Case study conservation on the Eames' Case Study House

Surprisingly, little has changed at the Eames House since 1949, when Charles and Ray Eames designed their Pacific Palisades home and...

L.A. artists, architects' effect on each other at MAK Center exhibit

"Everything Loose Will Land" has landed. And its timing could hardly be better.

World Trade Center reaches new heights with permanent spire

A spire set atop One World Trade Center on Friday was greeted with cheers from workers high in the air and spectators from the street below.

A journalist remembers Mexican architect Pedro Ramirez Vazquez

Architecture and journalism, like politics, sometimes make strange bedfellows.

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum returns to form, with light and life

AMSTERDAM — A scrum of international TV reporters, photographers and other media packed the Gallery of Honor at the Rijksmuseum on a...

MOCA's 'A New Sculpturalism' faces uncertain future without Gehry

Frank Gehry has pulled out of a major architecture exhibition set to open June 2 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, a...

Artist Xavier Veilhan takes on Lautner's Sheats-Goldstein house

Xavier Veilhan, the Paris-based artist who last year turned Richard Neutra’s VDL House in Silver Lake into a startling temporary...

Dr. Frank Gehry? A Cleveland university honors the architect

Frank Gehry has another academic credit coming: The renowned architect in May will receive an honorary doctorate from Case Western Reserve...

Architecture review: Bush presidential library is fittingly blunt

DALLAS — What do neo-classicism and neo-conservatism have in common?

Ed Ruscha, Wang Shu named to Time 100 list

Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha and Chinese architect Wang Shu have been named to Time magazine's new list of the 100 most influential people...

Review: L.A.'s satisfying sprawl

Architecture exhibitions are notoriously tricky to pull off. It's hard to squeeze a whole building inside a museum, after all. And the...

Motion Picture Academy unveils ambitious plans for film museum

Will the Academy's big bubble pop before it has a chance to be built?

Review: 'Confederacy of Heretics' a delicate task

It's difficult to imagine a more delicate curatorial task than the one Todd Gannon, Ewan Branda and Andrew Zago faced in putting together "A...

Southern California architecture: the missing early years from PSTP

Two years ago, when the Getty Trust helped organize and fund more than five dozen exhibits on 20th century art in Los Angeles, a massive...

Dodger Stadium revamp is a work in progress

When you see the revamped Dodger Stadium, you may wonder, at least at first, where that $100 million went.

Wilshire Boulevard, a Main Street that stands apart

New debate over Frank Gehry's design for an Eisenhower Memorial

Architect Frank Gehry's controversial design for the proposed Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial is once again the...

Architect Lebbeus Woods' turbulent brilliance still resonates

SAN FRANCISCO — On the morning of Oct. 30, as New York surveyed the damage left by Hurricane Sandy, word began to spread that...

L.A. architecture takes the lead in Getty's new PST project

Much of the time Los Angeles can feel like a huge, messy jigsaw puzzle, with pieces left out — a city that evolved by accident....

With modern architecture spotlighted, PST series looks beyond landmarks

There's sure to be much to pore over in "Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990," the ambitious anchor show of the Getty's Pacific...

Frank Gehry designing new tower in Santa Monica

Frank Gehry is designing a new 22-story tower that developers want to build in downtown Santa Monica, near the intersection of Ocean...

Los Angeles' major public spaces remain broken works in progress

Los Angeles, more than most cities, has defined itself by continual bursts of expansion and an unflagging optimism about its place in the...

Ai Weiwei documentary airing on PBS Monday night

"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry," the 2012 feature documentary about the outspoken Chinese artist, will air on PBS Monday night as part of the...

New play about Ai Weiwei to open April 11 in London

A new play about artist Ai Weiwei's secret detention in 2011 will premiere in April in London. Written by British playwright Howard Brenton,...

Developer Tom Gilmore pledges $1 million to SCI-Arc

On eve of Super Bowl, football caught between a rock and hard tackle

One afternoon in early January, I took a tour of the refurbished Memorial Stadium in Berkeley with a pair of architects from the firm HNTB....

Architect Zaha Hadid dealing with design piracy in China

When it comes to doing business in China, Hollywood is well acquainted with the perils of piracy. Now it appears that architects must also...

Artist to unveil Metro Gold Line bridge design in Arcadia

In Southern California, one of the surest ways to get people to notice public art is to put it near a freeway. 

Eisenhower son calls for new direction in Gehry-designed memorial

Members of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's family have been openly critical of the design for a planned memorial to the 34th president in...

Architect Lebbeus Woods, who inspired sci-fi movies, dies

Lebbeus Woods, the conceptual architect whose work had a wide-ranging influence on the science-fiction genre, died this week in New York...

Frank Gehry, Placido Domingo to help YoungArts Foundation

Frank Gehry and Placido Domingo will be lending a hand to the National YoungArts Foundation, a nonprofit group that provides financial...

Paul Conrad sculpture is designated a Santa Monica landmark

"Chain Reaction," the anti-nuclear weapons sculpture by the late Paul Conrad, has received landmark status from Santa Monica's Landmarks...

China's Ai Weiwei says he's blocked from attending court hearing

Ai Weiwei has said that police in Beijing are preventing him from attending a scheduled court hearing regarding his ongoing tax case with...

Eisenhower family still not pleased with Frank Gehry design

The design of the proposed Eisenhower Memorial in Washington has been a long, contentious process, and it doesn't appear to be ending any...

Frank Gehry unveils changes to Eisenhower Memorial design

New changes to the contentious design for the Eisenhower Memorial were publicly unveiled on Tuesday at a session in Washington. Architect...

Critic's Notebook: Metro douses expectations on Union Station project

Talk about raining on your own parade.

Spring architecture preview: Barnes Foundation's new home, CicLAvia

Critic's notebook: Skyscrapers remain powerful symbols, post 9/11

Any skyscraper is a contradiction.

Architecture review: National September 11 Memorial

If you were expecting the National September 11 Memorial to turn out to be a visionary or uncompromising monument to human tragedy and...

Critic's Notebook: Shifting horizons in Santa Monica parks design

Standing atop a patch of churned-up dirt on a recent morning, James Corner was surrounded by mismatched palm trees, chipped sidewalks and...

Critic's Notebook: Hollywood landmark at a crossroads

When it opened in 1956, the Capitol Records building was surrounded mostly by surface parking lots, making it easy to spot from the nearby...

Eldon Davis dies at 94; architect designed 'Googie' coffee shops

Eldon Davis, an influential architect known as the father of the California coffee shop for midcentury designs inspired by the Space Age and...

Annenberg Center construction set for April

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, which has been in the planning stages for a decade and a half, finally will begin...

Animated fly-through of DSR design for Broad museum

Downtown's new city walk

Usually the trajectory that neighborhoods go through as they gentrify is entirely predictable -- and more than a little depressing. First...

'Inception' dreams big, unlike its architect

Everybody has an opinion about "Inception," and mine comes in the form of a question: Why are the movie's architectural settings, for the...

Critic's Notebook: 'Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970'

Thomas S. Hines, a professor emeritus at UCLA, is the dean of architectural historians in Los Angeles, the author of major studies of the...

L.A. Unified's faulty vision for schools on Ambassador site

Along one edge of the old Ambassador Hotel site, where the Los Angeles Unified School District has been building a controversial...