Articles
The organizers behind Los Angeles’s latest Olympics run seem content with standing still.
Van Nuys Government Center is a stand-in for downtown democracy flung out to the suburban hinterlands.
I can’t disentangle dingbat apartments from the memories of the years I have spent in Los Angeles.
The garden is a livewire biology of gossip, a thing heard through—but also is itself—a grapevine.
M³: modeled works [archive] 1972–2022 by Thom Mayne and Morphosis. Rizzoli Books, 1008 pp., $50.
But if models are a myriad of things and also not those things, what is a hefty volume full of discourse-heavy texts and chockablock with photographs of models?
Sphere, designed by Populous, opened in Las Vegas in October 2023.
Without its umbilical connection to the Venetian Expo, at any time this Sphere might just roll away.
From Within: The Architecture of Helena Arahuete, curated by Silvia Perea, ran from September 23 to December 17, 2023, at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
An exhibition’s celebration of Helena Arahuete’s draftsmanship reiterates the incredible technical facility and breadth of knowledge required to be a good architect.
Los Angeles: The Development, Life, and Structure of the City of Two Million in Southern California by Anton Wagner, Edward Dimendberg (ed.), and Timothy Grundy (tr.). Getty Research Institute, 384 pp., $70.
To read Anton Wagner reflexively means to engage with his Los Angeles not as a product of its historical context, but a refraction of our own.
