page_title: Maxwell Starkman
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Maxwell Starkman / Biography / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Fallbrook Square shopping center (1978) — in West Hills, western San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California. With former drive-up self-service post office in parking lot.
context_page_description: Maxwell Starkman was a Canadian architect based in Los Angeles, California.
context_section_description: He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1950. Shortly after, he started working for Richard J. Neutra. In 1953, he started Reichl and Starkman Architects with fellow architect Fritz Reichl. After Reichl died in 1954, he established Maxwell Starkman Associates, an architectural firm. He mostly built tract homes for returning G.I.s. 
  Later, he built commercial buildings such as shopping malls and drugstores. For example, he designed the Park Place Shopping Center and the Sunrise City Shopping Center along the Maryland Parkway in Las Vegas, Nevada. He also designed the Fallbrook Center in West Hills and some student housing at California State University, Los Angeles. Later in the 1960s, he designed the Melodyland Theater in Anaheim. Additionally, Starkman designed the Dunes hotel and casino, which was later demolished and replaced with the Bellagio.
  In 1972, he designed the Zenith Tower located at 6300 on Wilshire Boulevard, near Carthay Circle. It was built for the Zenith National Insurance as a sixteen-story skyscraper. Later, he designed the Sony Pictures Plaza. He also designed the Meridian Condominiums, a skyscraper in San Diego. His last design was the Museum of Tolerance.
  He retired in 1987.
caption: The Fallbrook Center in West Hills, Los Angeles, California.
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