/  by Thomas DeVoss

booksnbuildings:

Architectural sketches by Otto Rieth.

Otto Rieth (1858-1911) was a German art nouveau architect, who is more or less forgotten today but who, judging from his frequent and prominent appearance in art and architecture magazines of the day, was held in quite high regard during the art nouveau period. His style is slightly reminiscent of Otto Wagner’s but less personal and more fantastic. As John Coulthart points out, several of Rieth’s sketches seem “more suited to Bayreuth or the pages of The Lord of the Rings than the German landscape.”

/  by Thomas DeVoss

mobylosangelesarchitecture:

oh, per usual i couldn’t take pictures of the sides or the back, as they’re hidden by trees, and as much as i like taking pictures of people’s houses i don’t really want to become a creepy house stalker and end up in jail for taking pictures of the sides of people’s houses.

i can imagine the prison conversation:
‘hey what are you guys in for?’
guy 1 - ‘i was smuggling ar-15’s from turkmenistan to newark’.
guy 2 - ‘i blew up a bank in arkansas.’
guy 3 - ‘i ran 10 crystal meth labs in dominica’.
me - ‘i was taking pictures of mid century architecture in l.a’.

so, i’ll stick to the street and not go to jail for being a creepy architecture stalker.
thanks

moby