungalow, caste study houses of the 1940s - 1960s (archetype for domestic architecture in LA, influenced by post war European architects Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Gregory Ain and Harwell Harris

Citations

Mahony, Emma. "The House on the Hill." Circa, no. 97 (2001): 23-25.

Végh, Christina, Jorge Pardo, Lane Relyea, and Chris Kraus. Jorge Pardo. London: Phaidon, 2008. Print.

Finkel, Jori. "Here's the Show, the Works Are Elsewhere." The New York Times. The New York Times, 2 Dec. 2007. Web. 10 Oct. 2016.