Esoteric Survey

The Glen Lukens house by Raphael Soriano (1940) is up for sale. Listed at nearly $2 million, it has been fully restored by Barry Milofsky of M2A Architects. It's on a huge beautifully-landscaped lot in the historic West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles. It's an important house beyond the architecture. T here is no way to overstate the importance of Glen Lukens (1887-1967) in the world of California ceramics.  It was commissioned when Lukens was teaching ceramics and metalwork at USC. Soriano had graduated from USC in 1934 and later returned as a lecturer in the architecture program, where Lukens was teaching metalwork.  Lukens lived in the house from 1940 to 1959. In addition to his innovative glaze work, while at USC he led the ceramics department where Laura Andreson, Susan Peterson, Carlton Ball, Harrison McIntosh, Beatrice Wood, Doyle Lane and Vivika and Otto Heino were all a part of.  Frank Gehry also took a Lukens ceramics class at U...

Kimpson House, Long Beach, California, 1939-1940 by Raphael Soriano Photo: Julius Shulman,  Getty Research Institute Today Art Center College of Design (Hillside Campus), Pasadena, California, 1970-1976 by Craig Ellwood Source: Art Center Art Center College of Design (Hillside Campus), Pasadena, California, 1970-1976 by Craig Ellwood Source:  Art Center Today Don Kubly, Art Center College President from 1969-1985,  with the Ellwood model. Source:  Art Center Don Kubly also lived in an Ellwood house, just down the hill from campus.  It was built between 1964-65.  That doesn't seen like a bad gig, living and working in an Ellwood.