Pasadena Showcase House of Design
By Sunil Rampersad It’s not often that I make the long commute to Pasadena, and even much less so to La Canada-Flintridge, but I did it last week. The reason…
Coming Up This Weekend: Paul Williams House on Show, Women in Architecture, Tomorrow’s Garden
Pasadena Showcase House of Design: This year’s Pasadena Showcase House, Paul Williams’ 1927 English Period Revival estate, will open for the public on April 17. John Bishop Green, a painting contractor, rancher…
Transmedia and Entertainment Design in the “Wild, Wild West.”
When Walt Disney first designed Tomorrowland for Disneyland in the early 1950s, the concept of tomorrow generated the idea of a far-off future filled with new technology and endless possibilities.…
Julius Schulman and his Other Los Angeles: Book Signing and Panel
Julius Shulman is is known for his epoch-defining black and white images of glamorously lived-in Socal Midcentury Modern houses, designed by the likes of Richard Neutra and Pierre Koenig. But…
The Way We’ll Live Next: Near Airports?
By Olga Khazan Of the many complaints often made about airports – the lines, the body scans, the baggage fees – one you don’t hear every day is that airports…
Archi-Parties This Weekend: Disco Silencio and ForumFest
DISCO SILENCIO (Silent Disco): “Bohemian Modern” architect Barbara Bestor is known almost as much for her pop-themed Silverlake parties as for her accessible Modern design. So her latest project, “Disco…
Round-up for March 12, 2011
Around L.A.: Cause for Creativity: The Alchemy of Grooming SMMoA (Santa Monica) 2–5pm In partnership with the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, SMMoA presents a workshop teaching you to make your…
GOOD Throws A Party For CicLAvia
By Olga Khazan It seems the efforts of the city’s bike advocates are slowly but surely paying off. Last week, the City Council approved a complex “bicycle master plan” that…
Weekly Round-Up: CicLAvia, Tadao Ando, Rodarte and More
Around L.A.: GOOD magazine party for CiclaVia: This Saturday, GOOD, the magazine for people who “give a damn,” is throwing a party (and fundraiser) for the bicycle advocacy group CicLAvia…
Scene from the Bus: Paul Williams’ Legacy in Los Angeles
It doesn’t have to be Black History Month to appreciate Black History in Los Angeles, especially when it involves one of LA’s great architects, Paul Williams, writes Sunil Rampersad. I asked my much…