Editor’s note: This article continues the exploration of architectural construction documents begun in arcCA 6.1. According to a widely held assumption,...
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I had always considered the Los Angeles County Hall of Records, 1962, to be a soldierly and stolid example of...
As the Los Angeles Chapter AIA is now deeply involved with preparations for this year’s AIA National Convention, June 8–10,...
Los Angeles is a complex plaid of a city, streets running North/South and East/West, carving up a submissive landscape into...
Originally published 2nd quarter 2006 in arcCA 06.2, “L.A.” ...
For this issue dedicated to the City of Los Angeles, arcCA sought views of L.A.’s built environment from a diverse,...
Frances Anderton: Last month, L.A.’s own Thom Mayne was awarded the Pritzker Prize, the Nobel of the architecture world. Thom...
“Progress” portrayed as a narrative of ascension. In the foreground a padre and dons, framed by an adobe facade and a carreta,...
I am co-teaching an architecture studio this term, and a student recently grumbled that an exercise we had given was...
8 pioneering modern California architects not named Schindler Northern California Beverley David Thorne Rowan Maiden Albert Henry Hill Don R....
Modernist restoration projects surely teach us about the design typologies of the modernist aesthetic—of indoor/outdoor interactions and open plans,...
The Donnell and Eckbo Gardens, by Marc Treib, San Francisco: William Stout Publishers, 2005. Thomas Church, Landscape Architect, edited by Marc...
