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…
Spotlight: Álvaro Siza
"Poetic modernism."
https://archdaily.com/393446/happy-…
Good design is good policy
Can you redesign an entire generation? Leave it to Tishaura Jones, the first female treasurer of St. Louis, to try.
https://fastcodesign.com/90177059/g…
Tiny home communities: housing solution or gentrified trailer parks?
Like many US cities, Austin is facing an affordable-housing crisis. Can the burgeoning Instagram- and tech-friendly tiny home movement help solve it?
https://theguardian.com/cities/2018…
The new normal: exercises in American citizenship
Mimi Zeiger on how architecture is political.
https://architectural-review.com/es…
Community Engagement: Hotel Sebastopol
Curiosity and sincere conversation.
https://dbarchitect.com/us/news_blo…
Modernist Restoration A Span flat in Parkleys, Ham
Fun in London!
http://modernistestates.com/post/17…
Once Home to Soldiers, Former Presidio Fort Will House New Residents
Fort Winfield Scott.
https://nytimes.com/2018/06/19/busi…
Ford Aims to Revive a Detroit Train Station, and Itself
By renovating a symbol of the city’s decline, the company hopes to create a magnet for the talent needed to prevail in the next automotive era.
https://nytimes.com/2018/06/17/busi…
Skyscraper Garden Bridge
We shouldn’t abandon the cities we have for some amenities in the clouds.
https://curbed.com/2018/6/14/174606…
