The Lost Poetry Of The Angel Island Detention Center
Poetry as resistance.
http://newyorker.com/books/page-tur…
New York’s Vast Flop
A long read but worth it.
http://nybooks.com/articles/2017/03…
Homeless people have found safety in a library – but locals want them gone
Where design and social policy come together.
https://theguardian.com/us-news/201…
Deep in Brazil’s Amazon, Exploring the Ruins of Ford’s Fantasyland
Fordlândia, Brazil, a community founded in 1928 by Henry Ford.
https://nytimes.com/2017/02/20/worl…
On a Design Mission in Mississippi
Holmes County is among the poorest counties in the nation, plagued by age-old systematic racism, with a population (18,340) that has been declining for more than a half-century. Holmes didn’t have $40 million to pay for a high school.
https://nytimes.com/2017/02/20/arts…
On Race And Architecture
Facing the design profession's diversity problem—and it's changing future.
http://curbed.com/2017/2/22/1467784…
Phyllis Lambert looks back on her 75 years in architecture
Phyllis Lambert: 75 Years At Work, on view until April 9 at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.
https://archpaper.com/2017/02/phyll…
The President Who Mistook His Wife For A Drape
Our astute new President got his priorities absolutely right on his first day in office, even before he John Hancocked his first executive order. He hung gold drapes behind his desk in the Oval Office.
http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/ess…
It’s Time for Leaders in Architecture and Design to Step Up and Join the Resistance
Architects have tremendous power.
http://commonedge.org/its-time-for-…
Confessions of a Former Design Magazine Editor
Spoken and unspoken ground rules by Martin C. Pedersen.
http://commonedge.org/confessions-o…
The Winners of the 64th Progressive Architecture Awards
The jury recognized 12 projects in the 2017 program.
http://architectmagazine.com/awards…
Selgascano Fills Second Home Lisbon Creative Incubator With 1,000 Plants
Sharing the same building as the Mercado da Ribeira – Lisbon's oldest food market – is ‘second home Lisboa’, the Portuguese capital’s latest creative co-working space to open.
http://designboom.com/architecture/…
Emory University to replace a remarkable John Portman building with a new campus center
In the early 1980s Emory University picked an architect with an oppositional style—Portman—to design its campus center and largest dining hall. Now they will knock it down.
https://archpaper.com/2017/02/dobbs…
Reality in the Balance
The era of Trump and Brexit is opening up new obligations, new opportunities, for architectural activism that blends the professional and the political.
https://placesjournal.org/article/r…
It’s Time for a New Definition of Architectural Beauty
By Graham McKay.
http://commonedge.org/its-time-for-…
Life After Death? Resurrecting A Modern Ruin
St Peter's Seminary was built only 50 years ago, yet by the 1990s it was derelict. However, plans to breathe new life into the building are now close to being realized.
http://bbc.com/news/in-pictures-388…
Postcard from Washington and New York: Stitch. March. Look. Listen. Repeat.
Pink now means the resistance.
http://writingtheresistance.com/201…
New Retrospective Glimpses the Man Behind the Maison de Verre
A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York City rescues the French avant-garde architect and designer from obscurity.
http://metropolismag.com/Point-of-V…
Marion Greenwood: A Modern Woman in Modern Mexico
The legacy of Marion Greenwood.
http://docomomo-us.org/news/marion_…
Immigration Ban Rocks Architecture Community
President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily bans citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries.
http://architecturalrecord.com/arti…
Rethinking the Refugee Camp
Architects have long been celebrated for their innovative designs for disaster relief housing. But there's a better response to the refugee crisis.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
The forgotten history of Japanese-American designers’ World War II internment
Revisiting the link between detention and design history, 75 years after FDR’s executive order.
http://curbed.com/2017/1/31/1444548…
Watch the award-winning IKEA refugee shelter being assembled
IKEA continues to do its part in highlighting the increasing number of people being displaced internationally. This time-lapse video shows the shelter assembled in 2 minutes.
http://designboom.com/architecture/…
A Housing Crisis for Seniors
Every day for the next 19 years, 10,000 people will reach age 65.
https://nytimes.com/2017/01/28/opin…
Lab explores projects to lessen effects of sea level rise on SF Bay
A $5.8 million design competition that will select 10 multidisciplinary teams and assign each a different bayside setting. Each team will have $250,000 to work with.
http://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti…
An Open Letter to AIA Executive Director Robert Ivy
By Stephen Zacks.
http://commonedge.org/an-open-lette…
