react/review: a responsive journal for art & architecture

The historiography of Southern Californian architecture is marked by divergent interpretive frameworks, oscillating between celebratory narratives and noir critiques. Historians and architectural historians have long grappled with the region’s heterogeneous built environment, shaped by successive waves of settlers, immigrants, and, more recently, exiles and émigrés who made California their adopted homeland. Despite their differences, most accounts underscore the state’s stylistic pluralism and the incorporation of diverse architectural vocabularies drawn from multiple cultures and geographies into its cultural landscape.