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To read Anton Wagner reflexively means to engage with his Los Angeles not as a product of its historical context, but a refraction of our own.

What is it that we want from Ruscha? What does New York want from the idea of LA?

For the team behind this eco-futures festival, optimism is radical. But is it enough?

Here’s another thing about gamification: It doesn’t work.

Without its umbilical connection to the Venetian Expo, at any time this Sphere might just roll away.

An exhibition’s celebration of Helena Arahuete’s draftsmanship reiterates the incredible technical facility and breadth of knowledge required to be a good architect.

I can’t disentangle dingbat apartments from the memories of the years I have spent in Los Angeles.

But if models are a myriad of things and also not those things, what is a hefty volume full of discourse-heavy texts and chockablock with photographs of models?

A lone chroma-key green structure appeared down the slope at 6101 Mulholland Highway.

A middle-class fable set in gold country.

Is this mélange giving Hot Girl Western, Italian futurism, or ’60s psychedelia?

Justice for Zipatone!

Here, modesty gives way to heroic fragility.

Bringing down the Mouse

In Los Angeles, the fantasy and the reality of the movies live side by side.

The museum’s motto could be, “Walls don’t stay up forever.”