The Kabata House

A little while ago I wrote some code to pull house addresses from the USModernist architect archive and put them on a map, since I wanted to see where all the modern houses near me in Greater Los Angeles were. It’s fun to go somewhere and take a look at the map to see if there’s anything of note around, which is how I ended up here at the Kabata House in Gardena, a seemingly unaltered 1959 design by A. Quincy Jones — a low-slung modern surrounded almost entirely but heavy industry, which makes for an odd site: a giant crane looming over the houses’s concrete block perimeter wall. Was this a more residential area at some point? Or just an eccentric location for a post-and-beam?

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