Selected Writings
Here is a list of my writings from the last few decades.
Two Monographs Showcase Design that Does Good, Metropolis, October 26, 2023
Tunnel Tops Park Heals San Francisco’s Presidio, Metropolis, January 4, 2023
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Caroline Kent, OKTP, Paulson Fontaine Press, October 2022
Spirits in the Material World: A Trip to the Eames Institute, Metropolis, June 3, 2022
Wandering Through Uber HQ’s Secret Garden, Metropolis, May 18, 2022
An Exhibition and Book Give Different Perspectives of Potter Edith Heath, Metropolis, May 9, 2022
The Berkeley Art Museum, a Modernist Landmark, is Reengineered and Redesigned, Metropolis, March 16, 2022
An interview with Ron Nyren, Necessary Fiction, August 3, 2021
Landscape: Oakland Museum of California Renovation, Architectural Record, August 2021
A Space of Perceptual Stillness: How Ezra Stoller Photographed Modernity, Metropolis, January 28, 2020
The 2019 Monterey Design Conference was as rowdy as it was informative, The Architect’s Newspaper, December 17, 2019
A Barbara Stauffacher Solomon retrospective explores her lesser-known work, The Architect’s Newspaper, November 11, 2019
Keeping the Conversation Going, The Q Magazine (The Registry), July/Aug/Sept 2019
Another view on Sea Ranch and its SFMOMA exhibit, The Architect’s Newspaper, May 8, 2019
Sarasota Modern: Paul Rudolph and beyond, The Architect’s Newspaper, November 28, 2018
Place is the secret sauce for selling wares, The Sea Ranch Soundings, Spring 2017
Ernest and Esther Born, Architectural Record, May 1, 2016
Sea Ranch Is 50: Kenneth Caldwell Looks At The History And Future Of The Iconic California Site, The Architect’s Newspaper, May 26, 2015
Review> Pure Modernism, The Architect’s Newspaper, January 23, 2014
Tauba Auerbach (Interview), SFAQ, pp. 76-79, May-July 2013
Social Etiquette: Invited or Imposed?, arcCA 12.1, October 30, 2012
Olympic Mettle: Designing the 1984 Los Angeles Games, arcCA, August 2, 2012
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Isca Greenfield-Sanders, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, July 1, 2012
A Question and a Revision, Faith and Form Magazine, Vol. 45, Issue 2, June 1, 2012
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Gary Simmons, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, April 1, 2012
Challenging Modernism, The Architect’s Newspaper, March 28, 2012
Good Deeds: Multi-Service Center South, St. Vincent de Paul Society, San Francisco, ArchNewsNow, December 22, 2011
Working in San Francisco & Hawaii: An Interview with Craig Steely, TraceSF(tracesf.com), November 1, 2011
Saving Difference, The Architect’s Newspaper, July 6, 2011
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Squeak Carnwath, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, July 1, 2011
Talking Gordon Drake, The Architect’s Newspaper, May 12, 2011
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Ross Bleckner, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, April 1, 2011
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Kerry James Marshall, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, January 1, 2011
Building Christ the Light: a Conversation with Craig Hartman & Father Paul, AIA, arcCA 10.4, October 2010
Review> Inside Stories of Handcrafted Space, The Architect’s Newspaper,December 3, 2010
Urban Field Notes: Eight Bay Area landmarks make the case for concrete, The Urbanist (SPUR), October 28, 2010
Review> Ben Thompson’s Retail Love Affair, The Architect’s Newspaper, October 8, 2010
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Shaun O’Dell, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, October 1, 2010
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Christopher Brown, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, August 1, 2010
Berkeley’s Many Revolutions: a review of Design on the Edge: A Century of Teaching Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, 1903–2003, The Architect’s Newspaper, August 6, 2010
Barry Elbasani, FAIA, 1941-2010: A recent conversation with the gruff optimist and realistic urbanist about his history, inspirations, and aspirations.,ArchNewsNow, July 9, 2010
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Clare Rojas, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, July 1, 2010
Water: Reordering the Paradigm, AIA, arcCA 10.2, pp. 31-33, April 2010
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Edgar Arceneaux, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, November 1, 2009
Art in the Time of Recession, The Registry (theregistrysf.com), July 2009
David Sokol interviews Kenneth Caldwell, Architonic, June 2009
CAMP Notes: Forget Don Fisher. Do we want the art or not?, ArchNewsNow, April 1, 2009
Ask an Urban Historian, Next American City (americancity.org), Summer 2009
Design for Aging: Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Joyce Polhamus, AIA, arcCA 09.2, April 2009
Behind Business Development: A step-by-step guide to creating a consistent flow of work, Contract, March 2009
CAMP Reconsidered – an interview with Mark Horton, AIA, LINEonline, February 2009
Q+A: Kang Kiang, The Architect’s Newspaper, October 6, 2008
Coda: Ralph Rapson and UC Santa Cruz, arcCA 08.3, 3rd quarter 2008
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews David Huffman, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, August 8, 2008
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Mary Lee Bendolph, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, July 1, 2008
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Christopher Brown, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, April 1, 2008
Q&A: John Rahaim, The Architect’s Newspaper, March 26, 2008
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Caio Fonseca, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, February 1, 2008
Common Ground: Work Starts on New San Francisco Urban Center, The Architect’s Newspaper, January 30, 2008
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Chris Johanson, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, November 1, 2007
Olafur Eliasson: The Visible Wizard, LINEonline, November 2007
Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson, Architectural Lighting, pp. 15-16, September/October 2007
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Ross Bleckner, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, October 1, 2007
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Louisiana Bendolph, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, August 1, 2007
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Loretta Bennett, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, August 1, 2007
Designing Public Consensus: A Conversation with Barbara Faga, FASLA,ArchNewsNow, June 12, 2007
Getting on the Same Page: An Interview with Susie See and Andrew Corney, AIA, arcCA 7.2, April 2007
Survivor: The Ultimate Design Review Process, arcCA, Issue 07.2, pp. 36-39, April 2007
Low Cost/High Design, Multifamily Trends, pp. 56-61, March/April 2007
Conversations with Pierluigi Serraino, Interior Design, March 30, 2007
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Radcliffe Bailey, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, March 1, 2007
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Martin Puryear, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, March 1, 2007
Institutional Patronage: An Interview with David Meckel, FAIA, arcCA, Issue 07.1, pp. 24-29, January 2007
Enough Marketing, Contract, pp. 120-121, January 2007
New Orleans: One Year After Katrina, Urban Land, pp. 38, 40-43, 45, November/December 2006
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Caio Fonseca, OKTP, Paulson Press Newsletter, November 1, 2006
A Unique Memorial for Albert C. Martin, Jr., arcCA, Issue 06.4, p. 64, October 2006
Charles “Duke” Oakley, FAIA: an Interview, arcCA, Issue 06.4, pp. 36-39, October 2006
Reference This: Two Views on Trends in Public and Academic Libraries,ArchNewsNow, June 27, 2006
Ten Modern Models, Multifamily Trends, pp. 52-57, May/June 2006
Real Life Shows Up: Notes and Conversations about the 2005 Monterey Design Conference, LINEonline, May 2006
What the Drawings Don’t Show: Four Recent Buildings, arcCA, Issue 06.1, pp. 40-45, January 2006
Correspondent’s File: Modernism Comes Home to Tucson, Architectural Record, pp. 69-70, 72, November 2005
Landscape Strategies That Add Value, Urban Land, pp. 110-111, November/December 2005
The Suburban Arts Center, Urban Land, pp. 96-101, November/December 2005
Design Dialogue: Trends in Multifamily For-Sale Design, Multifamily Trends, pp. 36-39, 52, November/December 2005
Op-Ed: Modern Ironies: Notes on Losing the Bunshaft’s Travertine House (1963),ArchNewsNow, September 13, 2005
The Empty Art(ist): San Francisco Won’t Miss Philip Johnson, LINEonline, July 2005
A Critical Reading List: Recent Offerings from Bay Area Authors and Firms,LINEonline, July 2005
On Set with Glenda Rovello, arcCA, Issue 05.2, April 2005
How Green Was My Grande? Landscape Architecture, p. 18, February 2005
Parking Garages and the Particularities of Place: An Interview with Bryan Shiles,LINEonline, December 2004
California Dreaming, Review of Eichler: Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream, by Paul Adamson, LINEonline, December 2004
The Parking Portfolio, LINEonline, December 2004
Brands out of School: A Conversation with Adam Morgan and Mark Barden, Dialogue, pp. 22-23, Fall 2004
Flexing Her Muscles: California’s Governator Taps San Diego Landscape Architect for Bureaucratic Heavy Lifting, Landscape Architecture, p. 22, July 2004
Reflections on the Awards Jury: Interviews with Eric Naslund, FAIA and Hugh Hardy FAIA, arcCA, Issue 04.3, pp. 85-87, July 2004
A Conversation with Bill Weber, LINEonline, May 2004
The Sixth Street Portfolio, LINEonline, May 2004
New Models for Balance: Interview with Tom Sargent, Urban Land, pp. 52-53, March 2004
Influencing Everyday Design: A Conversation with Cindy Allen, LINEonline, January 2004
An Interview with Jill Pilaroscia, LINEonline, January 2004
Further Readings, or Everyday 101, LINEonline, January 2004
What’s Your Story? (Practice column on monographs), Contract, pp. 116-117, January 2004
The Everyday Portfolio, LINEonline, January 2004
From One Room out to the World, LINEonline, October 2003
Healing Stories: Renovating San Francisco’s Ronald McDonald House,LINEonline, October 2003
For-Profit Techniques Help a Not-for-Profit Architectural Firm: A Profile of Asian Neighborhood Design and Rose McNulty, AIA, LINEonline, October 2003
Troubled & Inspired: Where Aesthetics and Politics Didn’t Quite Meet—The AIACC 2003 Monterey Design Conference, LINEonline, October 2003
Where the Global and Local Intersect: A Conversation with Enrique Norten, FAIA, LINEonline, October 2003
Building Change: An Interview with Lisa Findley, LINEonline, October 2003
An Interview with Paul Adamson, LINEonline, October 2003
Full Circle: An Interview with Clare Cooper Marcus, LINEonline, October 2003
On a Mission: A Profile of Herman & Coliver, LINEonline, October 2003
Prize Housing: Interviews with Michael Willis, FAIA, James Brown, AIA, Eric Naslund, FAIA, James Mary O’Connor, arcCA, Issue 03.3, pp. 24-33, July 2003
Project Portfolio Structural Engineering, LINEonline, May 2003
A New Yet Familiar Neighbor: Goldman School of Public Policy UC Berkeley by Architectural Resources Group, ArchNewsNow, January 30, 2003
Project Portfolio: Public and Private, the Bay Area Is Abuzz with School Construction,LINEonline, January 2003
Review of Case Study Houses: The Complete CSH Program, 1945-1966, Elizabeth Smith, Ed., California Modern: The Architecture of Craig Ellwood, by Neil Jackson, A. Quincy Jones, by Cory Buckner, and Paul Rudolph: The Florida Years, by Christopher Domin and Joseph King, Architectural Record, pp.73-75, November 2002
The Humility of the Particular: Scarpa in Venice and the Veneto, LINEonline, August 2002
Urban Design & Civic Involvement: An Interview with Arthur Golding, AIA, arcCA, Issue 02.2, pp. 16-19, April 2002
Affordable Housing Today: A Conversation with Michael Willis, FAIA. arcCA, Issue 01.2, pp. 13-17, April 2001
The Eclecticism of the Bay Region Tradition (Portfolio), LINE, p. 8, Fall 1999
The Bay Region Tradition: A Few Favorite Books, LINE, pg. 9, Fall 1999
Marketing Is Easier Than You Think. Architectural Record, p. 26, October 1999
Alternative Housing in the Bay Area, LINE, pp. 6-7, Spring 1999
A Conversation with Herb Lembcke, FAIA, LINE, pp. 4-5, Winter 1999
Is Green Sustainable? Interview with Lynn Simon, AIA, Architecture California, Volume 19, Number 2, pp. 35-40, Spring 1998
Penetrating the Façade: The Social Project of Architecture. Interview with Lian Hurst Mann, Architecture California, Volume 18, Number 2, pp. 72-79, Winter 1996/97
Singapore of Dreams: The Clarke Quay Case. Interview with Carol Shen, FAIA,Architecture California, Volume 17, Number 2, pp. 20-25, November 1995
Review of Contemporary Backgrounds, The Work of Maynard Lyndon, FAIA, Platform,University of Texas School of Architecture, September 1993
Remembering the Silvers. L.A. Architect, pp. 6-7, June 1991
Review of Arts + Architecture, The Entenza Years, Barbara Goldstein, Ed.,Architectural Record, pp. 59-60, February 1991
Selected Readings in Architectural Photography, L.A. Architect, p. 14, April 1990
Interviews with Three Architectural Editors and Six Architectural Photographers, L.A. Architect, pp. 4-7, 10-11, April 1990
Review of Wallace K. Harrison, Architect, by Victoria Newhouse, L.A. Architect, p. 10, October 1989
Interview with Elaine Jones, L.A. Architect, pp. 8-9, September 1989
Review of R.M. Schindler, Architect, 1887-1953, by August Sarnitz, L.A. Architect, p. 10, March 1989
Planning Journals, Design Book Review, Vol. 14, pp. 85-87, Spring 1988
Review of Wallace Neff: Architect of California’s Golden Age, by Alson Clark,Architecture California, pp. 26-27, November/December 1987
Review of Interior Graphic and Interior Design Standards, by S.C. Reznikoff, Bay Architects’ Review, p. 24, Winter 1987
San Francisco Bay Region Architecture: An Introductory Bibliography, Monticello, IL: Vance Bibliographies, 11p. (#A 1780), March 1987
