July 6, 2021
San Vicente Park
Central Los Angeles suffers from a lack of parks. The upcoming proposed Metro Crenshaw Line Northern Extension will connect this large swath of Los Angeles by…
May 21, 2021
Architectural Planning for Nonprofits
IntuArch is proud to continuously update this informational guide on how nonprofit organizations can take advantage of architectural design to achieve…
May 12, 2021
Neighborhood Council Project Mapping
As part of our community engagement, IntuArch developed a visual user interface so that stakeholders in the P.I.C.O. Neighborhood Council community could view…
October 4, 2017
Conceiving Architectural Design as a User Interface | Part 1
As we move towards a future where digital interfaces, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality begin to infiltrate our architectural world, architects…
October 3, 2017
Conceiving Architectural Design as a User Interface | Part 2
If we are to imagine architecture as a user interface, designers should have strategies to feature the occupant perspective as an integral part of the design…
April 19, 2017
The Architecture Client Matrix: The Economics of Balancing Multiple Stakeholders
Most professional service trades have clear client relationships. A barber cuts a person’s hair or a financial advisor invests a client’s money. Architecture,…
April 10, 2017
Is Architecture an Art Form? Navigating Between Aesthetics and Purpose
What inspires us when we see art? What makes something visually appealing? How does a viewer perceive an object’s significance? I’ve been trying to discover…
March 15, 2017
Densification Without Displacement; Incentivizing Adoption of Self-Driving Vehicles to Solve Urban Issues
While we observe a lack of housing supply in many American cities, there is a solution to our housing woes already woven into the urban fabric, especially in…
January 30, 2017
Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture
The Architect’s Brain, by Harry Francis Mallgrave, is primarily concerned with explaining the process by which we humans categorize our spatial environment,…
January 27, 2017
Defending LACMA
Perhaps the word “controversial” is an understatement to describe LACMA’s reconstruction plans over the next decade. The museum Director, Michael Govan, has…
September 8, 2016
The Architecture of Our Self-Driving Future
This is a preliminary study of how, in the future, self-driving electric cars, aka Autonomous Vehicles (AVs), will affect the existing architecture and urban…
August 17, 2016
Utilizing Architectural Diagrams to Create Geometric Forms that Anticipate User Responses
The Diagram is an architectural design tool that operates between conceptual ideas and resultant geometry, between design intent and a building’s shape. What…
August 3, 2016
Diagramming the Big Idea: Methods for Architectural Composition
In my search for precedent publications that discuss how to utilize diagramming in architecture, a professor friend of mine suggested I read Diagramming the…
January 8, 2016
Niche Tactics: Relationships Between Architecture and Site
The primary goal of this book is to relay an analogy about ecological “bubbles,” or niches, to that of architecture, allowing contextual links to be absorbed…
December 29, 2015
The New Petersen Museum: A Mistaken Metaphor
The newly reinvented Petersen Automotive Museum is an eyesore on many levels. This misanthropic contribution to the Los Angeles landscape is emblematic of two…
October 30, 2015
Why LA Should Embrace Autonomous EVs as a Transit Solution
The history of Los Angeles as a metropolis is based on the development of two concurrent phenomena: mobility systems and real estate speculation. These two…
October 15, 2015
Learning from the ‘Five Architects’
The viewpoint of design for the Five Architects - seemingly ancient viewpoints - come from an unadulterated moment of theory, when simple modernist thoughts…
October 11, 2015
Top 10 Architectural Memes in Home Design
Designing a home is often a proposition of multiple choice among iconic expressions. Architects will not typically divulge this fact, but most have a penchant…
October 1, 2015
The Broad: Synergy of Architectural Diagram and Art
The Architect's strategy to create the form of the building is to interpret the programmatic requirements into a visible diagram, combined with an exceptional…
September 30, 2015
SCI-Arc Right Now Conference: Observations and Extrapolations
SCI-Arc preaches a dogmatic search for “difference” in their design work, which to my viewpoint tends to ignore the humans who would eventually occupy…
September 14, 2015
Frank Gehry at LACMA: The Possibilities and Limitations of Assemblage
Frank Gehry’s impact on the general public is perhaps more evident than that of other Architects. The general public is fascinated by his work, and his…
August 11, 2015
Reckoning with Reckoning with Colin Rowe
After particular positive feedback from my article published in ArchDaily, I began a personal research project to rediscover the pedagogy through which I was…
July 16, 2015
Google’s ‘Plex’ vs. Apple’s ‘Ring’: Linking Corporate Architecture and Digital Platforms
The two biggest names in technology, Apple and Google (rechristened Alphabet), each introduced compelling designs for their future corporate headquarters in…
November 17, 2014
Defining a More Purposeful Architecture: A Guide to Current Architectural Trends
The current state of architectural design incorporates many contemporary ideas of what defines unique geometry. With the advent of strong computer software at…