My 15-Minute City: Lake Merritt, Oakland, California
I'd dreamed of living in San Francisco since I was a teenager. In my early 30s, I finally moved there from my native Michigan.
https://commonedge.org/my-15-minute…
Frantz Fanon’s Enduring Legacy
The post-colonial thinker’s seminal book, “The Wretched of the Earth,” described political oppression in psychological terms. What are its lessons for our current moment?
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2021…
Tony Kushner, Oracle of the Upper West Side
When Steven Spielberg asked Kushner, America’s most important living playwright, to take on ‘West Side Story,’ he thought, ‘He’s lost his mind.’ But he dared.
https://nytimes.com/2021/11/30/t-ma…
How to Deprogram a Parent in 7 Easy Steps by LiAnne Yu
Do you have an elderly parent who has fallen victim to internet conspiracy theories?
https://theseventhwave.co/how-to-de…
Watch a Never-Before-Aired James Baldwin Interview From 1979
Buried by ABC at the time, the segment reveals a unique glimpse into Baldwin’s private life—as well as his resounding criticism about white fragility, as blisteringly relevant today as it was in 1979.
https://esquire.com/entertainment/b…
A Wider Patch of Sky
Javier Zamora and Francisco Cantú met at a literary event devoted to the US–Mexico border in the winter of 2018. The two writers struck up a friendship that was at first tentative and uncertain.
https://granta.com/wider-patch-of-s…
Opinion: We can’t pedal our way out of the climate crisis
On September 1st, three days after Hurricane Ida’s deadly landfall in Louisiana, what was widely billed as the storm’s “remnants” swept through the New York City metro area, submerging massive portions of its roads and transit system in floodwater and leaving at least 52 dead in stranded cars and illegal basement apartments.
https://archpaper.com/2021/11/opini…
The End of Editors: The New Practice of The Self-Promoting Architect
When the 2008 Great Recession destroyed advertising revenue for all of publishing and limited the cash that architects had for PR and photographers, the established way of promoting architects and architecture was brutally compromised.
https://archdaily.com/971985/the-en…
Adam Pendleton’s Radical Typography as Protest
Spray paint, bold black, and capital letters are everywhere in Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen?
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/adam-p…
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/…
