Fall Winter 2010/2011
In this Issue of PIN–UP No. 9: JOHNSTON MARKLEE
Talking Shop with L.A.’s
resident Internationalists
Interview by Brooke Hodge
Photography by Todd Cole
HEDI SLIMANE
An L.A. Diary
Interview by Pierre
Alexandre de Looz
Photography by Hedi
Slimane
GREG LYNN
Setting Sail with Venice
Beach’s most compulsive Innovator
Interview by Felix
Burrichter
Photography by Richard
Schulman
THOM MAYNE
Warming House with the
West Coast’s Gentle Giant
Interview by Katya
Tylevich
Photography by Danielle
Levitt
RETNA
Tagging Along With Mid
City’s Graffiti Prodigy
Interview by Naheed Simjee
Photography by Robin Black
Also:
A peek into the private homes of new MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch in Hollywood, Rock Sugar front man Jess Harnell in Studio City, photographer Lisa Eisner in Bel Air, and the legendary Norwood Young in Hancock Park. A special commission for a PIN–UP
Case Study House in the Hollywood
Hills by five international architects including Etienne Descloux from Berlin, Andreas Angelidakis from Athens, Emilio Marín from Santiago
de Chile, Rafael de Cárdenas from
New York, and Sam Causer from
London. Photographer Adrian Gaut discovers
New York in L.A. on the NBC
Universal lot. Johnston Marklee
spell out their Architectural Alphabet in a series of beautifully abstract
models. A slew of tips and tricks for what to do and see when in Venice Beach
(by Sylvia Lavin), Silver Lake
(by Escher GuneWardena), Downtown
L.A. (by Ball Nogues), Pasadena
(by Ini Archibong), Culver City
(by Peter Zellner), and Palm
Springs (by Brad Dunning). A
posthumous tribute to late visionary architect Raimund Abraham in form of his last lecture, shortly before he died
in a tragic car crash in Los Angeles. A peek into the life and work of
oft-overlooked architect Julia Morgan, the mastermind behind William Randolph Hearst’s private castle in San Simeon. And a PIN–UP
Board with many inspiring finds from
around the world, including Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Balenciaga, Anahuacalli, Siki Im, Gerrit Rietveld, Niemeyer in Lebanon, Item Idem, the Venice Architecture Biennale, and Tobias Wong.