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In Search of Modernism’s Holy Grail

Prefabricated homes have been popular among nearly every generation since early modernists began to look at industry as inspiration. Most...
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The Myths and Realities of Prefab

It seems everyone is talking about prefab homes these days—from Dwell to Time, on television and radio. On the Internet,...
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The Lustron Home

Architects have historically embraced the cause of residential prefabrication with vigor, designing a wide variety of futuristic “concept” homes intended...
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Prefabrication: Scales of Application

From fasteners to fantasy cities, prefabrication has long nurtured both the practical and the theoretical. Some notions about prefabrication readily...
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preFABiana: Editor’s Comment

I had lunch recently with a gifted young [architect] who was once a student of mine. I put “architect” in...
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’90s Generation: Editor’s Comment

In this issue of arcCA, we explore the trajectories of the generation of architects who earned their professional degrees in...
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Cabinet for Sleeping Standing Up

Cultural Context In 1988, the death knell for postmodernism in architecture was rung by the Museum of Modern Art’s “Deconstructivist Architecture”...
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California: State(s) of Practice

Excerpts from a Conversation Convened and Moderated by Peter Zellner Given that architecture may be considered one of the few forms...
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Two Generations: a Conversation

David Erdman: In your and your peers’ work, I see a clear intention to render different systems but not let...
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The 1990s: a Theoretical Post Mortem

If the 1990s began in 1988 with MoMA’s “Deconstructivist Architecture” exhibition, they died with the closing of the critical journal...
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Five Schools, Eight Voices, Two Surveys

Cole Butler Woodbury 1995 Laughing Gravy Studios, Truckee Licensed CA, NV My first job out of school was for a...
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Stretching the M.Arch.: Dual Degree Students at Cal

Between 1997 and 2000, six students—Mara Baum, Jeff Carney, Kari Holmgren, Laura Mezoff, Amit Price Patel, and I—graduated from Washington...
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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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