What Would a World Without Prisons Look Like?
Designing for social justice right here in Oakland!
https://nytimes.com/2020/03/06/arts…
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…
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…
A Radical Mind
The genius of architect Walter Netsch.
https://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.
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…
222 Taylor
Local firm DBA has another winner.
https://architectmagazine.com/proje…
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…
Signs of Good Times
A wayfinding project enhances identity in Mount Prospect, Illinois.
https://urbanland.uli.org/planning-…