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…
Disappearing Act: 7 Architectural Projects That Evade the Eye
A collection of “invisible” architecture.
http://architizer.com/blog/invisibl…
Set Design: The Art of Impermanence
A different sort of creativity.
http://pfaulong.com/set-design-the-…
Review > The newly opened $4-billion World Trade Center transit hub is overwrought and underwhelming
The World Trade Center transportation hub designed by Santiago Calatrava strains for higher meaning on a site where architectural memorials compete. Its ribbed interior can seem like the belly of a whale.
http://latimes.com/entertainment/ar…
Op-Ed > A Tiny Roof Over One’s Head Is Better Than None
In the face of an unabating housing crisis, tiny houses could be part of a system that supports rather than criminalizes those who fall into homelessness.
http://latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la…
The Unknown Girard
A new exhibition sheds light on the famous designer’s rich, multidisciplinary career and interests.
http://metropolismag.com/March-2016…
Crit > Gordon Parks Arts Hall
Valerio Dewalt Train's Gordon Parks Arts Hall samples styles and forms from its architecturally diverse surroundings.
http://archpaper.com/news/articles.…
The Stealth Modernist: Carlo Scarpa
With subtle touches and elegant lines, the late designer built his own legacy of modern Italian design.
http://nytimes.com/slideshow/2016/0…
Saving America’s most architecturally stunning homes
Created by the masters of modernism, the mid-century homes of California are too small for today’s super-rich – hence a conference about how to preserve them.
http://theguardian.com/artanddesign…
Ed Ruscha on Marcel Duchamp: ‘He was a guiding light’
LA is a Duchampian city.
http://theguardian.com/artanddesign…
