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15 Essential Architecture and Design Reads for 2023

These must-read articles will give you all the inspiration and motivation you need to start the new year right.

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Brooks+Scarpa (23)

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    Brooks + Scarpa's The Six Raises the Bar for Affordable Housing in LA

    … lake, amid Korean dental offices and deteriorating Postmodern duplexes, stands a stark white stucco box that represents the city’s best chance to combat the epidemic. The Brooks + Scarpa–designed, five-story, 52-unit development known as The Six is arguably the most admirable piece of public architecture in L.A. Commissioned by the Skid …

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    The Book That Helped Shape Angie Brooks’ View on Architecture

    October 27, 2022 The Book That Helped Shape Angie Brooks’ View on Architecture The co-principal of Brooks+Scarpa reflects on the biography that influences her practice to this day. By: Angie Brooks I read Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees (1982) in the early ’90s during graduate school in Southern …

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    A San Fernando Valley Housing Project Sets a New Standard

    May 9, 2022 A San Fernando Valley Housing Project Sets a New Standard Los Angeles firm Brooks + Scarpa creates a “guardian of the block” on a corner lot in the San Fernando Valley. By: Jessica Ritz Photography: Tara Wujcik The intersection of Magnolia and Colfax is a microcosm of the San Fernando Valley in Los …

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    Frances Anderton Tells the Story of the Los Angeles Apartment Building

    … by Arthur and Nina Zwebell, offers a theatrical sense of arrival into the hidden court. Courtesy Art Gray One Santa Fe, 2021. Courtesy Jceal Parker Rose Apartments elevates apartments over offices and parking. Courtesy Brooks + Scarpa: Photo by Jeff Durkin/Breadtruck Films The Bryson Apartment-Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard, built in 1913. Courtesy Art …

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    6 Young Architecture Firms Challenging the Status Quo

    … landlords, and more. Would you like to comment on this article? Send your thoughts to: [email protected] CulturalResidential ANYBrandt: HaferdBryony Roberts StudioCitygroupGRT ArchitectsMichelle DuncanNew Affiliates LatestProfilesAngie Brooks on Robert Irwin’s BiographyThe co-principal of Brooks+Scarpa reflects on Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, a book that influences her …

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    Surveying 100 Years of the Regional Plan Association

    … on ArchitectureThe co-principal of Brooks+Scarpa reflects on the biography that influences her practice to this day. Profiles6 Young Architecture Firms Challenging the Status QuoThe winners of AIANY's New Practices New York competition capture the breadth of the city's vibrant architectural community. ProductsCarl Hansen & Søn Revives an Icon of Danish FunctionalismThe …

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    About Metropolis

    … opportunities, please visit https://www.linkedin.com/company/sandow-media/jobs/. LatestProfilesThe Book That Helped Shape Angie Brooks’ View on ArchitectureThe co-principal of Brooks+Scarpa reflects on the biography that influences her practice to this day. Profiles6 Young Architecture Firms Challenging the Status QuoThe winners of AIANY's New Practices New York competition …

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    Future100 Architecture Undergraduate Winners

    … breadth of the city's vibrant architectural community. ProfilesAngie Brooks on Robert Irwin’s BiographyThe co-principal of Brooks+Scarpa reflects on Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, a book that influences her practice to this day. ProductsCarl Hansen & Søn Revives an Icon of Danish FunctionalismThe Vega chair, first designed …

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    If You Are Serious About Sustainability, Social Equity Can't Be Just Another Add-On

    … you have to report it, then you can’t ignore it so easily.” Missing from the equity puzzle are accountability and follow-up after move in. Angie Brooks, of the Los Angeles–based Brooks + Scarpa, hopes that architects start creating their own post-occupancy studies. Pictured: The firm’s 110-unit Rossmore & Weldon complex in …

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    In the SF Bay Area, David Baker Architects Bucks the Trend of Dull Modular Housing

    … for multifamily developments in the United States, offering savings in cost, time, and construction waste in the midst of a nationwide housing crisis. (L.A. architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa recently announced a prefab toolkit for affordable housing.) So when the developer of Union Flats in Union City, California—a bedroom community located between San Francisco …