Their Public Housing at the End of Its Life, Residents Ask: What Now?
Cairo, Ill., has a population of fewer than 3,000 people. A plan to demolish two public housing developments would force many residents to leave and cut the school enrollment in half.
https://nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/c…
MASS in Context
Innovative nonprofit MASS Design Group has taken on the status quo and become undisputed leaders in public interest architecture worldwide. As the firm approaches the 10-year mark, it’s aiming even higher, bringing its model of purpose-driven design back home and to a broader audience.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Building Madness: How the Boom and Bust Mentality Distorts Architecture
Only architects are psychologically validated by booms and crushed by busts
http://commonedge.org/building-madn…
Local History: Donald Judd Furniture
The development and production of Donald Judd’s furniture resulted partially from necessity.
http://juddfoundation.org/article/l…
Vernacular Modernism: 7 Contemporary Homes in Rural Mexico
Eye candy.
https://architizer.com/blog/rural-m…
Multifamily visionary: The life and work of architect David Baker
For 35 years, architect David Baker has been a spirited voice for affordable housing, in San Francisco and beyond.
https://bdcnetwork.com/multifamily-…
Elizabeth Gordon’s International Style
Connecting the dots.
https://curbed.com/2017/5/10/155926…
Peter Zumthor Interview
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has attracted a cult following over his five-decade career, but kept a famously low profile in the media. He spoke to Dezeen about trying to dispel his mysterious reputation by taking cues from media-shy tennis star Roger Federer.
https://dezeen.com/2017/05/12/peter…
The 2016 Architect 50: The Top Firm in Design
Marlon Blackwell Architects: "This Is Design with Conviction."
http://architectmagazine.com/practi…
U.S. Pavilion Presents Mark Bradford’s ‘Tomorrow Is Another Day’ At The Venice Art Biennale
Following its debut in Venice, Mark Bradford: Tomorrow Is Another Day will be on view at The Baltimore Museum of Art from September 2018 - January 2019.
http://designboom.com/art/us-pavili…
Column: Tower at Obama center (don’t call it a library) needs tweaking
Blair Kamin critiques Tod Williams and Billie Tsien's design for the Obama Presidential Center.
http://chicagotribune.com/news/colu…
Socialism and Nationalism on the Danube
Vienna and Budapest can be viewed as battlefields in an unfolding European crisis of identity and confidence.
https://placesjournal.org/article/s…
A Secret History Of Selling Out: How Designers Reluctantly Embraced The Corporate World
How designers and corporations became uneasy bedfellows.
https://fastcodesign.com/90124710/a…
One Big Problem With Obama’s Presidential Library
Carving out space in Olmsted-designed Jackson Park for Obama’s presidential library misses an opportunity—and sets a bad precedent.
https://citylab.com/design/2017/05/…
Nine More Alternative Careers for Architects
For designers looking for a different profession without significant retraining or time off work, here are several opportunities and success stories.
http://architectmagazine.com/practi…
Ellsworth Kelly’s Studio, Just as He Left It
“Ellsworth Kelly: Last Paintings” is on view at the Matthew Marks Gallery on West 22nd Street, in New York, through June 24. His last, unfinished canvas had been gessoed, but not yet painted, when he died at the age of 92.
https://nytimes.com/2017/05/05/arts…
Studio O+A: Twelve True Tales of Workplace Design
Check out the new book from Studio O + A!
https://dexigner.com/news/30100
Hunters View Housing Blocks 5 & 6
Paulett Taggart Architects.
http://archdaily.com/870040/hunters…
Kistler Vineyards Barn by Architectural Resources Group
A small winemaking facility and a second tasting room.
https://dexigner.com/news/30090
The Wooden Lantern
For Hillman Hall’s intricate ceiling design, the lighting gets hyper-detailed.
http://archlighting.com/projects/th…
New 100-percent-affordable apartment complex takes root on remediated land in San Francisco
The Pacific Pointe development, designed by David Baker Architects (DBA) with Interstice Architects as associate and landscape architects, is the first 100-percent-affordable housing development in the new Hunters View area of San Francisco.
https://archpaper.com/2017/05/pacif…
The Complicated Architecture of Albert Speer, Jr.
A controversy surrounding Albert Speer, Jr.,’s designs for the 2022 World Cup, in Qatar, has invited the one thing he has worked his entire career to avoid: comparisons to his father, who was Hitler’s favorite architect.
http://newyorker.com/culture/cultur…
Kistler Vineyards
ARG revamps a historic farmhouse in Sonoma County, California.
http://nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/hd/2017…
Berlin/Los Angeles: Space for Music
April 25–July 30, 2017
http://getty.edu/research/exhibitio…
Stapleton Library
Designed by Andrew Berman Architects
http://archdaily.com/870214/staplet…
Growing Up in a Concrete Masterpiece
Habitat, the experimental housing pavilion for Expo 67.
https://nytimes.com/2017/05/01/styl…
