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…
Michael Murphy: Architecture that’s built to heal
This man talks about architecture in a way that makes sense.
https://ted.com/talks/michael_murph…
Review: D.C.’s new African American museum is a bold challenge to traditional Washington architecture
Chris Hawthorne weighs in on the newest important building in DC.
http://latimes.com/entertainment/ar…
Renovated Opera House a boon for the Bayview, but work remains
Good work from TEF Design, Knapp Architects, and Walter Hood.
http://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/plac…
Welcome to My House: Multifamily Housing
John King writes an essay on multifamily housing for Record. (Pal Owen Kennerly is mentioned!)
http://architecturalrecord.com/arti…
Leddy Maytum Stacy covers entire roof of Berkeley design centre with photovoltaics
The new building on UC Berkeley's campus is a Maker Space for Interdisciplinary Design Innovation.
http://dezeen.com/2016/09/12/leddy-…
A Constellation of One-Room Cabins
I would camp here.
http://nytimes.com/2016/09/12/t-mag…
Has Jonathan Ive Designed Himself Out Of Existence?
He ushered in a great renaissance of industrial design—and helped accelerate its irrelevance.
https://fastcodesign.com/3063532/ha…
Elmgreen & Dragset on Using Their Spectacular Art to Set Off a Quiet, Quizzical Revolution
Where art and architecture meet.
http://artspace.com/magazine/interv…
10 of Tel Aviv’s best examples of Bauhaus residential architecture
Tel Aviv is home to one of the best-preserved collections of Bauhaus.
http://dezeen.com/2016/08/24/10-tel…
The Well-Worn Modernism of Montevideo
Betsky in Uruguay.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
