Discovering Esther McCoy

One of the interesting things to emerge about this site is that it is read as much in Spain as in the US, Britain or elsewhere.*  To make this a bridge with two-way traffic, now and then I will single out to Spanish readers some of the most interesting things I come across from outside Spain.

The first of these is a brief profile in the Design blog of The New York Times on the Los Angeles architecture critic Esther McCoy  (1904 - 1989): Arkansan-born, Greenwich Village bred (she worked as an assistant to Theodore Dreiser) and draftswoman for RM Schindler after WW II, before she started writing on West Coast architecture. There's a show on her career organized by blog entry author Susan Morgan, at the Schindler House on North Kings Road in LA where she worked, now the MAK Center for Art and Architecture (through January 8th). 



*The View from Madrid all-time audience since May 2009:

Spain ............3094
US .................2433
Italy...............1282
UK .................1275
Germany .........813
Portugal ...........429
France ............. 410