Taken together as one, Tijuana and San Diego form the most fascinating city in the New World My first trip across: the late 1950s. We were on our way to visit relatives in Ensenada. We …
September 11, 2022
Articles by Lawrence Herzog
Author Richard Rodriguez crosses turnstiles into Tijuana
Mexican Landscapes in San Diego: Museum of Man, La Jolla Women's Club, Casa de Bandini
Shaping mud into adobe bricks was brought to the Americas by the Spanish, who had learned it from the Moors. But adobe was a material Pueblo culture had worked with before, although not in the efficient brick form.
May 25, 2000
Tijuana architecture: from Aztec to high tech
Any city worth being a city has a historical patrimony, one its residents can see and touch. — Luis Tamés More than 1000 miles separate the heartland of Mexico from its northern border with the …
March 9, 2000
Night court in Guatemala
[Editor: this story is followed below by "Love and Debt," the saga of an L.A. real estate broker held in Tijuana on false charges.] "Suddenly a little six-year-old Indian girl decided to cross the road. …
January 23, 1992
Reforming cultural prostitution in Tijuana
Mention the word “architecture” in the same breath as “Tijuana,” and most people think of brightly painted stucco curio shops or pastel-colored, two-story restaurants on Revolution Street, home of the striped burros and photographers, trinket …
June 13, 1991