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…
Tented love: how Senegal created a spectacular new African architecture
After independence in 1960, the country cast off western influences and forged a new African style full of triangular forms, rocket-shaped obelisks and rammed earth.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
San Francisco’s Debt to Finland
Eighty years ago, two California designers traveled to Helsinki to see master architect Alvar Aalto.
https://altaonline.com/culture/arch…
Can Companies Force Themselves to Do Good?
A new kind of corporate structure, the perpetual-purpose trust, can make the values of pro-social companies permanent.
https://newyorker.com/business/curr…
Tauba Auerbach @ SFMOMA
Tauba Auerbach’s first museum survey at SFMOMA reveals a comprehensive body of work that exhibits no signature style.
https://squarecylinder.com/2022/01/…
Scholar Angela Davis on Prison Abolition, Justice for Palestine, Critical Race Theory & More
World-renowned author, activist and professor Angela Davis talks about the prison abolition movement from her time as a Black Panther leader to today.
https://democracynow.org/2021/12/28…
Tracing a Winding Path from Cuba to Florida to Maine with Poet Richard Blanco
A poet’s journey toward home.
https://newengland.com/yankee-magaz…
Ai Weiwei Is Trying to Find His Way Home
The artist and activist on his new memoir, the true cost of freedom, and why home is sometimes about much more than where the heart is.
https://harpersbazaar.com/culture/a…
Joan Didion and the Voice of America
No country but America could have produced Joan Didion. And no other country would have tolerated her.
https://newyorker.com/culture/posts…
Nikki Giovanni Has Made Peace With Her Hate
“The door is open,” Nikki Giovanni told me, “and if I’m saying something that you don’t like, you can go out the door. Because I’m going to say what I think I should say.”
https://nytimes.com/interactive/202…
