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Landfair Apartments

Apartment buildings in Los AngelesInternational style architecture in CaliforniaLos Angeles Historic-Cultural MonumentsModernist architecture in CaliforniaResidential buildings completed in 1937
Richard Neutra buildingsWestwood, Los Angeles
Landfair Apartments (Westwood)
Landfair Apartments (Westwood)

The Landfair Apartments is a historic two-building multi-family complex located on the southwest corner of Landfair Avenue and Ophir Drive in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. They were colloquially known as The Glass House and was renamed Robison Hall after UCHA member Everett Robison was drafted and killed in action in World War II.The building is a part of a collection of homes designed by Los Angeles based modernist architect, Richard Neutra, and built in North West Westwood Village, which includes the Strathmore Apartments, Elkay Apartments, and Kelton Apartments. Architectural historians Robert Winter and David Gebhard has said that the Landfair Apartments is Neutra's "most International Style designs...of the 1930s."

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Landfair Apartments
Landfair Avenue, Los Angeles Westwood

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Landfair Avenue
90095 Los Angeles, Westwood
California, United States
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