Mysteriously Handcuffed to History
MoMA’s exhibition on architectures of decolonization in South Asia is problematic but timely, a much-needed catalyst for the preservation of valuable mid-century buildings.
https://placesjournal.org/article/r…
The Imperative of Ending Coerced Student Labor
A reckoning with faculty misconduct at SCI-Arc shows the need for deeper change in the industry.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Every Brand Is a Climate Brand These Days, and That’s Terrible For the Environment
Amid a sea of dubious climate messaging and images, can design find visual languages for the climate crisis that leads to real action?
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/every-…
An Exhibition and Book Give Different Perspectives of Potter Edith Heath
At the Oakland Museum of California, Edith Heath: A Life in Clay, coincides with a new book on her, providing varying viewpoints on one of the most influential ceramics designers of Midcentury America.
https://metropolismag.com/projects/…
MoMA exhibition on building and decolonization in South Asia raises questions about the authentically hopeful architecture of nation-building
The Project of Independence, now open at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), is steeped in longing for a return to a more hopeful time when architects made nation-states.
https://archpaper.com/2022/05/moma-…
Interview: Carson Chan on Climate Crisis and the Challenge of the Architectural Canon
For curator, writer, and educator Carson Chan, architecture’s impact on the environment is not simply a question of how buildings produce greenhouse gases.
https://pinupmagazine.org/articles/…
Building the Corporate Menace of Severance
Saarinen’s impeccable Bell Labs campus conveys the terror of utopian office design.
https://curbed.com/2022/05/apple-tv…
Searching for What Connects Us, Carlo Rovelli Explores Beyond Physics
The physicist ranges widely — from black holes to Buddhism to climate change — in his new book, “There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness.”
https://nytimes.com/2022/05/05/book…
The Sisterly Collusion Behind Vanessa Bell’s Book Covers for Virginia Woolf
Woolf's dust jackets were “universally condemned amongst booksellers.” So why did she continue to let her sister design them?
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/the-si…
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…
