The secret trick that makes networking suck so much less
In addition to finding his current job, Zapier’s Justin Pot says in general, “connecting with people improves your life, but it’s hard, especially online. If you don’t know how to start, you might think that you’re being a huge creep. You’re not.”
https://fastcompany.com/90668870/th…
Cultured Collections with Michael Boyd
At home in Santa Monica—in Oscar Niemeyer's 1964 Strick House, The Brazilian architect's only completed residential project in the United States—collector Michael Boyd has curated a lively and livable selection of 20th-century design objects.
https://culturedmag.com/cultured-co…
The Rebirth of Gio Ponti’s Denver Art Museum Tower
How Machado Silvetti and Fentress Architects rehabbed the Italian architect's only U.S. building.
https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
Mid-Century Britain
From festivals to schools, cathedrals, and bomb sites: The story of mid-century modernism in Britain
https://archpaper.com/2021/08/mid-c…
Re-evaluating Critical Regionalism: An Architecture of the Place
In his 1983 now-classic essay Towards a Critical Regionalism, Six Points of an Architecture of Resistance, Kenneth Frampton discussed an alternative approach to architecture, one defined by climate, topography and tectonics, as a form of resistance to the placeness of Modern Architecture and the gratuitous ornamentation of Postmodernism.
https://archdaily.com/966401/re-eva…
Why Architects Struggle With Architectural Criticism
I remember thinking it was a strange object, the first time I saw it.” Bill was looking past me and talking about his impression of a new arts center at Rice University. “I’ve been back several times since then, but I still can’t figure out what the building is supposed to be.”
https://commonedge.org/why-architec…
A House of Cards: The Miami Condo Collapse Exposes a Dehumanized Mindset in the Built Environment
On June 24th, 2021, the Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Miami collapsed, killing 98 people.
https://archinect.com/features/arti…
Shelter Architecture: The Subjective Aspects of Migrant and Refugee Settlement Projects
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, estimates that global forced displacement surpassed 80 million in 2020, which is more than one percent of humanity.
https://archdaily.com/966887/shelte…
How Yale Professor Robert Reed Built Equity in Art and Architecture Classrooms
A former student reflects on her mentor’s celebration of cognitive diversity and the way the late Yale University of Art professor brought design to a broad group of learners, ahead of his time.
https://metropolismag.com/design/de…
Future-Proofing Cities Against Climate Change
Recent extreme weather events and the acceleration of climate change, paired with decarbonization efforts that are not on track, make climate-related disruption unavoidable for urban environments, raising the issue of climate-risk adaptation.
https://archdaily.com/966045/future…
Can Underused Malls Help Build Healthy Communities?
A design research competition at DLR Group yields a plan to transform a shopping mall into a center for community health.
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
Why it’s so hard to design an Olympic logo
In 1913, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, created one of the most recognizable logos in the world. The symbolism of the five colored interlocking rings, representing the participating continents and the “flags of all nations” united in sporting endeavor, is simply conveyed and easily grasped.
https://fastcompany.com/90662428/wh…
The Latest Summer Reads for Architecture and Design Lovers
From landmark monographs to thought-provoking inquiries, these new releases explore every aspect of the design world.
https://azuremagazine.com/article/t…
Getting Real About Sea Level Rise: Landscape Architecture, Policy, and Finance
Over the next hundred years, average global sea levels are expected to rise faster than they have in the last 8,000 years.
https://dirt.asla.org/2021/08/04/ge…
The Epic Style of Kerry James Marshall
The artist, a virtuoso of landscape, portraiture, still-life, history painting, and other genres of the Western canon since the Renaissance, can do anything.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2021…
An Interview with Ron Nyren
Necessary Fiction publishes Kenneth Caldwell's interview with Ron Nyren.
http://necessaryfiction.com/blog/An…
LANDSCAPE: Oakland Museum of California Renovation
A revitalized Oakland Museum of California opens its gardens to us all.
http://digital.bnpmedia.com/publica…
12 Design Industry Podcasts You Should Be Listening To
When it comes to finding design inspiration, the experience doesn’t always have to be visual to spark creativity.
https://interiordesign.net/articles…
Many of the Design Community’s Gathering Places Shuttered During the Pandemic. What Did We Lose?
In April 2020, A/D/O—the design incubator-meets-community center-meets-café-meets-design shop—announced its impending closure ostensibly due to the pandemic.
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/many-o…
Juhani Pallasmaa: “Architecture is a Verb”
Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa is the author of more than 300 essays in 30 languages as well as two dozen books. His landmark volume The Eyes of the Skin is one of the most-read texts in architecture schools worldwide.
https://commonedge.org/juhani-palla…
The Language of Connection: An Interview with Artist Favianna Rodriguez
As part of TEF’s renovation of the Garfield Center in the Mission District, the San Francisco Arts Commission invited artists to submit proposals to create a 113-foot-long glass mural along one wall of the natatorium. Oakland-based artist Favianna Rodriguez won with her proposal, Santuario, which celebrates the long presence of Latinx families in the Mission District.
https://tefarch.com/dialog_detail/6…
Invisible Cities: Rethinking the Refugee Crisis Through Design
What do Katuma, Hagadera, Dagahaley, Zaatari or Ifo bring to mind? They are truly beautiful names, and could easily belong to Italo Calvino's 55 invisible cities.
https://archdaily.com/964740/invisi…
Exploring the design of healing spaces
As of recently, many of us must have come across the term ‘safe space’. While this can be any place for anyone – physical or a manifestation – it generally refers to a place where a person feels secure and at peace.
https://thenews.com.pk/magazine/you…
Architecture Career Guide: Rethinking Design Mentorship for the Remote Work Era
Mentorship and development across the architecture industry is suffering. What can architects do to support the next generation of designers?
https://architizer.com/blog/practic…
The most influential designer you’ve never heard of is a 92-year-old artist in SF
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon changed the world of design with her life-sized graphics. A new collaboration with filmmaker Gary Hustwit is designed to introduce her to a new generation of design lovers.
https://fastcompany.com/90655404/th…
Cuban Modernism
A comprehensive new study of mid-20th-century architecture in Cuba illuminates a powerful and neglected cultural legacy.
https://placesjournal.org/article/m…
