Los Angeles' Invisible Architect

Welton Becket's mid-century civic designs are the city's latest retro treasures

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March 7, 2003, 11:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Between 1933 and his death in 1969, Becket and his architectural firm's staff designed dozens of corporate and civic landmarks in Los Angeles and hundreds more around the world. Finding his work on this city's skyline is like finding a Volkswagen on the freeway or Hal Holbrook playing the president on a late-night television drama: You may not be looking for him, and he may not look exactly the same every time, but there he is. And there, and there and there."

Thanks to Nathan Banks

Read the full story: L.A.'s Invisible Builder

Thursday, March 6, 2003 in The Los Angeles Times

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