Design: Residence / Los Angeles
Level best
A set of humble 1940s bungalows designed as ‘social art’, the Mar Vista Tract has nurtured a community and is beloved by its residents.
When Gillian Tennant and Steven Summers started house hunting in Los Angeles for their family of four, they had the goal of any reasonable Aussie transplants: a modern home not too far from the beach. They happened to be driving past a stretch of low bungalows on Beethoven Street, just off Venice Boulevard, when they were stopped in their tracks. The houses would probably have passed unnoticed had it not been for the gathering that was taking place out front. “In someone’s yard, there was a live band playing, with people sitting on the lawn lis…
