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Technology and the Culture of the Profession

The multitude of technological changes of the last two decades has had a tremendous impact on the way architects do...
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Beauty as a Call to Justice

In 2001, Elaine Scarry, the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value at Harvard University, published...
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Hip Hop Architecture: The Post Occupancy Report of Modernism

In his TEDxMadison talk of March 2017, architect and educator Michael Ford, AIA, NOMA, presents hip-hop as modernism’s post-occupancy report....
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Anna Heringer: Leave No Waste, but Knowledge

Believing that “sustainability is a synonym of beauty,” Bavarian architect Anna Heringer works almost exclusively in locally available materials, such...
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Underground Romance: the Forestiere Gardens, Fresno

The Immigrant Story Every city in America has special places that tell stories of extraordinary lives unfolded along the path...
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The Fluid Agora: Documenting Public Space in Los Angeles

Since the summer of 1975, spent in LA while attending architecture school at the University of Michigan, the author has...
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Everyone Loves a Good Façade

Is it the outer 2” that is the most important, as one of my former bosses seemed to think? How...
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“I like . . .”

Robert Venturi died on September 18, 2018. After I heard, I sent an email to a few colleagues and friends....
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Rediscovering Reyner Banham’s Los Angeles

Always contextualize. This was Reyner Banham’s golden rule in his book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (New York:...
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Our Los Angeles

—Have you been to Los Angeles? —The city? —No, the set. Welcome to my city, where the people, the buildings,...
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Exterior Decoration: Hollywood’s Inside-out Houses

In Exterior Decoration: Hollywood’s Inside-out Houses (Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1982), John Leighton Chase scrutinized and elevated the...
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Paul Williams in Toluca Lake?: a Debate

arcCA invited a debate between Tom Marble, AIA, architect for the Toluca Lake Executive Building, and Stephen Slaughter, AIA, a...
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Editorial Board, 2019-2024

Shannon Calder
Lucy Campbell, MLIS
Leigh Christy, FAIA
Anne Cotter, AIA
Tim Culvahouse, FAIA, Editor
Nicki Dennis Stephens, Hon. AIA
Andres Diaz, AIA
Wyatt Frantom, FAIA

 

Alan Hess
Lisa Matthiessen, FAIA
Ian Merker, AIA
Mark Miller, FAIA
Tibby Rothman, Hon. AIA|LA
Simon Sadler, PhD
Maxine Ward, AIA

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