a+u

In different ways from Tokyo or Shanghai, Los Angeles is a city both receptive to, and actively nourishing, many architectural experiments. This pursuit is evident across a broad spectrum - as the 30 projects collected in this volume testify. Ball-Nogues Studio, Xefirotarch, Greg Lynn FORM, Neil M. Denari Architects and Michael Maltzan Architecture are just a few of the offices with experimental works featured.

Sylvia Lavin - Essay: An Architect is Not a Bee

Florencia Pita mod
Pulse, Tendril Formations
Alice
Pioneers and Entrepreneurs

Ball-Nogues Studio
Liquid Sky – MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program 2007
Rip Curl Canyon
Unseen Current
Maximilian’s Schell

Johnston Marklee & Associates
Helios House
Hill House

Gnuform
No Good TelevisionTM Reception Bar and Film Set
Malibu House

Heather Roberge - Essay: Plastic Realities: How Technology Alters Materiality

Xefirotarch / Hernan Diaz Alonso
Pitch Black
Maison Seroussi

PATTERNS
Broad Café @ SCI-Arc – Light Sensations
8746 Sunset Boutique – Plastic Sensations

Patrick Tighe Architecture
Nodul(ar) House
LA Loft

Greg Lynn FORM
5900 Wilshire Blvd. Restaurant & Trellis Pavilion
Slavin House

EMERGENT / Tom Wiscombe
Dragonfly
Novosibirsk Summer Pavilion

Neil M. Denari Architects
Alan-Voo Family House
HL23

david clovers
Light Mass
07 Masses

Michael Maltzan Architecture
Pirelli RE Office
Ministructure No. 16 / Book Bar

Daly Genik Architects
Art Center College of Design, South Campus

Atelier Manferdini
Merletti
West Coast Pavilion
Cherry Blossom

Peter Zellner - Essay: De-Tooling

Series: New Relationship between Landscape Architecture and Urban Design – Part 15
Technology and Nature Find Their ‘Entente Cordiale’ through a New Urban Synergy: Latz + Partners’ Parco Dora, Turin and Duisburg Nord Landscape Park, Germany
Lucy Bullivant