Preserving 1960s L.A. architecture: a minefield

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The idea that Los Angeles should protect the best examples of its 1960s architecture seems unassailable, doesn’t it? Who doesn’t love the finest designs by John Lautner, Welton Becket or A.C. Martin and Partners? Who would argue with the importance of Dodger Stadium or the Theme building at LAX?

Not so fast. As a newly launched campaign from the L.A. Conservancy makes clear, the relationship between the late-modern architecture of 1960s and a healthy preservation movement is in fact something of a minefield, laden with contradiction, irony and even paradox.

Find out why -- and how preserving the best of the 1970s promises to be even tougher -- here.

--Christopher Hawthorne