The Magic of Empty Streets
Local writer Allison Arieff in the NY Times.
https://nytimes.com/2020/04/08/opin…
Cooper Union Exhibition Highlights the Work of Costantino Nivola
Cathleen McGuigan writes about a favorite sculptor.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Moss, Mayne, Holl, and more remember the late Michael Sorkin
This has been one of the strangest weeks of my life. Michael Sorkin was a guiding light of the architecture profession. Many of this week's stories are about him.
https://archpaper.com/2020/04/moss-…
MASS Design Group Asks: “What is the Role of Architecture in Fighting a Pandemic?”
The Boston- and Kigali, Rwanda-based practice is launching a response to the spread of COVID-19, and making available information and best practices developed over a decade of designing to minimize the spread of infection.
https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
Sorkin Spoke Truth to Power
Let Michael Sorkin’s unflinching advocacy of the commonweal serve as an inspiration to the architecture profession, as we fight the coronavirus and look toward a better future.
https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
The barefoot architect: ‘I was a starchitect for 36 years. Now I’m atoning’
Pakistan’s first female architect looks back on an extraordinary life.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
American architects mobilise to make coronavirus face shields for hospital workers
Good news from the design world.
https://dezeen.com/2020/03/29/ameri…
Michael Sorkin, 71, Dies; Saw Architecture as a Vehicle for Change
Mr. Sorkin, who died of the coronavirus, promoted social justice in his prodigious output of essays, lectures and designs.
https://nytimes.com/2020/03/29/arts…
AVOW
Architectural Resources Group.
https://archello.com/project/avow
Oscar Niemeyer apartment building in Berlin captured by Pedro Vannucchi
These photographs by Brazilian architect Pedro Vannucchi capture an experimental apartment building Oscar Niemeyer completed in Berlin, Germany in the 1950s.
https://dezeen.com/2020/03/21/oscar…
Visual Paradox
Pal Sally Scopa is interviewed about her recent paintings.
https://eveleibegallery.com/editori…
The Constellation of Frank Stella
The artist’s Minimalist abstractions helped change the direction of painting at the start of his career. Now at the end of it, the 83-year-old artist looks back to his beginnings.
https://nytimes.com/2020/03/18/t-ma…
The Shape of Things
Art Matters. Some thoughts from Paul Crabtree.
http://paulcrabtree.net/writing/the…
How Two Children Are Keeping Their Father’s Design Legacy Alive
The Nakashimas you don't see.
https://nytimes.com/2020/03/16/t-ma…
A Panorama of Design
Ot/tra, our pals Adam and Sofia Zimmerman furniture offshoot is featured at the end of this article.
https://nytimes.com/2020/03/12/styl…
How Architecture Firms Are Responding to COVID-19
Our pal Liz Ranieri responds to Architect's questions about the Covid 19 virus.
https://architectmagazine.com/pract…
Olympic Games—The Design Documents Over a Century of Olympic Visual Identities
New book shows how Olympic design encapsulates global politics and culture; in doing so, it serves as a de facto history of 20th-century graphic design.
https://metropolismag.com/design/ar…
Russia and America cross-pollinate at the Canadian Centre for Architecture
Building a New New World, Americanizm in Russian Architecture runs through April 5.
https://archpaper.com/2020/03/russi…
Live Oak School
The expansion of Live Oak School by TEF Design.
https://archello.com/project/live-o…
Upwardly Mobile
Studio O+A designs a third floor for LiveRamp's San Francisco headquarters.
https://nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/contra…
