Linda L. Kent Los Angeles * For nearly two decades, L.A. native Lesley Marlene Siegel has been photographing the dingbat. Siegel has taken over 2,000 photographs of dingbats, architecture and signage.

A before and after image of a retrofitted Dingbat building. [Photo: courtesy Paul Jesman] Seismic safety rules passed in 2015 now require retrofits of multistory buildings with what the city’s ...

Examples include buildings with names like the Cortez or Casa Bella, a dingbat that was featured in the 1998 film, “The Slums of Beverly Hills.” In fact, these names were the inspiration for ...

Boxy, dingbat-style apartments dot the San Fernando Valley, the understated architectural design evoking the region’s 1950s post-war boom. But now the Valley’s stock of dingbats is getting a ...

Dingbat 2.0, in contrast, places density at its forefront, asking us to take a look backward as we begin to consider the future of a more openly multi-family, vertical megalopolis.