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Title: Rex Lotery papers
Identifier/Call Number: 0000213
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
34.0 Linear feet
(21 record storage boxes, 3 flat file drawers, 1 model)
Date (inclusive): circa 1955-circa 2002
creator:
Lotery, Rex, 1930-2007
Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
Gift of Fran Lotery, 2008.
Rex Lotery papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Rex Lotery was born on August 19, 1930 in London. Lotery’s family immigrated to Manhattan in 1939 and later moved to Scarsdale,
New York. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York in 1952. Out of school,
Lotery found work as a draftsman for William Stevenson, where he worked from 1953 to 1954. From 1954 to 1955 he worked as
a draftsman for the firm Barienbrock and Murry, before opening up his own firm. Lotery established his own firm in Los Angeles
in 1957. In 1969 Lotery became a partner in the firm Prin, Kahn, Kappe & Lotery, Architects & Planners until 1978, when the
firm’s name changed to Kappe, Lotery, Boccato Architects/Planners. From 1984 to 1992 Lotery served as president of the Urban
Innovation Group at the University of California, Los Angeles. Over the course of his career Lotery’s more notable projects
include: the Schacker residence, the Lottery residence no. 1 and no. 2, the Kritzer residence, the Freedman residence, the
Trousdale Development Company House, Montecito Union School, Cate School, King Harbor Marine Master Plan & Office, Goodman
residence, and Brent-Air Pharmacy. Rex Lotery died in 2007.
The Rex Lotery papers span 34 linear feet and date from circa 1955 to circa 2002. The collection does not document all of
Lotery’s work, but contains architectural drawings and reprographic copies for the following projects: Cate School, Colin
residence addition, Montecito Union School, Schott residence, Lotery residence (Santa Barbara), Lotery residence (Los Angelels),
Dirado residence, Trousdale Estates, Trousedale Condominiums, Parkes residence, Lassoff residence, Meghreblian residence,
Phoenix of Santa Barbara, Schacker residence, Tillman residence, Santa Ana Urban, Goodwin Condominiums, Brickman residence,
and two unidentified residence. The collection also includes publications
Cry California: The Journal of California Tomorrows (issues span the years 1962-1983),
Architectural Record, and
House and Home, among others; magazine and newspaper clippings; architectural reference books; Lotery’s awards and diplomas; slides; photographic
prints organized by project; negatives; Lotery’s rolodex; contracts and billing documents organized by project; strategic
plans and reports; and a rough study model of the Lotery residence in Santa Barbara.
Related Archival Materials note
Charles Moore and Urban Innovations Group drawings and model, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture
Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.
Ray Kappe papers, 1954-2007, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accesssion no. 2008.M.36
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Lotery, Rex, 1930-2007
Architectural drawings
Negatives
Photographic prints
Reprographic copies