Arne Jacobsen–Designed Hotel in Copenhagen Gets a Contemporary Refresh and Restoration
Local firm Space Copenhagen restored aspects of the building's original design while carefully adapting its spaces for the hotel's present-day needs.
http://metropolismag.com/architectu…
How Do Architects Get Work?
I answer some of the basic questions.
https://kennethcaldwell.com/ask-ken…
Dynamic, responsive and nurturing: Dive into today’s workplace
Our pal Primo Orpilla on workplace design.
https://frameweb.com/news/dynamic-r…
What Marchers Today Can Learn From the May 1968 Protests in Paris
Plus ça change plus c’est pareil.
http://commonedge.org/what-todays-m…
Design as civic duty
Elizabeth Timme, co-director of LA-Más, believes that architecture needs to rediscover its political imperative.
https://archleague.org/article/desi…
The Singular Magic of Maira Kalman
As I have said before, I love Maira Kalman. Thanks to Liz Ross for posting this wonderful profile.
https://thecut.com/2018/04/profile-…
Restoring Warnecke’s Asilomar Additions: A Conversation with Andrew Wolfram and Bridget Maley
TEF teamed up with architectural historian, preservation planner, and writer Bridget Maley to create a series of historic structure reports primarily focusing on John Carl Warnecke’s 1950s and 1960s additions.
https://tefarch.wordpress.com/2018/…
A visit with Olafur Eliasson’s art and architecture workshop, Studio Other Spaces
the “culture sector in our society is more likely to create change than the public sector, the politicians, or the private sector.”
https://archpaper.com/2018/04/studi…
Why Designers in Chicago are Building Forts
Forts!
https://buildordie.com/vdta-blog/re…
MoMA’s Design Chief: VR Needs Fewer Gamers, More Castiglioni
Four insights from MoMA’s senior design curator Paola Antonelli about what a much-hyped medium could learn from design.
https://fastcodesign.com/90169649/m…
America’s first memorial to victims of lynching opens in Montgomery
On April 26, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, the first memorial in the U.S. dedicated to African American victims of lynching and continued discrimination, will open to the public in Montgomery, Alabama.
https://archpaper.com/2018/04/natio…
The end of the architect profile
It’s time to stop perpetuating the myth of the lone genius.
https://curbed.com/2018/4/19/172430…
A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing
A review of Ben Austen's new book, “High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing”
https://nytimes.com/2018/04/13/book…
Architecture, Aesthetic Moralism, and the Crisis of Urban Housing
Developer-driven gentrification.
http://commonedge.org/architecture-…
Technology Special: The Future of the Workplace
Metropolis invited O+A to guest edit the April issue of the magazine and assemble a special section on the impact of technology on interiors. The four stories that were selected can be read below.
http://o-plus-a.com/how-oa-became-m…
Why Technology Can Be the Enemy of the Creative Workplace
This article is part of the “tech x interiors” special section that was guest-edited by Studio O+A in Metropolis's April 2018 issue.
http://metropolismag.com/interiors/…
Here’s How You Design for Living and Working in Outer Space
This article is part of the “tech x interiors” special section that was guest-edited by Studio O+A in Metropolis's April 2018 issue.
http://metropolismag.com/interiors/…
Studio O+A Is Putting a Mobile Design Studio in a Repurposed Food Truck
This article is part of the “tech x interiors” special section that was guest-edited by Studio O+A in Metropolis's April 2018 issue.
http://metropolismag.com/ideas/food…
In 50 Years, The Workplace As We Know It Will Be Extinct
This article is part of the “tech x interiors” special section that was guest-edited by Studio O+A in Metropolis's April 2018 issue.
http://metropolismag.com/interiors/…
2018 COTE Top Ten
Our pals at LMS receive two more COTE Top Ten Awards.
https://aia.org/resources/186291-20…
Big Data Is A Sham
Big companies are hoarding big data and doing nothing with it–except invading our privacy. It’s time to think small, writes Paddle Consulting’s Brian Millar.
https://fastcodesign.com/90168426/b…
Cross-Talk #5: ‘The Practice of Criticism’ by Eric Baldwin.
Criticism.
https://archinect.com/features/arti…
A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing
Ben Austen's new book: High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing.
https://nytimes.com/2018/04/13/book…
What Happened to the World’s Fair?
Expo 67 was the best.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Forensics Helps Widen Architecture’s Mission
A survey of Forensic Architecture’s work is now on view at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, through May 6.
https://nytimes.com/2018/04/06/arts…
Growing Up in a Glass House: An Architect’s Daughter Explores Modernism’s Shadow
A daughter tells the story of growing up in a glass house, designed by her father, Woodie Garber, once called “Cincinnati’s most extreme, experimental, and creative Modernist architect.”
http://commonedge.org/an-architects…