Jul 25, 2026 · 4 min read
LA History
What a Courtyard Apartment Was Supposed to Do
Los Angeles courtyard apartments tried to solve a very local problem: how to add homes while keeping gardens, light, arrival, and a little privacy.
Writing
ECO ARC
Essays on architecture, design, preservation, infrastructure, sustainability, Los Angeles, and the built environment.
Jul 22, 2026 · 3 min read
General
CopenHill Is the Pretty Face of a Difficult Machine
Copenhagen's ski-slope power plant is brilliant public architecture, but its beauty is most useful when it keeps the waste problem visible.
Jul 18, 2026 · 4 min read
LA Current
Sepulveda Is a Transit Line About Trust
Metro's Sepulveda Transit Corridor has to do more than cross the pass. It has to make a hard, expensive project feel believable to the people who will live with it.
Jul 15, 2026 · 3 min read
General
The Office Building That Had to Prove It
Seattle's Bullitt Center made a useful demand of green architecture: operate for a year, measure the results, and prove the claims.
Jul 11, 2026 · 4 min read
LA History
The Dingbat Was a Parking Rule With a Front Door
Los Angeles dingbats are easy to mock, but their strange form tells a sharper story about postwar housing, parking, ornament, and density.
Jul 8, 2026 · 3 min read
General
BedZED Made Low-Carbon Living Look Ordinary
BedZED's lasting lesson is that low-carbon housing works best when the better choice becomes part of ordinary daily life.
Jul 4, 2026 · 4 min read
LA Current
The Wildlife Crossing Is a Bridge for a Broken Map
The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is a practical repair to a freeway cut that left wildlife trying to survive on the wrong side of the road.
Jul 1, 2026 · 3 min read
General
What the Bicycle Snake Really Connects
Copenhagen's Bicycle Snake works because it treats a missing ramp as a piece of civic architecture, not a leftover traffic problem.