To the casual observer, the name Welton Becket doesn’t mean all that much. To students of architecture, however, the name is legend. To followers of Disney design and Walt Disney Company history ...

Xanadu is based on the 1947 musical-comedy film Down to Earth, in which Rita Hayworth plays a version of Terpsichore who walks among the mortals in the disguise of an actress named Kitty and convinces ...

In his 1972 book on Becket, “Total Design: Architecture of Welton Becket and Associates,” author William Dudley Hunt sketched the architect as a player of golf and pool, a drinker of Scotch ...

Welton Becket, his son said, prided himself as a pragmatic guy, a team player, as proud of his master planning of Century City in the late ‘50s as for his signature buildings.

Welton Becket’s 1958 Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, once a beacon of midcentury optimism, this weekend shuttered its doors. The bending, intricately ornamented auditorium hosted several Academy ...

Studio Collective has renovated a building in Los Angeles designed by modernist architect Welton Becket in the 1960s to create a laid-back hotel.

The building we chose was built by Welton Becket for New York Life Insurance Company in 1957, but it was completed in 1955, during a time when people thought the mid-Wilshire area was going to have ...

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Welton Becket designed some of Los Angeles’ most iconic Midcentury architecture, including the Capitol Records building, the Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport, the Cinerama ...

Headquarters. Minneapolis Branch Offices. Ellerbe Becket has offices in Washington, D.C.: Kansas City, Mo.; San Francisco; Greenville, S.C.; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and Cairo, Egypt Roots.

Welton Becket Buildings Make Headlines, Frieze L.A. Announces Programming, and More News in Los Angeles Here’s what you need to know By Jessica Ritz January 23, 2020 ...