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Photo Finish: Editor’s Comment

arcCA is thicker this quarter. We’ve added a full-color section to celebrate the AIACC 2004 award winners: Design Awards, Maybeck...
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Coda: Fruit Bowls & Free Shots

In Dwell magazine’s opening issue, the editors made a declaration they dubbed “The Fruit Bowl Manifesto.” The gist of it...
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Under the Radar: Martin Studios, Oakland

Martin Studios is a mixed-use building designed to awaken a nascent street life and revitalize its community. The client, a...
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Post-War Schools Portfolio II: John Carl Warnecke, FAIA

Mario Ciampi‘s junior by more than a decade, John Carl Warnecke, FAIA, is, like Ciampi, a graduate of Harvard. Warnecke...
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Post-War Schools Portfolio 1: Mario Ciampi, FAIA

97-year-old Mario Ciampi, FAIA, architect of the extraordinary Berkeley Art Museum, designed numerous innovative schools in the late 1950s and...
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Innovations in School Architecture: a Progression

Horace Mann, John Dewey and Universal Public Education The teaching of the young by an older generation may be regarded...
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Turnkey Construction with the Community In Mind

The fallout from the California budget crisis is widespread, and one of the chief victims has been the state’s K-12...
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Windows and Classrooms: a Study of Student Performance and the Indoor Environment

This study, undertaken on behalf of the California Energy Commission’s Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program, investigates whether daylight and...
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The Art of the Possible

Prototypical classroom cluster, MKThink. The name MKThink suggests that this architectural firm might be up to more than just designing...
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District by District: a Comparison of Architectural Strategies

A visit to the Coalition for Adequate School Housing web site clearly illustrates the vast array of professionals (not just...
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Opposing Prisons: Education vs. Incarceration

Between 1983 and 2003, California built 23 new prisons and just one new university. California raised prison guard salaries above...
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The Mission of DSA/Schoolhouse

DSA/Schoolhouse is an institution. Founded nearly eighty years ago after the Long Beach earthquake, DSA (Division of the State Architect)...
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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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