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....
Always contextualize. This was Reyner Banham’s golden rule in his book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (New York:...
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...
Robert Venturi died on September 18, 2018. After I heard, I sent an email to a few colleagues and friends....
arcCA invited a debate between Tom Marble, AIA, architect for the Toluca Lake Executive Building, and Stephen Slaughter, AIA, a...
In Simi Valley in 1946, at the age of 60, Tressa Prisbrey began construction of a home for her collection...
The U.S. National Park Service’s Teaching with Historic Places offers teaching tools and lesson plans to help educators engage young...
It’s elegant that anywhere would rise and fall in a week, and, some years here, that even happens twice. At...
Peter Dodge, FAIA, beloved former member of the arcCA editorial board, passed away October 22nd, 2021, at the age of...
