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Geebird & Bamby

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Jacobsen, Paulo

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Nikolai, Carsten

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Provost, James

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Ulrich, Brian

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Yamasaki, Minoru

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Zuckerman, Andrew

Feb
21st

“Los Angeles, Portrait of a City” (2009), book with over 500 images visually documenting the history of Los Angeles. Slideshow provided by TIME magazine.

Feb
11th

A 1970s New York alive in these vintage photos at wirednewyork.com

Feb
1st

“Ghosts of Shopping Past” (2009), the Photography of Brian Ulrich featured in The Morning News

Retail design and use is not only based on the space itself but also location. When a few stores go down often many others in an area go with them, a retail ghost town if you will.

— Brian Ulrich

A clip from the documentary “Journeyman Architect: The Life and Work of Donald Wexler” (2009), available at designonscreen.org

Jan
27th

And Libeskind himself? What to say, really, about an architect who has now recycled the same mournful, jagged forms that he deployed in the deeply moving Jewish Museum in Berlin and in his design for the World Trade Center site for use in a high-end shopping mall on the Las Vegas Strip?

— LA Times reviewing Las Vegas’ CityCenter

Jan
22nd

“Empty L.A.” (2009), the Photography of Matt Logue, now available as book

Trailer for “Modern Views” (2009), a documentary about modern Architecture in the northwestern states by the UW Department of Architecture

Jan
19th

Photos of a 20th century Los Angeles on the forum of skyscrapercity.com

“Roadside America” (2010), new photographic book by John Margolies