“Architecture as intellectual inquiry needs to take more risks”
Mimi Zeiger on the Biennial in Chicago.
https://dezeen.com/2017/09/26/opini…
Architects nail design of San Francisco Art Institute’s Fort Mason campus
John King on San Francisco Art Institute’s Fort Mason campus.
http://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/plac…
Labor of Love
Our pals Adam and Sofia Zimmerman launch their Brooklyn furniture design studio Ot/tra. Check it out.
http://worth.com/labor-of-love-ot-t…
The Bilbao effect: how Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim started a global craze
Opened 20 years ago this month, the glittering titanium museum had a wow factor that cities around the globe were soon clamouring to copy.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2017: how to improve on history
The Chicago round-up.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
The Crazy Unbuilt Architecture That Almost Transformed N.Y.C.
Our pal Sam's show reviewed.
https://fastcodesign.com/90143253/t…
A Postmodern Predicament
Will the renovation of the Portland Building compromise its historic integrity?
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Transbay Transit Center – a difficult journey
John King on Transbay's long process.
http://projects.sfchronicle.com/201…
Columbus, a Movie on Architecture, Drama and Romance
A film I will leave the apartment to see.
https://archinect.com/features/arti…
A Generation of Architects Making Its Mark at Dizzying Speed
A bumper crop of designers bringing new depth to contemporary architecture around the world.
https://nytimes.com/2017/09/08/arts…
Want To Fight Inequality With Design? Read These Books Now
In case you need something else to read.
https://fastcodesign.com/90139032/w…
Modernizing Gio Ponti’s fortress-like art museum
Hoping for a good facelift for one of my favorite US buildings!
https://curbed.com/2017/9/14/162223…
Michael Murphy and John Cary on the Common Edge Podcast
Social justice design.
http://commonedge.org/michael-murph…
Eero Saarinen’s Michigan
The architect’s groundbreaking works gave him international prominence, but his earliest architectural and design laboratory was in Michigan.
https://nytimes.com/2017/10/06/trav…
‘I’m dumbfounded!’ … Neave Brown on bagging an award for the building that killed his career
It was late, over-budget and ended his career. But 40 years on, Neave Brown has just won British architecture’s top award for the Alexandra Road estate and similar masterpieces of social housing
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo
“It is Important Not to Doubt That Architecture is Art”
http://archdaily.com/879472/maurici…
What happened to speculation in architecture?
Dean of the Syracuse School of Architecture Michael Speaks noted that curiously, architecture has lost its penchant for speculation in recent years.
https://archpaper.com/2017/08/specu…
In Haiti, a Building Fights Cholera
Our pal John Cary writes about an important new building in Haiti.
https://nytimes.com/2017/09/12/opin…
Don’t Be Scared About The End Of Capitalism—Be Excited To Build What Comes Next
Instead of fixating on a fight between capitalism and socialism, imagine innovating a future economy that transcends old binaries.
https://fastcompany.com/40454254/do…
John Portman (1924-)
His hotels may have soft centres but the architecture of John Portman is as brutal as the late American capitalism that created it.
https://architectural-review.com/re…
Building A Blank Canvas
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects designs a beautiful white box for the San Francisco Art Institute.
https://digital.modernluxury.com/pu…
A Modern-Meets-Neo-Classical Apartment in Milan
Milan's answer to John Dickinson.
https://nytimes.com/2017/09/20/t-ma…
A Year After Ghost Ship Fire, Writer and Activist Jaime Omar Yassin Reflects on City’s Response
A year after the Ghost Ship fire.
https://archinect.com/features/arti…
The Ugly Pet
Sustainability should be revolutionary to architectural form. But it hasn’t been, at least not yet.
https://placesjournal.org/article/t…
Apple Is Building “Town Squares” Now, Because Somebody Has To
The tycoons of America’s second gilded age inherit the intellectual and civic spaces of its first.
https://slate.com/business/2017/09/…
Apple and Amazon take two paths to the same conclusion — that tech companies owe nothing to the American city
Amazon’s bakeoff.
http://latimes.com/entertainment/ar…
