Enrique Noguera; Lighting Architect, Civic Activist

Enrique Noguera, 44, Hollywood community activist and lighting architect who artistically illuminated Metro Rail’s Hollywood and Vine station. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Noguera moved to Los Angeles to study landscape architecture and lighting at UCLA. He worked with Grenald Associates until establishing his own office in 1989. In addition to the Hollywood subway station, Noguera lighted such sites as the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, Little Tokyo, Hope-Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center in Hollywood. Other projects included historic buildings and amusement parks from Tokyo to Puerto Rico. Within his community, Noguera devoted himself to housing and safety issues, serving as president and board member of the Hollywood Community Housing Corp., chairman of the Community Redevelopment Agency’s Hollywood Planning and Design Review Committee and member of the CRA Hollywood project’s Housing and Social Needs Committee. He was also on the board of the Hollywood Police Support Assn. and was a founding member of the neighborhood watch group, the Hollywood Sentinels. Certified as a citizen community forester, Noguera helped TreePeople plant trees throughout Hollywood. In 1993, he received a Hollywood Legacy Award for his work in revitalizing five residences on North Cherokee Street under the auspices of the CRA’s Historical Housing Loan Program. On Dec. 9 in Los Angeles of complications of AIDS.