Architecture

Downton Abbey Has Made Upstairs-Downstairs Tours a Trend -- Including at Pasadena's Gamble House

Pasadena's wooden wonder, the Gamble House, is a clever abode. Instead of closing its doors this summer for a necessary flooring restoration, the National Historic Landmark has found a way to keep its tours running, while simultaneously staying hip to a growing trend. Though many of the house's most ... More >>

MOCA's Controversial L.A. Architecture Exhibit Is Sprawling, Confusing and Beautiful

Sometimes architects are compared to artists. But often the closest counterpart to what an architect does is not that of an artist, but a screenwriter. A friend of mine, a sculptor, once pointed out that filmmaking is "art by committee." And so, can be, architecture. The client, like the director o ... More >>

Machine Project's Oddball Take on L.A. Architecture, From a Helicopter Experiment to the Spirit of Whitney Houston

Our Diary of the Getty's Architecture Project: Gehry's Back at MOCA, LACMA's Black Blob

This is the fifth installment of our Pacific Standard Time Presents diary, tracking modern architecture happenings all over the city during the Getty's big initiative. Check out our previous entries: *The Getty's Big, New Exploration of L.A. Architecture *SCI-Arc's Gala and a Concert at Jackie Treeh ... More >>

Is Our Discussion of L.A. Architecture Too Focused on Cars?

Tour de Frogtown

Our Diary of the Getty's Architecture Project: 'Everything Loose Will Land,' the A D Gala and Machine Project

This is the third installment of our Pacific Standard Time Presents diary, tracking modern architecture happenings all over the city. Check out our previous entries: *The Getty's Big, New Exploration of L.A. Architecture *SCI-Arc's Gala and a Concert at Jackie Treehorn's House High temperatures mig ... More >>

Thom Mayne, Frank Gehry and the Band of L.A. Architects Who Changed Everything

'Confederacy of Heretics' ahow at SCI-Arc re-examines the 1979 exhibits that introduced Los Angeles architecture to the nation

Getty's Pacific Standard Time Series on L.A. Architecture: A Preview

See also: *Thom Mayne, Frank Gehry & the L.A. Architects Who Changed Everything *Schindler House's Exhibit About How We Travel *Moby: L.A. Architecture's New Mascot Neutra, Gehry, Schindler, Eames -- they're all included in the Getty Institute's initiative Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Arc ... More >>

Schindler House Transforms Into a Visitors Center for an Exhibit About How We Travel

Moby: L.A. Architecture's New Mascot

See also: *Fugly Buildings: Our Series on the Most Hideous Buildings in L.A. *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying Those hoping for Moby to launch into the lyrics from "Extreme Ways" in this video might have been surprised to see him riffing on L.A.'s "baf ... More >>

Top 10 L.A. Architecture Stories of 2012

We spend most of the year criticizing Los Angeles' ugly buildings and other unfortunate aspects of the local built environment. Here's our chance to rundown some of the thoughtful, inspiring and downright stellar projects that make us L.A. proud, and that make our burg a better place in general.

Classical Music on Film

Daniel Arsham at OHWOW Gallery: Are There People Behind These Artworks?

At OHWOW gallery, things are no longer as they seem: The otherwise smooth, white walls have grown a few avant-garde appendages. One is shaped like a human; another oozes; all are unquestionably strange. These appendages are part of artist Daniel Arsham's first solo West Coast exhibition, playfully ... More >>

Top 5 Overlooked Architecture and Design Venues in L.A.

Courtesy of Materials & ApplicationsA view of the front yard: Food Pyramid (2010), by Didier Hess.​ Great architecture is everywhere in Los Angeles, even if you have to drive along the mostly unscenic 405 and past the run-down auto body stores in order to get there. Most Angelenos have a few t ... More >>

Three Houses That Would be Modern Masterpieces (But Aren't)

Michael HernandezYou will be assimilated: the Borg ship lands in L.A.​ Despite what Dwell Magazine says, you don't have to be rich and live on the Westside to have a forward-thinking modern house. So take note you students of SCI-Arc, you patrons of Pomona School of Architecture: these three S ... More >>

Olive Garden Meets Zankou Chicken: Houses That Wish They Were Restaurants

Michael HernandezThe Olive Garden Meets Zankou Chicken Meets KB Homes​ What better place to find inspiration for residential architecture than restaurants? That's just what these proud homeowners did to their L.A. area abodes. Above, the Olive Garden meets Zankou Chicken in this homage to pan ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Ray's at LACMA

First Bite: Dining Artfully at Ray's

F. FriesemaJonagold apples​ To get to Ray's, the new restaurant at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, you thread your way through Chris Burden's streetlamp installation, past the outdoor Stark Bar and into a glowing minimalist rectangle that abuts the soaring Ahmanson gallery like a glass s ... More >>

Huge Subsidy for Stadium Architect

Villaraigosa quietly plans to hand Gensler $1 million meant for the poor

HOW TO SPEAK XENAKIS

When Wine, Food Courts And Frank Gehry Don't Mix: Hall Winery Construction Halted

HallFrank Gehry Hall Winery Prototype​Last week's opening of the redesigned Santa Monica Place, a 1980 design by Frank Gehry that was completely revamped by a Dallas-based architecture firm to feature a rooftop food court, prompted Squid Ink to check in on the completion date of the new Gehry- ... More >>

Echo Park Development Plan Meeting Put On Hold Till August

Steve La​Echo Park opponents of a proposed 64-unit residential/commercial development scored a minor victory last night as the developer announced he was changing his designs based on input from residents, Jose Sigala Vice Chair of the Echo Park Neighborhood Council announced at Wednesday's co ... More >>

First Fridays

FRANK TALK ABOUT MUSIC

Photography Exhibit

Architecture Exhibit

Photographer: Julius Shulman 1910 - 2009

Function and Imagination at Human Scale

LET'S BE FRANK

L.A. -- It's Just Like New York!

YOU CAN BÊTE YOUR NOIRE ON IT

Jean Nouvel Unveils Century City Condo Plan

If you lived there, you'd be home by then

LACMA Free Community Weekend

Towering Inferno

Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship

Architecture As a Contact Sport

L.A.’s Thom Mayne wins Pritzker Prize

Spatial Non-Delivery

Bunkum Hill

Over the past 50 years, the city has tried repeatedly to turn Grand Avenue into the living, breathing heart of downtown, and has failed miserably. Now, a public-private group led by Eli Broad is trying again — with the emphasis on private

Escape Artist

The triple life of Louis Kahn

Ring of Fans

Light and Open

The Schindler House searches for a perfect neighbor

This Year's Modern

Clover, Over and Over

Urbanities: Frank O. Gehry Has a Gripe

Love is Blonde

Edited by Kateri Butler

Open Doors

SCI-Arc rediscovers itself — and the city — downtown

Inside/Outside

The Architecture of R.M. Schindler and Shaping the Great City

Remix: Utopian Vision vs. American Dream

One hundred years of architecture at the Geffen Contemporary

Venice Biennale,Vegas Style

The Casino Report, part II

Retro Crusader

Julius Shulman's ode to Modernism