Apple’s Bay Area affordable housing initiatives begin to take shape
As part of a $2.5 billion funding commitment made by computer giant Apple to help fund additional affordable housing initiatives, the company has allocated $400 million toward a series of first-time homebuyer and affordable housing efforts.
https://archinect.com/news/article/…
See inside the lost archive of celebrated Black architect Paul Williams
The archive, originally thought lost in a fire during the 1992 uprising in Los Angeles, sheds new light on Williams, who designed everything from airports to public housing to mansions for Frank Sinatra and Lucille Ball.
https://fastcompany.com/90524111/se…
Can a City Be Feminist?
Upon the release today of her new book Feminist City, Leslie Kern catches up with Metropolis on how cities can be more equitable for all genders.
https://metropolismag.com/cities/le…
Is Architectural Licensing Necessary?
Pal John Parman weighs in on licensing and its complexities.
https://commonedge.org/is-architect…
Celebrating Geoffrey Bawa’s delightful buildings and gardens on his 101st birthday
Always good to hear about Bawa and his work.
https://stirworld.com/inspire-peopl…
Imagining an Eco-Friendly Post-Pandemic Downtown
Radio post! Byron Kuth and Liz Ranieri discuss their visionary thinking for downtown San Francisco with Mel Baker of San Francisco Public Press.
https://sfpublicpress.org/imagining…
The Japanese-American Sculptor Who, Despite Persecution, Made Her Mark
Seven years after her death, Ruth Asawa is finally being recognized as an American master. What can we learn from this overdue reappraisal?
https://nytimes.com/2020/07/20/t-ma…
Design Firms Share Their Office Reopening Strategies
Pals Studio O+A share their thoughts on reentering the workplace.
https://officesnapshots.com/article…
Status, Statues, and Statutes
The issue with monuments to flawed men.
https://commonedge.org/status-statu…
The Pandemic and Protests Have Highlighted Just How Unequal Our Cities Are
With a new urban crisis surfacing, designers from around the world propose radical changes to transportation, cooperative living, working, and public space.
https://metropolismag.com/cities/th…
After All, Who Do We Build Architecture and Urbanism for?
What would all the built environments be without its users?
https://archdaily.com/942448/after-…
It’s time to rethink downtown SF. Here’s one of the most radical visions out there
Our pals Byron Kuth and Liz Ranieri of Kuth Ranieri Architects.
https://sfchronicle.com/culture/art…
The Education—and Miseducation—of an Urban Planner
Urban planners.
https://commonedge.org/the-educatio…
Interior Design Magazine 2020 HiP Awards Winner: Elizabeth Vereker
Elizabeth Vereker from Studio O+A!
https://o-plus-a.com/2020-hip-award…
Brigid Berlin, Socialite Who Joined Warhol’s World, Dies at 80
Born into privilege, she rejected her upbringing to become a fixture on the New York underground art scene of the 1960s and ’70s.
https://nytimes.com/2020/07/18/arts…
Affordable Housing in COVID Times: A Q&A with San Francisco Architect David Baker
The pandemic’s financial impact could be devastating, but for Baker, it’s the right time to tackle the city’s housing shortage.
https://thefrisc.com/the-future-of-…
Column: A different view of the masterful Farnsworth House — hers, not his
Even it isn't Mies she (Dr. Edith Farnsworth) had great taste.
https://chicagotribune.com/columns/…
Can Quarantine Propel Us Toward Planetary Sanctuary?
Mimi Zeiger on quarantine.
https://metropolismag.com/ideas/qua…
Deem, a new journal, wants design to focus back on people
A new design journal about what matters.
https://archpaper.com/2020/06/deem-…
Remember that Public Space is Democracy’s Great Stage
Making public spaces unwelcome is a perversion of their purpose, writes ASLA president Wendy Miller in this op-ed. Too often over the past few weeks, the central promise of the civic realm has been turned on its head.
https://metropolismag.com/cities/fo…
Mi casa es mi refugio: At the Service of Mexican Modernism in Casa Barragán
Another look at Barragan and his home.
http://averyreview.com/issues/48/mi…
This Is Not the End of Cities
Richard Florida weighs in. Both the coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement create opportunities to reshape cities in more equitable ways.
https://bloomberg.com/news/features…
The Glass House project fosters literal and historical transparency at ‘Menokin’ ruins in Virginia
Preserving the ruins of a historic building in the US state of Virginia that was the home of Francis Lightfoot Lee — a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
https://designboom.com/architecture…
Contract Multivitamin: Mindi Weichman of Studio O+A
A dose of designer musings in there own words.
https://contractdesign.com/practice…
Un-making ARCHITECTURE
An anti-racist architecture manifesto.
https://archpaper.com/2020/06/un-ma…
A new book argues Frederick Kiesler was the influencer at the center of american modernism
Kiesler.
https://archpaper.com/2020/05/frede…
