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  March/April 2007 Issue
  Features
  35 Perspectives on the Profession
Confident Career Choices May Offer Relief from the Rat Race

By Troy Fuss
     
  40 Beyond Basic Service
Architecture’s Ever-Expanding Enterprise
By Eric Lum
     
  Departments
  12 Editor’s Note
  14 Report: AIA
    A Call to Arms: The Architect, the City and our Profession
    By Michael A. Enomoto, AIA
     
  16 Showroom
    Products, Materials and Trends
     
  19 New Design
    Enterprise
     
  30 Site Profile
   

CompuLaw
By Allison Milionis

     
  48 Events
    Things to See and Do

 
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  January/Februrary 2007 Issue
  Features
  30 A New Waterfront
The River May Be L.A.’s Best Opportunity for an Urban Makeover

By Jack Skelley
     
  38 Essential Elements
Jenna Didier and Oliver Hess Discuss Water, Technology and Community
By Jennifer Caterino
     
  Departments
  8 Editor’s Note
  10 Report: AIA
    Recognition and Relevance
    By Michael A. Enomoto, AIA
     
  12 Showroom
    Products, Materials and Trends
     
  15 New Design
    Water
     
  24 Site Profile
   

Desert Museums by Lehrer Gangi Design Build: Water as Idea and Fact
By Morris Newman

     
  48 Events
    Things to See and Do

 
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  November/December 2006 Issue
  Features
  30 Progress Report
A Look at the "8 Emerging Designers" of 2001
By Jack Skelley
     
  34 10 to Watch
LA Architech Uncovers Up-and-Coming Design Talent
By Robert Scott Ross
     
  40 Urban Growth
How the Million Trees Initiative Can Enhance Design and the Environment.
By Ann Gray, FAIA
   

  Departments
  12 Editor’s Note
  14 Report: AIA
    Selling Bigness
    By William H. Fain Jr., FAIA
     
  17 New Design
    Selling
     
  28 Showroom
    Products, Materials and Trends
     
  52 Events
    Things to See and Do

 
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  September/October 2006 Issue
  Features
  30 Project Placement
Successful Marketing Begins Early and Has a Long Shelf Life
By Jack Skelley
     
  34 The Rules of Retail
Stimulating Cash Registers with Great Design
By Robert Scott Ross
     
  40 The Mighty Mall
A Conversation with Westfield America’s Kenneth Wong
By Ann Gray, FAIA
   

  Departments
  12 Editor’s Note
  14 Report: AIA
    Selling Bigness
    By William H. Fain Jr., FAIA
     
  17 New Design
    Selling
     
  28 Showroom
    Products, Materials and Trends
     
  52 Events
    Things to See and Do

 
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  July/August 2006 Issue
  Features
  40 At Home
A Photographic Essay
By Robert Berger
     
  44 In the Zone
Community Development in Los Angeles
By Elizabeth Brink
     
  50 Nothing New Under the Sun
Prefab’s Slow Rise from Affordable Housing to Sustainable Solution
By Robert Scott Ross
   

  Departments
  12 Editor’s Note
  14 Report: AIA
    The “Good Life City”
    By William H. Fain Jr., FAIA
     
  19 New Design
    Crowds
     
  30 Showroom
    Products, Materials and Trends
     
  32 Site Profile
    Fine Living: 2006
    By Jennifer Caterino
     
  64 Events
    Things to See and Do

 


 
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  May/June 2006 Issue
  Features
  48 Balancing Growth in Los Angeles
A Conversation with L.A. City Council Member Tom LaBonge
By Ann Gray, FAIA
     
  52 Queuing Theory for the Madding Crowd
Drawing and Managing Crowds through Smart Design
By Robert Scott Ross
     
  58 The Calm before the Storm: SFO, Terminal 2
A Photographic Essay
By Jason Tlush
     
  62 Rethinking Prison Design
    Is It Time to Throw Away the Key to Prison Architecture?
By Troy Fuss
   

  Departments
  18 Publisher’s Note
  20 Editor’s Note
  22 Report: AIA
    Crash
    By William H. Fain Jr., FAIA
     
  31 New Design
    Crowds
     
  40 Site Profile
    LA Live!
    By Morris Newman
     
  44 Showroom
    Products, Materials and Trends
     
  76 Events
    Things to See and Do

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  March/April 2006 Issue
  Features
  30 Images from Los Angeles
Photos by Tim Street-Porter
Commentary by Robert Berger and Tom Zimmerman
     
  34 New China Architecture
A Portrait of Contradictions
By John Leighton Chase
     
  40 Form Unstructured
Barbara Callas, Anthony Coscia, Deborah Richmond, Randall Stout, FAIA, and Olivier Touraine on Form
Interviews by Jennifer Caterino
     
  62 Rethinking Prison Design
    Is It Time to Throw Away the Key to Prison Architecture?
By Troy Fuss
   

  Departments
  10 Editor’s Note
  12 Report: AIA
    Time-Form
    By William H. Fain Jr., FAIA
     
  17 New Design
    Form
     
  24 Showroom
    Products, Materials and Trends
     
  26 Site Profile
    Zen Zoo Tea: Hollywood and Beverly Hills
    By Jennifer Caterino
     
  48 Events
    Things to See and Do

 
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  January/February 2006 Issue
  Features
  AIA/LA Awards
  13 Design: Citation and Merit
     
  21 Design: Citation and Merit
     
  27 Design and Next LA: Honor
     
  32 Other Awards
     
  28 Gold Medal Award Profile
    A Conversation with Michael Palladino, AIA
By Ann Gray, FAIA
   

  Departments
  10 Editor’s Note
  36 Report: AIA
    Alive and Well
    By William H. Fain Jr., FAIA
     
  42 Play on Words
    The Awards IAD: A Mock Heroic Poem
By Morris Newman
     
  48 Events
    Things to See and Do