Architecture is famous, at least for now. Maybe it’s the titanium museum, maybe the Target teapot and housewares. Architects have...
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I’ve been asked often this year what new advances we can expect for housing in the next millennium. As housing...
Then and Now Architects once advocated for and designed public housing, allowing low-income, working class people to move from cold...
Michael Willis, FAIA, founded his own architecture firm in 1988. He believes that architecture can be a unifying social force....
1. Built-Out Suburbs As the multi-nucleated California metropolis spreads out, the built-out suburbs remain, squeezed between physical and social patterns...
[Originally published 2nd quarter 2001, in arcCA 01.2, “Housing Complex.”] __________ You may have seen the gorgeous book of Julius...
Is there adequate room for Californians? While a comparative assessment of employment, housing, and quality of life is not easily...
Editor’s Note: Here follow the 2001 AIACC Design Award winners. Out of these many, excellent projects, we have selected five...
Inside the universal “outside” that surrounds us, there is an inferred and imaginary consciousness: inferred because we believe in it...
As connoisseurs of place-making, architects have long idealized the publicness of the village square, while bemoaning malls and shopping centers....
Few building types have had a greater impact on our communities than the modern sports facility. They affect local transportation,...
The pillory was a familiar feature of the medieval city. Authorities would erect the wooden structure in a public space...
