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Ain Residence Project Team
Project Lead or Principal
Frank Escher – Escher GuneWardena Architecture
Project Lead or Principal
Ravi GuneWardena – Escher GuneWardena Architecture
Client / Owner
Poulson Joyce
Lead Architect, Engineer, or Designer Address
Ravi GuneWardena – Escher GuneWardena Architecture, Inc.
Architect
Tessa Watson
Architect
Sasha Plotnikova
Historic Architect
Gregory Ain – Ain, Johnson and Day
Historic Architect
Joseph Johnson – Ain, Johnson and Day
Historic Architect
Alfred Day – Ain, Johnson and Day
Landscape Architect
Delia Hitz
Original Landscape Design
Garrett Eckbo
Original Landscape Design
Robert Royston
Original Landscape Design
Edward Williams
Consulting Engineer
Paul Francheschi – Francheschi Engineering, Inc.
Contractor
Anthony Bonomo – Bonomo Development
Restoration of Gregory Ain’s 1952 Greene Residence
Restoration of Gregory Ain’s 1952 Greene Residence is a winner for the 2021 Preservation Design Award for Reconstruction or Contextual Infill. Award recipients are selected by a jury of top professionals in the fields of architecture, engineering, planning, and history, as well as renowned architecture critics and journalists. Tickets and sponsorship options are available at californiapreservation.org/awards.
About Restoration of Gregory Ain’s 1952 Greene Residence
Gregory Ain’s 1952 Marjorie M. Greene Residence in Los Angeles, closely related to the 1950 MoMA Exhibition House, has been restored following a devastating fire in 2018. Until the May 2021 discovery of the lost MoMA House, the Greene Residence was the only surviving building associated with the project. It was designed by prominent mid-century architect Gregory Ain in collaboration with architects Joseph Johnson and Alfred Day in 1952, with landscape design by Garrett Eckbo, Robert Royston and Edward Williams from 1953. Following the fire, structural members of the house were charred yet standing. However, the interiors and all of the glazing were completely destroyed. The only known set of blueprints of the house was also lost in the fire. The house and garden were fully restored by the preservation architects between 2019 and 2021 by researching archival material and recreating construction documents based on the MoMA House.
