Architecture Firms Begin to Grapple with Discrimination
In the aftermath of Floyd’s death, many firms and AIA groups expressed solidarity with Back Lives Matter and vowed to make changes. What has evolved since then?
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
“I Grew Up Where Architecture Was Designed to Oppress”: Wandile Mthiyane on Social Impact and Learning from South Africa
Q&A with Wandile Mthiyane.
https://archdaily.com/947507/i-grew…
Mark Bradford Reveals New Paintings Quarantined in a Grain Tower
Mark Bradford reflects on the enforced solitude of lockdown in three new paintings at Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles.
https://nytimes.com/2020/09/08/arts…
Architectural Workers
Architect and educator Peggy Deamer talks with editor Nancy Levinson about her life as an activist, cofounding The Architecture Lobby, and about the rise of labor consciousness in the design disciplines.
https://placesjournal.org/article/a…
Douglas Stuart Reads The Englishman
I loved Douglas Stuart's first novel, Shuggie Bain. In the Sept 14, 2020 issue of The New Yorker you can find his most recent story. It is a treat to hear him read it.
https://newyorker.com/podcast/the-a…
Design Stream Evolves
Dear Friends. We are planning to evolve the content we share with you each week. Seems like the times demand it! So, the current plan is to share more articles about art and literature. We will keep it short and sweet though.
The End of the Beginning
This week I want to share my pal Anne Kenner's memoir that is also about our times.
http://columbiajournal.org/the-end-…
Ava Duvernay Interviews Angela Davis On This Moment And What Came Before
Perhaps you have seen Amy Sherald's cover for Vanity Fair that features a powerful portrait of Breonna Taylor. Ta-Neshi Coates is this month's guest editor. He wrote the piece entitled "A Beautiful Life" about Ms. Taylor. It's heartbreaking. The whole issue is worth reading. A short interview in the same issue worth checking out is Ana Duvernay's conversation with Angela Davis. Ms. Davis has, for a long time, linked racism and capitalism.
https://vanityfair.com/culture/2020…
The Amy Sherald Effect
It is worth going back a year to read Peter Schjeldahl's piece on artist Amy Sherald.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2019…
The Winding Saga of the Restoration of the Narkomfin, an Icon of Soviet Constructivism
The building in central Moscow, which pioneered an experimental communitarian lifestyle but had fallen into severe disrepair, has been restored courtesy of its mastermind’s architect offspring.
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
A brief history of opposition branding, a tradition as American as apple pie
Opposition branding a longstanding American tradition.
https://fastcompany.com/90545495/a-…
Deem Journal Is The New Magazine Centering Design as a Social Practice
Just received my first issue!
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/deem-j…
Gómez Platero unveils design for world’s first large-scale memorial to the victims of COVID-19
"World Memorial to the Pandemic"
https://archinect.com/news/article/…
Beauty and destruction: Beirut’s design community struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of explosions
With dozens of historic buildings and modern high rises in ruin following the Beirut blast of August 4, the Lebanese vow to rebuild what is left of their great city. Find out ways to help.
https://wallpaper.com/design/beirut…
Remembering legendary Brazilian modernist Jorge Zalszupin (1922-2020)
Retracing the ‘succession of miracles’ from Jorge Zalszupin, an icon of Brazilian design who has passed away at age 98.
https://wallpaper.com/design/in-mem…
Whack-a-Mole Urban Planning in Los Angeles Is Not Working
Los Angeles’ persistent urban challenges: affordable housing, equity injustices, gentrification, traffic, air pollution, climate change.
https://commonedge.org/whack-a-mole…
Rethinking the Architecture of a Racist Legal System
With the conversation on race and justice coming to the forefront, it’s worth thinking through how architecture can contribute to change.
https://buildinggreen.com/news-anal…
Post-COVID, More Office Designs Include Permanent Outdoor Workspaces
Designers are building zones with the WiFi, power, and shading elements for conducting tasks and meetings entirely outdoors.
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
Bad design kills: Why COVID-19 spread like wildfire at one of America’s worst prisons
Poorly designed architecture has exacerbated the spread of COVID-19 at San Quentin, where more than two-thirds of inmates have been infected.
https://fastcompany.com/90539380/ba…
Column: Mies van der Rohe’s workhorse tower gets a vibrant remake as a dorm at Chicago’s Illinois Institute of Technology
Master modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
https://chicagotribune.com/columns/…
An Image of Our Post-Covid Future
Aaron Betsky on how a photograph from the protests in Detroit can serve as a guidebook for the profession.
https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
Interview with Walter Hood on History and Race in Landscape Design
Cathleen McGuigan interviews Walter Hood about his forthcoming book, Black Landscapes Matter (written with Grace Mitchell Tada), and how his design work increasingly is inspired by his identity as a Black man and by history.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Jones and Emmons: Modernism for the Las Vegas Masses
For you A. Quincy Jones fans. A community in Las Vegas.
https://docomomo-us.org/news/jones-…
Architecture of the sun as a solution to post-pandemic urban design
At the origins of modernism there was also the intention to promote a healthy lifestyle and bring man closer to nature, even through naturism. A lesson forgotten and to be recovered, if we want to put back health at the centre of design.
https://domusweb.it/en/architecture…
The 1964 Olympics Certified a New Japan, in Steel and on the Screen
The world’s elite athletes would have been in Tokyo right now if not for the coronavirus pandemic. When they went half a century ago, they discovered a capital transformed by design.
https://nytimes.com/2020/07/30/arts…
Design Schools, Now Is the Time to Answer: Who Are We For?
Design and architecture schools have been far slower to make commitments than they were to offer sweeping public statements. In this void, students are reclaiming the political, visionary legacy of design schools in years past.
https://hyperallergic.com/579888/de…
