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-…
Interview with Lesley Lokko
The award-winning Ghanaian-Scottish architect and educator speaks to RECORD editor-in-chief Cathleen McGuigan
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Lessons from a Modern Master of Low-Rise Housing
Cities looking to boost density and affordability should look to the work of architect Louis Sauer, who designed stylish modernist housing in the 1960s and ’70s.
https://bloomberg.com/news/features…
Mark Van Proyen on Dilexi Gallery
This lavishly illustrated brick-of-a-book is nothing less than a treasure trove overflowing with valuable information about the richest decade in the art history of Northern California.
https://squarecylinder.com/2022/02/…
Kanazawa’s Empty Spaces
We went to Japan in December 2019 at the suggestion of our friend Yosh Asato. It was our favorite city in Japan because it wasn't too crowded and there were wonderful examples of historic spaces and new ones. This article focuses on the spaces in between the buildings.
https://placesjournal.org/article/k…
Why King Tut Is Still Fascinating
He was a minor pharaoh, and the excavation of his tomb was a disreputable affair. But, a century later, there is more to learn.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2022…
Sex, stitches and psychic wounds – Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child review
These sewn-together body parts – dangling from the ceiling, hung out on stands or having sex in vitrines – were created in the final decades of the artist’s long career.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
The Many Visions of Lorraine Hansberry
She’s been canonized as a hero of both mainstream literature and radical politics. Who was she really?
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2022…
Housing and the Cooperative Commonwealth
Can the limited-equity co-op relieve the American affordable housing crisis?
https://placesjournal.org/article/h…
