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…
Spinning yarns with Sheila Hicks
The studio is luminous, compact, tiled with the clay hexagons more commonly found further south, and in this honeycomb frame a hum of rapt activity is rising.
https://apollo-magazine.com/sheila-…
Extinct
What does the disappearance of once popular or ubiquitous objects — ranging in scale from tools and equipment to structures and infrastructures — tell us about the world we have created?
https://placesjournal.org/article/e…
The Academy Museum is open, but its standout gesture rings hollow
From Los Angeles Mimi Zeiger weighs in on bubbles and foam and the former May Co.
https://archpaper.com/2021/09/the-a…
Who Designed This? Signe Mayfield on the Exhibition Designer Ted Cohen
Ted Cohen's elaborate credits at the end of Signe Mayfield's recent book, The Object in its Place: Ted Cohen & The Art of Exhibition Design, acknowledges Cohen’s understanding that even very small exhibitions are the work of many.
https://arcadenw.org/journal/who-de…
New books: how designers see the world
Our round-up of new books spans James Dyson on his hits and misses, Stephen Bayley on the combustion age, an exploration of vintage synthesisers, and an axe lover’s handbook
https://wallpaper.com/technology/ne…
What If We Could Choose Our Own Architecture?
My aversion to books would have stayed almost as rigid as the narratives they presented had I not come across the spectacular series called Choose Your Own Adventure, where the narrative can be navigated in different ways, based on what the reader chooses to do when given a choice at certain points in the story.
https://commonedge.org/what-if-we-c…
“It’s Not Because You Are Limited in Resources That You Should Accept Mediocrity”: Interview with Francis Kéré
African architecture has received deserved international attention in the last decade and one of the main responsible for this is, undoubtedly, Diébédo Francis Kéré.
https://archdaily.com/968831/its-no…
Richard Neutra’s Architectural Vanishing Act
The Austrian-born designer perfected a signature Los Angeles look: houses that erase the boundary between inside and outside.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2021…
