Inside Mark Rothko’s Former New York City Studio
The building—which was New York City’s first YMCA and housed such luminaries as Fernand Léger and William S. Burroughs—was where Rothko painted his famous Seagram murals.
https://architecturaldigest.com/sto…
50 Years After Design With Nature, Ian McHarg’s Ideas Still Define Landscape Architecture
Half a century ago, McHarg's Design with Nature linked landscape architecture and activism. As we face global climate crisis, his legacy is more important than ever.
https://metropolismag.com/cities/m…
Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot
Rising concerns about housing affordability, racial inequality and climate change are causing cities nationwide to re-examine their attachment to the detached house.
https://nytimes.com/interactive/201…
Studio O+A’s design for the Slack Headquarters puts employees’ heads in the clouds
O+A spreads the wonder of natural landscapes across six floors for Slack.
https://archpaper.com/2019/03/studi…
Inside Slack’s New San Francisco HQ
Studio O+A crafts the ultimate workplace for Slack by channeling life on the Pacific Crest Trail.
https://metropolismag.com/interiors…
Functionalist Paens for Formalist Buildings
Sculptural novelty.
https://commonedge.org/functionalis…
Design Communications: A Look Back
Pal John Parman gives the big view. Hope to hear more.
https://linkedin.com/pulse/design-c…
Harmon Guest House by David Baker offers contemporary lodging in California wine country
Boutique eco-hotel in Healdsburg, CA.
https://dezeen.com/2019/06/12/harmo…
Sea Ranch, California’s Modernist Utopia, Gets an Update
Demographic shifts. Climate change. The internet. “Sea Ranch is changing, like our society,” said the architect Mary Griffin. “We simply can’t build the way we did even 20 years ago.”
https://nytimes.com/2019/06/11/arts…
Is Glenstone a great art museum or a billionaire couple’s folly?
Glenstone.
https://washingtonpost.com/entertai…
Celebrating ‘Good Design’ at MoMA: The Nut Dish and Other Populist Gems
“If most Americans had little patience for Picasso, everybody needed a decent can opener,” our critic writes.
https://nytimes.com/2019/06/06/arts…
Design Vanguard 2019
This year's Vanguard.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Exposition Park plans a makeover that would make Seurat smile
Pal Sam Lubell on the new plans for LA's Exposition Park.
https://latimes.com/entertainment/a…
Imagining a Past Future
I just heard this author speak at Storefront Lab in San Francisco. Her piece is worth reading.
https://placesjournal.org/article/i…
‘Is this going to be a joyous place?’ … the architects asking revolutionary questions
How do you build the perfect town? You send for Public Practice, the initiative that’s tempting architects back into the public sector.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
On Gordon Walker: A Poetic Architecture: Coming Summer 2019, ARCADE Publications
Over dinner one December evening in 2018, architectural scholar Grant Hildebrand held court with the team for his forthcoming book on Northwest architect Gordon Walker. They discussed the nature of writing and designing architectural biographies and how this current book tells a different story from most.
http://arcadenw.org/article/on-gord…
TEN Arquitectos Designs a Beacon for the Resistance
The new home for Make the Road New York, a leading immigrant rights group, aspires to be a transparent gathering place in an age of walls.
https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
Valerio Dewalt Train Blends Virtual and Natural Worlds for YouTube Headquarters Lobby
San Bruno, California.
https://interiordesign.net/projects…
Dredging Up Old Modern Memories
Recollections of the first families who lived in homes designed by architects such as Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier.
https://nytimes.com/2019/05/06/styl…
WTARCH’s Elysian Fields Project Embraces L.A.’s Eclecticism
Pal Sam Lubell writes on a new project in LA.
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
Art Gensler, FAIA
Byron Kuth and Liz Ranieri chat with Art Gensler.
http://arccadigest.org/art-gensler-…
The Untold Story of Aline Louchheim Saarinen
Dr. Eva Hagberg writes a long piece that is essential reading.
https://architectmagazine.com/pract…
How Two Getty Initiatives Are Saving Global Modernist Heritage
The Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative (CMAI) and Keeping It Modern grant are dedicated to supporting new methods and technologies for the conservation of Modernist buildings.
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
Sterile or stirring? Britain’s love-hate relationship with new towns
Paternalistic social engineering or make-Britain-great-again utopianism? A new archive film compilation takes a look at the UK’s controversial postwar towns.
https://theguardian.com/cities/2019…
The Time Hanoi Jane Sent Me to Architecture School
Thank you, Jane.
https://commonedge.org/the-time-han…
Studio VARA Revitalizes a Spacious Apartment in San Francisco’s SoMa Neighborhood
The apartment, which looks out to the Bay Bridge, features ample exposed concrete, white oak accents, and a luxe travertine bathroom.
https://metropolismag.com/interiors…
