Lani and Larry Johnson attended the 2016 National AIA Convention in Philadelphia last week. The Pennsylvania Convention Center fills four city blocks and is HUGE! Larry focused on historic preservation and attended a full-day workshop on preservation issues for Modernist architecture. The related EXPO was...

The second edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture, edited by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, is now available in bookstores. The original ground breaking book of architectural biographies and architectural essays was originally published in 1994. This new edition corrects some minor editorial errors, expands on the number...

Thursday, February 12, 2015, Larry spent most of the day observing the de-installation of the eight-dial Dexter Street Clock, a City of Seattle Landmark officially known as the West Earth Clock. The clock has a long and mysterious history that will soon be covered in...