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/…
Park-topped Transbay transit center pays architectural dividends, past troubles aside
The transit center represents what 21st century urban infrastructure should be — public works that do their job while enhancing the larger public realm.
https://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/art…
For the legendary Alexander Girard, design was in the details
Legendary designer Alexander Girard fused sleek modernism with playful folk art. At Santa Fe’s Museum of International Folk Art, "A Designer's Universe" highlights Girard's breadth of creativity, from mapping a country to devising a language.
https://pbs.org/newshour/show/for-t…
Revising the Midcentury Suburban Ranch House
Kuth Ranieri revamps a modest midcentury house.
https://kuthranieri.com/blog/revisi…
Where are the architects who will put the environment first?
Should we stop building airports? Return to mud and thatch? The climate crisis is an opportunity for creative thinking, but the values of architecture need a radical overhaul.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Utopia, Abandoned
A time when corporations had some humane objectives.
https://nytimes.com/2019/08/28/t-ma…
‘Abstract Climates’: Helen Frankenthaler’s Ode to Provincetown
Pure beauty.
https://nytimes.com/2019/08/29/arts…
VMware Promontory Campus, Palo Alto
Valerio Dewalt Train renovates VMWare’s headquarters in a five building phased approach.
https://officeinspiration.com/en/of…
A Midcentury Pool Complex in San Francisco Gets a Modern Refresh
Kuth Ranieri Architects and ELS Architecture and Urban Design teamed up for the project, which tailored the aging facility to the needs of its present-day community.
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
Inside Another Paint Colour Expert’s Design Studio
Our pal Jill Pilaroscia gets interviewed.
https://mariakillam.com/inside-anot…
