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…
Blair Kamin on Writing and Reporting on Architecture’s #metoo Moment
Eva Hagberg Fisher interviews Blair Kamin.
http://commonedge.org/blair-kamin-o…
Dr. George W. Davis Senior Residence and Senior Center / David Baker Architects
Supportive senior homes.
https://archdaily.com/903815/dr-geo…
The Making of the Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: East Coast USA
I have great respect for Sam Lubell and Darren Bradley. They make a great team. Darren's blog on their most recent collaboration is great. Of course my favorite snap is the one on Fire Island. Breakfast indeed!
https://darrenbradleyphotography.co…
Can Poland’s Faded Brutalist Architecture Be Redeemed?
Long derided as relics of an oppressive regime, the country’s Communist-era buildings are being given a second look, and a new life.
https://nytimes.com/2018/10/10/t-ma…
Robert Venturi: A Benediction For Contradiction
Venturi.
http://commonedge.org/robert-ventur…
Washing line warrior: the architect who wants to get the neighbours singing
Casbahs in the high street, mews homes that combat loneliness, a monorail encircling London … meet Peter Barber, the architect putting the fun back into social housing.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Robert Venturi Made Architecture Less Rigid, Yet More Clubby
Christopher Hawthorne on Robert Venturi.
https://theatlantic.com/ideas/archi…
The Zen of Mies
New Yorker Spencer Finch is the latest artist to intervene at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona. He has placed fifteen rocks in the pavilion's pool, echoing the rock garden at Ryoan-ji in Kyoto, Japan.
https://world-architects.com/en/arc…
Walkways in the sky: the return of London’s forgotten ‘pedways’
They were planned after the second world war to whisk people above car-choked streets in the financial district, but remained unpopular and half-built. Now, pedestrian walkways are being reimagined for a 21st-century city.
https://theguardian.com/cities/2018…
Renzo Piano: The Art of Making Buildings review – high-flying high priest of hi-tech
Exhibition showcases the austere architectural pioneer’s greatest hits.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Relive the Radical Design Movement with Film Storyboards by Alessandro Poli
An exhibit dedicated to the Italian architect and artist's work is on display at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal until Jan. 20, 2019.
https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
Learning from Robert Venturi
Aaron Betsky writes that the architect’s call for an inclusive and open architecture still rings true today.
https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
Why Google is the most important design company of 2018
In an exclusive interview, CEO Sundar Pichai explains how Google got design.
https://fastcompany.com/90227530/su…
Ethics
For this week's Design Stream we are sharing the entire issue of Architecture Boston's magazine.
https://architects.org/architecture…
Cloudy Visions: SPUR Tries to Imagine the Bay Area’s Future
Aaron Betsky writes that the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association’s four scenarios are believable and interesting, but they don’t go far enough. What we need is both more serious research and true visions.
https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
15 Projects in Mexico that Merge the Interior with the Exterior
Eye candy.
https://archdaily.com/902092/15-pro…
Was that the Whittington estate in Bodyguard? A spotter’s guide to brutalism
It's an acquired taste.
https://theguardian.com/cities/2018…
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…
