About

Cory Buckner is a practicing architect in the Los Angeles area. She has a degree in Fine Arts from Chouinard Art Institute and an M.Arch from UCLA. She has also studied landscape architecture at UCLA.

The firm, Cory Buckner, Architect, specializes in contemporary residential design and mid-century remodel and restoration projects.

In 1994, she and her late husband, architect Nick Roberts, purchased a home in Crestwood Hills designed in 1949 by architects A. Quincy Jones, Whitney R. Smith and structural engineer Edgardo Contini. After restoring the house, she spearheaded a preservation movement in the neighborhood, which had at one time 150 houses by Jones, Smith, and Contini as part of a housing cooperative called Mutual Housing Association. Through her efforts 15 of the remaining 30 houses have been designated Historic/Cultural Monuments with the City of Los Angeles.

She was awarded the 2002 Los Angeles Preservation Award, "For the inspiring effort to protect and restore the original Mutual Housing Association homes in Crestwood Hills, preserving important examples of Southern California Modernism, and enhancing the sense of community in a unique neighborhood."

In 2003, she was a finalist for the Rome Prize.

In 2022, her project Yerba Buena III won the Best of 2022 award from Archello.

She is the author of A. Quincy Jones published in 2002 by Phaidon Press, Crestwood Hills; The Chronicle of a Modern Utopia published by Angel City Press in 2015, The Lyman House and the Work of Frederic P. Lyman, Drawing and Building, and A Cambridge Modernist: The Architecture of David Wyn Roberts, both published by Crestwood Hills Press, .