Believing that “sustainability is a synonym of beauty,” Bavarian architect Anna Heringer works almost exclusively in locally available materials, such...
—Have you been to Los Angeles? —The city? —No, the set. Welcome to my city, where the people, the buildings,...
This fall, I found myself on a family vacation along California’s Central Coast and stopped over in Cambria for a...
Peter Dodge, FAIA, beloved former member of the arcCA editorial board, passed away October 22nd, 2021, at the age of...
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...
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...
In his TEDxMadison talk of March 2017, architect and educator Michael Ford, AIA, NOMA, presents hip-hop as modernism’s post-occupancy report....
It’s elegant that anywhere would rise and fall in a week, and, some years here, that even happens twice. At...
The U.S. National Park Service’s Teaching with Historic Places offers teaching tools and lesson plans to help educators engage young...
Always contextualize. This was Reyner Banham’s golden rule in his book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (New York:...