What Kind of Los Angeles Will Rise From the Fires?
The city faces a choice: remake itself into something largely familiar or take a bolder path and emerge as a new metropolis.
Inside the Early Efforts to Rebuild the Iconic Architecture of Los Angeles
As deadly wildfires raged in Southern California, Save Iconic Architecture, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit founded by Jaime ...
Reno Gazette-Journal3d
Black Springs Volunteer Firehouse added to National Register of Historic Places
Lear Theater was designed by Paul Revere Williams, a famed Black architect known for designing homes and buildings in Los Angeles throughout ... Williams became the first Black architect to ...
27 Black Women Changing the Architecture and Design Space
According to a 2020 report in Archinect, only 0.4 percent of licensed architects in the United States are Black women.
The Economist25d
Los Angeles has lost some of its trailblazing architecture
Her house miraculously survived the devastation wreaked by fires in Altadena, 14 miles north-east of downtown Los Angeles. But she mourned anyway. Her home is part of one of the first Modernist ...
The Financial Times2d
Why Noah Davis is the greatest American figurative painter of his generation
Raising her arms, a young Black woman in a gold sequinned leotard unfurls two big fans as wings, smeared with yellow house paint, and poses in the yard of a white wooden Los Angeles home.
The New York Times26d
The Design Legacy of Los Angeles That Fell to the Fires
By Sam Lubell Reporting from Los Angeles More ... by the social-minded architect Gregory Ain and the landscape architect Garrett Eckbo, Park Planned Homes was one of the first Modernist housing ...
Fast Company14d
A new Slack group is uniting a typically competitive industry.
As wildfires tore through neighborhoods across the Los Angeles area this month, the city’s large architecture and design ... s useful for people in these first couple of months to understand ...
National Geographic news24d
What the images of Los Angeles's fires don’t show
a masterpiece of mid-century residential architecture. In Altadena, one of my favorite, sleepier L.A. towns—also, after 1968’s Fair Housing Act, an enclave for Los Angeles’s Black community ...
Los Angeles Times29d
Updates: The architecturally significant houses destroyed in L.A.’s fires
The house takes its name from its first ... of Architecture, Eric Owen Moss remodeled the house at 708 El Medio Ave. originally designed by Milton H. Caughey. As documented by the Los Angeles ...