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…
Cheap is chic! Why being frugal is the next big thing in design
It feels like it’s been ages since being frugal was in. Our grandmothers clipped coupons, canned tomatoes, and saved leftovers in crockware.
https://fastcompany.com/90652337/ch…
The twisted psychology of capitalism—and why it won’t hold sway forever
Postwar capitalism trades not on happiness but on unhappiness.
https://fastcompany.com/90650835/th…
Site-Specific “Art Environments” Find a Home at Wisconsin’s Art Preserve
To design the Art Preserve at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, artist-run firm Trés Birds explored its natural setting and offbeat art collection.
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
The Case for a Public Design Education
The chair of City Tech's Department of Architectural Technology outlines how public education coupled with direct personal experience is critical to equitable urban development.
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
What Can Unions do for Architects?
Just like other workers, architects and designers stand to benefit from the job stability and fair compensation that unions demand from employers.
https://architizer.com/blog/inspira…
Postmodernism and Disco: Together, Forever
Voltaire once wrote, “History is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.” Despite the philosopher’s wisdom, history often provides context for the flow of cultural evolution.
https://commonedge.org/postmodernis…
7 steps for ending homelessness proposed by AIA Los Angeles
The American Institute of Architects Los Angeles (AIALA) has published a set of strategies urging LA city leaders to tackle the city’s homelessness and affordable housing crisis.
https://archinect.com/news/article/…
The most popular design thinking strategy is BS
The ‘How might we’ design prompt is insidious, and it’s time to bury it.
https://fastcompany.com/90649969/th…
Materiality in a Post-COVID-19 World
In the heart of the pandemic-driven lockdown, while many industries were struggling to survive, one flourished: the cleaning products industry.
https://metropolismag.com/interiors…
How to Address Loneliness Through Co-Living Communities
Loneliness comes in different forms and has persisted throughout history; however, it hasn’t been quite as strong as the last few decades and especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://frameweb.com/article/how-to…
Kristen Richards (1952–2021)
Kristen Richards, who as the editor of the website ArchNewsNow (ANN) for almost 20 years helped architects, architecture buffs, and her fellow architecture writers keep tabs on what was happening around the world, died yesterday. She was 69.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
California Continues to Rewrite the Rules of Design
Artists and designers in the state found their voices by breaking from modernist traditions and embracing the light, color, and playful attitude of the West Coast.
https://hyperallergic.com/654258/ca…
At the Intersection of Critical Race Theory & Urban Planning
Currently there are heated debates occurring in a number of statehouses over what role Critical Race Theory (CRT) should play in our public schools.
https://commonedge.org/at-the-inter…
How Do You Move a 30-Ton Diego Rivera Fresco? Very Carefully.
Diego Rivera’s rarely seen “Pan American Unity,” which celebrates the Americas, has been carefully extracted from its home at City College and moved to SFMOMA.
https://nytimes.com/2021/06/22/arts…
Queer Looks On Architecture: From Challenging Identity-Based Approaches To Spatial Thinking
A growing number of theorists and practitioners have been discussing the impact of gender and race on the profession and theory of architecture.
https://archdaily.com/963534/queer-…
The secret money trail exposing America’s racist monuments
With a $4 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the art studio Monument Lab is creating a database of America’s monuments—including who funded them.
https://fastcompany.com/90563731/th…
Television cemented the idea that architecture was both a rarefied art and key to the good life
While the opening night of Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center on September 23, 1962, was hailed as a watershed for the arts within New York City, it might have gone unnoticed by those living elsewhere.
https://archpaper.com/2021/06/telev…
A New Book Chronicles the History of Cranbrook Academy of Art
With Eyes Opened includes profiles of 200 artists associated with the influential art school over more than eighty years.
https://metropolismag.com/design/ar…
