Joan Didion and the Western Spirit
The Hammer Museum won the claim on Didion’s legacy, with its expansive new show on the poet of California.
https://nytimes.com/2022/10/06/arts…
Why corporate America broke up with design
Every company wanted to be Apple. Then reality set in.
https://fastcompany.com/90779666/wh…
David Baker’s Tahanan Supportive Housing Takes its Design Cues from the Surrounding Filipino Community
Innovative design joined creative financing to speed production of a 145-unit permanent housing complex for the formerly unhoused.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Steven Heller Gets Personal in His New Autobiography Growing Up Underground
“Design is my lens; there is always something worth examining through this camera obscura”
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/why-i-…
John Ashbery’s Something Close to Music: Late Art Writings, Poems, and Playlists
This book allows one to read with as much freedom as one listens to a playlist, in sequence or on shuffle.
https://brooklynrail.org/2022/10/ar…
When Architectural History Meets Personal History
Writer Eva Hagberg and I have known each other for a long time. Way back, in a year I can’t remember, I assigned her one of her first magazine assignments.
https://commonedge.org/when-archite…
An Italian Villa Where Architecture Is a Family Affair
Most homes hold the history of their owners, but Il Palazzetto is as much a monument to its designers as to its inhabitants.
https://nytimes.com/2022/09/19/t-ma…
Gregory Ain, American Pioneer
Gregory Ain’s interest in affordable housing, prefabrication, and racial and gender equality make him an important figure to learn from today.
https://archpaper.com/2022/09/grego…
“I Felt It Was the Right Thing To Do”
Architecture firms don’t usually make labor history, but it happened earlier this month when employees at Bernheimer Architecture agreed to form a union.
https://commonedge.org/i-felt-it-wa…
Who Was Günther Domenig, the Unknown Deconstructivist?
Domenig was one of Austria’s most radical architects and a major influence on many of architecture’s leading lights but remains widely unknown.
https://metropolismag.com/profiles/…
On Death, Music and Motherhood: Björk & Ocean Vuong in Conversation
In AnOther Magazine Autumn/Winter 2022, Björk speaks with vulnerability and candour to the acclaimed author, poet and ardent fan Ocean Vuong.
https://anothermag.com/fashion-beau…
Design Q&A: David Adjaye
With designs that interweave story and structure, Sir David Adjaye’s buildings articulate the moment, honor the past, and guide us into the future.
https://eamesinstitute.org/kazam-ma…
Desert Mystics: The Transcendental Painting Group
Fascinating shows happen in Sacramento and Davis too!
https://squarecylinder.com/2022/09/…
Activating the Edges: How to Create Lively, Active Streets
A famous skyline can evoke rich associations and unleash the imagination, but the real experience of a city is in its streets.
https://commonedge.org/activating-t…
What Would Aline Do?
The lives of subject and author unfold in parallel in Eva Hagberg’s intimate biography of Aline Louchheim Saarinen
https://archpaper.com/2022/09/eva-h…
Reading Between the Alines
The “match” in Eva Hagberg’s When Eero Met His Match, is Aline Louchheim Saarinen.
https://arcadenw.org/journal/readin…
How Mondragon Became the World’s Largest Co-Op
In Spain, an industrial-sized conglomerate owned by its workers suggests an alternative future for capitalism.
https://newyorker.com/business/curr…
Planting a Tree Is Not a Way of Life
A piece by Joan Didion that my friend Michael Bernard sent.
https://altaonline.com/books/nonfic…
How to Write an Architectural Manifesto
Architecture lost itself in an identity crisis not long ago.
https://commonedge.org/how-to-write…
The Importance of the Personal
Writer and curator Elizabeth Bauer Mock Kassler revolutionized the architectural exhibit, making it speak to regular citizens. In this, as in much else, she was ahead of her time.
https://placesjournal.org/article/e…
A Genius Cartoonist Believes Child’s Play Is Anything But Frivolous
For nearly 30 years, the cartoonist Lynda Barry published her adored comic strip “Ernie Pook’s Comeek,” which told the whimsical, hardscrabble story of the young sisters Marlys and Maybonne, in alternative papers across the country.
https://nytimes.com/interactive/202…
Moving Boundaries: The New Alliance Between the Human Sciences and Architecture
There are few moments in one’s life that rise to the level of unforgettable experiences.
https://commonedge.org/moving-bound…
In London, a Venturi-Scott Brown Masterpiece Is Threatened
Despite its dazzling collection of masterpieces, London’s National Gallery has been cursed with a series of ill-advised architectural schemes over its two-century existence.
https://commonedge.org/in-london-a-…
San Francisco’s Art Market Struggles in the Shadow of Los Angeles
Though some small galleries are opening or expanding, the mega dealers have closed shop, a blow to an area with a vibrant artistic history.
https://nytimes.com/2022/08/29/arts…
Design Criticism Is Everywhere—Why Are We Still Looking For It?
We graphic designers have a love-hate relationship with criticism. We say we want more of it and then complain when we get it.
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/design…
Artist as Art Form
In work that segues from gorgeous fields of color to everyday inanities, Daniel Eatock defies categories, proving he has one muse: the process itself.
https://eamesinstitute.org/kazam-ma…
