Tom Wiscombe

Tom Wiscombe Design / Southern California Institute of Architecture

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Architect and Principal at Tom Wiscombe Architecture and Chair of the B.Arch. Program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture 

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Can digital billboards be beautiful? Or are they a blight on the urban landscape?

'Spectacular' digital billboards coming to the Sunset Strip

Can digital billboards be beautiful? Or are they a blight on the urban landscape?

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Zaha Hadid was just five years out of architecture school in London when she stunned her peers with her 1982 winning design for The Peak, a leisure club on Victoria Peak overlooking…

Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid was just five years out of architecture school in London when she stunned her peers with her 1982 winning design for The Peak, a leisure club on Victoria Peak overlooking…

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A New Sculpturalism will show models, sketches and photographs of buildings constructed by more than 30 of LA’s leading and lesser-known architects.  But, knowing that architecture…

A Taste of the Future at 'A New Sculpturalism'

A New Sculpturalism will show models, sketches and photographs of buildings constructed by more than 30 of LA’s leading and lesser-known architects.  But, knowing that architecture…

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