Architecture

August 21, 2025

Remembering Lou Naidorf by Brenda Levin, FAIA

This tribute reflects on the life and legacy of Lou Naidorf (1928–2025), architect of the iconic Capitol Records Building. Through Brenda Levin’s (FAIA) personal introduction, it highlights his mentorship, generosity, and vision of architecture as a civic act that uplifts communities. The piece honors both his groundbreaking design achievements and the lasting personal impact he had on colleagues and the city of Los Angeles.

July 17, 2023

Blast from the Past: In Bilbao, Spain with Frank Gehry: A TPR Exclusive Interview (1998)

TPR caught up with Gehry in Bilbao, Spain, the site of the new Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum, which has made an unprecedented international splash—both among patrons of the arts, who admire its space; and city boosters, who admire the power of a building to put a city like Bilbao on the map.

June 15, 2023

What’s the Matter with American Cities?

TPR republishes with permission this piece examining the divergence in American cities from good planning principles found in cities around the world to the detriment of the global climate and local livability.

April 13, 2022

Architects Criticize As 'Inhumane' Proposed Munger-Funded UCSB Student Dormitory

TPR below offers two examples (a statement by the Santa Barbara Chapter of the A.I.A & a response by the former chair of national AIA, Ron Altoon) of the critical outrage which has been expressed by architects, educators and, planners in California and nationally in reaction to Charlie’s Vision for UCSB’s Munger Hall.

May 25, 2021

Low Rise Housing Ideas: A Los Angeles Design Competition

TPR shares this overview of the City of LA's Low-Rise housing design competition, and highlights the prize winners' innovative models of sustainable residential architecture.

April 8, 2021

Ken Bernstein's Preserving Los Angeles: How Historic Places can Transform America's Cities

Join TPR on Tues. April 20 for a special online book launch event for Ken Bernstein's new book Preserving Los Angeles: How Historic Places Can Transform America's Cities, which aims to bring the Los Angeles historic preservation story to a larger public, both locally and nationally, detailing how preservation has become an engine of positive change across the City of Los Angeles.

February 4, 2021

Heidi Duckler: Los Angeles Through the Eyes of a Physical Space Artist

PR caught up with Heidi Duckler for an artist’s perspective on movement in the built environment, urban planning as modern dance, and COVID-19's impacts on performance art in Los Angeles.

December 1, 2020

Reclaiming Streets as Public Space: The Dutch Approach to Aligning Mobility & Public Place Making 

Through the Dutch tradition of design thinking, centering pedestrian use, and prioritizing public space, Daan Zandbelt shares how Dutch streets were “reclaimed” from cars from the 1970s and transformed into the multi-modal hubs as we know them today.

October 1, 2020

Sam Lubell: 6 Ways the Trump Presidency Has Impacted the Building Industry

TPR excerpts here with permission, Sam Lubell on the current federal administration's impacts on the building industry and its far-reaching implications for urbanism, environmentalism, and construction.

April 28, 2020

COVID-19's Impacts on Urban Design & the Built Environment

Architecture journalist Sam Lubell describes how the COVID-19 pandemic, like pandemics of the past, will trigger a shift in how visionaries of the built environment—planners, urban designers, and architects—imagine place and space in response to the disruption of the moment

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