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…
Social Practice
Milton Curry, Dean of the School of Architecture at USC, speaks with Deem’s founders about the meaning of social practice.
https://deemjournal.com/stories/mil…
How Bernie Sanders Built a New Visual Language for Democratic Socialism
Sanders' logo is distinctly Americana.
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/how-be…
Three Scholars Discuss Racism and Whiteness in the Built Environment
Architectural Record reaches out to architects and designers to explore racism in the profession and the built environment.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Growing Up With Contract
Our pals at O + A remember Contract magazine.
https://o-plus-a.com/growing-up-wit…
Renewed hope for Cardross seminary after church finds new owner
A new owner has been found for Gillespie Kidd & Coia’s derelict 1967 St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross, near Helensburgh.
https://architectsjournal.co.uk/new…
Tiffany Brown: Dismantle and Rebuild
The executive manager of the National Organization of Minority Architects describes why she is her "ancestors' wildest dreams."
https://architectmagazine.com/pract…
Luis Barragán’s Forgotten Works, Revisited
After moving to Mexico City in 1935, the architect set about designing a series of obscure functionalist residences that he would later disown.
https://nytimes.com/2020/07/24/t-ma…
A Second Look at Edith Farnsworth and Her Mies van der Rohe–Designed Retreat
Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House House with Edith's furniture.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Anne Fougeron on Creating Good Urban Spaces and Being a Woman Architect
Pal Anne Fougeron!
https://archdaily.com/943414/anne-f…
