“The constant debate over how and where to build housing in California typically finds neighborhood preservationists and a pro-development cohort...
The world seems obsessed these days with change; change in the ways we think, communicate, use our time, allocate resources;...
Jono Coles works between traditional architectural practice, art practice, teaching, writing, and alternative development to critique systems of value. arcCA...
Anyone who has entered Palm Springs from metropolitan Los Angeles via Highway 111 has probably taken notice of the unofficial,...
The following excerpts are from Chapter 12 of Portal: San Francisco’s Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities, by...
Los Angeles-based firm Omgivning is widely recognized for its expertise in adaptive reuse, which it has pursued extensively in downtown...
Stewart Brand’s How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built (Viking Press, 1994) explores the evolution of buildings in time....
In 1978, while I was in college, I saw the historian-critic Colin Rowe speak at Rice University. He began by...
Adapted from Practice with Purpose: A Guide to Mission Driven Design, by William Leddy, Marsha Maytum, Richard Stacy; ORO Editions,...
