National Museum of African American History and Culture
A museum dedicated to the African-American story fills the last spot on the National Mall.
http://architecturalrecord.com/arti…
Art Dealers Move Out of the Gallery and Into a Taco Bell
Art and architecture together!
http://nytimes.com/2016/10/30/arts/…
Meet Patrik Schumacher, Zaha Hadid’s Ambitious, Abrasive Successor
Our pal Sam Lubell interviews Zaha Hadid's architectural heir.
https://wired.com/2016/10/meet-patr…
Landslide: Northwestern Modernist Gem At-Risk
The campus faces an uncertain future due to a proposed re-development.
http://tclf.org/landslide-northwest…
A West Coast Firm Establishes an East Coast Base: An Interview with Primo Orpilla of Studio O+A
Our pals Primo and Verda of Studio O + A collect the Cooper Hewitt Design today!
http://archnewsnow.com/features/Fea…
The New York That Could Have Been
Sam Lubell is in The New Yorker!
http://newyorker.com/culture/cultur…
Great Man Theory: A Review of Pierluigi Serraino’s “The Creative Architect: Inside the Great Midcentury Personality Study”
John Parman checks out Pierluigi Serraino's new book!
http://arcadenw.org/article/great-m…
Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards: Catching Up With Winner Studio O+A
Architizer talks with husband-and-wife team Primo Orpilla and Verda Alexander.
http://architizer.com/blog/cooper-h…
César’s palace: restoring Luis Barragán’s Casa Prieto-Lopez
Casa Prieto-López was designed in the late 1940s by Barragán and is widely recognized as one of his most iconic residential projects.
http://wallpaper.com/architecture/l…
The Goldberg variation: High-rise public housing that works
Bertrand Goldberg’s Hilliard Homes opened as a model community in 1966. It still is today.
http://chicagoreader.com/chicago/hi…
The Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker on Renovating a Landmark
Martin Pedersen interviews Darren Walker.
http://commonedge.org/the-ford-foun…
When public housing goes private
Zach Mortice checks in from Chicago.
http://chicago.curbed.com/2016/9/28…
INSIGHT: Communication Issues in A/E/C Firms
10 predominant communications failures that hinder both individual career growth and business success.
http://archnewsnow.com/features/Fea…
What Is A ‘Stabilized Relic’?
David Wessel, Principal of ARG Conservation Services talks about stabilizing de la Montanya Monument.
http://faithandform.com/feature/wha…
What Architecture Has in Common with Organized Religion
What does modern religion and architecture have in common?
http://commonedge.org/what-architec…
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, on the edge
Alexandra Lange weighs in on some recent work from DSR.
http://curbed.com/2016/9/14/1290682…
Which William Pereira Buildings Are Worth Preserving?
Aaron Betsky raises a good question. I am not a big fan of Pereira's and I still find the Transamerica Pyramid clunky. But it's good we are having the discussion.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Art Deco Los Angeles
Deco delicious in downtown LA.
http://nytimes.com/2016/10/09/trave…
Parliament for the people: the architect rebuilding Burkina Faso’s political heart
I heard this architect, Francis Kéré speak at the Record Innovations Conference. Simply amazing.
https://theguardian.com/world/2016/…
Concrete jungle: why brutalist architecture is back in style
From Washington DC to London, concrete edifices aren’t to everyone’s taste, but they’re here to stay – and people have learned to love these sights
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
