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…
Bill Sorro Community by Kennerly Architecture & Planning
200 Sixth Street in San Francisco.
https://dexigner.com/news/30740
The abstract artist taking on Luis Barragán’s famed modernist estate.
Sean Scully converses with Luis Barragán in a new exhibition.
https://wallpaper.com/art/sean-scul…
The Mission 66
Evaluating and rehabilitating Yosemite's midcentury modernist park buildings.
https://argsf.com/blog/mission-66-m…
Remembering Neave Brown
A champion of smart public housing.
https://archpaper.com/2018/02/remem…
Density’s Next Frontier: The Suburbs
According to a new study, the continuing low density of inner suburbs is a major cause of the housing crisis—and a potential solution.
https://citylab.com/equity/2018/02/…
ShanghaiTech University / Moore Ruble Yudell
The new campus for the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
https://archdaily.com/887648/shangh…
Jasper Johns Still Doesn’t Want to Explain His Art
Mr. Johns, who is now 87 and widely regarded as America’s foremost living artist, has a new retrospective at the Broad called “Something Resembling Truth.”
https://nytimes.com/2018/02/07/arts…
Apostle and Apostate: Josef Frank’s Modernist Vision
Left behind in the Internet era is a rich store of essays on design which have limited cultural presence because they are not online.
https://placesjournal.org/article/j…
