An architecture journal for the observant

Places worth
returning to.

Elevation is a living record of buildings that stay with you—one visit, one note, one photograph at a time.

This week’s visit

In view

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La Jolla, California

Louis I. Kahn · 1965

sunlit concrete

From the notebook

A material notes list: weather, texture, and the strange comfort of a well-made wall.

Eight ceilings that made us stop in the middle of a sentence.

Rooms designed around a pause, rather than a programme.

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