This quarter’s is a two-part issue. The first part considers aspects of “publicness.” Doug Suisman, FAIA, looks at the public...
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“Aquatic Arts.” Daidalos, no. 55 (1995) (theme issue). Bachelard, Gaston. Water and Dreams: an Essay on the Imagination of Water,...
In recent years, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s John Ferraro Building, at 111 North Hope Street in...
Bruce Tomb’s toilet and high tank are a reshaping of the conventional home fixtures as autonomous pieces of furniture. They...
The artist Robert Smithson once described the natural phenomenon of entropy in the following manner: imagine a child running between...
At his funeral in 1924, a friend eulogized famed architect Willis Jefferson Polk as a man whose “vision, to the...
“To a considerable extent, the problem of water in Southern California is a cultural problem. By this I mean that...
One of the ironies of modern urban life is that municipalities spend millions of dollars each year to contain and...
Blake Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth (Johns Hopkins University Press; $40) Patt Morrison, Rio...
“Whiskey’s for drinking, water’s for fighting about.” – Mark Twain Maldistribution Tensions over California’s “liquid gold” are as old as...
A week or so after the destruction in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, I ran into a colleague in...
The Tin Men altered more than just residential neighborhoods. Metal cladding, known as “slipcovers” to architectural historians, can be found...
