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Thursday, December 21, 2017

Stained glass, gargoyles and 'squashy chairs': The Harry Potter effect in new college architecture by Christopher Hawthorne

In general I have no patience for the argument, popular among classic liberals and Fox News viewers alike, that American college students these days are coddled or protected from especially …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Boring architecture? Yes, please by Christopher Hawthorne

What theater's quiet style has in common with the new architecture.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM
Monday, August 21, 2017

Disneyland meets Hogwarts at $700-million USC Village by Christopher Hawthorne

At a ceremony last week to mark the opening of the $700-million USC Village, C.L. Max Nikias, the university’s president, spoke at some length about the architecture of the new complex and…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AM
Saturday, November 21, 2015

Opera-on-wheels 'Hopscotch' drives home the complicated pull of downtown L.A. by Christopher Hawthorne

Does Los Angeles need a true center, a downtown in the traditional sense? How about a reasonable facsimile of one, something just plausible enough to fool the visitors from out of town? Woul…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:49PM
Friday, November 14, 2014

At 50, Music Center's 'backward' orientation may see a turnaround by Christopher Hawthorne

If practice is what gets you to Carnegie Hall, as the saying goes, what gets you to the Music Center has always been a car.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:49PM
Saturday, November 2, 2013

Review: Wallis Annenberg Center is a step forward for Beverly Hills by Christopher Hawthorne

The new Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts artfully blends old architecture with new, with parking of course. The new Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AM
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Reading L.A.: Marc Reisner's 'Cadillac Desert' by Christopher Hawthorne

Marc Reisner's "Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water," the 11th title in our Reading L.A. series, is not, strictly speaking, a book about Los Angeles or its urban fo…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45PM

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