Column: Fighting to save the Thompson Center with a movie camera
Advocating for saving a PoMo building! What has the world come to? But this is one worth saving.
http://chicagotribune.com/news/colu…
The first issue of Ed, Archinect’s new print journal
After 20 years of publishing only digitally Archinect's publishes a print mag.
https://archinect.com/news/article/…
Creating Streets People Can Identify With
Ryan Call on the street(s).
https://elsarch.com/wp/wp-content/u…
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Wrapped Delights, Real and Imagined
“Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Urban Projects” opened last month and runs through February 2018.
https://nytimes.com/2017/11/13/arts…
Tradition for Sale
With their new architecture, universities all too often abdicate leadership in promoting artistic innovation as they pander to plutocratic donors.
https://placesjournal.org/article/t…
Top architecture reads for the October Revolution’s 100th anniversary
Architecture and Revolution from Matt Shaw.
https://archpaper.com/2017/10/top-a…
Architects Come Together to Assess Losses, Aid Communities After California Fires
Our pal Lydia Lee covers the fire for Architectural Record.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Eavesdropping on the design icons who made Washington’s Metro
Harry Weese and the Brutalist Metro System.
https://curbed.com/2017/10/24/16507…
Symbol of a New San Francisco: Soaring Salesforce Tower reflects a changing city
John King on Salesforce and its power.
http://projects.sfchronicle.com/201…
Seeing the Future: Why Norman Foster Is the Perfect Architect for Apple and Bloomberg
Pal William Hanley writes about Norman Foster.
http://surfacemag.com/articles/arch…
John Portman is a “Renaissance Architect,” Says Harvard GSD’s Mohsen Mostafavi
Not sure I agree with this. But worth noting.
http://metropolismag.com/architectu…
Interview with Garrett Jacobs of Open Architecture Collaborative
Our pal Garrett Jacobs in Record.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
A lost utopian housing project in Paris captured from the inside out
Your window on the world is a portal. A different kind of ship.
http://edition.cnn.com/style/articl…
With Pacific Standard Time, Getty finally climbs down from hilltop oasis it built 20 years ago
The Getty Center comes down off the hill.
http://beta.latimes.com/entertainm…
Deray McKesson: Here’s What Designers Can Do To Advance Social Justice
“If you can’t imagine it, you can’t fight for it.”
https://fastcodesign.com/90146011/d…
The Proust Questionnaire: Steven Holl
Steven Holl discusses his love of hybrid buildings, enjoying one's work, and dying at the drawing board.
https://archinect.com/features/arti…
High-rise buildings should only be used to house the very rich, says Neave Brown
Social housing in the UK.
https://dezeen.com/2017/10/05/neave…
Hanged, Burned, Shot, Drowned, Beaten
In a region where symbols of the Confederacy are ubiquitous, an unprecedented memorial takes shape.
https://theatlantic.com/magazine/ar…
The Return of Pacific Standard Time
Christopher Hawthorne on what the latest iteration of this exhibition series reveals about the hall-of-mirrors cultural relationship between L.A. and Latin America.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
(Not So) Anti-Architecture
Robin Boyd was Australia’s most famous architecture critic. In a bracing and still relevant essay from 1968, he challenges the field to cast aside its perennial political timidity.
https://placesjournal.org/article/r…
