In Exterior Decoration: Hollywood’s Inside-out Houses (Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1982), John Leighton Chase scrutinized and elevated the...
In 2001, Elaine Scarry, the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value at Harvard University, published...
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...
Always contextualize. This was Reyner Banham’s golden rule in his book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (New York:...
It’s elegant that anywhere would rise and fall in a week, and, some years here, that even happens twice. At...
The Immigrant Story Every city in America has special places that tell stories of extraordinary lives unfolded along the path...
arcCA invited a debate between Tom Marble, AIA, architect for the Toluca Lake Executive Building, and Stephen Slaughter, AIA, a...
The U.S. National Park Service’s Teaching with Historic Places offers teaching tools and lesson plans to help educators engage young...
In his TEDxMadison talk of March 2017, architect and educator Michael Ford, AIA, NOMA, presents hip-hop as modernism’s post-occupancy report....
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...
