Midcentury dreamin’: Inside an architect’s knockout home in San Diego
A real pick me up!
http://curbed.com/2016/10/24/133080…
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…
The Barbican laid bare: inside London’s most famous Brutalist housing estate
Inside the Barbican!
https://theguardian.com/lifeandstyl…
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…
AN EXCLUSIVE: Getty Conservation Institute begins restoration of Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute
Restoring the luster of Louis Kahn.
http://archpaper.com/2016/09/exclus…
Robert Polidori on Making Pictures, DIY Cities, and the Pull of India
Martin Pedersen interviews Robert Polidori
http://commonedge.org/robert-polido…
Jane Jacob’s Street Smarts
This fine essay is about Jane Jacobs, but it's about Marx too.
http://newyorker.com/magazine/2016/…
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
Victoria Newhouse checks in on Renzo Piano's latest.
http://architecturalrecord.com/arti…
The Rogue Element: A Review of Richard Fernau’s “Improvisations on the Land: Houses of Fernau+Hartman”
Missed this in June. Worth reading.
http://arcadenw.org/article/the-rog…
Stories Hide In The Design Of DC’s Newest Museum
Pal Sam Lubell weighs in.
https://wired.com/2016/09/stories-h…
David Baker Architects: Affordable Housing, Slower Streets
My pal Mark English posts an interview with another pal, David Baker.
http://thearchitectstake.com/interv…
A Modern Masterpiece, Restored — and Lived In
The L.A. designer Pamela Shamshiri recently brought her own historic R. M. Schindler house back to its original glory ... and maybe, even, improved it.
http://nytimes.com/interactive/2016…
