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Title: Smith and Williams: United Autoworkers Union building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Creator: Smith and Williams, architects Julius Shulman, photographer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1958
Publication Information: Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara
Contributing Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design and Architecture Museum
Collection: Smith and Williams
Rights Information: © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10) Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. University of California Regents.
Description: Of all Smith and Williams’s buildings, the union structures are the most modernistic. The glass, steel and concrete buildings present forthright, transparent façades to their members and communities. The materials also represent the sleek and modern modes of transportation made by their members: automobiles and aircraft.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: adc_175
Language: English
Place: Los Angeles, Calif.
Inglewood, Calif.
Source: Smith & Williams records, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.
Relation: adc_175

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