You have to go through these review and approval processes. It’s just part of doing buildings.” What’s really peculiar about ...

A 1970 collection of essays, Meaning in Architecture, was on everyone’s reading list (along with Collage City, The ...

Indeed, if you’re a Malibu resident, care about the value of your home, and take pride in living in this seacoast village (as ...

How did modern architecture happen? How did we evolve so quickly from architecture that had ornament and detail, to buildings that were often blank and devoid of detail? Why did the look and feel of ...

The tragedy that struck one of the world’s most recognizable and beloved landmarks offers France a chance to heal after months of civil unrest. As with any unfortunate event, sympathy from a horrified ...

Last September, Nigerian Afrobeat musician Wizkid played to a sold-out house at the Royal Albert Hall in London, joining a growing list of illustrious African musicians, such as Selif Kaita, Youssou ...

This year is the 50th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium. For me, this local event marked the beginning of the Latino transformation of the American landscape. When it occurred, however, I was ...

It may shock some people to hear this, but architecture is not urban planning. It is not transportation planning, sociology, political science, or critical geography. However, architecture, new-build ...

The two ends of Los Angeles’ Cultural Crescent—formed by the majestic Santa Monica and San Gabriel Mountains and their foothills, which ring the northern end of the great L.A. Basin—are gone. For ...

Our civilization has lost both a pillar and a buttress—one a brave, brilliant uncompromising, architect-Krier; the other a warm, funny, generous, friend and mentor Leo. Krier’s fate was to deflect the ...

There is an astonishing degree of complexity, order, and beauty in the natural world. Even so, and especially within the realm of living things, nothing is more complex than it needs to be to sustain ...