‘This is the house that we built’: homeless people on their makeshift residences
When you have to build your own.
https://theguardian.com/us-news/201…
This dire Battersea Power Station development is genuinely dystopian
It follows all the Urban Renaissance precepts, yet this scheme is as grim as the 80s Docklands that Rogers was reacting against, says Owen Hatherley
https://architectsjournal.co.uk/opi…
How did a modernist landmark end up covered in plywood and graffiti?
The Mercantile Library at 1021 Chestnut St.
http://philly.com/philly/columnists…
Poor Need Homes, Not Monuments
Pritzker Winner Balkrishna Doshi's vision should be heeded across the developing world.
https://bloomberg.com/view/articles…
How To Stop Sexual Harassment In Design Right Now
When will #MeToo hit architecture and design?
https://fastcodesign.com/90164118/h…
Why LA’s public design matters: An interview with Christopher Hawthorne, the city’s first chief design officer
The Los Angeles Times architecture critic explains his move to City Hall.
https://la.curbed.com/2018/3/13/171…
Matching Architecture to People’s Needs, by Listening to Them First
“We’re starting to design with the people and thinking what are the needs of the people — not in terms of a bedroom and bathroom and kitchen and a toilet and a sink,” she said, her ideas tumbling forth. “In terms of what are the needs of really living, like the areas of rest, the areas of retreat, the areas of exposure, the areas of intimate sharing of things, the less-intimate sharing with family.”
https://nytimes.com/2018/03/07/arts…
In another surprise choice, Pritzker Prize honors 90-year-old Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi
The first Indian architect to win the Pritzker.
http://latimes.com/entertainment/ar…
Column: The dilemma of development: Will Obama center hurt those it’s supposed to help?
Displacement of low-income people caused by well-intentioned public works is one of the most vexing urban-planning problems of our time.
http://chicagotribune.com/news/colu…
What We Will Lose When the Union Carbide Building Falls
As precise as the building itself.
https://nytimes.com/2018/03/01/opin…
Zaha Hadid (1950-2016)
Zaha Hadid was an explosion of fearless, impolite, aggressive talent onto a profession terrified of itself.
https://architectural-review.com/re…
The “Transcendent” Nature of Preserving African American Places
The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, the largest fundraising and historic preservation campaign ever undertaken on behalf of black history by a private nonprofit.
https://savingplaces.org/stories/th…
Reading the City
What’s your favorite book about cities? Urbanists offer their suggestions.
http://spur.org/publications/urbani…
Why SOM’s modernist Union Carbide building is worth saving
Renovation is always a better use of resources than demolition and replacement.
https://ny.curbed.com/2018/2/22/170…
Anne Tyng and Her Remarkable House
She was known as Louis Kahn's muse but never really escaped his shadow. What Tyng's only surviving solo project says about her legacy.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
The NRA wants to “harden” schools into windowless bunkers
A diametrically different vision of school design.
https://archpaper.com/2018/02/nra-h…
The Death of a Skyscraper
The Union Carbide Building.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence…
Open House: Post-war architect Walter Greaves’ daughter on his modernist masterstroke in Chichester
A personal insight into the riverside post-war home her late father Walter Greaves designed.
https://themodernhouse.com/journal/…
Kengo Kuma’s Architecture of the Future
Kuma’s design for the Fujiya ryokan — his take on the traditional Japanese inn — at Ginzan Onsen, a secluded hot spring town in Yamagata Prefecture, north of Tokyo. Gorgeous!
https://nytimes.com/2018/02/15/t-ma…
