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…
Ed Fella’s Flyers Blur the Lines Between Design and Art
The designer's typographic experiments have been praised by designers for thirty years. But they still deserve a bigger audience.
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/ed-fel…
Ten buildings that showcase the beauty of London’s council housing
Jack Young's book The Council House aims to capture the beauty of London's council estates, which he photographed to "look like they could be perched on an Italian hillside".
https://dezeen.com/2022/03/09/londo…
On Stories: Architecture and Identity
Thanks to my pal Rocky Hanish for finding this article.
https://architecturenorway.no/quest…
Peace, Love, & Protests: The Creative Community Responds to the Ukraine Invasion
Seven illustrators capture the mood following Putin's attack on Ukraine.
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/peace-…
Photographic Neuroses: Alec Soth’s A Pound of Pictures
On his travels across the United States, the photographer Alec Soth likes to visit Buddhist temples, and he sometimes asks the monks if photography, with its "desire to stop and possess time," is antithetical to their teachings.
https://theparisreview.org/blog/202…
‘A brutalist hanging gardens of Babylon’ – the maddening, miraculous Barbican hits 40
Conceived as a utopian city within a city, the labyrinthine London landmark had a troubled path on its way to being hailed as an architectural icon.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
‘They were transforming their countries’: South Asian architecture after British rule
A MoMA exhibition takes a new look at the modernist structures that defined Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka after independence
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
David Hockney Rediscovers Painting
From his home in Normandy, the eighty-four-year-old artist shows off a new series of portrait paintings and discusses all of the work he still has left to do.
https://newyorker.com/culture/the-n…
Reckoning and Repair in America’s Cities
Communities torn apart by racism and ‘renewal’ are slowly learning how to heal.
https://usnews.com/news/healthiest-…
