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…
Le Corbusier as I Knew Him
The following essay was published in 1977 in “The Open Hand: Essays on Le Corbusier,” one of the first sizable works containing original research, archival material, and personal reflections on the iconic modernist architect Le Corbusier to appear in English.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/…
Architecture’s Colonial Reckoning
Calls to “decolonize” architecture have been gaining support, but what does this actually mean?
https://archpaper.com/2021/04/calls…
Survey to Surveillance
The U.S.-Mexico border is not a line on the ground, but a network diagram drawn through bodies and databases.
https://placesjournal.org/article/s…
Five Women Architects Revitalize a Giant Public-Housing Project in Rome
Corviale is one of Italy’s biggest postwar public-housing projects and, arguably, one of the most controversial. Both revered and abhorred, the complex remains a pilgrimage site for architectural schools from around the world.
https://commonedge.org/five-women-a…
Tunnel visionary: why was land artist Nancy Holt never given her due?
Holt made mesmerising works that filtered stars and vanished in the desert heat. But land art was seen as a male preserve. A new exhibition redresses the balance.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
MoMA wants to cancel Philip Johnson – many who knew him do not
A gallery bearing the architect’s name also seeks to obliterate it.
https://theguardian.com/commentisfr…
Architecture in film: modernism, futurism and beyond
From modernist houses to futuristic landscapes, the built environment and the ambience it creates play a key role in visual storytelling.
https://wallpaper.com/architecture/…
Two new books about Kenneth Frampton help broaden the horizons of modern architecture
Architectural history has a tendency to cross the line into boosterism. Such was the famous contention of the historian Manfredo Tafuri, who chastised his peers for using their platform to promote various stylistic developments.
https://archpaper.com/2021/04/two-b…
How this year’s Pritzker Prize winners could spark an architectural revolution
In a world in which flamboyance and style have long determined how an architect becomes a star, this approach—doing nothing—is an act of resistance.
https://fastcompany.com/90623368/ho…
