Please Do Not Aestheticize The Wall
Designing a mixed-use development into the border wall would be a $25 billion architectural bandaid.
https://fastcodesign.com/3068888/ar…
Voices from Women in Architecture on ‘A Day Without A Woman’
Architects and designers explain why and how they are participating in the demonstration, which aims to highlight the economic and social inequities women face worldwide.
http://architectmagazine.com/practi…
Interview With IDEO’s Senior Design Lead Janko Potezica On The ‘Future of Automobility’
A few weeks ago, IDEO revealed a new concept vehicle that considers the enormous potential for ride-sharing in our not-too-distant future.
http://designboom.com/design/ideo-i…
Micro-Scale Modeling: How to Construct Tiny, Intricate Worlds From Ordinary Materials
I love miniatures!
http://archdaily.com/867050/micro-s…
Fighting the Neoliberal: What Today’s Architects Can Learn From the Brutalists
In this second installment of his revamped “Beyond London” column for ArchDaily, Simon Henley discusses a potential influence that might help UK architects combat the economic hegemony currently afflicting the country – turning for moral guidance to the Brutalists of the 1960s.
http://archdaily.com/866895/fightin…
Survival Pending Revolution: The Black Panther Party on View
All Power to the People.
http://averyreview.com/issues/22/su…
As Dubai’s Skyline Adds a Trophy, the Architect Calls It Stolen
The Dubai Frame in Zabeel Park.
https://nytimes.com/2017/03/08/busi…
Fighting bias with intent: Rosa Sheng on empathy, mentors for achieving equity in architecture
An interview with Rosa Sheng.
http://constructiondive.com/news/fi…
Brutalism’s Rise And Fall, As Told Through The Architecture Of Paris
A new map of Paris's iconic Brutalist buildings charts the city's uneasy relationship with the style.
https://fastcodesign.com/3068790/br…
Fougeron Architecture transforms a 1920s building into a home for organizations fighting for tech industry diversity
In the heart of Oakland, California.
https://archpaper.com/2017/03/kapor…
Walsh College
By Valerio Dewalt Train Associates.
http://contractdesign.com/projects/…
Nixon, NASA, And How The Federal Government Got Design
In the 1970s, good design became federal policy.
https://fastcodesign.com/3068659/ni…
California country home by Turnbull Griffin Haesloop features an outdoor living room
A solar-powered retreat in Northern California's Sonoma wine region designed by Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects.
https://dezeen.com/2017/03/03/sonom…
Documenting the Undocumented
The number of migrants crossing illegally from Mexico to the U.S. has declined dramatically. Yet the rugged borderlands of southern Arizona have become a death zone.
https://placesjournal.org/article/d…
Christopher Hawthorne on Los Angeles’ Urban Identity Crisis
An interview with Los Angeles Times architecture critic, Christopher Hawthorne on his new column, Building Type.
http://commonedge.org/christopher-h…
Trio of Spanish architects named 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates
For the first time, three individuals have been named as Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates: Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta.
https://archpaper.com/2017/03/2017-…
Abba Tor (1923-2017), the engineer of the almost impossible
The two most daring architects of the middle of the 20th century, Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn, both went to the Abba Tor when they needed help designing groundbreaking buildings.
https://archpaper.com/2017/02/abba-…
How MASS Design Group’s Approach to Data Could Save the Architectural Profession
MASS Design Group’s data-driven approach.
http://archdaily.com/806263/how-mas…
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…
