Appreciation: Architect Lorcan O'Herlihy rethought urban housing and changed Los Angeles for the better

What happened

According to Los Angeles Times’s source item, Appreciation: Architect Lorcan O’Herlihy rethought urban housing and changed Los Angeles for the better, Architect Lorcan O’Herlihy died Sunday at the age of 66. The LOHA founder changed L.A. for the better — rethinking, among other things, dense urban housing and its relationship to the city.

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Source

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