—Have you been to Los Angeles? —The city? —No, the set. Welcome to my city, where the people, the buildings,...
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...
In Exterior Decoration: Hollywood’s Inside-out Houses (Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1982), John Leighton Chase scrutinized and elevated the...
The Immigrant Story Every city in America has special places that tell stories of extraordinary lives unfolded along the path...
The U.S. National Park Service’s Teaching with Historic Places offers teaching tools and lesson plans to help educators engage young...
arcCA invited a debate between Tom Marble, AIA, architect for the Toluca Lake Executive Building, and Stephen Slaughter, AIA, a...
Always contextualize. This was Reyner Banham’s golden rule in his book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (New York:...
In his TEDxMadison talk of March 2017, architect and educator Michael Ford, AIA, NOMA, presents hip-hop as modernism’s post-occupancy report....
In 2001, Elaine Scarry, the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value at Harvard University, published...
In Simi Valley in 1946, at the age of 60, Tressa Prisbrey began construction of a home for her collection...
Believing that “sustainability is a synonym of beauty,” Bavarian architect Anna Heringer works almost exclusively in locally available materials, such...
