VAN SANT RESIDENCE - 1961
“The Tom Van Sant Residence at 5698 Tryon Road in Los Angeles, CA is located in a pine grove in the Hollywood Hills near Griffith Park. It is post and beam construction, featuring the influence of Mexican and Japanese architecture, countries where Tom spent considerable time. The house has a view of Hollywood and Los Angeles, and its design is admired by architects, artists, and others. This project was funded by the artist and had a budget of $200,000.” [1]
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5698 Tryon Road, Hollywood, CA 90068
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1961
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Tom Van Sant
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Various construction materials
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4500 sq. ft. lot
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"A budget of $200,000"
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N/A
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Unknown.
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TVS digital records.
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When Van Sant sold his Tyron Road house in the late 1980s, his plan was to buy land in Santa Monica and build himself a new home. However, events overtook plans and he instead used the money to fund the GeoSphere Project.
“I designed and built my home in the Hollywood Hills overlooking the Los Angeles basin, (Southern California AIA Award of Merit)." [2]
“Then I built a house and studio in the Hollywood Hills, designed the house myself. And I really enjoyed architectural design. I've done a lot of that, and was hired by architects as a sort of a problem-solver, because they could have a problem that they'd worked on and present it to me. And I didn't have any answers. I'd just go home and go to bed. And either that night or the next night or the one after that, I would sit up in the middle of the night, and there would be the solution. I didn't work very hard. I just had confidence in something, whatever it might—whatever it is, that—and they appreciated that.” [3]
“A 2,221 square foot house on a 0.27 acre lot with 1 bedroom and 2 bathrooms. This home is currently off market - it last sold on May 22, 1987 for $570,000.” (Redfin).
[1] Tom Van Sant, Annotated_Image_List.docx, October 4, 2012 TVS digital record.
[2] Tom Van Sant, TomVanSant-SpaceportAmerica_ProposalPacket2.pdf, October 4, 2012, TVS digital record.
[3] Jo Lauria, Oral history interview with Tom Van Sant, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2008.
