‘Built to burn.’ L.A. let hillside homes multiply without learning from past mistakes
Los Angeles County keeps building in hillsides and canyons even as the fire risk worsen. For a century, the lure of ...
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Free Self Guided Architectural Trail Map
Friends of Residential Treasures Los Angeles (FORT: LA) curates a new self-guided trail, inviting Angelenos to explore the ...
A stool, a bread knife, and books: How the keepers of L.A.’s most famous homes chose what to save during the fires
When the Los Angeles-area fires came for the Eames and Gamble houses, preservationists had to choose what to save. Here’s ...
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20 Moments in History That Influenced Desert Modern Architecture
These key moments — and many others — came to define Desert Modern architecture and continue to captivate enthusiasts around ...
What is a Tudor-Style House?
Topping a Tudor house will be a chimney, often intricately detailed or with a decorative brick design. Chimneys were invented ...
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Norman Foster’s Empire of Image Control
The British architect has built an unprecedented factory of fine design. Inside the world of the man who creates exquisite ...
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L.A. Wildfires: Dry, dangerous winds are returning to a region primed to burn.
That could suggest a faster timetable for rebuilding homes in Altadena, a Los Angeles suburb where middle-class homeowners may put a premium on speed over custom architecture. The homes that ...
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The Los Angeles landmarks from film and TV damaged by wildfires
Founded in 1961 and built for a reported $6 million, the high school currently serves some 3,000 students throughout the Los Angeles area, though they were not in session this week. FAMOUS CREDITS ...
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Architecture of Cities: Los Angeles Fires Inspire Memory and Lament
Frank Gehry, Getty Villa and Center: They cozy up to my Pacific Coast canyons Hollywood canyons from highest peaks to Los Angeles’s ocean levels: Every enclave from one end of the city to ...
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Los Angeles's historic architecture goes up in flames
The Bridges House (1989), designed by architect Robert Bridges, destroyed by the Palisades fire, January 8, 2025, in Pacific Palisades (California). BRIAN VAN DER BRUG/LOS ANGELES TIMES VIA GETTY ...
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Here’s How Climate Change Fueled the Los Angeles Wildfires
As Greta Cazzaniga, a climate scientist at the ClimaMeter and the Pierre-Simon Laplace Institute in France, said in a recent press statement, “the Los Angeles wildfires have shown how multiple ...