Frances Anderton

Starting in the 1960s, Archigram, Ant Farm, and Superstudio questioned the very fundamentals of architecture, from its...

“I am not interested in vernacular to be sentimental. I am interested in what it can teach us.”

Six years ago, architect Jorge Gracia came to Dwell’s attention with a house he built for his family that was radically different...

Thanks to Los Angeles’s Small Lot Subdivision Ordinance, the developers of Auburn 7 were able to maximize their property’s...

Years ago, the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas won a design competition for an addition to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art...

Traditions collide in Los Angeles when architect Jeremy Levine hotwires SoCal Spanish with international haute-moderne.

Linda Taalman and Alan Koch’s glass-box prefab brings together raw industrial aesthetics with the influence of California...

Los Angeles is not all mini-malls and highways.

When Greg Reitz was ten years old, he was already so worried about the state of the planet that, without prompting from his...

One day last April there was great excitement on Highland Avenue, a quiet, hilly street (on which this writer happens to live) of...

Brotherly love takes many forms; in the case of Rob and Eric Brill, it’s a shared passion for modernism.

The legendary California modernist built a home for his family deep inside a Pacific Palisades canyon back in 1967, and the...

Shedding a past filled with farmhouses and ornamentation, Dawn Farmer and Pierre Kozely decided to embrace simplicity— and...

With this elegant steel prototype, Marmol Radziner and Associates launch a new prefab venture with the goal of bringing their...

Joe Osae-Addo, a highly gregarious, Ghanaian-born architect, was living in Los Angeles, designing buildings and acting as the...