Sarasota Modern: Paul Rudolph and beyond
Modernism celebrations and conferences are becoming more numerous. After such an event gains a certain amount of local awareness, the challenge for organizers is to make it continue to appeal to a range of interested parties, from docents in Pucci dresses to scholars in button-down shirts. How do you avoid devolving into a love of style over substance? How do you keep bringing back the style groupies, the design professionals, and the scholars? SarasotaMOD Weekend, an annual midcentury modern architecture festival in Sarasota, Florida, just held its fifth program this November
https://archpaper.com/2018/11/saras…
Riding the Cycle of History
The Bike Hub at Los Angeles Union Station.
https://argsf.com/blog/bike-hub/
How a group of radical ’60s architects designed the future
How the Archigram architectural collective, profiled in a comprehensive new book, designed for a more radical, and random, future.
https://curbed.com/2018/11/26/18113…
The (Still) Dreary Deadlock of Public Housing
Catherine Bauer never wavered in her conviction that government had not only the power but also the responsibility to fix the housing system.
https://placesjournal.org/article/c…
The problem with invisible branding
Average consumers typically have no idea they’re interacting with–or being manipulated by–an algorithm. That’s a branding problem.
https://fastcompany.com/90271423/th…
Sea Ranch, Spread Out
The story of how Sea Ranch was conceived and built.
https://landscapearchitecturemagazi…
Building Our JUST Practice
How a new transparency platform spurred DBA to keep “walking the talk”—and where we go from here.
https://dbarchitect.com/us/news_blo…
The Design Media Needs to Examine Its Own Privilege
Privilege.
http://commonedge.org/the-design-me…
San Francisco Airport’s Big Room Offices – San Francisco
San Francisco International Airport has a comprehensive and shared temporary office to unite the entire Terminal 1 renovation team under one airplane hangar roof.
https://officesnapshots.com/2018/11…
A 21st-Century Renaissance for Ford Foundation Landmark
The building, a prescient example of civic architecture, sees the light after a two-year makeover.
https://nytimes.com/2018/11/19/arts…
Surf’s up: Florida’s dazzling modernist holiday homes
Back in the 50s, architects Ralph Twitchell and Paul Rudolph realised their dreams of airy beach houses for carefree living in Sarasota – a place now overwhelmed by mega-mansions.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Opinion: A Plea for Architectural History
The writer and historian Mario Carpo makes a plea for architectural history, albeit one more sensitive to our times.
https://archdaily.com/905784/opinio…
Was Modernism Really International?
A new history says no.
http://commonedge.org/was-modernism…
6 Radical Experiments in Social Housing Exhibited by the RIBA and V&A
November 24, 2018 – May 26, 2019
https://archdaily.com/905948/6-radi…
A Gilded Age at Architectural Digest
A peek behind the curtain.
https://nybooks.com/daily/2018/11/0…
We Are Human Rights develops tools for change by pairing designers with activists
The results were showcased in an exhibition for Dutch Design Week 2o18 and tackled issues ranging from illegal settlements in Nicaragua to the criminalization of homosexuality in Burundi.
https://dezeen.com/2018/11/08/we-ar…
AIASF Equity by Design Releases 2018 Equity in Architecture Survey Findings
At the fifth Equity by Design Symposium, the AIA San Francisco committee shared its analysis of the largest data set ever collected on equity within the design profession in the United States.
https://architectmagazine.com/pract…
This Year’s Sarasota MOD Weekend Celebrates Architect Paul Rudolph
Your faithful correspondent was hanging out here last weekend!
https://sarasotamagazine.com/articl…
Victor Lundy: Artist Architect
This book fills a serious void in the history of Modernism.
https://docomomo-us.org/news/victor…
Artist David Ireland’s Restored San Francisco House Reveals the Art of the Everyday
Elevated ordinary objects.
https://savingplaces.org/stories/ar…
The Menil Drawing Institute by Johnston Marklee
Designed by Renzo Piano in 1986. The newly renovated main building is the first freestanding building in the U.S. dedicated to modern and contemporary drawing.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Housing as Intervention: Architecture towards Social Equity
Putting architects front and center in the fight for housing equity and social justice.
https://nextcity.org/features/view/…
Tony Berlant’s latest exhibition is an explosion of color and texture
On view through November 2nd.
http://latimes.com/entertainment/ar…
Secular Retreat review – a simply miraculous piece of architecture
Peter Zumthor has built ‘a gliding swan’ of a house in Devon that strikes a perfect balance between inside and out, whichever way you look.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
James Turrell interview on ‘the light inside people’
Light.
https://designboom.com/art/james-tu…
