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Architecture Professor Neal Schwartz renovates a 1966 modernist home in Palo Alto

January 31, 2025

The New York Times showcases a renovated 1966 modernist house in Palo Alto, redesigned with the help of Schwartz and Architecture, a firm founded by Architecture Professor Neal Schwartz.

Curved furniture and rugs fit the irregular shape of the living room of the home.

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Inside of El Pípila, the James Beard Award winning restaurant for Outstanding Design.

Architecture Professor Neal Schwartz's firm wins the James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurant Design

Schwartz and Architecture wins the James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurant Design for the family-owned restaurant, El Pípila.

A computer rendered illustration of a large transparent cube lined by thin columns with people posed in various scenes of daily life.

CCA Architecture professor Neeraj Bhatia imagines a new kind of communal living

In this Q and A, Bhatia discusses their project "The Center Won't Hold: Decentering the Commune into Networks of Care" for the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial, The Available City.

Students working in the furniture studio.

CCA's new building sets a benchmark in sustainable architecture

Designed with sustainability at its core, our newly built hybrid mass timber campus, featuring generous indoor-outdoor spaces, benefits both the environment and students.