The Sordid Saga of Eileen Gray’s Iconic E-1027 House
Designed by the Irish architect and designer, the 1929 French Riviera villa was an obsession of Le Corbusier. Previously a ruin, a new crowdfunding campaign aims to continue its restoration.
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
Will Detroit Ever Fully Recover From John Portman’s Renaissance Center?
The sprawling complex of seven-interconnected skyscrapers poses some difficult questions for urban planners today.
http://commonedge.org/will-detroit-…
How Michigan Became the Epicenter of the Modernist Experiment
A perfect storm of manufacturing money, ample space and robust industry created one of Modernism’s most fertile and important outposts in and around Detroit.
https://nytimes.com/2018/09/06/t-ma…
Mark English Architects Updates a 1917 San Francisco Residence by Elizabeth Austin
“We felt honored to be tasked with protecting her vision, while at the same time adapting it to a new century of life.”
https://homes.interiordesign.net/pr…
The single greatest work of 21st century American architecture will break your heart
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice.
https://dallasnews.com/arts/archite…
Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter
By Elizabeth W. Garber.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Adobe San Francisco Town Hall by Valerio Dewalt Train
The historic Baker & Hamilton building now houses Adobe.
https://dexigner.com/news/31322
Five Bay Area Women at the Forefront of Architecture
As the juggernaut of the women’s movement illuminates gender inequality across industries—from entertainment to politics to food culture—the field of architecture is also rousing to change.
http://californiahomedesign.com/tre…
9 Historic Civil Rights Sites: Commemorating the March On Washington
Remembering the struggle for civil rights.
https://savingplaces.org/stories/hi…
Naturally better: San Francisco’s Randall Museum gets a worthy upgrade
A collaboration, Pfau Long Architecture and Kuth Ranieri Architects.
https://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/art…
A Cliffhanger in Pacific Palisades
Architects Jeanne Chen and Bob Dolbinski's house on a steep lot in the Rustic Canyon neighborhood of Pacific Palisades.
https://nytimes.com/2018/08/28/real…
A Critical Reassessment of John Portman? No, His Buildings Were Resolutely Anti-Urban
Roberta Brandes Gratz argues that Portman’s buildings were huge, alien islands, drawing the city’s lifeblood in.
http://commonedge.org/a-critical-re…
The Modern Urbanism of Cook’s Camden
The council housing designed 50 years ago for a progressive London borough remains a potent symbol of the achievements of postwar social democracy.
https://placesjournal.org/article/t…
Glassdoor Chicago Office
One of the latest from Valerio Dewalt Train.
https://dexigner.com/news/31259
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on Being a Client for Great Public Buildings
Martin Pedersen talks to Stephen Breyer.
http://commonedge.org/supreme-court…
Designer Harry Bertoia’s Resonant Sound Sculpture Recordings Find a Crowdfunded Second Life
One of my favorite modern artists.
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
Pair of new SF housing complexes display smart design
John King on David Baker's latest.
https://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/art…
This “city” for people with dementia is the future of memory care
“It’s going back to how we did it before we institutionalized our way of treating elderly,” says one of the architects.
https://fastcompany.com/90220683/th…
A+ Session: Design to Achieve Zero Waste Goals
Andrew Blum, journalist and independent curator of "Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City" speaks to leaders in zero waste to discuss NYC’s ambitious goal to send zero waste to landfills by 2030.
https://architectmagazine.com/video…
The rise and fall of Sheffield’s brutalist post-war utopia
Bill Stephenson’s photographs of Hyde Park are on display in Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future at S1 Artspace until 15 September.
https://huckmag.com/art-and-culture…
Robert Burle Marx and Brazil’s Modern Landscapes
Two books that tribute the brilliant designer and his ideas.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Editorial: The Morandi Bridge collapse in Genoa, Italy
More info on the Genoa bridge.
https://archpaper.com/2018/08/moran…
Salesforce Transit Center by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects Opens in San Francisco
Salesforce Transit Center elevates an oft-mundane building type—a mass transit station—with a 5.4-acre public park, one of the largest accessible green roofs in the country.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Oscar Niemeyer Defined Modern Brazil. Now, an Artist Is Rethinking One of His Houses
Set against the dramatic hills of Rio de Janeiro, Adriana Varejão’s recently renovated home brings the architect’s vision to startling new life.
https://nytimes.com/2018/08/17/t-ma…
Living on an NYU Superblock
Living in University Village in NY.
https://ny.curbed.com/2018/8/15/176…
The Commonwealth Club’s San Francisco headquarters honors its union history
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects (LMS)-designed headquarters.
https://archpaper.com/2018/08/commo…
