Lorenzo Castelnuovo-Tedesco; Artist, Innovative Architect

Lorenzo Castelnuovo-Tedesco, 69, artist and architect who cataloged archives of his composer father, Mario. The Jewish Tedesco family was forced to leave its native Italy in 1939, threatened by fascism and war. Sponsored by Arturo Toscanini and Jascha Heifetz, the family immigrated to New York and a year later settled in Beverly Hills. The son grew up to attend the Jepson Art Institute and had many oil paintings shown at galleries in Los Angeles and New York. He went on to graduate from the USC School of Architecture in 1956 and, after working for others, opened his own firm, Tedesco Architects, in 1972. He did restoration work on historic buildings throughout the Southland and designed innovative, award-winning condominiums in the Venice area. He also taught at the School of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona. Because of his strong family background in music, he devoted himself to sorting and cataloging his father’s musical archives, which he donated to the Library of Congress. On June 14 in Brentwood of a possible stroke or heart attack.