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…
Experts warn £414m Scottish Parliament building might not last 40 years
Architect says "over-engineered" building won't stand test of time like old parliament building which was completed in 1639.
http://dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scott…
Remember When They Wanted to Build a Parking Lot Over the Hudson?
The NY Times loves our pal Sam's show.
https://nytimes.com/2017/09/21/arts…
These Obsessive Men of MoMA Furnished Your Modernist Home
“Partners in Design: Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson,” at the Grey Art Gallery in Washington Square, is the story of two men and a whole country.
https://nytimes.com/2017/09/07/arts…
A Fortuitous Shadow
What makes a work of architecture American? In architecture as in politics, debates about identity — regional, national, international — are fraught.
https://placesjournal.org/article/a…
History Made Visible: Bryan Stevenson on Lynching and Memorialization
We have to understand our original sin.
https://savingplaces.org/stories/br…
The Art of Architectural Storytelling, or How to Present a Building
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but in this business, visuals alone rarely persuade.
http://commonedge.org/the-art-of-ar…
What makes a creative city?
What can cities do to encourage cultural experiments and investment? And what kind of spaces do artists need for creativity to flourish?
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
David Hockney, Contrarian, Shifts Perspectives
Seeing differently.
https://nytimes.com/2017/09/05/arts…
Nobu Ryokan Hotel / Studio PCH, Montalba Architects and TAL Studio
Renovation of a 1950’s era motel in Malibu, CA.
http://archdaily.com/878989/nobu-ry…
