With AI, history seems to be repeating itself: trillions have been invested in AI, and folks are confused because they have ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Hurricane Katrina—August 29, 2005—was a full-tilt catastrophe, even after it weakened from a Category 5 storm and plowed ashore near New Orleans at Category 3 strength. It put 80% of the city under ...

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 ...

For years there has been a loud and often polarizing battle: NIMBYs vs. YIMBYs. But as housing costs soar and climate pressures mount, a new movement might offer a way forward—one that’s not about ...