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Edwina Benner Plaza / David Baker Architects

Another great project from our pals at David Baker Architects.
external linkhttps://archdaily.com/934992/edwina…
 

What Would a World Without Prisons Look Like?

Designing for social justice right here in Oakland!
external linkhttps://nytimes.com/2020/03/06/arts…
 

As Gottfried Böhm Turns 100, an Exhibition Foregrounds His Concrete Religious Architecture

Concrete faith.
external linkhttps://metropolismag.com/architect…
 

Happy Furniture: On the Media Environments of the Eames Chair

A thoughtful look at the Eameses.
external linkhttps://placesjournal.org/article/h…
 

The LACMA Debacle Keeps Getting Worse

How did one of the world's best architects design this?
external linkhttps://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.
external linkhttps://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
 

Fallout from a Disastrous Federal Proposal

Cathleen McGuigan spot on.
external linkhttps://architecturalrecord.com/art…
 

Celia Birtwell on David Hockney: ‘Nobody else has ever asked to draw me’

In case you missed it.
external linkhttps://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.
external linkhttps://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.
external linkhttps://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.
external linkhttps://architectmagazine.com/desig…
 

MAGA War on Architectural Diversity Weaponizes Greek Columns

Kimmelman weighs in.
external linkhttps://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!



 

A Radical Mind

The genius of architect Walter Netsch.
external linkhttps://medium.com/@SOM/a-radical-m…
 

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.
external linkhttps://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.
external linkhttps://chicagotribune.com/columns/…
 

Robert Irwin’s Ambient Odyssey

One of my favorite writers on one of my favorite artists.
external linkhttps://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.
external linkhttps://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.
external linkhttps://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.
external linkhttps://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.
external linkhttps://architecturaldigest.com/sto…
 

City Car

Tim Culvahouse on the urban car (and design of course).
external linkhttps://tculvahouse.tumblr.com/post…
 

A vision in concrete: Oscar Niemeyer’s Brazil

Ocsar Niemeyer!
external linkhttps://theguardian.com/travel/2020…
 

222 Taylor

Local firm DBA has another winner.
external linkhttps://architectmagazine.com/proje…
 

11 Designers Divulge the Biggest Mistakes of Their Career

Mistakes.
external linkhttps://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.
external linkhttps://architecturalrecord.com/art…