Articles by Russell Fortmeyer

Start-up SuperLA seeks to raise the quality of rental housing in the city while finding ways to streamline its infamously cumbersome development process.

A SCI-Arc faculty member on how the school's reckoning with misconduct should prompt architects everywhere to end longstanding abusive practices.

Washington may be silent, but the country remains committed to climate action: A recap of last week’s Global Climate Action Summit.

The revitalization of Downtown Los Angeles remains a work in progress, with the area still a patchwork of commercial and residential towers, government and cultural facilities, light manufacturing, and parking lots. Lately, its momentum has turned to its eastern fringe, a once-industrial area now dubbed the Arts District. 

Divining rods—really, just forked sticks—supposedly tremble when you hold them over any ground that conceals water below. Whether or not you subscribe to their seemingly magical, analog effectiveness, you might be thinking, isn't there an app for that?