How One Architect Helped Imagine a Better Future for a Nigerian Village in Crisis
After suffering a terrorist attack in 2014, Ngarannam is now celebrating the opening of its new village, a project by the UNDP and Tosin Oshinowo that promises to make their community more resilient.
https://dwell.com/article/ngarannam…
How a Sculptor Made an Art of Documenting Her Life
The artist Anne Truitt began keeping a journal in 1974, at fifty-three, after retrospectives of her work at the Whitney Museum and the Corcoran Gallery of Art left her feeling “crazed,” she wrote, “as china is crazed, with tiny fissures.”
https://newyorker.com/books/under-r…
Towards a New Commons, Away from Silver Bullets
Reset: Towards a New Commons, the most recent exhibition at New York’s Center for Architecture (CfA), opened at a moment when the idea of a unified public in the United States seems at best a relic of a bygone era.
http://averyreview.com/issues/58/to…
Remembering Dean Emeritus Richard Bender
With immense sadness, the College of Environmental Design announces the passing of Professor Emeritus of Architecture, Richard Bender.
https://ced.berkeley.edu/news/remem…
Windows of the mind: early Dora Maar images – in pictures
A new exhibition featuring 1930s works from the French artist anticipates her foray into surrealism – and proves her status as a key figure of modernism.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Alex Katz: Six Ramps of a Painter’s Progress
His eight-decade retrospective at the Guggenheim is a dazzling matchup of singular artworks — some fresh from the studio — and celebrated spiral.
https://nytimes.com/2022/10/20/arts…
Artforum – Under the cover
Visit the Artforum video section spotlighting Under the Cover.
https://artforum.com/video/under_th…
New York Times Style – The Greats
In our 2022 Greats issue, out Oct. 16, T celebrates four inimitable artists across music, film, fashion design and sculpture whose talents — and ability to transcend the expectations of their craft — have cemented their place in the culture.
https://nytimes.com/interactive/202…
Meet Lucia Eames, the Latest Midcentury Design Celebrity
Crate & Barrel just introduced a new line of Eames housewares. No, not that Eames.
https://nytimes.com/2022/10/13/real…
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…
