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 ...

When the physical form of a place supports proximity, routine encounters, and a diversity of public life, civic engagement ...

A family sits on their stoop in the seaside village of Laukanu, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.

In the vernacular world, one describes what a thing is. In archispeak, one describes what a thing signifies. Floors are no ...

For all the good it has done, the ADA has had limited success in correcting a nettlesome part of the theatergoing experience.

In my long and embattled relationship with Frank Gehry when I was the design critic for the Los Angeles Times in the 1980s and then, after that, for public radio and television, one memorable incident ...

A lot has been written in recent weeks about Robert A.M. Stern’s immense impact as an architect, educator, writer, and historian. Stern, who passed away in late November, was indeed a trailblazer in ...

I’m not going to pretend that urbanism in Japan hasn’t been celebrated a million times over. But as I contemplate California, it’s clear that we haven’t learned any of the manifest lessons the island ...

A few things that demonstrate the gulf between the island nation’s philosophy of how cities should work and America’s. A few things that demonstrate the gulf between the island nation’s philosophy of ...