Can Removing Highways Fix America’s Cities?
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Built in the 1950s to speed suburban commuters to and from downtown, Rochester’s Inner Loop destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses, replacing them with a broad, concrete trench that separated downtown from the rest of the city.
https://nytimes.com/interactive/202…
Our Unwitting Autobiography
A geographer puts on her social-scientist bifocals to photograph the signs of public yearning macro and micro, near and far, in a summer of protest in Washington, D.C.
https://placesjournal.org/article/p…
Interview with Elizabeth Vereker
A great interview by Laura Guido-Clark with my pal Elizabeth Vereker.
https://lovegoodcolor.com/color-con…
A New $260 Million Park Floats on the Hudson. It’s a Charmer.
Little Island, developed by Barry Diller, with an amphitheater and dramatic views, opens on Hudson River Park. Opponents battled it for years.
https://nytimes.com/2021/05/20/arts…
Help Wanted: Architecture Critics
When one asks guitarists who is best qualified to make an archtop jazz guitar in 2021 the answer is clear: Robert Benedetto.
https://commonedge.org/help-wanted-…
Architecture and the Stain of Modern Day Slavery
Exploring the question of slavery in Architecture, the building materials and the construction industry, Michael J. Crosbie interviews Sharon Prince, the women behind Design for Freedom, discussing the initiative's report "on the pervasive use of slavery in the design and construction industry, and how design professionals can respond".
https://archdaily.com/962116/archit…
The Principles of Art Gensler
Pal John Parman reviews some of Art Gensler's key thoughts on practice.
https://commonedge.org/the-principl…
Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval talks urban planning and architecture criticism
It was his 2013 book Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace that pushed Saval toward architecture and design writing.
https://archpaper.com/2021/05/penns…
Obituary: Art Gensler, 1935–2021
Art Gensler, who founded the world’s largest architecture firm, died on Monday at his home in Mill Valley, Calif. He was 85.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
The Lyon-Martin House Preserves the Story of Lesbian Advocates Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin
The story of the Lyon-Martin House in San Francisco, California, is about a window. In 1955, Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin bought a home together, and like many other couples, Lyon and Martin preferred to have a picturesque view.
https://savingplaces.org/stories/th…
Lonnie Holley’s Life of Perseverance, and Art of Transformation
Lonnie Holley’s Life of Perseverance, and Art of Transformation
https://nytimes.com/2021/05/06/arts…
Repairing Generations of Trauma, One Lotus Flower at a Time
The lotus flower, blooming out of muddy waters, has long been a symbol of rising above suffering. In the wake of Anti-Asian attacks, spiritual leaders hope it can help heal the trauma of racial violence in the U.S.
https://nytimes.com/2021/05/05/us/a…
Architecture and design activism strives for a better future
Climate action, inclusion and diversity, and workers’ rights are some of the critical fields covered by these dynamic architecture and design activism initiatives, networks, campaigns, and advocacy and support groups, working collectively towards positive change and a hopeful future.
https://wallpaper.com/architecture/…
The Biden Approach to Infrastructure: Creating a Culture of Maintenance
With the long-awaited arrival of the Infrastructure Plan—at $2 trillion dollars, no small sum—it might be worth asking how we got $2 trillion dollars behind on our infrastructure housekeeping in the first place.
https://commonedge.org/the-biden-ap…
Slip of the Pen
A new book about architecture and capitalism reveals the problem with today’s mode of criticism.
https://archpaper.com/2021/04/icebe…
Urban Land features Tahanan Supportive Housing
This August, if things go as planned, 145 new apartments for formerly homeless adults will open in San Francisco, one of the country's most expensive housing markets.
https://kennethcaldwell.com/wpkc/wp…
A Design Expert Makes Space for Tools and Memories
Our pal Yosh Asato placed this.
https://nytimes.com/2021/05/04/real…
“We See from Where We Stand”
A survey of artworks created in prison is informed by debates about the systemic inequities of the American criminal justice system, from the cops to the courts to the penitentiary cages.
https://placesjournal.org/article/r…
The Light Fantastic
In the Arizona desert, James Turrell is creating one of the most ambitious artworks in American history. Here’s an exclusive look.
https://smithsonianmag.com/arts-cul…
The Picassos of the American South
Mr. Edmondson earned his living by making cemetery headstones and yard decorations, though his work eventually came to the attention of the art world: In 1937, he became the first Black artist to have a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art.
https://nytimes.com/2021/04/26/opin…
How Do We Solve America’s Housing Crisis?
The Oscar winning 2020 film Nomadland, directed by Chloé Zhao, has been acclaimed for painting an intimate and honest portrait of a particular subculture of American wanderers who permanently take to the open road.
https://commonedge.org/how-do-we-so…
Joan Mitchell, More Like a Poet
Curators and scholars have increasingly highlighted the importance of poetry to Mitchell's art, though usually with so much circumspection that the link still remains obscure.
https://hyperallergic.com/636215/jo…
Thomas Heatherwick: ‘The city will be a new kind of space’
Thomas Heatherwick is the urban designer behind some of the world’s most pioneering landmarks. He talks about ‘soulfulness’ in cities, ‘heart-centred’ offices – and seducing people into being together again.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
The Denver Art Museum’s Gio Ponti-designed tower will reopen after a $150 million campus transformation
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) has announced that its years-in-the-making $150 million campus renovation and reunification project will be fully opened to the public on October 24, 2021.
https://archpaper.com/2021/04/the-d…
Amanda Loper wins 2021 AIA Young Architect Award
This video featuring Amanda Loper of David Baker Architects, brings you into our Birmingham practice.
https://dbarchitect.com/us/broadcas…
The People’s Graphic Design Archive Is Rethinking How We Talk About Design History
For my graphic nerd pals.
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/the-pe…
