PINUP Number 9 and the Case Study Houses

 Run, don't walk to the newsstands, the spanking new, L.A. Special, issue of PinUp is here

featuring iconic LA neighborhoods by iconic observers such as Sylvia Lavin talking about Venice Beach (who, if memory serves me well, was on my thesis review a million years ago, in Venice Beach)

 Jeffrey Deitch on his new life and casa in LA

 photographer Lisa Eisner' incredible garden

a black knit poodle on a white staircase  

a green moss pool

 great interview and portfolio by Hedi Slimane

some Tripoli ruins by Cyril Duval

and 5 Case Study Houses, commisioned for the special issue, by 5 specially non Los Angeles architects such as Sam Causer Studio from London with House n1.1

 Emilio Marin from Santiago de Chile 

with Miss Lonelyhearts'

Architecture at Large from New York with Transformer House

 Etienne Descloux from Berlin with DonJon House

and yours truly Angelidakis studio from Athens 

with Hand House