Notes on architecture, neighborhoods, and the Los Angeles market — from the Marlowe Hale studio.
Sep 16, 2025 · Camille Okafor
On the flat blocks below the hill, a stock of low, horizontal mid-century houses keeps making the same quiet argument: that a single story, well sited to the light, is a more generous way to live than its price suggests.
Aug 20, 2024 · Sofia Marchetti
Broad flat streets, hundred-year-old trees, and a catalogue of how the 1920s imagined permanence. A field guide to reading the grand revival houses of Hancock Park.
Jun 24, 2025 · Sofia Marchetti
A view is the most expensive thing a Hollywood Hills house can offer and the least understood. A clear-eyed guide to what the premium actually buys, and how to buy it soundly.
Mar 19, 2024 · Sara Hale
A reservoir, a generation of restless architects, and a few steep streets that became one of the country’s great open-air museums of modern living. A field guide meant to be read on foot.
May 26, 2026 · Sara Hale
The view is paid for in engineering you cannot see from the curb. A practical buyer's manual for the foundations, drainage, access, and reports that decide whether a hillside house is sound.
Dec 9, 2025 · Sara Hale
A lake at the bottom, hills laced with public stairs, and a century of housing stacked up the slopes — Victorians, Craftsman terraces, and canyon moderns all at once. A field guide meant for foot and curiosity.
Mar 18, 2025 · Sara Hale
A neighborhood of two minds — stately period estates on the flats below, modernist view houses climbing into Griffith Park above. A field guide to reading both, on foot.
Apr 21, 2026 · Camille Okafor
They share a coastline and a zip-code neighborhood, but Venice and Mar Vista offer two genuinely different lives. An honest comparison of the bohemian walk-street coast and the calmer single-story flats — and who each one suits.
Nov 19, 2024 · Camille Okafor
No cars, no driveways — front doors opening onto a shared garden path, and the light coming off the water. A reading of Venice’s walk streets and the houses that line them.
Mar 17, 2026 · Sofia Marchetti
Just west of Hancock Park lies a neighborhood that says less and means more. A reading of Windsor Square's planned origins, its broad lots and stately revival houses, and the quiet pedigree it keeps.