I am an architect and I write about architecture, urbanism, people, politics, arts and culture. As an active member of Archinect's editorial team, I write feature articles, interviews and other content for the site and also work behind the scenes instigating material and activity by other contributors.
In addition to my editorial work in Archinect, elseplace features many spontaneous ideas, reviews, photography and commentary about the issues I am interested and documents all kinds of architectures while observing the built environment. I am licensed in California with a small practice and teach architecture studios at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and Woodbury University.
Member of the Board of Directors for Society for Moving Images about the Built Environment, SMIBE. Member of Editorial Board, Architects for Peace . Editorial contributor, Arkitera in Istanbul, Turkey.
A SELECTION OF ARTICLES:
Wilshire Boulevard: A Drive-By Family (in 'Wilshire Star Maps' by Urban Operations)
Review: The Best Lecture Times by Steven Holl and Bjarke Ingels
Cal Poly Pomona Archives on California Modernism and International Style
NEXT SERIES: FASTER PUSSYCAT CITY, Wed, Mar 21 '12
I used to be more intrigued by the voodoo goat head in New Orleans, but lately, cities designed in few charrette hours became more of a curiosity. I like the ones that twirl but I even developed a particular taste for those 20 ft. square ones on pedestals attended by architecture students, their ...
NEXT SERIES: RADAR LOVE, Thu, Dec 29 '11
Something happened somewhere and I am having a hard time writing anything about any of the stuff I see in the media about architecture, public space, occupy, theory of architecture, urbanism... Including most everything I say I am interested in my 'about' section. Just months ago I was ...
Journey to Lovell Beach House, R.M. Schindler, 1926, Mon, Oct 17 '11
Lovell Beach House, one of the pioneering monuments to modern houses in Southern California, sits there on the corner lot in Newport Beach, still the most radically configured architecture on the block and still holding its own ground as one of the most important examples of what would later ...
Review: Shannon Ebner, &, Verses in Urban Art, Mon, Jul 25 '11
Shannon Ebner: and, per se and, 2011 Painted wood, steel, aluminum, light emitting diodes, photovoltaic solar cells, 12 volt battery Jul 15 - Oct 9, 2011 Through a collaboration with the City of Culver City, the Culver City Cultural Affairs Commission, and the Culver City ...
NEXT SERIES: ARCHITECTURE JURY, A Factual and Fictional Manual , Tue, May 31 '11
To spectators, the architecture jury critics might mean deities if they don't know they are not. In fact, some students know this but it is a best kept secret so they can stand back and watch the divine comedy folding out on the first rows of their presentation. Not all students take ...
Review: Central Park at Playa Vista by Michael Maltzan Architects, Wed, Apr 27 '11
Placed near the east end of continuously expanding Playa Vista, a mixed use development with the marketing strategies and lifestyles of loosely called New Urbanist or thereabouts genre, the newly opened “Central Park“ could be described with the words of my film maker friend as a ...
A Conversation with Michael Woo, Thu, Apr 7 '11
By Orhan Ayyüce Michael Woo is the dean of California Polytechnic University, Pomona the College of Environmental Design which contains departments of Architecture, Art, Landscape Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, and the John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies. He ...
Interview with George Brugmans, Director – International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Mon, Jan 18 '10
Conversation with Peter Cook on the State of Things, Mon, Jun 16 '08
If I didn’t sit on a jury with a great educator like Sir Peter Cook, in USC the day before, perhaps this conversation would never materialize. Most certainly, the comments inserted during that studio review made me wanting to talk with Sir Peter Cook on the state of the architectural ...
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Santa Monica, CA, BArch, Architecture
