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Californication Guide to Los Angeles
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| THE CALIFORNICATION GUIDE TO LOSE ANGELES: Get Familiar with Hank's Hell-A! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Every dog has his day in LA. Hank, a New York transplant, ambles around real LA hotspots featured in the episodes of Californication on his numerous amorous conquests. Plot out Hank's love shacks, meat markets, and local haunts below. Don't forget to add location and landmark notes! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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 Location/landmark: ChurchFeatured in episode(s): Pilot What happens there: Hank demonstrates his religiousness ... sorta |  Location/landmark: Book Soup on Sunset Featured in episode(s): Pilot, 103 (Whore of Babylon) What happens there: Hank meets Mia, beats the crap out of Todd freakin Carr. |
| Location/landmark: Ray Kappe, architect "Benton House", Brentwood,LA Featured in episode(s): Episode 7 - "Girls, Interrupted" What happens there:Hank wrangles for Karen to get a look at a much admired modernist work and she gets the brief to design a complementary addition.  |  Location/landmark:Ray Kappe, architect "Benton House", Brentwood,LA Featured in episode(s):Episode 7 - "Girls, Interrupted" What happens there:Published in GA Houses 81 (May 2004) |
 Location/landmark: Ray Kappe, architect "Benton House", Brentwood,LA Featured in episode(s):Episode 7 - "Girls, Interrupted" What happens there: |  Location/landmark: Ray Kappe, architect "Benton House", Brentwood, LA Featured in episode(s):Episode 7 - "Girls, Interrupted" What happens there: |
| Location/landmark: Featured in episode(s):  What happens there: Hank is thinking how much he loathes LA whilst Karen muses how much she loves the City | Location/landmark: Jonathon Borofsky, Ballerina Clown (1989) Featured in episode(s):Episode 2 - "Hell-A Woman" What happens there: Hank's new Porsche, with the lone copy of his new novella, get's hi-jacked while he's talking to some hot chick in the middle of the nite. Then, he walks home thru the empty streets of Venice.  |
 Location/landmark: Featured in episode(s): What happens there: | Location/landmark: Frank Gehry, Chiat-Day Offices (1991) with Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen Featured in episode(s): What happens there:  |
| Location/landmark: Randy's Donuts (1953) A Venturi-Brown, "Duck Building" : designed by Robert Graham http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/14colli.html just west of the 405 Fwy. at Manchester (near LAX) Featured in episode(s):  What happens there: |  Location/landmark: David Hertz -Stacy Fong (Syndesis) McKinley House (1999-2000) Stage 1 Featured in episode(s): All episodes What happens there: This is Bill's house, where Karen now lives. Mia and Becca also live here. |
Location/landmark: Rudolph M Schindler, King's Road House1921-1922 Featured in episode(s): What happens there: | Location/landmark: David Hertz -Stacy Fong (Syndesis) McKinley House (1999-2000) Stage 1 2420 McKinley Ave., Venice, CA Featured in episode(s): What happens there:  |
David Hertz -Stacy Fong (Syndesis)
McKinley House Stage 2
Architecture & Trivia.
We find out in Episode 7 that Karen is an architect with sustainable development credentials.
She designs Bill's house which in truth is the much admired David Hertz-Stacy Fong, McKinley House: a husband and wife architects' own house with passive heating and cooling techniques embedded in the scheme. Both the Ray Kappe, "Benton House" and the McKinley House which is the key set are both published in the Japanese periodical, GA Houses 81 (May 2004). They also share the same alma mater: David Hertz studied at SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture) where Ray Kappe was the founding director and Chair of Architecture. For very sharp observers, on Karen's coffee table in episode 9 as she is reading by the fire Charles Bukowski's Sifting Through The Madness for the Word, The Line, The Way: New Poems (2003) is a recent book Venice, CA: Art and Architecture in a Maverick Community (2007) by Michael Webb. Somewhat self-referential as many of the icons of the title sequence and moreover the McKinley House itself is featured in the book.
The September 2007 edition of Dwell Magazine sits well thumbed.
Dwell is good. See http://www.dwell.com/homes/new/2877311.html for a Californication reprise.
As for Karen's comment in episode 7 at the Ray Kappe House, "I think it was Ruskin that once said .."Without architecture, there would be no remembering."
This is a reference from John Ruskin's "The Seven Lamps of Architecture" (1849). In Chapter 6 headed 'The Lamp of Memory' Ruskin writes: "It is as the centralization and protectress of this sacred influence, that Architecture is to be regarded by us with the most serious thought. We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. "
In episode 8 It is not without whimsy or comment that Hank receives a letter from his father in Levittown foretelling his father's final soliquoy to his son.
Hank's father, Al Moody writes from Levittown, NY.
(a real address: Criminal Justice Media!)
Levittown, this modest suburban tract housing became paradigmatic of the post-war suburbs. White picket fences and cookie cutter housing. Is this where Hank grew up?
Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi most notably in the 1970's collaborated in theoretical research and education on the nature of cities with their studies "Learning From Las Vegas" and "Learning From Levittown."These projects challenged architects to study the human use and social context of architecture, the role of perception and memory in architecture, and the communicative possibilities of architecture. A primary focus had to do with symbolism and iconography. This turned the authors once again to history, to rediscover facets of architecture forgotten by the Modern movement.
Analyzing developer-built housing, Venturi-Brown & Steve Izenour noted that even bland tract homes came with a staggering array of options, which homeowners embraced with abandon. They also marvelled at advertising copy for postwar suburban developments (''These Houses Are Exactly the Same! They Just Look Different!'').
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/06.09/15-radmedal.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE3DE1E3DF93AA35750C0A96F948260
Mies van der Rohe Glass Skyscraper Project 1922
Charlie & Marcy's House
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| NickNorthern | The Canals where Hank walks with his daughter | 3 | Aug 25 2008, 5:23 AM EDT by calagal | |
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Thread started: Jul 13 2008, 10:13 PM EDT
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Where is that at? Is it private property?
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| SFW | Charlie and Marcy's house | 1 | Jan 5 2008, 2:18 AM EST by vernissage | |
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Thread started: Oct 31 2007, 10:51 PM EDT
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Can anyone update the "Guide to LA" of where and who designed Charlie and Marcy's great kitchen/living room? and or post some pics.
thanking you SFW |
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