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1	Housing...the Hillside, Los Angeles, California Vallen, Michael Earl 31 March 1998 (has links) This Thesis is a proposal for a prototypical hillside housing community in Los Angeles, California. As a prototype it is responsible for setting an architectural precedent. In this effort, the Thesis continues with focus on issues of construction methodology, urban planning, and land use relationships concerning the present city. Being clear and uncomplicated is the driving force of this architectural process. On the horizon is the 21st Century. Architecture has become increasingly convoluted rather than enlightened. Here, I have focused my attentions on developing a technologically based, material-driven, compassionate solution to answer the issue of housing on the hillsides of Los Angeles. I have realized a clear system of building using uncomplicated technology and material. However, as demonstrated, this system of building provides only an envelope for space definition. It becomes the architectural precedent, a canvas, through which the inhabitant can define his existence. Enlightened limitations. / Master of Architecture Housing Los Angeles Architecture Gill Neutra Schindler VDL II Research House Lovell Health House Lovell Beach House Kings Road House Horatio Court Apartments Lewis Court Greene and Greene Gamble House Los Angeles History