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Los Angeles and the Mission Revival By Thomas Owen |
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Even in southern California, something came before Modernism.
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For many people, the tradition of church architecture in Los Angeles is seen as being predominantly of the Spanish style before the advent of Modernism. However, this is partly due to the great revival of interest in Mediterranean and Mission architecture which began in the late Nineteenth century. Interest in California’s missions—a time period beginning in 1769 with the founding of the first mission through their demise in the 1840’s—was not only to inspire buildings, but also books, poetry, “romance”, tours to the extant buildings, and eventually scholarship.
By the 1920’s the most important style for church building in Los Angeles was Spanish. There are Gothic examples, one Tudor revival, which comes to mind, or another local church with an Italian ancestry from Lombardy, but the most important style of the moment was...
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