The Twentieth-Century Historic Thematic Framework
The Twentieth-Century Historic Thematic Framework: A Tool for Assessing Heritage Places promotes broad thinking about the historical processes that have contributed to the twentieth-century built environment worldwide.
https://getty.edu/conservation/publ…
Why We Don’t Believe the Big City Obituary
America’s cities offer the greatest hope for the country’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Fortunately, the people who live there agree.
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles…
The 14 most important books for designers to read right now
Experts from IDEO, Adobe, SVA, HOK, Designer Fund, and more share book recommendations for designers who want to expand their horizons in 2021 and beyond.
https://fastcompany.com/90596613/th…
Studio O+A’s Toolkit Says Returning to the Office Can Be Joyful
The interior design firm takes a comprehensive look at workplace re-entry, considering the perspectives of both tenants and landlords.
https://metropolismag.com/interiors…
An Exhaustive, Idiosyncratic Inventory of France, Documented, Classified + Filtered
Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier drive across the country to photograph vernacular architecture, anonymous landscapes, and pastoral graffiti.
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/a-phot…
Not Everything Is “Architecture”
Politics are currently polarized. This creates volatility and the potential for violence in the public realm. The form of political messages matters. Sometimes that form is violence, which is bad. Not everything has to be binary.
https://commonedge.org/not-everythi…
Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever?
Companies are figuring out how to balance what appears to be a lasting shift toward remote work with the value of the physical workplace.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2021…
In the Brilliant Work of Beatriz González, Reproduction is a Means of Protest
Posters, newspaper images, and inexpensive printing methods offered the artist a ready format for resistance in Turbay’s Colombia
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/beatri…
A building as big as the world: the anarchist architects who foresaw endless expansion
Italy’s Superstudio collective warned against rampant development by imagining one continuous structure stretching around Earth. But did their warning actually inspire new Saudi plans for a 100-mile linear city?
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Blair Kamin Ends His Run as Architecture Critic of the Chicago Tribune
Last Friday, Blair Kamin ended his 28-year run as architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune.
https://commonedge.org/blair-kamin-…
Small but Mighty Acts of Urbanism at Birmingham’s Pepper Place
We all want to design spaces that benefit those who use them, and often we think that to make a big impact, we have to design a big project. But that’s not always the case.
https://dbarchitect.com/us/news_blo…
How El Anatsui Broke the Seal on Contemporary Art
His runaway success began with castaway junk: a bag of bottle caps along the road. Now the Ghanaian sculptor is redefining Africa’s place in the global art scene.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2021…
How Designer, Activist + Historian David King Defined a Visual Style for the Left
Alongside a legendary design career, King also amassed one of the world’s largest collections of Soviet design
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/design…
The AIA Moves Forward in Tumultuous Times
Last month, the American Institute of Architects made a series of significant announcements.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Assault on a Sacred Place
For most people, calling a place “sacred” designates it as an important location, one usually associated with spirituality. But it’s also possible to think of a secular place as sacred.
https://commonedge.org/assault-on-a…
Op-ed: Reconsidering design equity in affordable housing
Our cities contain a diverse population and a multiplicity of family types, but our cities’ spaces don’t accommodate everyone.
https://archpaper.com/2021/01/op-ed…
Amazon Unveils $2B Affordable Housing Fund
The e-commerce giant joins Facebook, Google and Microsoft in pledging big dollars to apartments for moderate- and low-income renters.
https://multihousingnews.com/post/a…
Making Big Moves at Mason on Mariposa
If walking along the paseo greenway that runs through Mason on Mariposa feels like floating down a creek, that is no coincidence.
https://dbarchitect.com/us/news_blo…
Paige Rense, Architectural Digest, and the End of 20th Century Architecture
The end of 2020 and the prospect of widespread vaccinations has turned the calendar page away from abject fear.
https://commonedge.org/paige-rense-…
Facebook to Invest in San Francisco’s Affordable Housing
Facebook has announced plans to add 2,000 units of low-income to the San Francisco Bay Area, The Real Deal reports. The Mark Zuckerberg-founded tech giant reportedly will put $150 million into the project as part of a larger $1 billion housing investment that was announced last year.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Voids to Frame the View
Last fall, Manuela King of RHAA Landscape Architects asked us to join her in entering an international design competition for a new visitor center at the Black Lava Fields in Iceland’s Dimmuborgir region.
https://kuthranieri.com/blog/voids-…
Two-way street: how Barcelona is democratising public space
Citizens are finally getting the urban patios and parks promised when the cramped medieval city was extended in the 1900s.
https://theguardian.com/world/2020/…
In Perspective: Michelle Millar Fisher
Scottish design curator Michelle Millar Fisher has made waves in the United States’ museum scene for the past 15 years.
https://archpaper.com/2020/12/in-pe…
The AIA updates its code of ethics, prohibits members from designing torture or execution chambers
Calls for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to censure members for willing designing spaces of detention, execution, and torture are nothing new;
https://archpaper.com/2020/12/aia-c…
The history of the dome, from the Pantheon to Abu Dhabi’s Louvre
Retracing the history of one of the greatest symbolic and constructive expressions of architecture through old and contemporary examples, from Islamic domes to Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes.
https://domusweb.it/en/architecture…
Unhoused, Unwelcome? Public Space and the Stigma of Homelessness
Public spaces need to be leveraged to support people experiencing homelessness.
https://azuremagazine.com/article/u…
