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…
Making Architecture “Relevant” Will Involve Changing the System It Operates In
Everything is inextricably linked, the sexism (or racism, or ableism, or ageism, or whatever other kind of discrimination and oppression) in the profession is just a reflection of the presence of all those things in the world.
http://commonedge.org/making-archit…
Unbuilding Gender
Trans* anarchitectures in and beyond the work of Gordon Matta-Clark.
https://placesjournal.org/article/u…
In Record Survey, 66 Percent of Architects Report Harassment
To get a picture of the impact of sexual harassment on the fields of design, engineering and construction, Architectural Record and its sister publication Engineering News-Record (ENR) launched a survey in July.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
David Baker creates apartment building for low-income seniors in San Francisco
David Baker Architects took cues from West African culture while conceiving this affordable housing complex for people aged 62 or older.
https://dezeen.com/2018/10/24/david…
Roofless House by Craig Steely
Pal Craig Steely gets some good coverage in Architectural Record.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Save Our Brutalism
Five decades since the craze for Brutalism, most of the discussion about these buildings is about tearing them down. But the radical social vision that drove their rise has largely been forgotten.
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/10/brut…
A Modernism for India
Sitting with Pritzker Prize winner B.V. Doshi.
https://weeklystandard.com/anthony-…
A.L. Hu: You Might Think You Know Me
Only after we let go of the gender binary can we begin to come to terms with the ideologies of inequality that have been normalized in offices and studios for far too long.
https://architectmagazine.com/pract…
Exploring the Living Building Challenge Affordable Housing Pilot
DBA is taking two affordable housing developments through the LBC's comprehensive, philosophical program.
https://dbarchitect.com/us/news_blo…
