100 years of Bauhaus: Berlin and beyond
Germany celebrates the centenary of the influential art movement.
https://theguardian.com/travel/2019…
LACMA: Suicide by Architecture
The Zumthor saga continues.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article…
Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves?
Well it ain't the new Rockefeller Center. Michael Kimmelman on Hudson Yards.
https://nytimes.com/interactive/201…
Drawing Bo Bardi: Barcelona Exhibition Showcases the Architectural and Artistic Designs of Lina Bo Bardi
Lina Bo Bardi Dibuja (Lina Bo Bardi Drawing), curated by artist and scholar Zeuler Lima for the Fundació Joan Miró, showcases around 100 of the Italian-born Brazilian architect's sketches, watercolors, and gouaches.
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
The Waltons Embrace Design Excellence
It may seem like a paradox, but the family that founded Walmart is helping to reshape the Arkansas landscape, to surprising effect.
https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
Winner and Finalists Announced in the “rise in the city” Design Competition for Affordable Housing in Lesotho, Africa
The competition brief sought sustainable designs for a home that could be scaled up so that one family could add extensions, or be replicated as row housing.
http://archnewsnow.com/features/Fea…
Sitting pretty: London transport fabrics over the decades – in pictures
Design matters.
https://theguardian.com/cities/gall…
Overlooked No More: Julia Morgan, Pioneering Female Architect
We've known about her forever. Now thanks to Alexandra Lange so will the rest of the world.
https://nytimes.com/2019/03/06/obit…
How to design the end of a studio’s life
The promising young studio Hawraf is shutting down. The four partners decided to go out by publishing comprehensive documents about how they ran their business.
https://fastcompany.com/90315699/ho…
Arata Isozaki on “Ma,” the Japanese Concept of In-Between Space
Japanese architect and theorist Arata Isozaki’s studio new video series, Time-Space-Existence.
https://archdaily.com/882896/arata-…
Tiny house villages spark interest outside of Seattle—but scrutiny at home
Other cities and counties are studying Seattle’s tiny home model.
https://seattle.curbed.com/2019/2/2…
New York Has a Public Housing Problem. Does London Have an Answer?
Kings Crescent Estate in the Hackney borough of London. Hackney has been upgrading its public housing stock — or what in Britain are called council housing estates.
https://nytimes.com/2019/03/01/arts…
The Lodge at the Presidio Gives Guests A Historic Lodging Experience Overlooking The Golden Gate
The adaptive reuse project, completed by Architectural Resources Group is a hotel housed by the northernmost of five historic 19th-century former military barracks, Building 105, within San Francisco’s Presidio.
https://contractdesign.com/projects…
Ask Kenny
After participating in a panel discussion about messaging I thought it was time to ask some of my pals in communications within the design industry about social media and the digital world.
https://kennethcaldwell.com/ask-ken…
Malls, Talls, and Pseudo-Culture Halls: Hudson Yards’ Failed Urban Forms
More on Hudson Yards.
http://commonedge.org/malls-talls-a…
Dig We Must: What Hudson Yards Gets Wrong
Fred Bernstein's take on Hudson Yards.
https://metropolismag.com/cities/hu…
More on Machine Madness
Aaron Betsky explains why he is less interested in process than in experience.
https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
Interview with Frank Gehry on a Milestone Birthday
Frank at 90.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Confusion of the Vanities
Why architectural style-wars are becoming irrelevant.
http://commonedge.org/confusion-of-…
Jasper Johns and the Question of Meaning
The painter is a riddler, even—or especially—when his themes are blatant.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2019…
I Have a Feeling We’re Not in New York Anymore
Hudson Yards is a billionaire’s fantasy city and you never have to leave — provided you can pay for it.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019…
The Modern Furniture Maven: Appreciating Florence Knoll
Aaron Betsky on Florence Knoll.
https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
The Surprising Tale of One of Frank Stella’s Black Paintings
A chat with Frank Stella.
https://nytimes.com/2019/02/17/art…
An Amazon Correction: The City Won—and the Company Isn’t Going Anywhere
More on Amazon and Long Island City...
http://commonedge.org/an-amazon-cor…
New Spaces And Products For Our Time
Studio O+A’s Food for Thought Truck travels to various underserved communities and engages the public on how design can be a force for good.
https://nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/contra…
‘Paradise at the end of the world’: An oral history of the Sea Ranch (Part I)
A two-part oral history mining the origins and controversies surrounding California’s most bucolic planned community—and forecasting its future.
https://curbed.com/2019/2/20/182315…
