Louis Kahn’s Society of Rooms
In this video, Architecture with Stewart breaks down the floor plan strategies of Louis Kahn (1901-1974) for how they treat and arrange rooms in servant/served configurations.
https://archdaily.com/958431/louis-…
Architecture ≠ Truth: On the Idea of Buildings as Propaganda
As predicted, President Biden overturned former President Trump’s 10-week-old Executive Order “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.”
https://commonedge.org/architecture…
How Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Can Help Architects
Following their wise cancellation of the Trump executive order on architectural style for federal buildings, the Biden administration promised to promote a better guide for architects working in the public arena.
https://commonedge.org/how-joe-bide…
Obituary: Hugh Newell Jacobsen, 1929–2021
Hugh Newell Jacobsen grew up wanting to be a painter, which may explain the almost surreal flatness of much of his architecture. On the outside, his buildings lacked overhangs; on the inside, there were no moldings, baseboards or trim.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Philip Johnson’s name covered at MoMA for Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has yet to take fully-realized steps to strip the name of the late architect and institutional figurehead Philip Johnson from all titles and public spaces at the museum at the demand of seven artists, architects, and designers—due to Johnson’s troubling (yet often skimmed-over) history of racist and anti-Semitic activities.
https://archpaper.com/2021/03/phili…
10 Questions With… Christine McGrath Breuer
Her Midwest roots run deep. Christine McGrath Breuer, principal at Valerio Dewalt Train, is Chicago-born and a practicing architect in the Windy City office of the generalist firm. Like the studio, she does it all.
https://interiordesign.net/articles…
Can Manuals and Toolkits Help Us Design a Safer Present or Future?
Our pals at Studio O+A developed a unique Covid Handbook.
https://metropolismag.com/interiors…
The philanthropic genius of Josef and Anni Albers
Fifty years ago the Bauhaus artists established a foundation to use “minimal means to maximum effect”. A cultural centre, school and, now, hospital in Senegal are a perfect expression of their aims
https://ft.com/content/0c2a118d-eb1…
Active Exclusion
Too often the concept “active transportation” produces environments that are not fully accessible. The history of Roosevelt Island, named for a disabled president who used a wheelchair, offers lessons at once troubling and hopeful.
https://archpaper.com/2021/03/buffa…
How can architecture help rather than harm blackness?
In a new exhibition, the damaging impact architecture has often had on communities of colour is explored along with ideas of how to move forward
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
“Architecture Can Heal”: MASS Design Group’s Katie Swenson on Building Equity Together
More inclusive, equitable futures are grounded in how we design for justice and the human condition. Katie Swenson is a Senior Principal of international non-profit MASS Design Group, and she has spent her career building social equity and advocating environmental sustainability.
https://archdaily.com/957969/archit…
What Milton Glaser reveals about the limits of rational design
Designers have become too reliant on focus groups and previous successes, rather than drawing inspiration from the world around them.
https://fastcompany.com/90610291/wh…
It’s time to abolish the architecture critic
Newspapers' largely white, male architecture critics are a reflection of the structural inequalities of the built environment and are not equipped to deal with our current time of crisis, says Mimi Zeiger.
https://dezeen.com/2021/03/01/aboli…
6 Stories for Louis I. Kahn’s 120th Birthday
“A great building, in my opinion,” the architect Louis I. Kahn once said, “must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.”
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
What Biden’s “Building Back Better” Could Mean for Architecture
The ears of architects, engineers, landscape architects, and urban planners may have collectively pricked up when Biden and Harris as candidates began touting a campaign slogan last summer of “Building Back Better.”
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Designer Health for Designer Tenants
It didn’t take long for the coronavirus pandemic to inspire both cutting-edge architectural design solutions and broad speculation about future developments in the field.
https://archpaper.com/2021/02/op-ed…
The Daily Heller: Architecture on the Common Edge
Architecture is the focal point, but design comes into play in many ways—as structure, monument and shelter.
https://printmag.com/post/the-daily…
Op-ed: The axing of DS+R’s London Centre for Music should be music to our ears
The decision to axe plans for Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Centre for Music in London may be bad news for Simon Rattle and his (former) London Symphony Orchestra (LSO)—but maybe it’s a blessing in disguise.
https://archpaper.com/2021/02/op-ed…
Comment: Architects Didn’t Invent Redlining, But We Helped Reinforce It—On Two Continents
Activist and architectural designer Wandile Mthiyane examines the twin legacies of American redlining and Apartheid.
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
Harriet Pattison on the Creative Process of Louis Kahn and Making History
Last fall, Harriet Pattison, Nathaniel’s mother, released a gorgeous new book, Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn. The 92-year-old Pattison has had a long and distinguished career as a landscape architect.
https://commonedge.org/harriet-patt…
Studio O+A’s Guide for Healthy Workplaces
This toolkit for the times represents the work of Studio O+A’s best planners and designers to apply what we know now to a work environment that will be radically altered.
https://designvanguard.org/design-f…
Architecture and the Environmental Impact of Artificial Complexity
There is an astonishing degree of complexity, order, and beauty in the natural world. Even so, and especially within the realm of living things, nothing is more complex than it needs to be to sustain its existence.
https://commonedge.org/architecture…
A Radical Examination of Queerness in Communist Propaganda Posters
“What if the artists behind these posters were just creating the least-subtle depictions of a gay utopia?”
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/a-radi…
Wayne Thom photographed the power of 1970s architecture. He’s finally getting his due.
The new Monacelli Press book “Wayne Thom: Photographing the Late Modern” is dedicated to this expansive period. The volume covers the first 20 years of the photographer’s practice and draws on Thom’s archive at the USC Libraries.
https://latimes.com/entertainment-a…
Grief and grievance: how artists respond to racial violence in America
In a new exhibition, the work of 37 artists has been brought together to show how art can react to the epidemic of violence towards black Americans.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Architecture
Op-ed: Architecture critics have a duty to interrogate inequality in the built environment
https://archpaper.com/2021/02/op-ed…
