The city’s most recent neighborhood plans that are creating new mixed-use, mixed-income communities include the Gowanus ...

Driving Toward Bankruptcy (Recently updated, but—sadly—requiring only light revision.) Fellow Angelenos, we must build a ...

As the saying goes: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Design competitions for both architecture students and professionals tend to focus on visual punch. Having served on hundreds of competition juries over the years, from local awards to international ...

We are told, unendingly, that there is a housing crisis. People cannot find homes they can afford in places they want to live. Unfortunately, the major obstacles are deeply entrenched. The motivations ...

Created by the Grace Farms Foundation and ACSA, “Design for Freedom” seeks to help AEC professionals engage in ethical material sourcing. Get smart and engaging news and commentary from architecture ...

Ruben Salazar Park—formerly Laguna Park—in East Los Angeles is one of the most emotionally charged Latino landscapes in the U.S., marked most powerfully on Saturday, August 29, 1970, at the end of the ...

Two pieces of news have recently grabbed the attention of those of us attuned to urban design and planning in New York City. The first was the word that the Adams administration, in its waning days, ...

Never hide the entrance to your building. Never go down to go up, or vice versa. Dark colors make dark rooms; use them sparingly. As I approached the new Princeton University Art Museum, I was ...

A friend of mine recently commented on the big void now in Los Angeles. I have received many such sentiments from my friends and former colleagues on the passing of Frank Gehry, but not one quite so ...

The architect was an apostate, but also completely of his era. Perhaps more important, Gehry was a unicorn, one whose creations are not easily replicated. The architect was an apostate, but also ...