Rex Lotery (1930-2007)

Rex Lotery was born on August 19, 1930 in London, England. 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. After graduating, Lotery worked as a draftsman for William Stevenson from 1953 to 1954. Between 1954 and 1955 he was a draftsman for the firm Barienbrock and Murry, before opening his own firm, which he established in Los Angeles in 1957.
In 1969 Lotery became a partner in the firm Prin, Kahn, Kappe & Lotery, Architects & Planners. In 1978 the firm’s name changed to Kappe, Lotery, Boccato Architects/Planners. From 1984 to 1992 Lotery served as president of the Urban Innovations Group, an office associated with the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. Lotery’s more notable projects include: the Schacker house, the Lotery houses in Brentwood and Santa Barbara, the Kritzer house, the Freedman house, the Trousdale Development Company model house, the Santa Monica Bus Administration Facility, and several projects with the SRO Housing Corporation to rehabilitate hotels such as the Courtland Hotel in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles. Rex Lotery died in 2007.

Rex Lotery, architect

Rex Lotery papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

circa 1960 - circa 1995

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