Wilshire Starmaps II

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No repoductions may be made of this publication without without prior consent of its authors. I. Preface by John Southern II. “Wilshire Blvd: A Drive-by Family” by Orhan Ayyüce III. Parti III. Context IV. Program V. Facade VI. Epilogue Project Team: Emily Bills, Celine Juan, & John Southern “We got to Wilshire where the traffi c was regulated to a minimum of thirty-fi ve. The Ford couldn’t travel that fast, but she clung to the middle lane and the big fast cars shot around us.” -John Fante, Ask the Dust, 1939. Published by Urban Operations, copyright 2011. Preface: A star map is a collection of rarely verifi ed or updated information, a docu- ment which allows one to simulate the experience of visiting Hollywood’s various media personalities in their most intimate habitats: their homes. In Wilshire Star Maps the end, however, the reality delivers nothing more than a “trucker tan,” the prickly feeling of dehydration, and an empty gas tank. This is where our Wilshire Star Map diverges from the traditional model. It is admittedly a work in progress, offers little in the way of fantasy, and delivers genuine personali- “The Skyscraper effects a brutal accumulation upon a traditional city with ties from the urban stage for public consideration. Wilshire is many things all its traditional components and collects then on a vertical plane. The to many people and, unlike the mediated space promoted by Hollywood, it results are shocking. The difference between the single building and the city promises actual self-realization, an experience only possible in a metropoli- disappears.” –Andrea Branzi, Casabella, #363, 1972. tan space of urban democracy like Los Angeles. In the fi ve years that Urban Operations has proposed alternatives to the Wilshire Star Maps: An introductory fi eld guide. American skyscraper, worldly events have continued to demonstrate that the skyscraper remains a modernist novelty. Without exception, the No other place in the world has such a fantastic collection of underecognized proposals that have come to fruition across the globe lean more toward the and underappreciated vertical architecture as in Los Angeles. In a city of glamorization of wealth and visual stature, instead of manifesting as true mostly low-density avenues and sprawling suburban tracts, no other street in experiments leading to metropolitan evolution. That the Freedom Tower at L.A. contains as many of these Modernicus Erectus as Wilshire Boulevard. Ground Zero is nearing its disappointing resurrection as a space of capital, rather than a reincarnation into a true memorial, confi rms this belief, and Stretching 16 miles from Downtown Los Angeles, to the Pacifi c Ocean in therefore we continue our protest in earnest. Santa Monica, Wilshire is home to a majority of the B-List actors constituting L.A.’s 20th Century urban skyline. With only a handful of skyscrapers having When we selected Wilshire Boulevard for this pamphlet, our original scheme made it into the guidebooks, Wilshire is the perpetual proving ground for the was to encompass a dystopian scenario, wherein Wilshire became the ugly, the ordinary, and in most critic’s minds, the vertically challenged.

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