New exhibition in Japan celebrates all things Eames
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Eames design office, Tokyo’s Isetan The Space gallery hosts an exhibition (until 5 January 2022), highlighting some of Charles and Ray Eames’ most celebrated designs as well as new editions and collaborations.
https://wallpaper.com/design/the-ea…
Yuval Noah Harari Believes This Simple Story Can Save the Planet
With the publication in the United States of his best-selling “Sapiens” in 2015, the Israeli historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari arrived at the top rank of public intellectuals, a position he consolidated with “Homo Deus” (2017) and “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” (2018).
https://nytimes.com/interactive/202…
The gentle brutalism of Upper Lawn, Alison and Peter Smithson’s rural retreat in the Wiltshire countryside
Here, Lucy Drane, Senior Appraisals Specialist for The Modern House, discovers a brutalist folly whose underlying principles of simplicity, connection to nature and slow living are as relevant today as they were in the 1960s.
https://themodernhouse.com/journal/…
Tauba Medium
Caroline A. Jones on the art of Tauba Auerbach
https://artforum.com/print/202109/c…
Exclusive Interview with Billionaire Charlie Munger on Controversial UCSB Dorm
Charlie Munger, the 97-year-old billionaire who has been ridiculed for wanting to build a dormitory with thousands of windowless bedrooms at the University of California, Santa Barbara, came out swinging on Monday morning.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Does Urban Development Drive Gentrification?
Urban environments are in a constant process of social evolution, political and economic transformation.
https://archdaily.com/971016/does-u…
Rebecca Solnit on the Politics of Pleasure
The author discusses her new book, “Orwell’s Roses,” and the role of art and beauty as forms of resistance.
https://newyorker.com/culture/q-and…
Celebrating a Phoenix of a Home in Los Angeles
A house designed by the midcentury-modern architect Gregory Ain receives a new life after a fire, thanks to good bones and forensic grit.
https://nytimes.com/2021/10/28/styl…
Every Design Studio Should Be a Worker-Owned Studio
Good labor practices = good design.
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/every-…
The Shed’s the Thing: How NYC Restaurants Adapted to Covid
The outdoor dining sheds first appeared in summer 2020, like flowers in the dirt of the lockdown.
https://commonedge.org/the-sheds-th…
The Pursuit and Promise of Equity in Architecture
For Black architects, this is a moment of energy, hope, and caution. Will change happen?
https://architectmagazine.com/pract…
The Acta Non Verba Farm at Tassafaronga Village Grows More Than Just Produce
Small-scale urban farming makes a big impact in affordable housing communities.
https://dbarchitect.com/us/news_blo…
San Francisco Upgrades Tent Village to Tiny Home Community
San Francisco officials announced in September that they would be building a tiny home village on Gough Street, where it currently facilitates a cluster of tents with on-site security.
https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/…
Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas Anticipated the Age of Infographics
For the inner modernist cartographer in all of us!
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/herber…
Glenn Ligon
For over 30 years, the artist has been making work that speaks to American history — ambiguous, open-ended, existentially observant.
https://nytimes.com/interactive/202…
Documenting the Complex History of America’s Braceros
In 2017, agricultural workers who entered the United States through the 1942 Bracero Program returned to El Paso, Texas, to commemorate the program’s 75th anniversary.
https://savingplaces.org/stories/do…
In Portland, the Adidas Village Connects Creativity, Community, and Sport
Our pals at O + A team with LEVER for a new adidas HQ.
https://metropolismag.com/projects/…
Preparing For The Future Of Work: Mark Harbick of FCA On The Top Five Trends To Watch In The Future Of Work
My good friend Mark Harbick is interviewed by Authority magazine.
https://medium.com/authority-magazi…
Building a Beacon of Hope on Chicago’s South Side: The Obama Presidential Center
We want everyday visitors to the museum to see themselves reflected back in this programming and see the ways that we can all collectively make change, however large or however small.
https://urbanland.uli.org/planning-…
At the Crossroads of Turk and Taylor
Resisting carceral power in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District
https://placesjournal.org/article/t…
Jasper Johns Remains Contemporary Art’s Philosopher King
A major retrospective shows that the ninety-one-year-old artist’s greatness endures.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2021…
The Subversive Urbanism of Pixar Movies
For anyone who has weathered the pandemic while simultaneously raising a toddler: I feel your pain.
https://commonedge.org/the-subversi…
Why Teaching Architecture Is Difficult
Teaching architecture is as difficult as building it.
https://commonedge.org/why-teaching…
How Designing and Writing Are More Alike Than You Think
What does it mean to call yourself both a designer and a writer?
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/how-de…
Greta Magnusson Grossman: Living in a Modern Way
To position the legacy of a prolific but neglected designer within the modernist canon, we need first to scrutinize that canon from a gender-critical, feminist perspective.
https://placesjournal.org/article/g…
The Case for Building More Mid-Sized Housing in our Cities
Planning cities and the way that we comfortably live in them is often a pull between many things.
https://archdaily.com/969274/the-ca…
