Park Planned Homes

Tragically it appears that Gregory Ain’s Park Planned Homes in Altadena was largely destroyed in the Eaton fire earlier this week. (As of 1/14/25 it appears 20 of the 28 houses were lost and 4 have no damage according to this map.)

This project (1946-48) consisted of 28 houses and a landscape design by Garrett Eckbo. It was of high significance to both architectural history and landscape history.

Here I’m sharing what I wrote about Park Planned Homes in my book Gregory Ain: The Modern Home as Social Commentary (Rizzoli, 2008):
Park Planned Homes Denzer 2008.pdf

Also Julius Shulman’s photos of the project are available here. And a few other images from UC-Santa Barbara are here.

Photo by Conrad Lopez