Seven carefully chosen pieces on the ocean as a space shaped by politics, architecture, memory and myth, free for registered ...

In the supply chain, we say people are our greatest asset. But the moment metrics falter, we turn to cost cuts, not care. We ...

The Making of an Icon” is a fascinating and pretty entertaining new coffee table book devoted to this terra cotta mainstay.

“These Googie coffee shops were quintessentially Southern California,” said Hess. “They had to do, not only with the [post-WW II] boom, with new population coming in wanting a new type of restaurants, ...

We dusted off a 1958 two-door Ford Edsel Ranger and hit the L.A. streets in search of that heady, spacey land that restraint forgot.

How the architecture of Palm Springs suggests possibilities for the future Architectural historian Alan Hess discusses his latest book, 'The Palm Springs School: Desert Modernism 1934-1975.' ...

Whimsical, color-drenched destinations are experiencing a revival across the US, but their sudden comeback is driven by more ...

Late film director David Lynch adored design and architecture and mastered the art of wielding it to evocative effect, writes Anthony Paletta.

The term Googie architecture — pronounced GOO-gee with hard G’s — is probably foreign to you, but you are almost certainly familiar with buildings that exemplify the style. This distinctive ...

Meet photographer Janna Ireland, artist Andrea Kontras, and sculptural painter Gavin Jordan.

Googie architecture is a midcentury design style characterized by dramatic rooflines, pops of color, large glass windows and flashy signs. Anna Kodé, a reporter covering design and culture for ...

In “Bowlarama: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling Alleys,” Chris Nichols and Adriene Biondo dig into a sorely unheralded golden age when Googie design flourished and bowling alleys served ...