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-…
The Ambiguous Urban Legacy of Ed Logue
The struggle to renew urban America in the suburban age.
https://commonedge.org/the-ambiguou…
Litchfield: the Other Connecticut Modernist City
A gorgeous blog about Litchfield CT.
https://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.
https://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.
https://fastcompany.com/90450052/5-…
A Space of Perceptual Stillness: How Ezra Stoller Photographed Modernity
My interview with pal Pierluigi Serraino.
https://metropolismag.com/design/ar…
Come On, Get Happy!
Happy Mod in Palm Springs.
https://palmspringslife.com/jim-ise…
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).
https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
What the Fractured Media Landscape Means for Architecture
The life and death of print publishing.
https://commonedge.org/what-the-fra…
Climate change means the US must start building big things again
Pal James Temple advocates for infrastructure.
https://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.
https://dezeen.com/2020/01/20/place…
10 Questions With IIDA’s Cheryl Durst
One of design world’s most vibrant and vocal cheerleaders.
https://interiordesign.net/articles…
How a studio embedded a California city’s heritage into commercial interiors
Studio O+A revamps an Oakland office.
https://frameweb.com/news/2201-broa…
