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…
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/…
