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Online Advertising Explained
How the Online Advertising Business Has Evolved My friend Darren Herman helped me think about this post. He sent me this deck along with some thoughts. This slide from Da... ...read more
The Seduction of Context, Diminished Hierarchy, and Plenty of Parking
For some time now in Los Angeles, one would need no more than a handful of art-world encounters before hearing the phrase, “New York is where art is sold, and Los Angeles is whe... ...read more
Too-Late Modernism?
"Brutalism is Beautiful" - Kim Barker - Preservation in Pink This fall has brought me two auspicious pieces of mail. On Sept. 21, a solicitation to join AARP arrived. ... ...read more
Pop Pop, Fiz Fiz: Balance and Bubbles
How the arts inspire one another is the alchemy of creative cross-pollination. In architecture and interiors, that interplay is obvious, if not always self-evident (interior des... ...read more
Major Frank Lloyd Wright House to Be … Demolished?
The Phoenix home the master architect built for his son faces the wrecking ball — almost immediately (possibly tomorrow). Read all about it in this article from the NYT. ...read more
Paris: Buzz, Bubbles, Beauté
As any gambler, businessperson, picked-on-kid-in-the-school-yard, equities-trading Wall Street criminal, or sentient human over age 12 knows, when the tide starts to turn fight ... ...read more
In Viaduct Design Competition, A Remake Is Poised To Trump The Original
The current 6th St Viaduct, built in 1932 and slated for demolition. The 6th Street Viaduct in Los Angeles is not the city’s best-known icon. But it’s been featured in as many m... ...read more
“Architectones”: A Black Flag Over Silver Lake
Mobile (Neutra) by Xavier Veilhan, hangs in the VDL Research House. When a family moves into a house, they begin to add personal touches that make it their own. If they’re succe... ...read more
La Brea: Los Angeles’ Linear Laboratory for Urban Density
Construction sites are popping up all along La Brea Ave. in Los Angeles, a welcome "post-recessionary" sight (author photo). A vision of the dense future of Los Angele... ...read more
Metal Machine Musings
"A Loose Horizon" by LAYER, outside the Pasadena Museum of California Art It’s a pretty well known fact, at least among architects, that in the United States’ “j... ...read moreFollow Us
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