Stories

a genealogy
of things

A book exploring how Obie Bowman and Carson Bowler revitalized The Sea Ranch through the introduction of outsider ideas, forms, and details that challenged the absolute authority of the infamous Sea Ranch Design Manual. To be published in Fall of 2024

The Expediter
A film-noir cum urban manifesto following key players in an ongoing melodrama of a massive yet ill-fated real estate development in downtown Los Angeles. Completed during Covid, an excerpt appears in “Design’s Fictions,” published in 2017 by Actar and Art Center College of Design.

Our Cities,
Our Selves
An article exploring how human interaction drives change in cities. Published July, 2021, in the Proceedings of the 2019 Associated Collegiate Schools of Architecture Conference “Less talk, More Action.”

Rip 3389 Padaro
An obituary for an exceptional home in a spectacular setting asks the question: Why can’t Modernism also be preserved? Published in the Architects Newspaper in 2012.

The Role of Technology in the Evolution of Cities
An article linking historic changes in cities to the emergence of new technologies and imagining implications of current and future technologies. Published in 2012 in MONU Magazines issue 16, “Non-Urbanism.”

After the city, this
(is how we live).
Entering the world of real estate development in Southern California, Nat Fleming comes to learn exactly how master-planned communities happen. Published in 2008 as Pamphlet #4 from the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.

The Brown Room
A study of the history of waste treatment in the city of Los Angeles, written for but not included in “The Infrastructural City” edited by Kazys Varnelis, and published by Actar in 2008.

Under the Radar:
Hustler Casino
A review of the Hustler Casino designed by Godfredsen Sigal, for the “LA” issue of ArcCA, the Journal for the AIA California Council, published in 2006.

Design Criteria
for Shopping Malls
Guidelines to facilitate an alien takeover: The first step? Create an environment suitable to shopping.  Published in 2004 in “Dead Malls,” Pamphlet #1 from the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, edited by Warren Techentin.

Deviant Theming
An exploration of an unanticipated side effect of merging architecture culture with entertainment culture. Published in the late-spring 1998 issue of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design Newsletter.

The Architecture
of Hollywood
An excerpt from the Hollywood Building Code outlining the requirements for construction. Published in the 1996 Summer Reading Issue of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design Newsletter.

Mythic LA
A subjective take on the mythic environment of Los Angeles.  Published in 1987 in “Rap Sheets,” a quarterly zine published by the students at the Yale School of Architecture.

Building Project:
The Movie
A short film following the summer 1986 construction of a new pavilion at Fort Nathan Hale in New Haven by the Yale School of Architecture class of 1988.