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…
Frederick Fisher and Partners’ Municipal Building is a Green Systems Champion
Santa Monica City Hall East features state-of-the-art green building systems behind its straight-laced facade.
https://metropolismag.com/projects/…
Tribute: Richard Rogers (1933-2021)
When the author Deborah Copaken Kogan opened Richard Rogers’s sock drawer, she started to cry.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Full Circle: The Holt/Smithson Foundation
A poem is both a centripetal and centrifugal force. It concentrates and distills language at the same time that it spins off sparks of meaning.
https://brooklynrail.org/2020/12/ar…
Not Everything Is “Architecture”
Politics are currently polarized. This creates volatility and the potential for violence in the public realm. The form of political messages matters. Sometimes that form is violence, which is bad. Not everything has to be binary.
https://commonedge.org/not-everythi…
Design: A Happening Life
In memory of bell hooks.
https://lionsroar.com/design-a-happ…
Michael Murphy on the Architecture of Health
It has been a surprisingly rapid ascent for MASS Design Group.
https://commonedge.org/michael-murp…
A Bold New Environmental Center Helps Redeem a Former Brownfield Site in Chicago
From our pals at Valerio Dewalt Train and Media Objectives.
https://metropolismag.com/projects/…
On Jasper Johns
“I think that there’s a clear and strong ethics in the way in which he conducts himself, a deep respect for the viewer that is just in everything he says and everything he does, and it’s fully, deeply reflected in the work.”
https://brooklynrail.org/2021/12/ar…
