AIA/LA Highlights Manhattan Beach in Fall Home Tour

The tour will include modern homes from Make Architecture, LeanArch, Michael Lee Architects and KAA Design Group.

Nicholas Tamarin -- Interior Design, 9/25/2009

Photo by Ernhard Pfeiffer. Photo by Edward Linden.

If your favorite architecture-hunting outfit is a bathing suit and flip-flops, you're in luck. For the first time, the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Institute of Architects is hosting its annual fall home tour in the Pacific Coast community of Manhattan Beach.

Taking place on Sunday, October 4 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the self-guided home tour will allow access to a handful of the Los Angeles County beach community's most notable examples of modern architecture, simply by purchasing a $75 ticket.


Photo by Claudio Santini. Photo by Jon Coolidge.

Included in the tour is the newly remodeled 39th Street Residence designed by Jess Mullen-Carey and William Beauter of Make Architecture, the Kuhlhaus 02 home by James Meyer of LeanArch, Michael Lee Architects' Rogers-Sturz Residence, and the Tree House by Grant Kirkpatrick of KAA Design Group.

Located just south of Los Angeles and five miles from Los Angeles International Airport, Manhattan Beach is one of the three beach cities on the South Bay, famous for its laidback lifestyle and as the home of Johnny Depp in the 2001 hit Blow.

Images courtesy of AIA/LA.