Design

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

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

Q & A With Nigella Lawson: On Her New Cookbook Nigellissima, The Taste, And Whether There's Too Much Food on TV

As always, Nigella Lawson has a lot of balls in the air. Her new show The Taste with Anthony Bourdain, Ludu LeFebre and Brian Malarky, has turned out to be quite a hit. At the same time, she's just released her 9th cookbook, Nigellissima, which celebrates the flavors of Italy. We sat down with her o ... More >>

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.

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Theodore Rowan falls to death at Pacific Design Center

An opening event at the Pacific Design Center was interrupted by apparent suicide yesterday evening. Theodore Edward Rowan, 72, was a resident of West Hollywood, says Ed Winter of the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office. Witnesses say Rowan fell to his death at approximately 5:30pm in the midst of ... More >>

Theodore Rowan, 72, Falls to Death at Pacific Design Center

An opening event at the Pacific Design Center was interrupted by apparent suicide yesterday evening. Theodore Edward Rowan, 72, was a resident of West Hollywood, says Ed Winter of the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office. Witnesses say Rowan fell to his death at approximately 5:30pm in the midst of ... More >>

Does the Pacific Design Center Work as a Gallery Hub? Annie Wharton and John Espinosa Think So

Katie Wilkins, 25-Year-Old Graphic Designer, Found Dead in Malibu Garage; BMW Missing

A young graphic designer described by her father as "well-liked" was found dead in the garage of her parents' house, where she was apparently staying, on Saturday night. The body of Katherine Jessie Wilkins (or Katie Wilkins), 25, was reportedly discovered by her brother Steve. But strangely, when ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Bartering for Paintings

Future and past feel like they're on a collision course this week -- especially in William Leavitt's deceptively mundane drawings of suburbia gone awry and Dennis Hoekstra's and Noah Olmsted's ghostly, garish re-envisioning of the Pacific Design Center. 5. Modern-day mythmaker Charles Garabedian di ... More >>

Chef Joe Miller, Surfas a CSA Box

LA Weekly Flickr pool/WishingOnAsTar!raviloli at Joe's​In a way, fresh produce and the school cafeteria meatloaf have something in common: a sense of mystery. At least, if you get your produce from a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Farmers send subscribers samples of whatever's ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Rodarte: States of Matter

Here come the frock stars

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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 >>

LA People 2009: Graphic Display — David Weidman

He was one of the hands behind Hanna-Barbera's "Fractured Fairytales," and started one of the city's seminal printmaking galleries. At 87, he is now releasing a book of his whimsical work

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Capitol to Reissue Key Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beach Boys, Ben Harper Releases on Heavy Vinyl

Capitol Records has just announced its next round of 180 gram vinyl reissues, and it's a fantastic list. This next batch will arrive June 16. The Beach Boys / Sunflower (1 LP, single jacket) The Beach Boys / Surf's Up (1 LP, single jacket, lyrics sheet insert) Plastic Ono Band / Live Peace In To ... More >>

Monsters at 3 a.m.: From Stefan Bucher's Ink Puddles, a World of Exhilarating, Well-Heeled Creatures

His Daily Monster Web site features 200 videos that track him as he draws

Jean Nouvel Unveils Century City Condo Plan

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

Local Sensations

LACMA’s “Art and Music” series

Radio Waves

And we're honored

Movin' On Up

Our city gets vertical with a crop of new high-rise condos

Inside Out

Towering Inferno

Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship

In the Realm of the Senses

Ettore Sottsass at play

Kara Saun

2006 LA WEEKLY WINTER EDUCATION RESOURCE GUIDE

Destiny’s Child

Catnip for your Inner Otaku

Poster-Modernism

Rauschenberg and Revolution on Wilshire

Spatial Non-Delivery

The Capital of Car Design

L.A. is, once again, where the action is

Escape Artist

The triple life of Louis Kahn

Distress Signals

Mark Ryden's creepy miniatures, Jonathan Rosen's hybrid monsters

Recovery Program

Clover, Over and Over

Urbanities: Frank O. Gehry Has a Gripe

Threads to the Social Order

Edited by Kateri Butler

Love is Blonde

Edited by Kateri Butler

Remix: Utopian Vision vs. American Dream

One hundred years of architecture at the Geffen Contemporary

Style Council

Venice Biennale,Vegas Style

The Casino Report, part II

Text Appeal

Barbara Kruger's word-image art

Retro Crusader

Julius Shulman's ode to Modernism