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Edwina Benner Plaza / David Baker Architects
Another great project from our pals at David Baker Architects.https://archdaily.com/934992/edwina…
What Would a World Without Prisons Look Like?
Designing for social justice right here in Oakland!https://nytimes.com/2020/03/06/arts…
As Gottfried Böhm Turns 100, an Exhibition Foregrounds His Concrete Religious Architecture
Concrete faith.https://metropolismag.com/architect…
Happy Furniture: On the Media Environments of the Eames Chair
A thoughtful look at the Eameses.https://placesjournal.org/article/h…
The LACMA Debacle Keeps Getting Worse
How did one of the world's best architects design this?https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
Irish women win Pritzker prize, architecture’s highest honour
Well deserved award for Grafton Architects. They are the fourth and fifth women to win the prize in its 41-year history.https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Fallout from a Disastrous Federal Proposal
Cathleen McGuigan spot on.https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Celia Birtwell on David Hockney: ‘Nobody else has ever asked to draw me’
In case you missed it.https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Paraguay’s Response to Modernist Architecture? Clay, Mud and Timber
A new generation of builders is devising daring structures that celebrate natural materials, push for eco-consciousness — and argue for a more democratic future.https://nytimes.com/2020/02/14/t-ma…
Studio O+A Gives a 21st-Century Update to Oakland’s Breuner Building Lobby
New life in the Breuner Building.https://interiordesign.net/projects…
A Movement in Miniature
Small design-build projects in communities around the globe offer an alternative to the profession's focus on the big and profitable.https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
MAGA War on Architectural Diversity Weaponizes Greek Columns
Kimmelman weighs in.https://nytimes.com/2020/02/07/arts…
We missed the weekly newsletter last week because we are travelling in France. Twice as much fun this week!
Who Was Carlo Scarpa?
His reimagining of ancient public buildings made him an Italian icon, but the 20th-century architect is perhaps best understood through the private homes he designed.https://nytimes.com/2020/02/18/t-ma…
Column: A former North Side public housing project is beautifully remade, but at what cost?
News from Chicago’s North Side.https://chicagotribune.com/columns/…
Robert Irwin’s Ambient Odyssey
One of my favorite writers on one of my favorite artists.https://nytimes.com/2020/02/13/arts…
See the $30 million renovation of Houston’s multifaith Rothko Chapel
The sanctuary has updated its campus to better reflect the artist’s original design for it.https://fastcompany.com/90462926/se…
Care and Comfort: Designing Kaiser Permanente Northern California’s First Inpatient Combined Medical-Psychiatric Unit
Our pals at TEF design an innovative medical pysch unit at Kaiser.https://tefarch.com/dialog_detail/5…
Bell Works by Alexander Gorlin Architects
Pal Joann Gonchar writes about the bold renovation of Saarinen's Bell Labs. It's a God is in the Details kind of story.https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
How Internal Strife Brought the School of Architecture at Taliesin to Its Knees
Pal Sam Lubell digs further into Taliesin's closing.https://architecturaldigest.com/sto…
City Car
Tim Culvahouse on the urban car (and design of course).https://tculvahouse.tumblr.com/post…
11 Designers Divulge the Biggest Mistakes of Their Career
Mistakes.https://architecturaldigest.com/sto…
Will the White House Order New Federal Architecture To Be Classical?
While the country was riveted by the President’s impeachment trial, a Washington rumor was quietly bubbling about a potential executive order that, if implemented, would profoundly affect the future of federal architecture.https://architecturalrecord.com/art…