Dallas architecture is a joke (but it doesn’t have to be)
Pseudo-contemporary blocks has become the de facto standard of Dallas residential architecture development (but it doesn't have to be).
http://artsblog.dallasnews.com/2016…
Stanley Anderson Interviews Celia Bertoia (Part II)
Celia Bertoia talks about overseeing her father Harry Bertoia's monotypes, writing his biography, and setting up a foundation to extend his legacy.
http://moorerubleyudell.com/journal…
Stanley Anderson Interviews Celia Bertoia (Part I)
Stanley Anderson interviews Celia Bertoia.
http://moorerubleyudell.com/journal…
A ’60s Architecture Collective That Made History (but No Buildings)
Italy’s legendary radical design group Superstudio never actually finished a building, and yet its hallucinogenic visions are still making waves.
http://nytimes.com/2016/04/04/t-mag…
Touring Marcel Breuer’s Bronx Community College Campus, a Hidden NYC Gem
More Breuer. More Alexandra Lange!
http://ny.curbed.com/2016/4/13/1141…
Review: The restored Met Breuer (formerly the Whitney) has a new energy as well as a lived-in look
Christopher Hawthorne on the Met Breuer.
http://latimes.com/entertainment/ar…
Geographies of Uncertainty: Space and Territory in the Operational Logic of UPS
The United Parcel Service (UPS) resiliency and acute performance within the tides of uncertainty.
http://archdaily.com/785422/geograp…
After Zaha, The Pritzker Chooses Civics Over Style
More than a decade after Zaha Hadid’s win, architecture’s biggest prize has shifted away from the world she built.
https://newrepublic.com/article/132…
Bertjan Pot Uses NIKE’s Flyknit Technology And Tire Tubes To Create Furniture
At NIKE’s ‘the nature of motion’ event for Milan Design Week 2016, German designer Bertjan Pot experiments with materials, techniques, structures, patterns and colors, which leads him to surpass conventional production boundaries with textiles and weaving techniques.
http://designboom.com/design/bertja…
Can the Wired City Also Be the Equitable One?
The application of SMART technology in cities will weed out tremendous inefficiencies, and everyone should benefit. But eventually, those collective inefficiencies will be overcome, and individual gains will require others to bear individual losses.
http://commonedge.org/when-all-is-o…
The Lousy Urban Design Of America’s Most Innovative Companies
Why do tech companies keep building suburban corporate campuses that are isolated from the communities their products are meant to serve?
http://fastcodesign.com/3058823/how…
Lake and Bake
David Baker's Lakeside Senior Apartments on the edge of Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood.
http://archpaper.com/2016/04/lake-a…
Inside Tadao Ando’s Self-Built Studio In Osaka
Self-taught architect Tadao ando set up his own practice in 1969. Since then, he has completed over 200 buildings and was awarded the Pritzker architecture prize in 1995. On the occasion of its 5th anniversary, PORT magazine visited the architect’s studio in Ssaka
http://designboom.com/architecture/…
Vladimir Kagan, Esteemed Furniture Designer, Dies at 88
Throughout his enormously successful career that spanned over six decades, connoisseurs, museums, and other artistic luminaries avidly sought his work.
http://interiordesign.net/articles/…
Camp Code
How to navigate a refugee settlement.
https://placesjournal.org/article/c…
How West Elm Became An Unlikely Incubator Of Independent Design
Through the Local program, West Elm is supporting independent designers—and building its own brand to boot.
http://fastcodesign.com/3058099/how…
Zaha Hadid, Friend
Architect and critic Joseph Giovannini remembers the wonderful force of nature known as Zaha Hadid.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
SF skyline’s new LinkedIn addition is built by, for New Yorkers
The newcomer serves as a cautionary tale showing what can happen when out-of-town developers and architects have their own vision of what a city like San Francisco should be.
http://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/plac…
An Artist’s Tribute to Creatives Who Died From AIDS
For the past year, the interior designer and artist Doug Meyer has created 50 “portraits” — busts, statuettes, intaglios, multimedia sculptures — of creative people who died of AIDS and AIDS-related causes in the ’80s and ’90s.
http://nytimes.com/interactive/2016…
Zaha Hadid, 1950-2016
Remembering early drawings from the start of Zaha Hadid's career, Aaron Betsky recalls her journey into the realm of spatial continuity.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
The Social Art of Zaha Hadid, Architecture’s Most Engaging Presence
The architect, whose designs sought to engage with the public around them, broadened what was possible with the form.
http://vanityfair.com/culture/2016/…
A Push to Rebuild a Modernist Gem by Mies
A group of German architects and planners have started a campaign to rebuild the Wolf House, widely seen as a link between Mies’s early, more conventional designs and his later buildings, like the Barcelona Pavilion and the Farnsworth House.
http://nytimes.com/2016/04/01/arts/…
The Craving for Public Squares
The twenty-first century is the first urban century in human history, the first time more people on the planet live in cities than don’t.
http://nybooks.com/articles/2016/04…
American Enterprise Group National Headquarters Renovation / BNIM
I love this building.
http://archdaily.com/783730/america…
Why Reston, Virginia, Still Inspires Planners 50 Years Later
A new documentary traces how the D.C. suburb’s pedestrian-centric, mixed-use approach came to dominate urban design.
http://citylab.com/design/2016/03/r…
One Resident’s Argument to Save London’s Central Hill Housing Estate
In this short film by British filmmaker Joe Gilbert, the estate is viewed through the narration of a long-term resident, Clifford Grant, who discusses its history and argues for its future security.
http://archdaily.com/784511/one-res…
