Architecture

March 29, 2013

Dodger Stadium Architectural Team Met Opening Day Challenges

TPR’s second in a series of interviews with Los Angeles Dodgers management and design team. Tommy Quirk of DAIQ explains the importance of enhancing the fan experience at every level while rushing to meet a tight deadline.

March 30, 2012

Chet Widom: New California State Architect Opines on Priorities

Chet Widom spoke to leading architects in the Los Angeles area at an AIA event in March to explain what he intends to accomplish in his new position as State Architect. Review boards and documentation slow down the design and construction process significantly, and Widom faces the difficult challenge of speeding the process up with limited resources in a complicated bureaucracy.

February 1, 2012

VerdeXchange Green Build Panel: Codes & Mandates Should Not Impede Sustainability

VerdeXchange 2012 hosted a panel, moderated by Gail Goldberg, Executive Director of the Urban Land Institute, Los Angeles, on ‘Green Building Through Codes, Mandates, and Incentives’. Panelists Steve Glenn, CEO, LivingHomes, Ken Lewis, President, AC Martin Partners, and Deborah Weintraub, Chief Deputy Office of the LA Bureau of Engineering, outlined their practices and how building codes impact or fail to impact development projects.

December 19, 2011

Peter Zellner Discusses SCI-Arc’s Focus on Sustainability

Peter Zellner, a Culver City-based architect and a faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, sat down with TPR as a follow-up to the AIA net zero energy roundtable. Zellner’s work on art galleries has gained ZELLNERPLUS the most recognition. His grappling with questions of urbanism and sustainability, however, professionally challenge common notions of how Los Angeles’ built environment may evolve. 

September 11, 2011

VX Canada: Darryl Neate of Oxford Properties on How To Green Retrofits

Darrly Neate explores the challenges property developers face in striving for an energy efficient built environment.

June 1, 2011

SCI-Arc Purchases Campus Site; L.A. Arts District Also a Winner

SCI-Arc Board Chair and local attorney Jerry Neuman details the process by which the world renowned school put down roots in the Arts District of Downtown L.A.

June 21, 2006

Husband-and-Wife Team Hodgetts+Fung Receive Gold Award from AIA's Los Angeles Chapter

Craig Hodgetts and Ming Fung reflect on receiving the L.A. AIA's highest honor at the 2006 AIA convention.

May 15, 2006

Griffith Observatory to Re-Join L.A.'s Architectural Constellation This Fall

Griffith Observatory Director Ed Krupp offers a glimpse into an updated version of L.A.'s scientific, educational, and architectural landmark.

November 30, 2004

LA City Architect Is Promoted: Bureau of Engineering Now Greener

Bringing an architect's perspective into civic engineering projects has proven a great success.

November 10, 2004

Advice from Civic Leaders for New L.A. Times Architecture Critic

The Los Angeles development community welcomes new critic Christopher Hawthorne.

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