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…
The Magic is Back in Birmingham, Part One: Return to the Past
Birmingham.
dbarchitect.com/TheMagicisBackinBir…
Quieting Down and Opening Up at VMware’s Palo Alto Headquarters
Valerio Dewalt Trains talks through reconfiguring and optimizing VMWare’s Palo Alto campus.
https://buildordie.com/vdta-blog/vm…
Balfron 2.0: how Goldfinger’s utopian tower became luxury flats
The sell off of Erno Goldfinger’s landmark building in Poplar is a central element of a new plan to transform London’s East End.
https://theguardian.com/cities/2019…
Why Can’t New York City Build More Gems Like This Queens Library?
The Hunters Point Community Library is one of the finest public buildings New York has produced this century. But it cost more than $40 million, took a decade and almost died.
https://nytimes.com/2019/09/18/arts…
10 Questions With Verda Alexander
Our pal Verda, Studio O+A co-founder and equal parts artist and designer.
https://interiordesign.net/articles…
A↔N: The Architecture-Neuroscience Divide Appears to Be Narrowing
Evidence based design neuroscience for architecture, urbanism & design.
https://commonedge.org/a↔n-the-ar…
Continuing Education Unit: Modular Construction
Our pal Brad Leibin of David Baker Architects is quoted in this piece from Architectural Record.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Finding Partners for Your City’s Affordable Housing Solutions
Collaboration.
https://citiesspeak.org/2019/08/28/…
Column: Chicago shows how public housing and libraries can coexist and be visually stunning. Now we need more of them.
Three new Chicago buildings, which combine public libraries and public housing, are head and shoulders above the Robert Taylor Homes, Cabrini-Green and the rest of the city’s dehumanizing, now-demolished public housing projects.
https://chicagotribune.com/columns/…
