A beautiful campus with an abundance of brilliant people now has a striking new home for its burgeoning biological sciences...
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Because the contemporary West still owes a profound intellectual debt to the ancient Greeks, it is all too easy to...
A photograph (circa 1940) of Contemporary Backgrounds, a storefront designed by my father, Maynard Lyndon, FAIA, is a suitable point...
arcCA asked each of California’s nine NAAB accredited architecture programs for descriptions of coursework that addresses the realities of architectural...
Architecture has been recognized as the Queen of the Arts. It is the art that is seen by anyone walking...
Bourns Hall College of Engineering at UC Riverside (1996) is one of a series of projects by Anshen + Allen,...
Although there have never been any conclusive studies to prove this, many members of our profession regularly bemoan the notion...
We talk nostalgically of the mentor relationships between notable masters and their apprentices, such as Bernard Maybeck and Julia Morgan,...
arcCA asked AIA members to relate memorable moments in their architectural education. Among their responses were the following. John Cage...
“Exultation,” wrote Emily Dickinson, “is the going of an inland soul to sea; past the houses, past the headlands, into...
arcCA’s Importance This journal gives architects and others related to the profession a voice. Its mission is to promote dialogue...
William J. Nave, a community leader and prominent businessman in Marin County, commissioned the Nave Lanes bowling alley in Novato...






