Orange Coast College: Neutra, Alexander, Eckbo

Posted by barbara lamprecht on 17 March 2014 · Leave a Comment

Business Education Building, Orange Coast College. Photo by b. lamprecht

Orange Coast College’s original legacy campus, the world’s only college campus designed by the powerful trio of master architect Richard Neutra and Robert Alexander with master landscape architect Garrett Eckbo, Eckbo, Royston and Williams, is proposed to be demolished. Neutra and Alexander were assisted by noted Orange County architect William Blurock, FAIA, among others. Here are some historic materials to underscore the importance of this award-winning campus, now evaluated as a potential historic district. Source: UCLA, Charles E. Young Research Library, Special Collections, Collection 1179, Richard and Dion Neutra Papers.

A wonderful collection of contemporary images by Les Katow can be found at https://picasaweb.google.com/lskatow/NeutraOrangeCoastCollege?feat=email