Houses From the Home Team

For more evidence that L.A.’s Coolest World City quotient is approaching critical mass, reference the “34 Los Angeles Architects” show at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum Los Angeles’ digs on the Sunset Strip. The decision by the modernist-inspired participants to show their work sans Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne and Eric Owen Moss drives home the point that from the Sylmar Public Library (Hodgetts & Fung Design Associates) to a Civic Center parking garage (Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners), the lauded Los Angeles design style is far from superstar-dependent. The display itself is a playhouse of 34 diamond-shaped paneled “towers” on wheels, many with 3-D models on the top or mounted on the sides. There’s a hillside development concept by David Lawrence Gray Architects; the antically toylike plan for new Google headquarters by Clive Wilkinson Architects; and light-filled buildings for San Bernardino Valley College by Steven Ehrlich Architects. The catalog essay insists there’s no inherent local style, but the sleek planes and sunlit swoops and swirls on view here, scheduled for assembly later this year in a Balcony Press volume, have “made in Los Angeles” written all over them. Get the postcard catalog. Send the postcards to your friends in hinterland regions such as New York. Gloat.

“34 Los Angeles Architects,” A+D Architecture and Design Museum Los Angeles, 8560 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, (310) 659-2445, www.AplusD.org., through Feb. 22.