OCT28 2013 Date

DEPARTMENT OF CITY PLANNING EXECUTIVE OFFICES OFFICE OF HISTORIC RESOURCES 200 N. SPRING STREET, ROOM 620 CITY OF Los ANGELES MICHAEL LOGRANDE Los ANGELES,CA 90012-4801 DIRECTOR' (213) 978-1200 CALIFORNIA (213) 978-1271

AlAN BELl, AlCP CULTURAL HERITAGE COMMISSION DEPUTY DIRECTOR (213) 978-1272 RICHARD BARRON PRESIDENT USA WEBBER, AICP ROELLA H. LOUIE DEPUTY DIRECTOR VICE-PRESIDENT (213) 978-1274 TARA). HAMACHER GAlL KENNARD EVA YUAN-MCDANIEL oz scorr DEPUTY DIRECTOR ERIC GARCETTI (213) 978-1273 FELY C. PINGOL MAYOR FAX: (213) 978-1275 COMMISSION EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT (213) 978-1294 INFORMATION (213) 978-1270 OCT28 2013 www.p!anning.lacity.o.rg Date:

Los Angeles City Council Room 395, City Hall 200 North Spring Street, Room 410 Los Angeles, California 90012

Attention: Sharon Gin, Legislative Assistant Planning and Land Use Management Committee .. "". '~ 'f;-;-" . SUBJECT: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (USC) FACILITIES VARIOUS LOCATIONS .

At the Cultural Heritage Commission meeting of October 17, 2013, the Commission moved to include the above properties in the list of Historic-Cultural Monument, subject to adoption by the City Council.

As required under the provisions of Section 22.171.10 of the Los Angeles Administrative Code, the Commission has solicited opinions and information from the office of the Council District in which the site is located and from any Department or Bureau of the city whose operations may be affected by the designation of such site as a Historic-Cultural Monument. Such designation in and of itself has no fiscal impact. Future applications for permits may cause minimal administrative costs.

The City Council, according to the guidelines set forth in Section 22.171 of the Los Angeles Administrative Code, shall act on the proposed inclusion to the list within 90 days of the Council or Commission action, whichever first occurs. By resolution, the Council may extend the period for good cause for an additional 15 days.

The Cultural Heritage Commission would appreciate your inclusion of the subject modification to the list of Historic-Cultural Monuments upon adoption by the City Council.

The above Cultural Heritage Commission actions were taken by the following votes:

CHC-2013-2387-HCM " GEORGE F. BOVARD ADMINISTRATION BOlLDING 3551 TROUSDALE PARKWAY ., Moved: Commissioner Barron Seconded: Commissioner Hamacher Ayes: Commissioner Kennard Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0 . "':;\,< ".; M{)d3U~-.---.---- A8 >l1:l3l8MI8 'J VVl :o.UUBnSJOd LlJ:6 Uti OS130E/9Z ~1/51(\ :}OVo.1 1!0unoO JO:::lABa lSBl ttl/51/ \ :UW!laWll Los Angeles City Council Page 2

CHC-2013-2419-HCM GYWNN WILSON STUDENT UNION 3535 S. FIGUEROA STREET

Moved: Commissioner Kennard Seconded: Commissioner Hamacher Ayes: Commissioner Barron Absent Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0

CHC-2013-2397 -HCM MUDD MEMORIAL HALL OF PHILOSOPHY 3709 S. UNIVERSITY AVENUE

Moved: Commissioner Hamacher Seconded: Commissioner Barron Ayes: Commissioner Kennard Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0

CHC-2013-2392-HCM PHYSICAL EDUCATION BUILDING 3560 S. WATT WAY

Moved: Commissioner Hamacher 'Seconded: Commissioner Kennard Ayes: Commissioner Barron Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0

CHC-2013-2394-HCM DOHENY MEMORIAL LIBRARY 3550 TROUSDALE PARKWAY

Moved: Commissioner Kennard Seconded: Commissioner Barron Ayes: Commissioner Hamacher Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0

CHC-2013-2399-HCM ALLAN HANCOCK FOUNDATION 3616 S. TROUSDALE PARKWAY

Moved: Commissioner Hamacher Seconded: Commissioner Kennard Ayes: Commissioner Barron Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0 Los Angeles City Council Page 3

CHC-2013-2401-HCM OLIN HALL OF ENGINEERING 3650 McCLINTOCK AVENUE

Moved: Commissioner Hamacher Seconded: Commissioner Barron Ayes: Commissioner Kennard Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0

CHC-2013-2403-HCM UNIVERSITY RELIGIOUS CENTER 835 W. 34TH STREET

Moved: Commissioner Kennard Seconded: Commissioner Hamacher Ayes: Commissioner Barron' , Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0

CHC-2013-2405-HCM VON KLEINSMID CENTER 3518 S. TROUSDALE PARKWAY

Moved: Commissioner Hamacher Seconded: Commissioner Barrori ' Ayes: Commissioner Kennard Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0

CHC-2013-2408-HCM ANNENBERG SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS 3502 S. WATT WAY

Moved: Commissioner Kennard Seconded: Commissioner Barron' Ayes: Commissioner Hamacher Absent: Commissioners LOUie and Scott

Vote: 3-0

CHC-2013-2411-HCM 3440 SOUTH HOPE STREET BUILDING 3440 S. HOPE STREET

Moved: Commissioner Hamacher Seconded: Commissioner Kennard Ayes: Commissioner Barron Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0 Los Angeles City Council Page 4

CHC-2013-2415-HCM DOSAN AHN CHANG HO FAMILY HOME 809 W. 34TH STREET

Moved: Commissioner Kennard Seconded: Commissioner Barron Ayes: Commissioner Hamacher Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0

Fely C. P n 01, C mission Executive Assistant Cultural Heritage Commission

Attachment: Applications c: Council member Curren D. Price, Jr. , Ninth Council District Brian League Historic Resources Group GIS

, •• 1 DEPARTMENT OF CITY PLANNING EXECUTIVE OFFICES OFFICE OF HISTORIC RESOURCES 200 N. SPRING STREET, ROOM 620 CITY OF Los ANGELES Michael loGRANDE los ANGELES,CA 90012~480l DIRECTOR (213) 978-1200 CALIFORNIA (213) 978-1271

ALAN BELL, AlCP CULTURAL HERITAGE COMMISSION DEPUTY DIRECTOR (213) 978-1272 RICHARD BARRON PRESIDENT USA WEBBER, AlCP ROElLA H. LOUIE VlCH'RESIDENT DEPUTY DiRECTOR (213) 978-1274 TARA 1. HAMACHER GAll KENNARD 8/A YUAN-MCDANIEL OZ SCOTT DEPUTY DIRECTOR ERIC GARCETTI (213) 978-1273 FElY C. PINGOl MAYOR FAX: (213) 978-1275 COMMISSION EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT (213) 978~1294 INFORMATiON (213) 978-1270 OCT 28 2013 www.pianningJacity.org Date:

Brian League Executive Director Real Estate Development 3335 S.Figueroa Street, Unit G CERTIFIED MAIL Los Angeles, CA 90007 RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED

SUBJECT": UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN (USC) FACILITIES VARIOUS LOCATIONS'

As you will note from the attached copy of our communication to the Los Angeles City Council, the Cultural Heritage Commission has moved to include the above-referenced properties in the list of Historic- Cultural monuments, subject to adoption by the City Council.

In due course, our transmittal will be given a council file number and will be referred to the Council's Planning and Land Use Management Committee for review' and recommendation. If you are interested in attending the Council Committee meeting, you should call Sharon Gin at (213) 978-1074 for information as to the time and place of the Committee and City Council meetings regarding this matter. Please give Ms. Gin at least one week from the date of this letter to schedule this item on the Committee Agenda before you call her.

The above Cultural Heritage Commission actions were taken by the following votes:

CHC-2013-2387 -HCM GEORGE F. BOVARD ADMINISTRATION BUILDING 3551 TROUSDALE PARKWAY

Moved: Commissioner Barron Seconded: Commissioner Hamacher Ayes: Commissioner Kennard Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0

CHC-2013·2419-HCM GYWNN WILSON STUDENT UNION 3535 S. FIGUEROA STREET

Moved: Commissioner Kennard' Seconded: Commissloner Hamacher Ayes: Commissioner Barron Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0 Brian League Page 2

Moved: Commissioner Hamacher Seconded: Commissioner Barron Ayes: Commissioner Kennard Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0

CHC-2013-2392-HCM PHYSICAL EDUCATION BUILDING 3560 S. WATT WAY

Moved: Commissioner Hamacher Seconded: Commissioner Kennard Ayes: Commissioner Barron Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0

CHC-2013-2394-HCM ';'" ''-,'' DOHENY MEMORIAL LIBRARY 3550 TROUSDALE PARKWAY

Moved: Commissioner Kennard Seconded: Commissioner Barron Ayes: Commissioner Hamacher Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0

CHC-2013-2399-HCM ALLAN HANCOCK FOUNDATION 3616 S. TROUSDALE PARKWAY

Moved: Commissioner Hamacher Seconded: Commissioner Kennard Ayes: Commissioner Barron Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0 Brian League Page 3

CHC-2013-2401-HCM OLIN HALL OF ENGINEERING 3650 McCLINTOCK AVENUE

Moved: Commissioner Hamacher Seconded: Commissioner Barron Ayes: Commissioner Kennard Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0

CHC-2013-2403-HCM UNIVERSITY RELIGIOUS CENTER 835 W. 34TH STREET

Moved: Commissioner Kennard Seconded: Commissioner Hamacher Ayes: Commissioner Barron Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0

CHC-2013-2405-HCM VON KLEINSMID CENTER 3518 S. TROUSDALE PARKWAY

Moved: Commissioner Hamacher Seconded: Commissioner Barron Ayes: Commissioner Kennard Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0

CHC-2013-2408-HCM ANNENBERG SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS 3502 S. WATT WAY

Moved: Commissioner Kennard Seconded: Commissioner Barron Ayes: Commissioner Hamacher Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0

CHC-2013-2411-HCM 3440 SOUTH HOPE STREET BUILDING 3440 S. HOPE STREET

Moved: Commissioner Hamacher Seconded: Commissioner Kennard Ayes: Commissioner Barron Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0 Brian League Page 4

CHC-2013-2415-HCM DOSAN AHN CHANG HO FAMILY HOME 809 W. 34TH STREET

Moved: Commissioner Kennard Seconded: Commissioner Barron Ayes: Commissioner Hamacher Absent: Commissioners Louie and Scott

Vote: 3-0

Fely C. i 01, mmission Executive Assistant Cultural Heritage Commission

Attachment: Applications c: Councilmember Curren D. Price, Ninth Council District Historic Resources Group GIS

) ...' Los Angeles Department of City Planning RECOMMENDATION REPORT

CULTURAL HERITAGE COMMISSION CASE NO.: CHC-2013-2405-HCM ENV-2013-2406-CE

DATE: October 17, 2013 Location: 3518 S. Trousdale Parkway TIME: 10:00 AM Council District: 9 PLACE: City Hall, Room 1010 Community Plan Area: South Los Angeles 200 N. Spring Street Area Planning Commission: South Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90012 Neighborhood Council: Empowerment Congress North Area Legal Description: Tract TR 21684

PROJECT: Historic-Cultural Monument Application for the VON KLEINSMID CENTER

REQUEST: Declare the property a Historic-Cultural Monument

APPLICANT! University of Southern California (USC) OWNER: Brian League, Executive Director Real Estate Development University of Southern California 3335 S. Figueroa si, Unit G Los Angeles, CA 90007

OWNER'S Historic Resources Group REPRESENTATIVE: . 12 S. Fair Oaks Ave. Suite 200 Pasadena, CA 91105

RECOMMENDATION That the Cultural Heritage Commission:

1. Declare the property a Historic-Cultural Monument per Los Angeles Administrative Code chapters, Division 22, Article 1, Section 22.171.7.

2. Adopt the report findings.

MICHAEL J. LOGRANDE Director of Planning

Ken Bernstein, AICP, Manager Lambert M. Giessinger, Preservation Architect Office of Historic Resources Office of Historic Resources

Attachments: Historic-Cultural Monument Application CHC-2013-2405-HCM 3518 S. Trousdale Parkway Page 20f4

FINDINGS

1} The building "embodies the distinguishing characteristics of an architectural type specimen, inherently valuable for a study of a period style or method of construction" as an example ofthe New Formalism style.

2} The building is associated with a master builder, designer, or architect, as a work by the architect Edward Durell Stone.

3} The property reflects "the broad cultural, economic, or social history of the nation, State or community" for its association with the Pereira Master Plan and Update of the USC campus.

CRITERIA

The criterion is the Cultural Heritage Ordinance which defines a historical or cultural monument as any site (including significant trees or other plant life located thereon) building or structure of particular historic or cultural significance to the City of Los Angeles, such as historic structures or sites in which the broad cultural, economic, or social history of the nation, State or community is reflected or exemplified, or which are identified with historic personages or with important events in the main currents of national, State or local history or which embody the distinguishing characteristics of an architectural type specimen, inherently valuable for a study of a period style or method of construction, or a notable work of a master builder, designer or architect whose individual genius influenced his age.

SUMMARY

Constructed in 1966, this three-story institutional building with prominent tower exhibits character-defining features of the New Formalism style. The Von .Kleinsmid Center is composed of three volumes arranged in a tl-shaped plan around a paved sunken courtyard at basement level. ..A. four-sided painted concrete tower with concave brick clad walls and surmounted with a metal globe sculpture rises from the basement level. A brick-paved area east of the tower forms circular steps down to the basement level. The exterior elevations are clad in brick. Windows and spandrels fill thin vertical glazed openings across the north facade, The main elevation exhibits symmetrical arcaded openings consisting' of ten arches. The expressed thin flat roof broadly overhangs the exterior and exhibits a pattern of rectangular perforations in the soffit. The subject building is surrounded by decorative brick paving with rectangular designs.

The subject building was designed by influential architect Edward Durell Stone (1902-1978). The University of Southern California, founded in 1880, had four major development periods. They encompass the construction of Widney Hall in 1880, the first campus building, through the completion of the Annenberg School of Communications in 1976. The subject building was constructed under the auspices of the Pereira Master Plan and Update (1960-1976) and is regarded as one of the most prominent features of this plan. In 1960, President Topping employed preeminent architect and planner William L. Pereira to create a new master plan which was then expanded in 1966. Pereira had taught at USC from 1949-1957 and was recognized nationally for his work. During the 1960s-70s his firm completed over 250 commissions including master plans for Los Angeles International Airport and Irvine, CA. A firm believer in Garden City planning principles, Pereira em phaslzed the use of quadrangles in site CHC-2013-2405-HCM 3518 S. Trousdale Parkway Page 30f4

planning, public spaces, pedestrian and auto circulation, and landscaping in his USC Master Plan.

The University Park campus appears to cootamthe highest concentration of St()n~'s work on the West Coast.

DISCUSSION

The Von Kleinsmid Center historic property successfully meets three of the specified Historic- Cultural Monument criteria: 1) "embodies the distinguishing characteristics of an architectural type specimen, inherently valuable for a study of a period style or method of construction: 2) "is associated with a master builder, designer, or architect" and, 3) reflects "the broad cultural, economic, or social history of the nation, State. or community." As a representative of the New Formalism style, designed by architect Edward Durell Stone, and part of the Pereira Master Plan and Update of the USC campus, the property qualifies for designation as a Historic- Cultural Monument based on these criteria.

CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTALCUALITY ACT ("CECA") REVIEW

State of California CEQA Guidelines, Article 19, Section 15308, Class 8 "consists of actions taken by regulatory agencies, as authorized by state or local ordinance, to assure the maintenance, restoration, enhancement, or protection of the environment where the regulatory process involves procedures for protection of the environment."

State of California CEQA Guidelines Article 19, Section 15331, Class 31 "consists of projects limited to maintenance, repair, stabilization, rehabilitation, restoration, preservation, conservation or reconstruction of historical resources in a manner consistent with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for Preserving, Rehabilitating, RestOring, and Reconstructing Historic buildings."

The designation of the Von Kleinsmid Center property as a Historic-Cultural Monument in accordance with Chapter 9, Article 1, of The City of Los Angeles Administrative Code ("LAAC") will ensure that future construction activities involving the subject property are regulated in accordance with Section 22.171.14 of the LAAC. The purpose of the designation is to prevent significant impacts to a Historic-Cultural Monument through the application of the standards set forth in the LAAC. Without the regulation imposed by way of the pending designation, the historic significance and integrity of the subject property could be lost through incompatible alterations and new construction and the demolition of irreplaceable historic structures. The Secretary of the Interior's Standards of Rehabilitation are expressly incorporated into the LAAC and provide standards concerning the historically appropriate construction activities which will ensure the continued preservation of the subject property.

The use of Categorical Exemption Class 8 in connection with the proposed designation is consistent with the goals of maintaining, restoring, enhancing; and protecting the environment through the imposition of regulations desiqned to prevent the degradation of Historic-Cultural Monuments.

The use of Categorical Exemption Class 31 in connection with the proposed designation is consistent with the goals relating to the preservation, rehabilitation, restoration and reconstruction of Historic buildings in a manner consistent with the Secretary of the Interior's CHC·2013·2405-HCM 3518 S. Trousdale Parkway Page 4014

Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for Preserving Rehabilitating, Restoring, and Reconstructing Historic Buildings. HISTORiC-CULTURAL MONUMENT APPLICA TiON

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H!STOruC-CUlTUAAl MONUMENT APPlICATiON I 9. Physical Description

The Von Kleinsmid Center was designed by Edward Durell Stone and constructed in 1966. The University Park campus boasts the largest concentration of Stone's work on the West Coast. like much of his work around the country, Edward Durell Stone's USCbuildings were emblematic of New Formalism. Stones other designs for USCinclude: Davidson Conference Center (1976), the Andrus Gerontology Center (1972), the Social Sciences Building (1966), and Waite Phillips Hall of Education (1968). His design for the Von Kleinsmid Center (VKC,1964) is one of the campus's most distinctive buildings.

This three-story over basement building, located on the east side ofTroudsdale Parkway between West 34th Street and ChildsWay, is composed of three volumes arranged in a Ll-shaped in plan. It is dad in brick and has a prominent tower. It houses offices and classrooms; the large lower level houses a library. The building embraces a paved sunken courtyard at the basement level. The tall tower and distinctive stepped, circular plaza set this complex apart from other campus schemes while the brick and scale ties Von Kleinsmid into the particular character that Stone brought to this part of the campus. Clad in brick, the four-sided tower with concave walls and metal globe sculpture is an urban landmark for the city beyond the campus. A brick-paved area east of the tower forms circular steps down to the basement level. Windows and spandrels fillthin vertical glazed openings across the north facade, set into stepped brick framing. The expressed thin flat roof broadly overhangs the walls, and has a pattern of rectangular perforations in the soffit The roof configuration recalls a familiar Stone motif that can be found in many bulldlngs, including his early and successful commission for the United States Embassy in New Delhi.

Character defining features of the Von Kleinsmid Center include reinforced concrete structure with U- shaped plan and flat roof, brick cladding, projecting flat concrete eaves with rectangular openings, symmetrical fenestration fronted with arcaded walls, narrow floor-to-ceiling aluminum-framed windows with stepped brick surrounds, double arcaded walls at main facade, paved courtyard and stepped circular plaza, and a four-sided painted concrete tower with concave brick clad walls and surmounted with a metal globe sculpture.

15. Alterations

The Von KleinSmidCenter underwent a seismic retrofit from December of 1999 through the spring of 2001.

18. Significance

The Von KleinSmidCenter designed by the architect Edward Durell Stone was completed in 1966. It is significant as an excellent local example of New Formalist institutional architecture. It is the work of nationally significant architect Edward Durell Stone. It is an intact contributor to William Pereira's 1960 Campus Master Plan. The building has a high level of integrity, and a clear and direct association with the patterns of educational and architectural development of the University.

Von KleinSmid Center USC,(VKC)3518 S. Trousdale Blvd. City of los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument Application 1 Pereira Master Plan and Update: 1960-1976

The University of Southern California, founded in 1880, had four major development periods. They encompass the construction of Wldney Hall in 1880, the first campus building, through the completion of the Annenberg School of Communication in 1976. The Von KleinSmid Center falls into the period of the Pereira Master Plan and Update: 1960 -1976

In 1960 President Topping employed preeminent architect and planner William l. Pereira to create a new master plan, which was expanded in 1966. The goals of Pereira's plan included the determination of the desirable physical size of the campus, the development of a vision for the relationship between existing and future buildings, and the determination of a proper area of University influence within the context of the surrounding community.

Pereira had a linkto the USCSchool of Architecture, having taught design and studio classes there from 1949 to 1957. By1960, William Pereira had a reputation as one ofthe country's most innovative architects and planners. During the 1960s and 1970s his firm completed over 250 commissions. In addition to the USCCampus Plans, he devised master plans for the los Angeles International Airport expansion and the City of Irvine. He was featured on the cover of Time Magazine in September 1963.

Pereira's plan for the University of Southern California needed to complement the existing campus and coexist harmoniously with the buildings of the Parkinson- and Gallion-era campaigns. A firm believer in the planning principles of Ebenezer Howard's Garden City, Pereira relied heavily on his landscape plan to unify the campus.

Pereira used the quadrangle as a central feature in his 1960 Master Plan. Its use as an organizing feature can be traced to the medieval English college, and was resurrected in American campus planning in the early twentieth century as a response to growing and increasingly impersonal universities. The quadrangle was viewed as a design unit that promoted more intimate educational communities. Pereira & Associates found prototypes for USC'squadrangles at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. Rather than focus on the "community-making" aspects of quadrangles, the Pereira plans emphasize their role in creating "places," public spaces that were functional and memorable.

The plans emphasize that the architecture of buildings should serve to create and define the outside space, as well as to make it memorable by creating a "jewel" that acts as a focal point in the space. The quadrangles act as nodes, places that become memorable both for their concentration of activity, as well as physical definition by the surrounding buildings.

In his Master Plan Report for the University of Southern California, Pereira cites the importance of creating a sense of place on the modem university campus. He writes: "The university is more than a place to teach and learn. It should be a place that is pleasant, memorable and Inspiring. The high purpose and responsibility of the university should be matched in its setting."

Despite the use of traditional quadrangles, the Pereira & Associates plans for USCwere also a product of their time, with an emphasis on automobile and pedestrian circulation, parking, and the use of

Von Klein5mid Center USC, (VKC) 3518 S. Trousdale Blvd. City of t.os Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument Application 2 projections in enrollment, housing, and parking needs as a basis for planning. They are also particularly reflective of important movements in 20th century city planning, relying on the principles of the Garden City Movement, concepts of urban renewal, and increasingly automobile-oriented design.

Pereira concentrated academic functions at the core of the site and surrounded them with ample public space. He called for a "ring road" that separated the core from a peripheral band of non-academic functions. The plans' call for landscaped, radiating boulevards that extend from the campus to provide pedestrian links to the surrounding community is garden city in origin, as is the plans' particular emphasis on separating vehicular and pedestrian traffic, with dedicated pedestrian-only rights-of-way with the closure of Hoover Avenue and streets inside the proposed ring road area.

The1960 plan update (completed in 1966) provided redevelopment recommendations for the surrounding neighborhoods, proposing to close off streets to create "super blocks" where Internal streets are primarily for pedestrian circulation, and the larger blocks serve to rapidly move automotive traffic. The 1960 and 1966 Master Plans called for the expansion of the campus's western boundary to include all property to the east of Vermont Avenue, increasing the size of the campus from 95 to 153 acres.

Since USC'sfounding, campus growth had been characterized by incremental development on prior commercial and residential parcels as lands were acquired and funds became available for new construction. As such, the campus grew out of its surrounding neighborhood. Under Pereira's vision, the campus was shut off from the external vehicular traffic and access to the interior of the campus Was limited to four entrances, or "gateways." Large parking structures were constructed near each of the gateways, with a desire to keep vehicular traffic on the campus periphery.

Working with an existing campus and disparate architectural styles, Pereira relied heavily on landscaping and pedestrian pathways to create a unified park-like campus within an urban setting. According to historian James Steele, "Pereira's vision of an integral, tranquil park-like setting within the campus was crucial to the appearance of the University today."

Pereira believed that landscape treatments could establish individual identity for different parts of campus and yet connect existing facilities to new ones with a network of park-like lawns and pathways. Hisvision ofthe USCcampus was one that "in the future could present the same green, shady, cool and cared-for quality to passers-by, visitors, students, faculty and staff." With the implementation of the 1960s Master Plan came an increase in the campus's acreage and a massive expansion of its physical plant.

Architect Edward Durell Stone

Edward Durell Stone was educated at the University of Arkansas and received a degree in Architecture. Stone relocated to Boston attending Boston Architectural College, Harvard, and MITyet he never received a degree. He was trained in the Beaux-Arts tradition, but was strongly influenced by the work of Mies Van der Rohe and other European Modernists. Hisfirst architectural commission, a 1933 New

Von Klelnsrnld Center USC, (VKC) 3518 5. Trousdale Blvd. City of los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument Application 3 York residence was one of the first East Coast houses designed in the International Style. After visiting Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin and Taliesin West, Stone began to eschew the International Style in favor of more natural materials and organic forms. In 1955, Stone moved to Palo Alto, returning to New York in 1957 and keeping the Palo.Alto.office open as the West Coast branch of his firm. He opened another branch in tos Angeles inthe 1960. He is perhaps best known for his New Formallst designs, characterized by abstracted colonnades, decorative screens, and Modernist landscaping. Among his most successful designs in this mode are the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India; and the Stuart Company plant and Office Building in Pasadena, all constructed in 1958. These two buildings have been called Stone's best designs of the postwar. The latter was stone's first Southern California project in the New Formalist style.

The New Formalism Style of Architecture

New Formalism emerged in the 1950s and was a rejection of the strict glass-and-steel vocabularv of International Style and Mid-Century Modernism. The style was predominantly applied to public and institutional buildings from the late 1950s through the 1970s. Often monumental in appearance, New Formalist buildings referenced and abstracted classical forms such as full-height columns, projecting cornices, and arcades. On a larger urban design scale, grand axes and symmetry were used to achieve a modern monumentalltv. Primary in developing New Formalism were three architects: Edward Durrell Stone, Philip Johnson, and Minoru Yamasaki, all of whom had earlier achieved prominence working within the International Style and other modernist idioms. Stone's well-published American Embassy in New Delhi (1954) is considered by many to. mark the origin of the movement.

In his design of the Von KieinSmid Library, Edward Durell Stone employed the tenets of the New Formalism style. New Formalism blends proportion, scaling and stylistic elements of classicism with modernist design. Use of columns, arcades, flat roofs and pierced screens are typical of the style. The rectangular perforations in the soffit employed in the Von KleinSmidLibrary plants it firmly In the New Formalist style. Typical Exterior material for New Formalist buildings are marble, or cast stone. The style is also characterized by carefully organized spatial design and emphasis on the building's structure.

Conclusion

The Von KleinSmid Library is an excellent local example of New Formalist lnstltutlonal architecture by the nationally recognized master architect Edward Durell Stone. It is a prominent example of USC campus architecture constructed under the Pereira Master Plan and Update: 1960-1976. It was identified as potentially eligible for local designation as part of the environmental review for the USC 2030 Master Plan that was approved in 2012. This Historic Cultural-Monument application is part of the identified Mitigation Measures for the Master Plan.

Von KleinSmid Center USC,(VKe)3518 S. Trousdale Blvd. City ofLos Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument Application 4 19. Sources

"The Land: The Man with the Plan." Time Magazine, September 6, 1963, 68-72.

Lifton, Sarah, and Annette Moore. The University of Southern California:1880 to 2005. LosAngeles: Figueroa Press, 2007.

Pereira, William L. & Associates. A Master Plan Reportfor the University of Southern California. los Angeles: William L. Pereira & Assoc. Planning and Architecture, 1960.

Roseman, Curtis c., Ruth Wallach, et al. A University and a Neighborhood: University of Southern California in LosAngeles, 1880-1984. LosAngeles: Figueroa Press, 2006.

Serraino, Plerluigl, and Julius Shulman. Modernism Rediscovered. New York:Taschen, 2000.

Steele, James, ad. William Pereira. LosAngeles: USCGuild Press, 2002.

Stone, Hicks. Edward DurellStone: A Son's Untold Story of 0 Legendary Architect. New York: Rlzzoll International, 2011.

Turner, Paul Venable. Campus: American Planning Tradition. Carnbridge.: The MIT Press, 1987.

Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780: A Guide to the Styles. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1969.

Zucker, Paul, ed. New Architecture and City Planning. New York: Philosophical Library, 1944.

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Los Angeles Department of City Planning RECOMMENDATION REPORT

CULTURAL HERITAGE COMMISSION CASE NO.: CHC-2013-2405-HCM ENV·2013·240G·CE

PROJECT: Historic-Cultural Monument Application for the VON KLEINSMID CENTER

REQUEST: Declare the property a Historic-Cultural Monument

APPLICANTI University of Southern California (USC) OWNER: Brian League, Executive Director Real Estate Development University of Southern California 3335 S. Figueroa St., Unit G Los Angeles, CA 90007

OWNER'S Historic Resources Group REPRESENTATIVE: . 12 S. Fair Oaks Ave. Suite 200 Pasadena,CA 91105

RECOMMENDATION That the Cultural Heritage Commission:

1. Declare the property a Historic-Cultural Monument per Los Angeles Administrative Code Chapter 9, Division 22, Article 1, Section 22.171.7.

2. Adopt the report findings.

MICHAEL J. LOGRANDE Director of Planning

Ken Bernstein, AICP, lIlianager Lambert M. Giessinger, Preservation Architect Office of Historic Resources Office of Historic Resources

Attachments: Historic-Cultural Monument Application CHC-2013-2405-HCM 3518 S. Trousdale Parkway Page 20f4

FINDINGS

1) The building "embodies the distinguishing characteristics of an architectural type specimen, inherently valuable for a study of a period style or method of construction" as an example of the New Formalism style.

2) The building is associated with a master builder, designer, or architect, as a work by the architect Edward Durell Stone.

3) The property reflects "the broad cultural, economic, or social history of the nation, State or community" for its association with the Pereira Master Plan and Update of the USC campus.

CRITERIA

SUMMARY

Constructed in 1966, this three-story institutional building with prominent tower exhibits character-defining features of the New Formalism style. The VonKleinsmid Center is composed of three volumes arranged in a U-shaped plan around a paved sunken courtyard at basement level. ,..A four-sided painted concrete tower with concave brick clad walls and surmounted with a metal globe sculpture rises from the basement level. A brick-paved area east of the tower forms circular steps down to the basement level. The exterior elevations are clad in brick. Windows and spandrels fill thin vertical glazed openings across the north facade. The main elevation exhibits symmetrical arcaded openings consisting' of ten arches. The expressed thin flat roof broadly overhangs the exterior and exhibits a pattern of rectangular perforations in the soffit. The subject building is surrounded by decorative brick paving with rectangular designs.

The subject building was designed by influential architect Edward Durell Stone (1902-1978). The University of Southern California, founded in 1880, had four major development periods. They encompass the construction of Widney Hall in 1880, the first campus building, through the completion of the Annenberg School of Communications in 1976. The subject building was constructed under the auspices of the Pereira Master Plan and Update (1960-1976) and is regarded as one of the most prominent features of this plan. In 1960, President Topping employed preeminent architect and planner William L. Pereira to create a new master plan which was then expanded in 1966. Pereira had taught at USC from 1949-1957 and was recognized nationally for his work. During the 1960s-70s his firm completed over 250 commissions including master plans for Los Angeles International Airport and Irvine, CA. A firm believer in Garden City planning principles, Pereira emphasized the use of quadrangles in site CHC-2013-2405-HCM 3518 S. Trousdale Parkway Page 30f4

planning, public spaces, pedestrian and auto circulation, and landscaping in his USC Master Plan.

The University Park campus appears to cOl1tainthe highest concentration of Ston~'s work on the West Coast.

DISCUSSION

The Von Kleinsmid Center historic property successfully meets three of the specified Historic- Cultural Monument criteria: 1) "embodies the distinguishing characteristics of an architectural type specimen, inherently valuable for a study of a period style or method of construction," 2) "is associated with a master builder, designer, or architect" and, 3) reflects "the broad cultural, economic, or social history of the nation, State. or community." As a representative of the New Formalism style, designed by architect Edward Durell Stone, and part of the Pereira Master Plan and Update of the USC campus, the property qualifies for designation as a Historic- Cultural Monument based on these criteria.

CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT ("CEQA") REVIEW

The designation of the Von Kleinsmid Center property as a Historic-Cultural Monument in accordance with Chapter 9, Article 1, of The City of Los Angeles Administrative Code ("LAAC") will ensure that future construction activities involving the subject property are regulated in accordance with Section 22.171.14 of the LAAC. The purpose of the designation is to prevent Significant impacts to a Historic-Cultural Monument through the application of the standards set forth in the LAAC. Without the regulation imposed by way of the pending desiqnation, the historic significance and integrity of the subject property could be lost through incompatible alterations and new construction and the demolition of irreplaceable historic structures. The Secretary ofthe Interior's Standards of Rehabilitation are expressly incorporated into the LAAC and provide standards concerning the historically appropriate construction activities which will ensure the continued preservation of the subject property.

The use of Categorical Exemption Class 8 in connection with the proposed designation is consistent with the goals of maintaining, restoring, enhancing, and protecting the environment through the imposition of regulations designed to prevent the degradation of Historic-Cultural Monuments.

Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for Preserving Rehabilitating, Restoring, and Reconstructing Historic Buildings,

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1ilSTORtC-CULTUAAl MONUMENT APPLICATION 9. Physical Description

The Von Kleinsmid Center was designed by Edward Durell Stone and constructed in 1966. The University Park campus boasts the largest concentration of Stone's work Onthe West Coast. Likemuch of his work around the country, Edward Durell Stone's USCbuildings were emblematic of New Formalism. Stones other designs for USCindude: Davidson Conference Center (1976), the Andrus Gerontology Center (1972), the Social Sciences Building (1966), and Waite Phillips Hall of Education (1968). Hisdesign for the Von Kleinsmid Center (VKC,1964) is one of the campus's most distinctive buildings.

This three-story over basement building, located on the east side of Troudsdale Parkway between West 34th Street and Childs Way, is composed of three volumes arranged in a u-shapsd in plan. It Is dad in brick and has a prominent tower. It houses offices and classrooms; the large lower level houses a library. The building embraces a paved sunken courtyard at the basement level. The tall tower and distinctive stepped, circular plaza set this complex apart from other campus schemes while the brick and scale ties Von Kleinsmid into the particular character that Stone brought to this part of the campus. Clad in brick, the four-sided tower with concave walls and metal globe sculpture is an urban landmark for the city beyond the campus. A brick-paved area east of the tower forms circular steps down to the basement level. Windows and spandrels fillthin vertical glazed openings across the north facade, set into stepped brick framing. The expressed thin flat roof broadly overhangs the walls, and has a pattern of rectangular perforations in the soffit. The roof configuration recalls a familiar Stone motif that can be found in many buildings, including his early and successful commission for the United States Embassy in New Delhi.

15. Alterations

The Von KleinSmid Center underwent a seismic retrofit from December of 1999 through the spring of 2001.

18. Significance

The Von KlelnSmid Center designed by the architect Edward Durell Stone was completed in 1966. It is significant as an excellent local example of New Formalist institutional architecture. It is the work of nationally significant architect Edward Durell Stone. It Is an intact contributor to William Pereira's 1960 Campus Master Plan. The building has a high level of integrity, and a clear and direct association with the patterns of educational and architectural development of the University.

Von KleinSmldCenter usc, (VKC)3518 S.Trousdale Blvd. Cityof los Angeles Historic-CulturalMonument Application 1 Pereira Master Plan and Update: 1960-1976

In 1960 President Topping employed preeminent architect and planner William l. Pereira to create a new master plan, which was expanded in 1966. The goals of Pereira's plan included the determination of the desirable physical size of the campus, the development of a vision for the relationship between existing and future buildings, and the determination of a proper area of University Influence within the context of the surrounding community.

Pereira had a link to the USCSchool of Architecture, having taught design and studio classes there from 1949 to 1957. By1960, William Pereira had a reputation as one of the country's mostinnovative architects and planners. During the 1960s and 1970s his firm completed over 250 commissions. In addition to the USCCampus Plans, he devised master plans for the los Angeles International Airport expansion and the City of Irvine. He was featured on the cover of Time Magazine in September 1963.

Pereira used the quadrangle as a central feature in his 1960 Master Plan. Its use as an organizing feature can be traced to the medieval English college, and was resurrected in American campus planning in the early twentieth century as a response to growing and increasingly impersonal uniVersities. The quadrangle was viewed as a design unit that promoted more intimate educational communities. Pereira & Associates found prototypes for USC'squadrangles at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. Rather than focus on the "community-making" aspects of quadrangles, the Pereira plans emphasize their role in creating "places," public spaces that were functional and memorable.

In his Master Plan Report for the University of Southern California, Pereira cites the importance of creating a sense of place on the modem university campus. He writes: "The university is more than a place to teach and learn. It should be a place that is pleasant, memorable and inspiring. The high purpose and responsibility of the university should be matched in its setting."

Despite the use of traditional quadrangles, the Pereira & Associates plans for USCwere also a product of their time, with an emphasis on automobile and pedestrian circulation, parking, and the use of

Von Klein5mid Center USC, (VKC) 3518 S. Trousdale Blvd. City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument Application z projections in enrollment, housing, and parking needs as a basis for planning. They are also particularly reflective of important movements in 20th century city planning, relying on the principles of the Garden City Movement, concepts of urban renewal, and increasingly automobile-oriented design.

Pereira concentrated academic functions at the core of the site and surrounded them with ample public space. He called for a "ring road" that separated the core from a peripheral band of non-academic functions. The plans' call for landscaped, radiating boulevards that extend from the campus to provide pedestrian links to the surrounding community is garden city In origin, as is the plans' particular emphasis on separating vehicular and pedestrian traffic, with dedicated pedestrian-only rights-of-way with the closure of Hoover Avenue and streets inside the proposed ring road area.

The1960 plan update (completed in 1966) provided redevelopment recommendations for the surrounding neighborhoods, proposing to close off streets to create "super blocks" where internal streets are primarily for pedestrian circulation, and the larger blocks serve to rapidly move automotive traffic. The 1960 and 1966 Master Plans called for the expansion of the campus's western boundary to include all property to the east of Vermont Avenue, increasing the Sizeof the campus from 95 to 153 acres.

Since USC'sfounding, campus growth had been characterized by incremental development on prior commercial and residential parcels as lands were acquired and funds became available for new construction. As such, the campus grew out of its surrounding neighborhood. Under Pereira's vision, the campus was shut off from the external vehicular traffic and access to the interior of the campus was limited to four entrances, or "gateways." large parking structures were constructed near each of the gateways, with a desire to keep vehicular traffic on the campus periphery.

Architect Edward Durell Stone

Von KleinSmid Center USC,(VKC)3518 5. Trousdale Blvd. City of los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument Application 3 York residence was one of the first East Coast houses designed in the International Style. After visiting Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin and Taliesin West, Stone began to eschew the International Style in favor of more natural materials and organic forms. In 1955, Stone moved to Palo Alto, returning to New York in 1957 and keeping the Palo Alto office open as the West Coast branch of his firm. He opened another branch in LosAngeles in the 1960. He is perhaps best known for his New Formalist designs, characterized by abstracted colonnades, decorative screens, and Modernist landscaping. Among his most successful designs in this mode are the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India; and the Stuart Company Plant and Office BUildingin Pasadena, all constructed in 1958. These two buildings have been called Stone's best designs of the postwar. The latter was Stone's first Southern California project in the New Formalist style.

The New Formalism Style oj Architecture

New Formalism emerged in the 1950s and was a rejection of the strict glass-and-steel vocabulary of International Style and Mid-Century Modernism. The style was predominantly applied to public and institutional buildings from the late 1950s through the 1970s. Often monumental in appearance, New Formalist buildings referenced and abstracted classical forms such as full-height columns, projecting cornices, and arcades. On a larger urban design scale, grand axes and symmetry were used to achieve a modern monumentality. Primary in developing New Formalism were three architects: Edward Durrell Stone, Philip Johnson, and Minoru Yamasaki, all of whom had earlier achieved prominence working within the International Style and other modernist idioms. Stone's well-published American Embassy in New Delhi (1954) is considered by many to mark the origin of the movement.

In his design of the Von KleinSmid Library, Edward Durell Stone employed the tenets of the New Formalism style. New Formalism blends proportion, scaling and stylistic elements of classicism with modernist design. Use of columns, arcades, flat roofs and pierced screens are typical of the style. The rectangular perforations in the soffit employed in the Von KleinSmld Library plants it firmly in the New Formalist style. Typical Exterior material for New Formalist buildings are marble, or cast stone. The style is also characterized by carefully organized spatial design and emphasis on the building's structure.

Conclusion

The Von KleinSmid Library is an excellent local example of New Formalist institutional architecture by the nationally recognized master architect Edward Durell Stone. It is a prominent example of USC campus architecture constructed under the Pereira Master Plan and Update: 1960-1976. It was Identified as potentially eligible for local designation as part of the environmental review for the USC 2030 Master Plan that was approved in 2012. This Historic Cultural-Monument application is part of the identified Mitigation Measures for the Master Plan.

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"The land! The Man with the Plan." Time Magazine, September 6, 1963, 68-72. tifton, Sarah, and Annette Moore. The University of Southern California: 1880 to 2005. los Angeles! Figueroa Press, 2007.

Pereira, William L & Associates. A Master Plan Report for the University of Southern California. Los Angeles: William L. Pereira & Assoc. Planning and Architecture, 1960.

Roseman, Curtis C., Ruth Wallach, et al. A University and a Neighborhood: University of Southern California in LosAngeles, 1880-1984. los Angeles: Figueroa Press, 2006.

Serraino, Pierluigi, and Julius Shulman. Modernism Rediscovered. New York! Taschen, 2000.

Steele, James, ed. William Pereira. Los Angeles: USC Guild Press, 2002.

Stone, Hicks. Edward DurellStone: A Son's Untold Story of a Legendary Architect. New York: Rizzoli International, 2011.

Turner, Paul Venable. Campus: American Planning Tradition. Cambridge:: The MIT Press, 1987.

Whlffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780: A Guide to the Styles. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1969.

Zucker, Paul, ed, New Architecture and City Planning. New York: Philosophical library, 1944.

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