arcCA Digest is the successor to arcCA (Architecture California), the quarterly print journal of the AIA California Council, which was published from 2000 to 2012. Unlike its predecessor, arcCA Digest is a compendium, comprising invited articles, articles linked from other publications we admire, and selections from the arcCA Archive.
The inaugural issue of arcCA Digest looks at housing in various forms, from several perspectives.
The Issue
Housing: What to Look For
A link back to arcCA 01.2, “Housing Complex,” and current insights from Richard H. Abramson, FAIA, Paul Adamson, FAIA, Phil Bona, AIA, Julie Eizenberg, FAIA, Michele Hottel, AIA, Hank Koning, FAIA, Michael F. Malinowski, FAIA, and Joyce Polhamus, FAIA
Interview
Robert J. Geering, FAIA
Sources
Articles and podcasts from sources to which arcCA Digest hopes you will return
“The (Still) Dreary Deadlock of Public Housing,” from Places
Introduction by Barbara Penner / Archival Text by Catherine Bauer
“Half a House” & “Immobile Homes,” podcasts from 99% Invisible
Sam Greenspan, Emmett FitzGerland
“The Architecture of Our Self-Driving Future,” from the IntuArch Blog
Michael Wacht, AIA
“The Block That Prop. 13 Built,” from The California Dream series, a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio
“Worship Street, London,” from Native Places
Frank Harmon, FAIA
“Navigating the Hills of Affordable Housing: An Interview with Architect David Baker,” from ARCADE
Build LLC
After Ghost Ship: selections from Take Shape
Nolan Boomer, Cole Cataneo, Julia Goodman, Sean Suchara, Jaime Omar Yassin, Sam Winks
The Valley
Architecture in the Valley: Fresno’s Lowell Neighborhood
Andres Diaz, Assoc. AIA
Hist|Crit
Park La Brea: Designs for LA Living
D. J. Waldie
Angle
Mark My Words
Mark Miller, FAIA
Method
Prefabrication in Multi-Family Housing: a Compendium
Modular Housing Explorations
Yes Duffy, Patrick Kennedy, Stanley Saitowitz, and Fei Tsen
“The Modularity is Here: A Modern History of Modular Mass Housing Schemes,” from 99% Invisible
Kate Wagner
“Looking Back at Operation Breakthrough,” from arcCA 07.4, “preFABiana”
Richard Bender and Larry Dodge, interviewed by Nicholas de Monchaux
“The Lustron Home: Fascination with a Prefabricated Modern House,” from arcCA 02.3, “Building Value”
David Thurman, AIA
“Ice Cube Celebrates the Eames,” from Pacific Standard Time
David Meyers for TWBA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles
Justice
Farmworker Housing: a Compendium
“Moonridge Village,” from the arcCA Archive
Tim Culvahouse, FAIA
Farmworker Housing: Recent Projects
Don Brandenburger Architect, KTGY Group, Inc., and Kuchman Architects
Farmworker Housing: a Brief Webography
__________
