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…
Europe’s Brutalist Churches and Chapels, by Stefano Perego
Form, function and faith.
https://archdaily.com/952055/europe…
He Art Museum by Tadao Ando
Making simple geometry resonate in complex ways is a hallmark of Ando’s work.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Ten opinions on how the pandemic will change the world
Dezeen rounds up this year's most incisive opinions on how the coronavirus pandemic will impact our lives, courtesy of everyone from Norman Foster to Li Edelkoort and Rem Koolhas.
https://dezeen.com/2020/12/07/pande…
Hidden Territories: Uncovering the racist legacy of the American landscape
The term “landscape” historically referred to pictures of the world—vistas or views—and so it is only a small step to think of landscapes as portraits of society, representations of social imaginaries.
https://gsd.harvard.edu/2020/11/hid…
Prominent Architects Group Prohibits Design of Death Chambers
The American Institute of Architects has changed its stance on members who design spaces for executions or prolonged solitary confinement.
https://nytimes.com/2020/12/11/arts…
These are the best COVID-19 signs we’ve seen
Our pals at Studio O+A designed some cheerful posters.
https://fastcompany.com/90585146/th…
The Brutalist Architecture that Shaped Poland’s Urban Landscapes
Brutal Poland creates a photographic exploration of the country’s Brutalist heritage, highlighting the intrinsic qualities, as well as the shortcomings of the post-war architecture, promoting a better understanding of the complicated and fascinating phenomenon.
https://archdaily.com/950832/the-br…
The Chicano Moratorium and the Making of Latino Urbanism
The 50th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium.
https://commonedge.org/the-chicano-…
The Trouble with Consumption
The contradictions between capitalist priorities and ecological imperatives are now impossible to ignore. How might the tenets of alternative hedonism foster electoral mandates for radical economic and political change?
https://placesjournal.org/article/a…
