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…
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…
