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…
How Some Architects Are Protesting The AIA—By Leaving It
Months after the AIA's letter in support of Trump, architects are divided on whether to incite change from within or protest by leaving.
https://fastcodesign.com/3067224/ho…
Lycée Schorge by Kéré Architecture
On the fringe of Koudougou, a city in Burkina Faso with 132,000 residents.
http://architecturalrecord.com/arti…
Curry Stone Design Prizes Announces the Social Design Circle: 100 Winners for 2017
The Prize will name 100 practices over the next twelve months as part of the Circle.
http://currystonedesignprize.com/cu…
The Elbphilharmonie, Like a Fabergé Egg With a Wondrous Secret Inside
Finally complete.
https://nytimes.com/2017/01/10/arts…
The History of the Bauhaus Reconsidered
An exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris suggests that the school's evolution is more complex and contradictory than it first appears.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
13 Stunning Inner Courtyards
What is it about a courtyard that is so appealing?
http://archdaily.com/801815/13-stun…
Game Changers 2017: Architecture Lobby
All is not perfectly well in the world of architecture, and this advocacy group is looking to improve it.
http://metropolismag.com/January-20…
How to Become a Social Impact Designer Without Going (Permanently) Broke
Katherine Darnstadt's Latent Design firm.
https://nextcity.org/features/view/…
Richard Neutra’s Modernist masterpiece in Silver Lake named national landmark
Neutra lived here for decades.
http://la.curbed.com/2017/1/11/1424…
Remaining Hopeful When Stormclouds Gather: A Primer on Post-Election Design Activism
By Eva Hagberg Fisher.
http://commonedge.org/remaining-hop…
Simplicity trumps size in 30-story glass tower at 350 Mission
John King on 350 Mission.
http://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti…
Video: Alexander Girard, A Modernist Rooted In Folk Art
"A Designer’s Universe” at the Vitra Design Museum.
http://antiquesandthearts.com/video…
Can Preservationists Save L.A.’s Late Modernist Landmarks From the Wrecking Ball?
Designed by architects William L. Pereira and Charles Luckman (with Paul Williams and Welton Becket) and one of the last original pieces of the airport master plan.
http://laweekly.com/arts/can-preser…
How to Inject Poetry into Architecture
Carme Pinós in Conversation with Orhan Ayyüce.
http://archinect.com/features/artic…
Pompidou Centre: a 70s French radical that’s never gone out of fashion
Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano recall the sheer joy and bravado – and the struggle – of creating it.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Director of Global Diversity at Perkins+Will: Work-Life Balance Isn’t Just a Health Issue – It’s About Talent Retention
Finding work-life integration as an architect.
http://archinect.com/features/artic…
Keeping environmentalism alive during a Trump presidency
Will environmentalists be able to make any headway in the next four years?
https://archpaper.com/2016/12/envir…
