Richard’s Biography

Richard, who is the person who makes this website all happen, has been at various times an art historian, a mason, an independent film producer, a computer programmer, and as its Director transformed the Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk into a non-profit organization. With wife Kim Cooper, he founded LAVA. On his Esotouric bus tours, Richard fuses these otherwise exclusive experiences into a very special view of the city. Richard’s tours include two different Raymond Chandler tours, John Fante’s Dreams from Bunker Hill,The Birth of Noir and the Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles series of architecture and urbanism tours.