The Return of the Master Builder?
Sub-contracting risk.
https://archinect.com/features/arti…
Review: Disneyland meets Hogwarts at $700-million USC Village
USC invents a past.
http://latimes.com/entertainment/ar…
Uniqlo Is Rethinking Japanese Work Culture–Through Office Design
Allied Works Architecture and Fast Retailing think Western work spaces could be big in Japan. Can design help change the nation’s hierarchical work culture?
https://fastcodesign.com/90137161/u…
Thomas Heatherwick: Pied Piper who has the very rich under his spell
Despite the collapse of his plan to build a garden bridge across the Thames, the ambitious designer still has projects aplenty across the globe, thanks to those who admire his talents.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Maira Kalman’s Irreverent Pictures for the Grammar Bible
I love Maira Kalman.
https://nytimes.com/2017/08/17/arts…
Judith Chafee: Dean of desert architecture
A great talent in the desert.
https://curbed.com/2017/8/10/161207…
The overlooked African American architect who completed Louis Kahn’s masterpiece
Talking about Henry Wilcots.
http://philly.com/philly/columnists…
This New York City Housing Project Works. What’s Different About Ocean Bay?
Report from NY.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence…
Can Tiny Homes Help Solve America’s Big Homelessness Problem?
Problem solving with the tiny house movement.
http://architecturalrecord.com/arti…
USC Architecture Students and MADWORKSHOP Collaborate to Combat LA’s Homeless Epidemic
Thinking about LA’s homeless population.
http://archdaily.com/877132/usc-arc…
Notting Hill’s famous Trellick Tower
Stories from Trellick Tower.
http://bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-4…
Architecture at Play: A New Class of Exhibits at the National Building Museum
In the last five years, the National Building Museum has begun hosting a “Summer Block Party,” a program that takes over the Great Hall and features wonderfully surprising large-scale exhibitions.
https://architizer.com/blog/nationa…
Los Gatos Home by Mark English Architects
Renovation and addition to an existing single-family midcentury hillside house.
http://architecturalrecord.com/arti…
Met Breuer exhibit introduces an Ettore Sottsass you’ve never seen before
Sot's was never my cup of tea but sounds like an exhibit worth seeing.
https://archpaper.com/2017/07/ettor…
How Alexander Girard’s Folk Art Obsession Changed The Course Of Modernism
Girard!
https://fastcodesign.com/90135171/h…
wHY chosen to complete landmark ross pavilion next to Edinburgh castle
US firm wHY has been selected ahead of David Adjaye, Bjarke Ingels, and Sou Fujimoto to complete a new building on a historically significant site in Edinburgh, Scotland. Wonder how Edinburgh will like this!
https://designboom.com/architecture…
My Buddy
Patti Smith on Sam Shepard.
http://newyorker.com/culture/cultur…
Charles Moore (1925-1993)
Aaron Betsky on Charles Moore.
https://architectural-review.com/re…
Emergency Shelter: Housing for the Age of Mass Displacement
Today, forced displacement affects more people than any crisis or conflict. According to the UN, 65.3 million people, or one person in every 113, is now internally or externally displaced.
http://archinect.com/features/artic…
L.A. architect David C. Martin’s unusual Mexico travel journal
David Martin, FAIA, paints beautifully.
http://latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-d…
Walkie Talkie tower: stark reminder of forces that rule the City
Rafael Viñoly’s controversial tower is news again, this time due to its record-breaking £1.3bn sale price – 167% profit on development cost
https://theguardian.com/business/20…
The sublime and brutal architecture of Vito Acconci
Vito Acconci from art to architecture/design.
https://archpaper.com/2017/07/vito-…
Harvard Reveals Richard Rogers’ Wimbledon House Restoration
Originally designed for the British architect's parents in the 1960s, the property is now home to Harvard Graduate School of Design's Richard Rogers Fellowship.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
At Home (and in the Garden) With Rosita Missoni
Missoni!
https://nytimes.com/2017/07/11/t-ma…
ULX: 10 Museum Designs Reach Out to Their Surrounding Communities
Our pal Ron Nyren checks in on ten new museums in Urban Land.
https://urbanland.uli.org/planning-…
This Must Be a Turning Point: Anna Minton on Housing Post-Grenfell
In the wake of London's devastating Grenfell fire, we speak to author Anna Minton about the future of housing in Western cities.
http://metropolismag.com/homepage/t…
