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arcCA 09.1
professional practice


Thoughts from the Entitlers
Entitlers
Is it Time for a Voluntary (Consumer-Oriented) Building Code?
Planning Entitlement & CEQA Compliance: the Downtown San Diego Way

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arcCA 08.4
interiors + architecture


View from the inside
Challenging Whitewash
Designing Theatres
A Report on Senate Bill 1312: The Interior Design Practice Act
From My Hotel Window
The Place of Interior Design

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arcCA 08.3
engineering + architecture


Square Wheels or Round?
Engineers are Square, Architects Are Spiral
Engineering Invention
Clever Beyond Engines
Getting on the Same Page: An Interview with Susie See and Andrew Corney
Seismic Experience and Non-Prescriptive Design
2008 AIACC Awards

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arcCA 08.2
LANDSCAPE + ARCHITECTURE + LANDSCAPE


The View from the Landscape
Is Landscape the Anwer?: Ecology and Culture in a Globalized Society
What's Love Got to Do with it?
Trading Change in the Delta
AIA San Joaquin - Awards Program
The Fresno Archop

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arcCA 08.1
90s Generation


State(s) of Practice Excerpts from a Conversation Convened and Moderated by Peter Zellner
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Two Generations: a Conversation
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Five Schools, Eight Voices, Two Surveys
Licensure and Time
Blog Is in the Details: Spread the Good Word
A Conversation with Shigeru Ban

arcCA 07.4
preFABiana


The Myths and Realities of Prefab
In Search of Modernism's Holy Grail
Multiple Tasks
Walter Gropius and the (Not So) Infinite Possibilities of Prefabrication

arcCA 07.3
Comparing Awards


Why Award?
The Paradox of Awards
The Amazing arcCA Design Award Guide
Thank You For Submitting: Advice to the Award-lorn

arcCA 07.2
Design Review



Survivor: The Ultimate Design Review Process
The Community as Client: Architectural Review in America
Confessions of a Design Reviwer: Ten Guidelines for Coming Out as an Architect
Under the Radar - East Oakland School of the Arts, Oakland


arcCA 07.1
Patronage



Institutional Patronage: an interview with David Meckel, FAIA
GSA: the Modern Medici?
The Packards and the Aquarium: an interview the Chuck Davis


arcCA 06.4
The UCs



"Duke" Oakley: an interview
AIA San Francisco: Celebration and Collaboration
Under the Radar

arcCA 06.3
Preserving Modernism



The State Historical Resources Commission
The Technical Challenges of Preserving Modern Buildings
California Modernism: Models for Contemporary Housing
Relevance: AIA Sierra Valley
The Guide to Mid-Century California Modernist Architecture Archives

arcCA 06.2
LA



Rediscovering Reyner Banham's Los Angeles
Fourteen Ways of Looking at Los Angeles
Civility and Public Space
Richard Neutra's Los Angeles Hall of Records Building

arcCA 06.1
Imbedded Knowledge
Imbedded Knowledge
Construction Documents in China: SOM's Experiences
Drafting Culture
The Skin of the DeYoung