Boxy, dingbat-style apartments dot the San Fernando Valley, the understated architectural design evoking the region’s 1950s post-war boom. But now the Valley’s stock of dingbats is getting a face-lift ...
These units are known as “dingbat”-style apartments — and that’s not a slight, that’s what they’re called apparently because of the midcentury-esque visual motifs on their exterior. Many even have a ...
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When architect and writer Wendy Gilmartin was in her early 20s, she lived in West Hollywood in what’s known as a dingbat apartment. While she fondly remembered the lighting and wood floors, she ...
The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design’s Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis, published in cooperation with DoppelHouse Press, brings into ...
Before Apple’s LaserWriter Plus printer came along, the only exposure the general public would have had to the word “dingbat” was Archie Bunker’s use of it to insult his wife, Edith in the 1970s ...