UCLA – The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Architectural Resources Group.
https://educationsnapshots.com/proj…
How Le Corbusier Became Big in Japan
His legacy seems to be one building in Tokyo. But most of the country’s Modernism can be traced back to him — and the struggle to place his ideas into Japanese identity.
https://nytimes.com/2018/08/08/t-ma…
Can’t Be Bothered: The Chic Indifference of Post-Digital Drawing
The "post-digital" valorizes the ordinary and renders it to look like the past.
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
“Venturi Scott Brown’s MCASD addition should be saved because it is by Venturi Scott Brown”
Mimi Zeiger weighs in on Venturi's addition to Gill's Scripps house and more.
https://dezeen.com/2018/08/02/opini…
Pfau Long and Kuth Ranieri Architects Renovate Randall Museum
A modest modern!
https://dexigner.com/news/31159
New Talent 2018: Joe Lawton’s Growing Studio Is a Hybrid of Graphic Design and Architecture
Pal Joe Lawton gets some coverage!
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
Partly Modern and Partly “Other”: Architecture of the 1990s
ARG Principal Katie Horak pens a piece for DOCOMOMO.
https://docomomo-us.org/news/partly…
The Barbican Complex: Exploring London’s Radiant City
A favorite Brutalist project of mine!
http://modernistarchitecture.blogsp…
The Designer Who Can’t Stop Drawing
Doug Wittnebel!
https://gensler.com/research-insigh…
Toward Zero Parking: Challenging Conventional Wisdom for Multifamily
David Baker and Brad Leibin on designing for a future not dominated by privately owned cars.
https://urbanland.uli.org/economy-m…
ULX: Ten Affordable Housing Projects
Williams Terrace Senior Housing designed by David Baker Architects.
https://urbanland.uli.org/industry-…
A Showcase Workplace
Kimball Showroom New York.
http://digitaladmin.bnpmedia.com/pu…
The Cement Mixer as Muse
Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980.
https://nytimes.com/2018/07/19/arts…
Treehouse by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners
Rustic Canyon, California.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Is Instagram changing the way we design the world?
Whole neighborhoods are being styled to look good on social media. But by viewing the world through a screen, do we miss the bigger picture?
https://theguardian.com/lifeandstyl…
Marcel Breuer and the Invention of Heavy Lightness
"The weightless"
https://placesjournal.org/article/m…
The Women Who Built Socialist Yugoslavia
The contributions of these female architects, designers, and planners are told in an excerpt from the Museum of Modern Art's Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980.
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
Why are architecture’s major professional organizations silent on the immigrant detention debate?
Plans for two migrant detention centers in California have been shelved, but where does the architecture profession stand on the issue?
https://archpaper.com/2018/06/archi…
The Genius, Heart and Humility of Indian Architect B.V. Doshi
Doshi’s persona—communicator and visionary—are the qualities which are both undervalued and desperately needed in contemporary design culture.
http://commonedge.org/the-genius-he…
Theaster Gates: ‘The male, Caucasian world as we’ve known it is over’
Theaster Gates linking art and planning.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
University of California, Berkeley – Legends Aquatics Center
ELS Architecture and Urban Design.
https://educationsnapshots.com/proj…
A Glasgow Architect’s Masterpiece Is Damaged, but Not His Magic
Worth a trip to Scotland! Pal Sam Lubell reminds us that there is still a lot of Mackintosh left to see.
https://nytimes.com/2018/07/02/trav…
Mark Ulriksen’s “Downtime”
Local lad does well!
https://newyorker.com/culture/cover…
Architecture: ‘People from social housing should build cities’
With 95% of British architects white and 75% male, a new campaign is encouraging diversity in the profession.
https://theguardian.com/education/2…
In Portland, a neighborhood designs its own solution to displacement
Right 2 Root, a community-created plan, offers a blueprint for pushing back against displacement and disinvestment
https://curbed.com/2018/6/26/175060…
What Will Happen to the Glasgow School of Art?
A second fire in four years has left the Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece a smoldering shell. The battle over the building's future is just beginning.
https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
