Architect Roger Sherman

Roger Sherman is principal of Roger Sherman Architecture and Urban Design in Culver City and co-director of UCLA’s cityLAB. Before participating in a panel on whether L.A. is mobile enough to be a global city, he talked about trying to kick bad email habits, pho, and his love for The Donut Hole in the Zócalo green room.

On Route 66, a Gas Station Is History Worth Saving

In Rancho Cucamonga, We’re Turning a Long Abandoned Roadside Landmark Into a Museum

In 1964, my parents packed up our old Ford and took my brother and me on a cross-country trip from San Diego to Washington, D.C. and back. Part of our …

Why Walls Don’t Work

Concrete Barriers Between Nations Offer Too-Easy Answers to Complex Global Problems

The end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989—25 years ago this week—led to the long-awaited development of a “global village” characterized by the …

Architect Mia Lehrer

Everything in Moderation—A Motto to Live By

Architect Mia Lehrer is the founder of the Los Angeles-based landscape architecture and urban design firm Mia Lehrer + Associates. Before participating in a panel on whether the digital age …

L.A.’s Shifting Skyline Will Be More Spiraling, Imaginative—and Safer

Updated Building Codes Mean Boxy Helipads Will No Longer Cap the City’s Skyscrapers

For 40 years, Los Angeles’ building code has required all buildings 75 feet and taller to have a rooftop emergency helicopter landing facility in a location approved by the fire …

Is Downtown L.A.’s New Center?

It’s Got the Hype, the Hot New Restaurants, Growing Political Clout, and More and More People on the Streets—and Its Growth Shows No Sign of Slowing Down

This year, GQ called downtown Los Angeles “America’s next great city” and “the cool capital of America,” and The New York Times included downtown on its list of “52 Places …