It was a confluence of West Coast optimism, Hollywood imagination, and California’s come-up during the automobile age that created the Golden State’s peculiar roadside attractions. All along the ...

Some buildings aren’t just made to house things; they’re built to actually look like things. Known as novelty, mimetic, or programmatic architecture, these quirky creations are all about turning heads ...

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Buildings shaped like unusual objects are part of the Southern California experience. What could be more LA than eating a doughnut underneath the giant replica of one at Randy’s Donuts? That kind of ...

The rapid evolution of digital technology, and its role in the ongoing transformation of higher education, has a tendency to breed title confusion. "Inside Digital Learning" previously explored the ...

Los Angeles used to be famous for its programmatic architecture, (also known as mimetic architecture, and more simply defined as buildings shaped like other things). Some of the more notable examples ...

If you cruised the streets of Los Angeles in the mid-20th Century, you would have spotted giant hats, dogs, owls, oranges, and pianos along the side of the road–and it would have seemed perfectly ...

The mass production of the automobile in the 1920s changed everything in America, from lifestyles to architecture. For the first time, Americans could travel freely to places they had never been. This ...

It may not be unique to California, nor even America, but novelty architecture – a superbly condescending name for roadside buildings shaped like hot-dogs, boots, icebergs and hats – has its ...

Buildings shaped like unusual objects are part of the Southern California experience. What could be more LA than eating a doughnut underneath the giant replica of one at Randy’s Donuts? That kind of ...