Welton Becket, FAIA and his associates designed some of Los Angeles’ most iconic buildings.

This post is a sampling of the firm’s projects that I’ve had the pleasure of visiting in SoCal.

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Museum Monday - Craft Contemporary

I snuck out for a solo art date at Craft Contemporary in the Mid-Wilshire area in early December 2025 to view the exhibit “Material Curiosity by Design: Evelyn & Jerome Ackerman” which I highly recommend. The exhibit runs through May 20, 2026.

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Hawaii Architecture - Manoa Residential

Melemele Place is architecture rich with homes by Alfred Preis. Preis was an Austrian-born American architect best known for designing the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor.

I was fortunate to explore this area of Manoa in December of 2023.

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Hawaii Architecture - 3 in Chinatown

I had time for a short architecture photo session before heading to a movie screening near Chinatown in Honolulu. I call these half hour photo shoots “architecture snacks”.

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