Why Architecture Critics Must Ask about Embodied Energy
When designers try to spin their projects as sustainable, journalists should dig to expose the truth.
https://architectmagazine.com/news/…
Larkin Street Substation Addition Illuminates an Industrial Corner in San Francisco
TEF Design and Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
The Paradoxical Legacy of the Historic Gorgas Rail Complex
TEF renovates the Gorgas Rail Complex.
https://tefarch.com/dialog_detail/5…
CIA at Copia
Part restaurant, part teaching space, Architectural Resources Group has realized the vision for the Culinary Institute of America at Copia as a cultural site for the food and beverage scene in Napa, California.
https://hospitalitysnapshots.com/pr…
Ruin and Redemption in Architecture
John King weighs in on ruin and redemption.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
The Genius, Heart and Humility of Indian Architect B.V. Doshi
B.V. Doshi.
https://commonedge.org/the-genius-h…
Open Minded: Cooper Molera Adobe Pioneers a New Model for Historic Sites
Our pals at ARG are on the cover of the Fall 2019 issue of Preservation Magazine.
https://savingplaces.org/stories/op…
Carnegie Mellon University – Tepper School of Business David A. Tepper Quadrangle
Moore Ruble Yudell worked with Renaissance 3 Architects to complete the Tepper School of Business David A. Tepper Quadrangle as a gathering place for Carnegie Mellon University students.
https://educationsnapshots.com/proj…
Richard Saul Wurman
An interview with TED Founder and architect, Richard Saul Wurman.
https://archdaily.com/927079/an-int…
The Magic is Back in Birmingham—Part One: Return to the Past
DBA principal, Amanda Loper on Birmingham.
dbarchitect.com/MagicCityPart1
Three takes on how New York’s queer nightlife spaces have evolved
Architects Newspaper broadens its coverage.
https://archpaper.com/2019/10/new-y…
This Is an Indian House, According to One Architect
By turning his gaze backward, Bijoy Jain is creating a new architectural language that acknowledges his country’s past.
https://nytimes.com/2019/10/09/t-ma…
How Bauhaus Built India
Bauhaus came to India via two brilliant young architects, Achyut Kanvinde and Habib Rahman.
https://hindustantimes.com/india-ne…
Where Was Jim Crow? Living in Frank Lloyd Wright’s America
Living in America: Frank Lloyd Wright, Harlem, and Modern Housing, on view through December 17 at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery in Columbia University’s Lenfest Center for the Arts.
https://commonedge.org/where-was-ji…
The L.A. architects who design buildings that make you say, ‘Huh?,’ then ‘Wow!’
Johnston Marklee. One of my favorite firms right now.
https://latimes.com/entertainment-a…
Attempts to stop terrorism at the fringes of architecture are becoming increasingly useless.
Architects and designers can't design ways to protect mass terror attacks in America's public spaces, but they should join the fight to eliminate the problem at its cause.
https://dezeen.com/2019/10/14/terro…
With a $450 Million Expansion, MoMA Is Bigger. Is That Better?
Kimmelman weighs in on the new MoMA.
https://nytimes.com/2019/10/09/arts…
Who’s afraid of the pedestrian mall?
To make cities safer and denser, we need to make room for people, not cars. The specter of the 1970s is holding our foot traffic back.
https://curbed.com/2019/9/30/208852…
Buzz Yudell reflects on the cosmic force of the late Charles Jencks
Pal Buzz Yudell writes about his good friend Charles Jencks.
https://archpaper.com/2019/10/charl…
Is designing for Instagram hurting design?
Pal Verda Alexander.
https://fastcompany.com/90415032/is…
Ezra Stoller Turned Buildings Into Monuments
Pal Pierluigi Serraino's new book on Ezra Stoller gets recognition in The New Yorker.
https://newyorker.com/culture/photo…
The World’s Largest Refugee Camp Is Becoming a Real City
A city of the displaced. The Kutupalong camp contains about 600,000 people in southern Bangladesh.
https://citylab.com/equity/2019/09/…
“In the age of big data, everything is quantifiable, even happiness”
Measuring people's happiness with architecture is a step towards trying to control them, says Reinier de Graaf.
https://dezeen.com/2019/10/03/happi…
The Creative Process of the Four Pioneers of Modern Architecture
For our civilian pals?
https://archdaily.com/925464/the-cr…
Auf wiedersehen, Walter! Why Britain booted out the Bauhaus
Gropius and crew in the UK. On show at the RIBA, Beyond Bauhaus: Modernism in Britain 1933–66,
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
The Confused and Impoverished State of Architectural Research
Architects are largely unschooled, untrained, and unaware of research fundamentals.
https://commonedge.org/the-confused…
