Peter Dodge, FAIA, beloved former member of the arcCA editorial board, passed away October 22nd, 2021, at the age of...
Robert Venturi died on September 18, 2018. After I heard, I sent an email to a few colleagues and friends....
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....
arcCA invited a debate between Tom Marble, AIA, architect for the Toluca Lake Executive Building, and Stephen Slaughter, AIA, a...
It’s elegant that anywhere would rise and fall in a week, and, some years here, that even happens twice. At...
In Simi Valley in 1946, at the age of 60, Tressa Prisbrey began construction of a home for her collection...
In Exterior Decoration: Hollywood’s Inside-out Houses (Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1982), John Leighton Chase scrutinized and elevated the...
Is it the outer 2” that is the most important, as one of my former bosses seemed to think? How...
In 2001, Elaine Scarry, the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value at Harvard University, published...
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,...
