In nearly every issue, we invite architects, scholars, industry experts, and editors to candidly discuss high-profile projects, urban issues, and events in our architecture criticism column. This year, Los Angeles dominated the spotlight with its collective boom of new museums and buildings, while over on the east coast, Renzo Piano’s Whitney continued to spark conversation.
 Rick Joy’s design for a commuter rail station in Princeton is endowed with civic importance and grace. |
 Whitney Museum of American Art Renzo Piano has not made a building to love, but one in which the art viewing experience is given priority. |
 UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Kevin Daly Architects brings the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music into the digital age. |
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 Michael Webb considers Morphosis’ latest "scaly silver beast," this time at Cornell University. |
 Inspired by automotive design, the Petersen Automotive Museum stops traffic on Wilshire Boulevard. |
 Lorcan O’Herlihy designs housing in a precarious context. |
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 Is prefab the future for affordable housing in Los Angeles? A case from Michael Maltzan Architecture. |
 Hodgetts + Fung’s first religious building creates sanctuary on Jesuit High School’s modernist campus. |
 Rafael Viñoly’s Edward M. Kennedy Institute in Boston complements adjacent JFK Library. |
