This issue is about home and design in San Diego, including architecture, interiors, and landscape, as well as the people who think deeply about how spaces feel and how our lives move through them.

Ultimately, design asks of us—not just architects or planners but all of us—to care about the details. To notice the spaces we move through every day. To invest in making them a little more thoughtful, a little more welcoming, a little more alive.

That’s what we hope this issue helps inspire. Writer Ingrid Yang explores how millions are designing their homes around wellness. Some of the city’s top architects and designers point to the biggest trends they’re seeing—from undoing coastal clichés and the death of the farmhouse to turning the great outdoors into adjunct living rooms. Troy Johnson writes a tribute to and obit for Horton Plaza, the world’s most frustrating mall—an intentional experience, thanks to Ray Bradbury—that put San Diego at the international epicenter of pop art, design, punk, architecture, and capitalism.