Christopher Hawthorne is the architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times. Before moderating a panel at Grand Park on the future of downtown Los Angeles, he pledged his loyalty to Peet’s coffee as a show of his Northern California roots, but called moving to L.A. the best decision he’s ever made in the Zócalo green room.
In 1940 my brother and I went into the newspaper business. I was 10 and Raul was eight. Father had made us a wagon out of plywood. It was an …
This year, GQ called downtown Los Angeles “America’s next great city” and “the cool capital of America,” and The New York Times included downtown on its list of “52 Places …
Greg Goldin, coauthor of the forthcoming book Never Built Los Angeles, is a curator at the A+D Museum. From 1999 to 2012, he was the architecture critic at Los Angeles …
We accord both architects and their buildings celebrity status, but how much do blueprints ultimately influence the way we live or the way our cities develop? Architects, planners, designers, and …
The Guggenheim Museum in New York City is architecture as sculpture—a smooth, creamy-colored, curved form that deliberately defies its square, gray urban context, and succeeds by harnessing the pure abstraction …
