California architecture

An LA native's honest and detailed review of the Hotel Californian in Santa Barbara -- a luxury hotel in the heart of the town's Funk Zone.

We have always admired Julius Shulman, the American architectural photographer who took modernist design masterpieces and froze them in time.

Visit the homes frequented by some of Hollywood’s biggest stars and built by America’s preeminent midcentury architects

One of this planet’s most celebrated landscapes is the rugged shoreline of Sonoma County, three hours up the California coast from San Francisco, where undulating meadows and cypress forest meet craggy bluffs and pounding sea. But the existence of the Sea Ranch, an innovative early experiment in environmentally conscious development by a group of Bay […]

We've rounded up 10 key projects by US architect Jim Olson, which feature in a new book celebrating 60 years of his work.

Say your wedding vows standing within a glorious space designed by the world's most talented architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Moshe Safdie, and others

A dashingly streamlined, decidedly intimate take on indoor-outdoor living, Skip Paul and Van Fletcher’s hillside residence is an elegant riff on midcentury style

Miami architect Chad Oppenheim helped the legendary filmmaker come up with the original concept for the three-story dwelling

A California Renovation that Befits Wallace Neff

Anacapa Architecture and Willson Design have created a concrete-and-glass dwelling in California with features to minimise the home's environmental impact.