Kemper Nomland, Jr.
My father has been one of the lesser-known figures in Mid-Century Modern architecture. That was by design. Dad was the antithesis of a self-promoter.
Paul R. Williams
My brother shouted to me: “Is this really true? Paul Williams designed and built thousands of buildings? In the 1920s? And he was black? How have I not heard of him before????”
Sheets Under Siege
The reality today is that when you are viewing art in the museum, you could be inside any of the seemingly endless supply of cookie-cutter galleries in the world.
Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
Aside from the Amboy Crater eruption 10,000 or so years ago, the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex is the most exciting thing to ever happen in the Mojave Desert.
Mount Wilson Observatory
Just about every big name in astronomy you can think of in the first half of the twentieth century came here to do something.
Index Issue 6
Issue 6 looks at how built structures give our lives a sense of “place,” and how we occupy buildings as intimately and as exploratively as we occupy our own bodies.
Robin Petgrave of Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum
Welcome to Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum (TAM), with record-breaking pilots and an after-school program that acts as an incubator for the minds of the twenty-first century.
The Griffith Family of Imperial Equestrian
“I love my job. I am in love with my job,” Shona smiled, expressing compassion and concern for those who don’t feel the same way about their careers.
Sean Knibb of Flowerboy Project
“I want to change the way they look at the world, get them out of their pattern,” Sean Knibb says.
Jen + Laila of Electric Pony Studios
The art of creating space is as thoughtful and inspired as the art which unfolds within it.