arcCA invited a debate between Tom Marble, AIA, architect for the Toluca Lake Executive Building, and Stephen Slaughter, AIA, a...
This fall, I found myself on a family vacation along California’s Central Coast and stopped over in Cambria for a...
It’s elegant that anywhere would rise and fall in a week, and, some years here, that even happens twice. At...
Robert Venturi died on September 18, 2018. After I heard, I sent an email to a few colleagues and friends....
Always contextualize. This was Reyner Banham’s golden rule in his book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (New York:...
In Exterior Decoration: Hollywood’s Inside-out Houses (Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1982), John Leighton Chase scrutinized and elevated the...
In Simi Valley in 1946, at the age of 60, Tressa Prisbrey began construction of a home for her collection...
Is it the outer 2” that is the most important, as one of my former bosses seemed to think? How...
—Have you been to Los Angeles? —The city? —No, the set. Welcome to my city, where the people, the buildings,...
In his TEDxMadison talk of March 2017, architect and educator Michael Ford, AIA, NOMA, presents hip-hop as modernism’s post-occupancy report....
Believing that “sustainability is a synonym of beauty,” Bavarian architect Anna Heringer works almost exclusively in locally available materials, such...
The U.S. National Park Service’s Teaching with Historic Places offers teaching tools and lesson plans to help educators engage young...