For the late L.A. architect Paul R. Williams, national honor overlaps with a bleak anniversary
The first African American architect to win the award.
http://latimes.com/entertainment/ar…
A Hilarious Interview With the Illustrator Who Did All of Those Awesome Trump Covers for the New Yorker
Illustrator Barry Blitt on how Trump is “an instruction manual for how to caricature”
https://google.com/url?hl=en&q=http…
How Palm Springs, long a design hot spot, leveled up
With Modernism Week, Coachella—and now Desert X—Palm Springs has become an international destination.
http://curbed.com/2017/4/28/1547371…
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects: The Marriage of Poetry and Pragmatism
Creating and sustaining an architecture practice based on sustainability, social equity, aesthetics, and functionality.
http://news.theregistrysf.com/leddy…
2017 AIA Architecture Firm Award Winners
An Interview with Bill Leddy, Marsha Maytum, and Richard Stacy of LMS Architects.
http://archnewsnow.com/features/Fea…
Citroën X Le Coq Sportif transform classic vans into tricolored mobile bicycle workshops
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the type H van, citroën have come together with le coq sportif to create two mobile bicycle workshops that will tour cycling events throughout the year.
http://designboom.com/technology/ci…
California’s Marrakesh: A Country Club That’s Chic Again
Should have bought one.
https://nytimes.com/2017/04/26/fash…
Breakfast with Billie
Alyosha V has a nice conversation with Billie Tsien.
https://tefarch.wordpress.com/2017/…
The old mall is dead and Florida’s largest retail developments are showing what comes next
Malls, as a typology, are going through major change.
https://archpaper.com/2017/04/flori…
Restoring the Light to the Work of Louis Kahn
A new biography on Kahn.
https://nytimes.com/2017/04/21/book…
A Portrait of I. M. Pei at (Nearly) 100
I.M. Pei is (nearly) 100!
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence…
The Ethical Drive of Leddy Maytum Stacy
Let's have a glass of champagne!
http://architectmagazine.com/awards…
Mid-Century Surprises: Sam Lubell’s 10 Favorite Finds From His New Book “Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide”
A plug for our pal Sam.
http://archinect.com/features/artic…
Designing For and With the Landscape: an Interview with MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
The work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects isn’t just aesthetically site-specific, it’s also ecologically.
http://archinect.com/features/artic…
AIA Announces 2017 AIA COTE Top Ten Green Projects
Each year for more than two decades, the AIA's Committee on the Environment has honored the best in sustainable architecture and ecological design.
http://architectmagazine.com/awards…
Urban Works: 8 Markets Halls Designed to Enrich Public Life
Eight market halls from a European lens.
https://architizer.com/blog/market-…
Johnston Marklee tackle the “tyranny of newness” in 2017’s Chicago Architecture Biennial
Worth reading!
http://archinect.com/features/artic…
Walsh College / Valerio Dewalt Train Associates
“Architecture transformed the student experience encouraging innovative thinking based on project-based learning.”
http://archdaily.com/868641/walsh-c…
Life In Le Corbusier’s Utopian City, Photographed By A Resident
Photographer Shaun Fynn documents the complexities of Chandigarh, 70 years later.
https://fastcodesign.com/90108676/l…
The Women of the Bauhaus School
10 female Bauhaus members who contributed fundamental work, instruction, and innovation to the school over the course of its relatively short existence, between 1919 and 1933.
https://artsy.net/article/artsy-edi…
Brexit Is Official. Here’s What That Means For Designers
Designers consider their role in the U.K.’s transition out of the EU.
https://fastcodesign.com/90108301/b…
The Future is Post Industrial
Noll and Tam transforms a Silicon Valley tilt-up into a modern workplace.
http://digital.modernluxury.com/pub…
Nancy & Stephen Grand Family House by
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects
Design of the public realm.
http://architecturalrecord.com/arti…
The Affection and Dread in Kerry James Marshall’s Depiction of Housing Projects
A traveling exhibition of the painter's work opens on March 12 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Border Wall Divides Profession
Larry Strain gets a good quote!
http://architecturalrecord.com/arti…
It’s Time for Design Education to Put Social Equity at the Core of Its Mission
It all starts in school.
http://commonedge.org/its-time-for-…
