Unbuilding Crenshaw Discount Store
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Module 2 Studio for Spring 2021
STU 1327 Underground
Instructors: Current Interests (Mira Henry + Matthew Au )
Los Angeles
2021. Crenshaw Discount Store.
The differentiation between the two facades (front and back) of the current store is still to be defined. Both of these facades are important, but they carry different characteristics.
Facades are portraits. Not only portraits of the building, but portraits of the surrounding as well; they collect and reflect information.
1941. Grayson’s Women Fine Apparel.
By studying the facades of Victor Gruen’s first built project in Los Angeles, one can see the old portraits of Crenshaw Discount Store.
Could the old facades bring qualities that were lost in time?
Could undoing or unbuilding be a way to redesign this store?
