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…
Carmen Portinho and the Vanguard of Modernism in Brazil
In the early 1920s, a time when women could not even work without their husband's authorization, Carmen Portinho started an engineering course at the Polytechnic School of the University of Brazil.
https://archdaily.com/975890/carmen…
Mabel O. Wilson is Updating the Narrative of American Architecture to Include Black Architects
A new book, an upcoming MoMA exhibition, and a recently completed memorial are informed by the Columbia University professor’s unflinching critique of traditional architectural pedagogy.
https://metropolismag.com/profiles/…
Why the Drawings of Louis Kahn Still Matter
In an age of ebooks and web-first publishing, Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing (Lars Müller Publishers) is a defiant throwback.
https://commonedge.org/why-the-draw…
A Conversation with Paul Groth
In 2015, Paul Groth, professor emeritus of geography and architecture at the University of California, Berkeley spoke with PLATFORM Contributing Editor Sarah Lopez about his career, research methods, and field.
https://platformspace.net/home/a-co…
5 Blaxploitation Posters That Define a Redefining Movement
The cinematic genre changed the way Black characters were presented on film. These 5 works from Poster House’s latest exhibition helped put it on the map
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/5-blax…
Stephen De Staebler @ Crocker
No artist I can think of, past or present, fused transcendent impulses and the weight of mortality as thoroughly and convincingly as Stephen De Staebler.
https://squarecylinder.com/2022/01/…
Practice of Architecture Podcast
What lessons on architecture, practice, and change can we learn from AIA Gold Medal winners Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa?
https://practiceofarchitecture.com/…
Luxury for All
In 1867, as the first modern urban park system was being built in Paris, George Sand argued that its extravagant artifice was a vital public good.
https://placesjournal.org/article/g…
A Typeface Designed to Help Rectify Underrepresentation, One Glyph at a Time
The latest addition to Christoph Koeberlin’s supercontinent superfamily builds a bridge to Latin-based African languages
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/a-type…
