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  • Choy Residence (1951)

    Eugene Choy

    Born in Guangzhou, China, in 1912, Eugene Choy immigrated to the United States as a young boy and settled in Los Angeles. After graduating from the University of Southern California's architecture school in 1939, Choy’s residential architecture developed to exercise sensitivity to locale, adjusting the International Style to a vernacular modernism indigenous to Southern California.  The construction of Choy’s personal residence in Silver Lake was self-financed when local banks refused to help finance the project due to existing racial covenants. It was completed in 1949.



    Photo by Julius Shulman

  • Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (1952)

    Eugene Choy



    Photograph by Julius Shulman

  • Cathay Bank at 777 Broadway in Chinatown (1962)

    Eugene Choy



  • Portrait of Helen Fong (date unknown)

    Helen Fong



    Photograph by Larry Hirshowitz

  • Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and Kong Chow Benevolent Association (date unknown)

    Eugene Choy and Gilbert Leong


    Architecture
    Photograph by Dan Kaufman/Studio Kaufman

  • Portrait of Gin Wong (date unknown)

    Gin Wong

    As founder and chairman of Gin Wong Associates, Gin D. Wong, FAIA, heads one of the most prominent planning and architectural firms in the Western United States. GWA specializes in the total design of hotels, corporate headquarters, major office buildings, retail and educational facilities, as well as the master planning of university campuses and large-scale commercial properties.



    Photograph by Elson Alexander © Gin Wong Associates

  • CBS Television City (date unknown)

    Gin Wong


    Architecture
    Photograph courtesy of CBS Corporation © Gin Wong Associates

  • Chinese Methodist Church (date unknown)

    Gilbert Leong


    Architecture
    Photograph by Chris Jacobs

  • ARCO Plaza (date unknown)

    Gin Wong


    Architecture
    Photograph courtesy of Transpacific Development Company © Gin Wong Associates

  • Pann's Restaurant (date unknown)

    Helen Fong

    As a senior associate at the architectural firm of Armet & Davis, now Armet Davis Newlove & Associates, Helen Fong was the lead designer for many of the firm's interior designs.


    Architecture
    Photograph by Jack Laxer

Chinese American Museum

Breaking Ground: Chinese American Architects in Los Angeles (1945-1980)

Breaking Ground will document and showcase the architectural achievements and contributions of pioneering Chinese American architects in the development of Los Angeles' urban and visual landscape in the decades after World War II. The exhibition will examine a group of pioneering architects who remain largely absent from most critical studies of architectural history, but whose designs and buildings are significant landmarks from the post-WWII decades. Considered to be pioneers of Chinese Americans working in the field of architecture, Eugene K. Choy, Gilbert Leong, Helen Liu Fong and Gin Wong contributed their visions and talents to the Mid-Century Modern and Googie Architecture movements as part of California's post-WWII architectural renaissance.
Dwell / Lego Inspiration
01/19/2012 – 06/03/2012
Chinese American Museum
425 N. Los Angeles Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012