Peter Dodge, FAIA, beloved former member of the arcCA editorial board, passed away October 22nd, 2021, at the age of...
The U.S. National Park Service’s Teaching with Historic Places offers teaching tools and lesson plans to help educators engage young...
In Simi Valley in 1946, at the age of 60, Tressa Prisbrey began construction of a home for her collection...
This fall, I found myself on a family vacation along California’s Central Coast and stopped over in Cambria for a...
It’s elegant that anywhere would rise and fall in a week, and, some years here, that even happens twice. At...
arcCA invited a debate between Tom Marble, AIA, architect for the Toluca Lake Executive Building, and Stephen Slaughter, AIA, a...
In Exterior Decoration: Hollywood’s Inside-out Houses (Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1982), John Leighton Chase scrutinized and elevated the...
—Have you been to Los Angeles? —The city? —No, the set. Welcome to my city, where the people, the buildings,...
Always contextualize. This was Reyner Banham’s golden rule in his book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (New York:...
Robert Venturi died on September 18, 2018. After I heard, I sent an email to a few colleagues and friends....
Is it the outer 2” that is the most important, as one of my former bosses seemed to think? How...
The Immigrant Story Every city in America has special places that tell stories of extraordinary lives unfolded along the path...
