What happens if Ukraine’s historic buildings are destroyed
Ukraine’s UNESCO sites date back to the 11th century. If they’re destroyed, they can be rebuilt but never replaced.
https://fastcompany.com/90748679/wh…
“When You Enter Architecture You Enter Another World” in Conversation With Kengo Kuma
A conversation with Kengo Kuma, one of the world's great architects.
https://archdaily.com/962815/when-y…
An Artist Who Makes Use of Housedresses, Resin and Sound
From these and other wide-ranging materials, Kevin Beasley creates multilayered works that, even when they’re abstract, have much to say about history and identity.
https://nytimes.com/2022/04/27/t-ma…
Werner Herzog Has Never Liked Introspection
When I first corresponded with the filmmaker Werner Herzog, in January, 2021, he told me that lockdown reminded him of Boccaccio’s Decameron.
https://newyorker.com/culture/the-n…
Transforming Trees Into Skyscrapers
In Scandinavia, ecologically minded architects are building towers with pillars of pine and spruce.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2022…
Situationist Funhouse: Art’s Complicated Role in Redeveloping Cities
While Stephen Zacks’ new book, G.H. Hovagimyan: Situationist Funhouse, is ostensibly about the life and work of the artist, there’s an intriguing and seemingly topical subtext looming in the background: the role of art and culture on the development and redevelopment of cities.
https://commonedge.org/situationist…
Venice in Vantablack: Anish Kapoor’s disappearing act
The artist learned of the technology that absorbs nearly all visible light in the Guardian. As two shows featuring it open, he talks of a ‘stupid’ spat, his new foundation and dismay with England.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
“It’s amazing how things flip” from utopia to dystopia say artists Langlands & Bell
This is delicious!
https://dezeen.com/2022/04/20/ben-l…
What Can Nike and Adidas Teach Us About Designing Active Workplaces?
Two spaces from the sportswear leaders provide a masterclass in how to create office interiors that encourage employees to move.
https://frameweb.com/article/what-c…
RISD’s New President Is a Signal of Changing Priorities in Design
One story of the last decade is the ascendance of design in tech and business. Another story is of racial reckoning.
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/risds-…
Here’s what it’s like to live in a windowless dorm designed by a billionaire
Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger designed a windowless University of Michigan dorm even before the UC Santa Barbara controversy.
https://fastcompany.com/90740511/he…
San Francisco: An Index of Influence
San Francisco Landmarks.
https://placesjournal.org/article/a…
Oscar Niemeyer’s final drawn work comes to life at Château La Coste in Provence
Nearly a decade after his death, what is being billed as the final drawn project of Oscar Niemeyer has been completed in the very same country where, while living in exile in the 1960s, the Brazilian architect also realized his first European work: the Headquarters of the French Communist Party in Paris’s 19th arrondissement.
https://archpaper.com/2022/04/oscar…
Balfron 2.0: how Goldfinger’s utopian tower became luxury flats
The selloff of Erno Goldfinger’s landmark building in Poplar is a central element of a new plan to transform London’s East End.
https://theguardian.com/cities/2019…
Graphic Designers Have Always Loved Minimalism. But At What Cost?
In always pushing less is more, we risk losing the diversity of aesthetic experience.
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/graphi…
Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam and William T. Williams: Abstract Artists and Old Friends
The trio first had their work exhibited together at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1969. Now, Pace Gallery is showing some of the pieces they’ve made since.
https://nytimes.com/2022/03/31/t-ma…
A Remarkably Comprehensive New Guide to the Architecture of Sub-Saharan Africa
Compared to that of the West and East, awareness and knowledge of the architecture of sub-Saharan Africa—Africa south of the Sahara Desert—is scant.
https://commonedge.org/comprehensiv…
Breaking the Mold
We trace the story of Ray and Charles Eames’s partnership and problem-solving back to an almost magical handmade plywood-molding device called “Kazam!”
https://eamesinstitute.org/kazam-ma…
In Poland, Shigeru Ban Deploys Paper Partitions to Help Ukrainian Refugees
Ban’s modular system was used extensively following Japan’s 2011 earthquake.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Accelerated and Decelerated Landscapes
On the techniques, knowledges, and ethics of bending time.
https://placesjournal.org/article/a…
How a Lifestyle Magazine Became a Form of Everyday Resistance in Post-Stalinist Poland
In 1960s Poland, Ty i Ja offered readers a sense of aspiration previously unimaginable in a country impacted by years of Stalinist scarcity
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/tyija/
The Berkeley Art Museum, a Modernist Landmark, is Reengineered and Redesigned
First article for Metropolis!
https://metropolismag.com/projects/…
What’s the Point of Architecture Criticism?
The word “criticism” is derived from the Greek term krinein, meaning to separate, to sift, to make distinctions, to discern, to examine, or to judge.
https://commonedge.org/whats-the-po…
9 Cities with Medieval Plans Seen from Above
In his book Breve Historia del Urbanismo (Brief History of Urbanism), Fernando Chueca Goitia states that the medieval city appeared at the beginning of the 11th century and flourished only between the 12th and 13th centuries.
https://archdaily.com/952084/9-citi…
How Air Pollution Across America Reflects Racist Policy From the 1930s
A new study shows how redlining, a Depression-era housing policy, contributed to inequalities that persist decades later in U.S. cities.
https://nytimes.com/2022/03/09/clim…
Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises Beyond Designing Buildings
Following decades of ongoing socio-cultural and economic crises across the globe, the design community has realized that it is time to “design like they give a damn”.
https://archdaily.com/976502/archit…
