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…
Tributes to Sea Ranch at 50 look to future as well as past
Influence or history?
http://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/plac…
Berkeley sprouts creative housing, topped by a working farm
On the local front.
http://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti…
Donald Judd, Artist, Revealed as a Philosopher-Critic by His Children
Rainer and Flavin Judd, Donald Judd’s children oversee his legacy.
https://nytimes.com/2016/12/25/arts…
Celebrating A Rugged Vision Of Landscape Architecture
“The Landscape Architecture of Lawrence Halprin,” an exhibition in Washington commemorating Mr. Halprin’s centennial that runs through April 16.
http://nytimes.com/2016/12/23/arts/…
Primary School in Gando Extension / Kéré Architecture
Kéré Architecture in 2008.
http://archdaily.com/785978/primary…
Lella Vignelli
In honor of Lella Vignelli's life a repost of Michael Bierut’s 2010 essay celebrating her amazing spirit.
http://designobserver.com/article.p…
The Best Architecture in New York of 2016
Michael Kimmelman explores New York's best architecture of the year.
http://nytimes.com/2016/12/15/arts/…
Year in review 2016: making architecture great again
The best and worst of a weighty year for design.
http://curbed.com/2016/12/14/139188…
Opinion: US Architects Should Use Speculative Design To Remain Hopeful
US architects disillusioned by the AIA's post-election sentiment should use critical speculation to help reimagine the country's built environment and remain hopeful, suggests Mimi Zeiger.
https://dezeen.com/2016/12/13/opini…
