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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…
 

Signs of Good Times

A wayfinding project enhances identity in Mount Prospect, Illinois.
external linkhttps://urbanland.uli.org/planning-…
 

The Ambiguous Urban Legacy of Ed Logue

The struggle to renew urban America in the suburban age.
external linkhttps://commonedge.org/the-ambiguou…
 

Litchfield: the Other Connecticut Modernist City

A gorgeous blog about Litchfield CT.
external linkhttps://darrenbradleyphotography.co…
 

Everything You Think You Know About Housing Is Probably Wrong

In cities, many people think “density” means crowded neighborhoods and greedy developers, but a new show at the Skyscraper Museum tells a different story.
external linkhttps://nytimes.com/2020/01/28/arts…
 

5 top designers imagine the workplace of 2040

Looking forward to changes in the workplace. Pal Verda Alexander comments in Fast Company.
external linkhttps://fastcompany.com/90450052/5-…
 

A Space of Perceptual Stillness: How Ezra Stoller Photographed Modernity

My interview with pal Pierluigi Serraino.
external linkhttps://metropolismag.com/design/ar…
 

Come On, Get Happy!

Happy Mod in Palm Springs.
external linkhttps://palmspringslife.com/jim-ise…
 

A 1959 Modernist Office in Sacramento Shines Again

Thrilled to see this.
external linkhttps://metropolismag.com/architect…
 

Pioneering Architect Judith Chafee and Her Unique Desert Modernism Are the Subject of a New Book

Powerhouse: The Life and Work of Architect Judith Chafee (Princeton Architectural Press).
external linkhttps://architectmagazine.com/desig…
 

What the Fractured Media Landscape Means for Architecture

The life and death of print publishing.
external linkhttps://commonedge.org/what-the-fra…
 

Climate change means the US must start building big things again

Pal James Temple advocates for infrastructure.
external linkhttps://technologyreview.com/s/6150…
 

“Too much is at stake to leave architecture to architects”

The emotional and economic impacts of cities are closely connected, but this is lost in a proliferation of meaningless phrases like "healthy placemaking" and "human-centric design", says Reinier de Graaf.
external linkhttps://dezeen.com/2020/01/20/place…
 

10 Questions With IIDA’s Cheryl Durst

One of design world’s most vibrant and vocal cheerleaders.
external linkhttps://interiordesign.net/articles…
 

How a studio embedded a California city’s heritage into commercial interiors

Studio O+A revamps an Oakland office.
external linkhttps://frameweb.com/news/2201-broa…
 

You Can’t Spell SOM Without Gordon Bunshaft

A new book on Bunshaft.
external linkhttps://metropolismag.com/architect…
 

Comparing Social Housing in Countries Around the World

Identifying six systems from countries around the world, complete with architectural examples.
external linkhttps://archdaily.com/932075/compar…
 

The Carolina School: Distinct Modern Architecture in the Triangle

A chance encounter between architects Frank Harmon and Harwell Hamilton Harris became the genesis of our genre of regional modernism.
external linkhttps://waltermagazine.com/home/car…
 

Oscar Niemeyer’s French Communist Party Headquarters Brings a Sensual Brazilian Lilt to Paris

Georges Pompidou on the French Communist Party headquarters: "...was the only good thing those Commies have ever done."
external linkhttps://interiordesign.net/projects…