The Seattle-born architect established the Los Angeles office of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates in 1986 before branching off in 2004 to start Pfeiffer Partners, with major projects including a renovation of L.A.'s landmark Griffith Observatory.
The Baltimore-born architect was a fixture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles beginning in the 1980s, including as director of its graduate program.
A bicoastal architecture studio finds formal inspiration in California's stringent energy codes, which are intended to make new construction and renovations increasingly sustainable.
With an upper level clad in dark-stained cedar siding and black corrugated metal, the two-story addition contrasts with the predominantly white stucco Spanish Colonial architecture of L.A.'s Silver Lake neighborhood.
This month’s dates and events include a Raqs Media Collective exhibition commissioned by the Jencks Foundation at the late architectural theorist's eclectic home in west London.
The report profiles the driving force behind the 1936 California House and Garden Exhibition, which featured model homes by Richard Neutra, Paul Revere Williams, and others.
Following the long-awaited August 2022 reopening of Hollyhock House to the public, husband-wife artists Louise Bonnet and Adam Silverman stage their first ever formal collaboration at the Los Angeles landmark.