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