AIA’s Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten 2016 Winners
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects wins two awards in the AIA/COTE 2016 Top Ten Green Projects!
http://aiatopten.org/
George Lucas-sponsored building at University of Chicago better than proposed museum
Blair Kamin weighs in on the new University of Chicago building by our pals at Valerio Dewalt Train.
http://chicagotribune.com/news/colu…
MoMA’s ‘Temporary’ Suspension of Architecture and Design
Thank you Mr. Betsky.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
The stories of Harriet Pattison, landscape architect and companion of Louis Kahn
Harriet Pattison’s life and work.
http://archpaper.com/2016/04/the-st…
Inside the Proposed Changes to the Landmarked Ford Foundation
A look inside the revered postmodern office tower with Ford Foundation president Darren Walker.
http://ny.curbed.com/2016/4/18/1145…
Robert Irwin’s Light-Filled Moment
Now 87, the artist expands on his visionary work with architecture, unveiling two new installations at the Hirshhorn Museum and Chinati Foundation.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
The First Modern Couple
Alvar Aalto and Aino Marsio.
http://metropolismag.com/April-2016…
What is the Future for Architecture and Design at MoMA?
More on yet another MoMA fiasco.
http://architecturalrecord.com/arti…
Leawood Speculative Office / El Dorado
A speculative office to attract high-tech companies.
http://archdaily.com/785670/leawood…
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…
