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

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 ...

Created by the Grace Farms Foundation and ACSA, “Design for Freedom” seeks to help AEC professionals engage in ethical ...

When it comes to single-family houses, custom construction can provide good design for less. Get smart and engaging news and commentary from architecture and design’s leading minds.

The real obstacle to making houses cheaper is the profit-producing rules of big real estate that requires a prescribed size ...

R uben Salazar Park —formerly Laguna Park—in East Los Angeles is one of the most emotionally charged Latino landscapes in the ...

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To be honest, I never really believed that the Walt Disney Concert Hall would ever actually get built. It was the most important major architectural icon in Los Angeles designed by starchitect Frank ...

In the early days of my work together with James Rojas, our clients were mainly in large coastal cities. Some of this had to do with our starting point, Los Angeles. We had the most professional and ...

Since the publication of Robert D. Putnam’s Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community in 2000, a growing body of research has focused on the decline of civic and social engagement ...

Every architect understands that an ethically challenged client or project can imperil a practice. Perhaps apropos of this: The design for Donald Trump’s $200 million White House ballroom, renderings ...