The multitude of technological changes of the last two decades has had a tremendous impact on the way architects do...
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In 2001, Elaine Scarry, the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value at Harvard University, published...
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 Immigrant Story Every city in America has special places that tell stories of extraordinary lives unfolded along the path...
Since the summer of 1975, spent in LA while attending architecture school at the University of Michigan, the author has...
Is it the outer 2” that is the most important, as one of my former bosses seemed to think? How...
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:...
—Have you been to Los Angeles? —The city? —No, the set. Welcome to my city, where the people, the buildings,...
In Exterior Decoration: Hollywood’s Inside-out Houses (Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1982), John Leighton Chase scrutinized and elevated the...
arcCA invited a debate between Tom Marble, AIA, architect for the Toluca Lake Executive Building, and Stephen Slaughter, AIA, a...

















