In 2001, Elaine Scarry, the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value at Harvard University, published...
In his TEDxMadison talk of March 2017, architect and educator Michael Ford, AIA, NOMA, presents hip-hop as modernism’s post-occupancy report....
Believing that “sustainability is a synonym of beauty,” Bavarian architect Anna Heringer works almost exclusively in locally available materials, such...
The Immigrant Story Every city in America has special places that tell stories of extraordinary lives unfolded along the path...
Is it the outer 2” that is the most important, as one of my former bosses seemed to think? How...
Robert Venturi died on September 18, 2018. After I heard, I sent an email to a few colleagues and friends....
Always contextualize. This was Reyner Banham’s golden rule in his book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (New York:...
—Have you been to Los Angeles? —The city? —No, the set. Welcome to my city, where the people, the buildings,...
In Exterior Decoration: Hollywood’s Inside-out Houses (Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1982), John Leighton Chase scrutinized and elevated the...
arcCA invited a debate between Tom Marble, AIA, architect for the Toluca Lake Executive Building, and Stephen Slaughter, AIA, a...
It’s elegant that anywhere would rise and fall in a week, and, some years here, that even happens twice. At...
This fall, I found myself on a family vacation along California’s Central Coast and stopped over in Cambria for a...
