Municipal Swim Stadium

Originally built as a floating roof over walls of glass and rows of brick walls, this building has long been bastardized by more recent "renovations." Now in a more Spanish revival style than modernist, the remaining features from Neutra's design are a few brick walls, and the pool itself. Which, in a way is poetic in the fact that Neutra designed the building to merely be a stop along the way to the pool. He knew that the pool is the real star of the show, and the building is not the reason people visit. (2020)

Architect: Richard Neutra

Built: 1961

Style: Modernist

Type: Civic

Address: 7225 El Dorado Rd

City: Buena Park

Sources:

Hines, T. S. (1982). Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture: A Biography and History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. https://books.google.com/books?id=xoA76SOY154C&pg=PA314&lpg=PA314&dq=lawrence+elementary+school+garden+grove+neutra&source=bl&ots=SwkdB3d4yW&sig=JrxVa5owKEo0AWoKsVzxfTnBPA8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiXpJ28xKvYAhWmhVQKHcRpDvsQ6AEIUzAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false

Lamprecht, B.M. (2015). Neutra Complete Works. Köln, Germany: Taschen.