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| THE CALIFORNICATION GUIDE TO LOS ANGELES: Get Familiar with Hank's Hell-A! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Every dog has his day in LA. Hank, a New York transplant, ambles around real LA hotspots featured in the episodes of Californication on his numerous amorous conquests. Plot out Hank's love shacks, meat markets, and local haunts below. Don't forget to add location and landmark notes! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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 Location/landmark: ChurchThe deconsecrated former Cathedral of Saint Vibiana completed in 1876 designed by Ezra F Kysor and W J Mathews two of LA's first practising architects, is now an Events venue. The interior shots were filmed there. The history of its extraordinary conservation from the wrecking ball can be found here and video here. The exterior shots were filmed at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Featured in episode(s): Pilot What happens there: Hank demonstrates his religiousness ... sorta |  Location/landmark: Book Soup on Sunset Featured in episode(s): Pilot, 103 (***** of Babylon) What happens there: Hank meets Mia, beats the crap out of Todd freakin Carr. |
| Location/landmark: Ray Kappe, architect "Benton House", Brentwood,LA, (1987-1994) Featured in episode(s): Episode 7 - "Girls, Interrupted" What happens there:Hank wrangles for Karen to get a look at a much admired modernist work and she gets the brief to design a complementary addition.  |  Location/landmark:Ray Kappe, architect "Benton House", Brentwood, LA Featured in episode(s):Episode 7 - "Girls, Interrupted" What happens there:Published in GA Houses 81 (May 2004) |
 Location/landmark: Ray Kappe, architect "Benton House", Brentwood,LA (designed 1987; construction 1987-1994) http://www.kappedu.com/benton.html# https://digital.lib.washington.edu/php/architect/record.phtml?type=publication&publicationid=2157 Featured in episode(s):Episode 7 - "Girls, Interrupted" What happens there:   Modernism Influence: David Godsell, Architect's own House (1960) Beaumaris, Melbourne, Australia- Sean Godsell's father: a dynasty of architects |  Location/landmark: Ray Kappe, architect "Benton House", Brentwood, LA Featured in episode(s):Episode 7 - "Girls, Interrupted" What happens there:   Modernism Influence: David Godsell, Architect's own House (1960) Beaumaris, Melbourne, Australia |
| Location/landmark: Featured in episode(s):  What happens there: Hank is thinking how much he loathes LA whilst Karen muses how much she loves the City | Location/landmark: Jonathon Borofsky, Ballerina Clown (1989) Featured in episode(s):Episode 2 - "Hell-A Woman" What happens there: Hank's new Porsche, with the lone copy of his new novella, get's hi-jacked while he's talking to some hot chick in the middle of the nite. Then, he walks home thru the empty streets of Venice.  |
 Location/landmark: Featured in episode(s): What happens there:Location/landmark: Randy's Donuts (1953) A Venturi-Brown, "Duck Building" : designed by Robert Graham just west of the 405 Fwy. at Manchester (near LAX) Featured in episode(s):Title Sequence  | Location/landmark: Frank Gehry, Chiat-Day Offices (1991) with Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen Featured in episode(s):Title sequence What happens there:   |
 Rudolph M Schindler, King's Road House (1921-1922) |  David Hertz-Stacy Fong (Syndesis) McKinley House (1999-2000) Stage 1 Featured in episode(s): All episodes What happens there: This is Bill's house, where Karen now lives. Mia and Becca also live here. |
| | Location/landmark: David Hertz-Stacy Fong (Syndesis) McKinley House (1999-2000) Stage 1 2420 McKinley Ave., Venice, CA Featured in episode(s): What happens there:  |
David Hertz -Stacy Fong (Syndesis)
McKinley House Stage 2
Architecture & Trivia.
We find out in Episode 7 that Karen is an architect with sustainable development credentials.
She designs Bill's house which in truth is the much admired David Hertz-Stacy Fong, McKinley House: a husband and wife architects' own house with passive heating and cooling techniques embedded in the scheme. Both the Ray Kappe, "Benton House" and the McKinley House which is the key set are both published in the Japanese periodical, GA Houses 81Karen's coffee table in episode 9 as she is reading by the fire Charles Bukowski's Sifting Through The Madness for the Word, The Line, The Way: New Poems (2003) is a recent book Venice, CA: Art and Architecture in a Maverick Community (2007) by Michael Webb. Somewhat self-referential as many of the icons of the title sequence and moreover the McKinley House itself is featured in the book.
Life imitates art. This guide was featured in the World's Greenest Homes' feature on the McKinley House The full version: Part 1
Part 2
Karen at work drawing inspiration from Steven Holl's Pamphlet Architecture 1-10 . In the late 1970s and early '80s, Pamphlet Architecture offered a fresh, underground-like alternative to homogenized architectural publishing. Based in New York and San Francisco, masterminded by a young Steven Holl and by bookshop innovator William Stout, the Pamphlets presented notional schemes by a then 30-something clique of intellectual practitioners, men-and one women-who retained a critical faith in certain tenets of Modernism.
To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Pamphlet Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press reissued the first ten issues—most of which have been long out of print—in one hardcover volume. This graphically stunning and theoretically stimulating collection includes the early works of many of today's best-known architects, including Steven Holl, Lars Lerup, Mark Mack, Lebbeus Woods, Zaha Hadid, Livio Dimitriu, and Alberto Sartoris.
The Pamphlet Architecture series was founded in 1978 by architects Steven Holl and William Stout as a venue for publishing the thoughts and works of a younger generation of architects. Each issue was written, illustrated, and designed by a single architect, which gives each its unique character. The series, which received an American Institute of Architects award, continues to influence new generations of architects as it disseminates new and innovative ideas on architecture and presents the work of the luminaries of tomorrow.
In series 3 we see for the first time Karen's dream job relocating her back to New York.
The September 2007 edition of Dwell Magazine sits well thumbed.
Dwell is good. See http://www.dwell.com/magazine/california-dreams.html for a Californication reprise.
As for Karen's comment in episode 7 at the Ray Kappe House, "I think it was Ruskin that once said .."Without architecture, there would be no remembering."
This is a reference from John Ruskin's "The Seven Lamps of Architecture" (1849). In Chapter 6 headed 'The Lamp of Memory' Ruskin writes: "It is as the centralization and protectress of this sacred influence, that Architecture is to be regarded by us with the most serious thought. We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. "
In episode 8 It is not without whimsy or comment that Hank receives a letter from his father in Levittown foretelling his father's final soliloquy to his son.
Hank's father, Al Moody writes from Levittown, NY.
(a real address: Criminal Justice Media!)
Levittown, this modest suburban tract housing became paradigmatic of the post-war suburbs. White picket fences and cookie cutter housing. Is this where Hank grew up?
Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi most notably in the 1970's collaborated in theoretical research and education on the nature of cities with their studies "Learning From Las Vegas" and "Learning From Levittown."These projects challenged architects to study the human use and social context of architecture, the role of perception and memory in architecture, and the communicative possibilities of architecture. A primary focus had to do with symbolism and iconography. This turned the authors once again to history, to rediscover facets of architecture forgotten by the Modern movement.
Analyzing developer-built housing, Venturi-Brown & Steve Izenour noted that even bland tract homes came with a staggering array of options, which homeowners embraced with abandon. They also marvelled at advertising copy for postwar suburban developments (''These Houses Are Exactly the Same! They Just Look Different!'').
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/06.09/15-radmedal.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE3DE1E3DF93AA35750C0A96F948260
Mies van der Rohe Glass Skyscraper Project (1922) 9701 Wilshire Blvd Beverley Hills at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard
and Roxbury Driveshows more than a passing reference to Mies van der Rohe's experimental unbuilt skyscraper project.
Charlie & Marcy's House
A Very Californication (Pun) Ad: Stop Bad Oral
Cnr S Occidental Blvd & 2801 W 6th St
Los Angeles, CA 90057
Probably a photoshopped fiction: see Google Maps Street View
Julian Self (the philandering guru wanker) also known as "the Artist Within", and Sonja's domestic space
Compare with the iconic Pierre Koenig Case Study House #22 (1959)
http://users.tce.rmit.edu.au/e03159/ModMelb/mm2/lect/50_60_70/html/casestudy/casestudy4.html
John Lautner's Sheats/ Goldstein House (1963)
Lew Ashby Mansion, Rick Rubin Studio's, "The Mansion", 2451 Laurel Canyon Blvd, Los Angeles
http://www.laurelcanyon.org/20cHist.html
"It was also during this period that frequent cabin-guest Jimi Hendrix briefly resided in the Errol Flynn mansion to the north of the property. The mansion was once a home for "wayward women" and was also occupied in earlier years by notables ranging from Bugsy Siegel to W.C. Fields. The mansion is currently owned by Rick Rubin, co-founder of Def Jam Records and producer of The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, The Black Crowes and numerous others."
Seminal California Modern Architecture from Raymond Kappe as originally published in Arts & Architecture in 1955.
LilThe very beautiful and The very beautiful and ethereal music of Lili Haydn at the reconstructed Hollywood Bowl undertaken by Architects Hodgetts + Fung Design based on the 1929 iteration of the shell structure.
Charlie & Marcy's House
In Season 2 Episode 2 - "The Great Ashby" Sonja asks Karen, "How would you feel about restoring an original Lautner house with me?"
K-"Don't **** with me."
S-"I'm not; I'm bidding on one tomorrow."
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This is a reference to the seminal architect, John Lautner, one of the important Californian Modernists who along with architects such as Charles and Ray Eames, Craig Ellwood, Pierre Koenig, Raphael Sorriano and Richard Neutra created some of the iconic West-Coast mid-century houses; See particularly John Entenza's Arts & Architecture (1938-1967) magazine and the Case Study Programme. Lautner was a glaring omission. Lautner was apprenticed to Frank Lloyd Wright and came to California in 1938 and practised there until his death in 1994 aged 83. He was especially known for his bold, soaring, expressive use of concrete and cantilevered sculptural forms. Some of his houses such as the Elrod House, 1968 in Palm Springs featured in films:the James Bond film, Diamonds are Forever, 1971; and 'the Chemosphere',1960 was in Brian de Palma's movie, Body Double, 1984. Recently, The Los Angeles Times featured the Garcia Residence, recently renovated by Marmol Radziner, and the restoration of John Lautner's, Harpel House. There is currently considerable interest among architectural and mid-century enthusiasts to restore and maintain these properties before they are destroyed by redevelopment. The architects Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner of Marmol Radziner notably restored the extraordinary Kaufmann Desert House designed by Richard Neutra (1946) one of the greatest houses built in the twentieth century. Kaufmann's Palm Springs holiday house was a nice complement to his main house, Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece. Marmol Radziner also design very nice prefabs.
http://www.marmol-radziner.com/html/body/press/nyt_041600/text.html
http://www.christies.com/features/special-sites/kaufmann_house/
http://www.marmol-radziner.com/html/body/press/nyt_041600/text.html
http://www.christies.com/features/special-sites/kaufmann_house/
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http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/la-times-house-garden-roundup/restored-john-lautners-harpel-housela-times-41008-047664
http://www.johnlautner.org/
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http://www.johnlautner.org/
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A Very Californication (Pun) Ad: Stop Bad Oral
Cnr S Occidental Blvd & 2801 W 6th St
Los Angeles, CA 90057
Probably a photoshopped fiction: see Google Maps Street View
Julian Self (the philandering guru wanker) also known as "the Artist Within", and Sonja's domestic space
Compare with the iconic Pierre Koenig Case Study House #22 (1959)
http://users.tce.rmit.edu.au/e03159/ModMelb/mm2/lect/50_60_70/html/casestudy/casestudy4.html
John Lautner's Sheats/ Goldstein House (1963)
Lew Ashby Mansion, Rick Rubin Studio's, "The Mansion", 2451 Laurel Canyon Blvd, Los Angeles
http://www.laurelcanyon.org/20cHist.html
"It was also during this period that frequent cabin-guest Jimi Hendrix briefly resided in the Errol Flynn mansion to the north of the property. The mansion was once a home for "wayward women" and was also occupied in earlier years by notables ranging from Bugsy Siegel to W.C. Fields. The mansion is currently owned by Rick Rubin, co-founder of Def Jam Records and producer of The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, The Black Crowes and numerous others."
Seminal California Modern Architecture from Raymond Kappe as originally published in Arts & Architecture in 1955.
LilThe very beautiful and The very beautiful and ethereal music of Lili Haydn at the reconstructed Hollywood Bowl undertaken by Architects Hodgetts + Fung Design based on the 1929 iteration of the shell structure.Postcard: Burton Frasher, 1936, Ponoma Public Library
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne Australia, 1958 Freeman Yuncken architects per Barry Patten
Brooks Avenue, Venice Beach near Speedway (one way side street)
Google Maps Streetview of Karen and Hank's Loft in Brooks Avenue, Venice Beach
![Art Opening at Julian Self's Gallery [Equator Books]](http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/jGldR2IKWfgsHsOseyfEfw174018/GW616H345 "Art Opening at Julian Self's Gallery [Equator Books]")
Venice Beach Canals
VideoVenice Beach Canals 2
A very useful site for Venice architecture is here
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne Australia, 1958 Freeman Yuncken architects per Barry Patten
Brooks Avenue, Venice Beach near Speedway (one way side street)
Google Maps Streetview of Karen and Hank's Loft in Brooks Avenue, Venice Beach
Venice Beach Canals
VideoVenice Beach Canals 2
A very useful site for Venice architecture is here
In Season 3, Episode 10 "Dogtown" Karen, Marcy, and Becca are having a Girls Night Out, and Becca says,
“He’s never going to change.
He’s always going to be that drunken fool in the middle of Abbot Kinney.
The same guy who wrote this book.
If that’s not what you want, then you have to be the one to walk away. Because he never will.”
Abbot Kinney Boulevard is a major street in Santa Monica, named after the man developer of Venice Beach and the canals.
Many of the bars and shops which appear in Californication are located here, including Pinkberry where the "girls" had been just prior to encountering the "boys," heist (a trendy women's clothing store whose awning appears in this episode), and Equator Books (see images above).
In episode s03e11 "Comings & Goings," Marcy and Charlie Runkle's divorce papers arrive at "Frey Street", Venice Beach: clearly a pun reference to Swiss born and trained Californian modernist architect, Albert FreySeason 4- Hank meets Sasha Bingham at her unnamed hotel, and later after he also takes a room there. There are those who contend that this is the legendary Chateau Marmont, 8221 Sunset Blvd, in West Hollywood, although a tour of their website doesn't show many rooms, bungalows, or suites that match either Hank's or Sasha's, but the lobby/bar area does seem to match. And the CM does have the requisite balcony, where Hank talks Mia off the ledge (S4E5). You decide:
There is also an external website FilmingLocations90210.info which has filming locations of several movies and television shows, including a partial list of addresses used for
each of the four seasons of Californication, including some for Season Four.
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Does anyone know if the bar they often use in Californication (the one that has a beachy vibe and has a pool table)?
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| latw!tterpated | What is the name of the bar Hank meets his attorney in? | 0 | Mar 9 2011, 3:37 PM EST by latw!tterpated | ||
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the one where Tommy Lee was seen playing piano?
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| C.Munro | Hank and Karen's loft | 3 | Mar 10 2010, 8:46 PM EST by jbourne | ||
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That's interesting. I always thought the loft was on Windward, between Speedway and Pacific. It is indeed on Brooks Avenue, but looking through some Season 1 episodes I noticed that they did edit things to make it appear that the loft was on Windward.
For example, at the end of "The Devil's Threesome," you see Hank, Karen, Charlie and Marcy come out the front of the loft. Charlie and Marcy go to the left (toward Speedway and the beach), while Hank and Karen go to the right. As Hank follows Karen, the camera angle shifts so that it is behind Hank. In this shot, no part of the loft is visible, and the street in the background is definitely Windward Avenue, not Brooks. The sign for Cafe Collage is easy to make out. Other giveaways are the parking meters on the side of the street and the fascia of the ex-Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf location. Incidentally, the carjacking scene was also at Windward and Pacific, not on Rose and Main near the Ballerina Clown. |
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