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…
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/…
