Estate of Grace: Confronting Privilege and Possibility at SANAA’s Grace Farms
Grace Farms a New Canaan, Connecticut architectural treasure.
http://averyreview.com/issues/13/es…
PG&E Mission Substation
TEF Design revitalizes a PG+E substation and returns it to its original glory.
http://architecturalrecord.com/arti…
Up in Arms: Sarah Galo interviews Molly Crabapple
Using the visual to resist.
https://guernicamag.com/interviews/…
Turn Up The Base
A revitalized Fort Mason amps up Bay Area arts and culture.
http://archpaper.com/news/articles.…
Gordon Parks Arts Hall
A link between old and new makes the cover of Architect magazine. Photo credit: Steve Hall / Hedrich Blessing
http://architectmagazine.com/projec…
Crit> Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Mimi Zeiger takes a look at Diller Scofidio + Renfro's new design and adaptive reuse of a historic printing plant.
http://archpaper.com/news/articles.…
Q+A: Kengo Kuma on His Design Approach
The Japanese architect discusses plans for Tokyo’s new National Stadium, his second career in academia, and the inspiration that sparked his interest in architecture.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Q+A: Marvin Malecha on Architecture and Architectural Education
The NewSchool of Architecture & Design president and chief academic officer discusses the future of the profession.
http://architectmagazine.com/practi…
Ai Weiwei Hangs Bamboo + Paper Kite Creatures In Paris’ Le Bon Marché Department Store
Ai Wei Wei in Paris.
http://designboom.com/art/ai-weiwei…
What is good design?
An existential kind of question.
http://ft.com/cms/s/2/1dbb7868-b46e…
Little House on the Ferry – Vinalhaven Maine
There is something delicious about these little Maine Monopoly cottages.
http://architizer.com/projects/litt…
Modern Relics: Exploring the Aging Icons of Ai Weiwei’s Abandoned Architecture Park
Jinhua Architecture Park, planned and curated by dissident artist Ai Weiwei. It is approaching a decade since 17 experimental pavilions were completed on the banks of the Yiwu River, each embodying the explorative spirit of contemporary practice and hinting at an urban future that would never come to pass.
http://architizer.com/blog/jinhua-a…
L.A.’s Larchmont Charter High School
A Lesson in Adaptive Reuse and Urbanism.
https://savingplaces.org/stories/la…
Preserving David Ireland’s Home in All Its Marred Glory
Buying, stabilizing and preserving 500 Capp Street, the longtime home and studio of the Conceptual artist David Ireland, along with its unruly contents.
http://nytimes.com/2015/12/20/arts/…
Steven Holl: “Architecture Needs to be Rekindled with the Other Arts”
Steven Holl on bringing architecture and the arts back together.
http://archdaily.com/780337/steven-…
David Cameron pledges to demolish UK’s “brutal” council estates
David Cameron is just using negative feelings about Brutalism to get the UK out of social housing. What this means is that government will end up subsidizing the middle class and the rich (as they do in the US through interest exemptions) and screwing the poor. Same old Cameron. Same old Conservatives.
http://dezeen.com/2016/01/11/uk-pri…
A tale of two brutalist housing estates: one thriving, one facing demolition Colin Wiles
More on brutalism in the UK.
http://theguardian.com/housing-netw…
Architects “are never taught the right thing” says 2016 Pritzker laureate Alejandro Aravena
Exclusive interview: universities are failing to give architects the training that will enable them to find solutions for an imminent global housing crisis, says 2016 Pritzker Prize laureate Alejandro Aravena.
http://dezeen.com/2016/01/13/alejan…
Architecture’s Biggest Prize Was Just Awarded to Someone You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Alejandro Aravena of Chile, whose work is modest, practical, and exceptionally elegant, has been awarded the 2016 Pritzker Prize.
http://vanityfair.com/culture/2016/…
Changing Skyline: Turning Richards Labs into the building Louis Kahn wanted it to be
The history of 20th-century architecture abounds with buildings that critics love and users hate, but there aren't many that have suffered such extreme public mood swings as the Richards Medical Research Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania.
http://philly.com/philly/columnists…
SHoP Architects Will Build 50 Resilient Schools In Nepal (And Share The Designs)
The structures are easy to construct, adaptable and designed to survive future natural disasters.
http://fastcodesign.com/3055124/sho…
Design by Accident
A new retrospective champions the architect-designer Josef Frank's philosophy of "Accidentism."
http://metropolismag.com/Design-by-…
In Memoriam: Important Buildings Lost in 2015
It was a brutal year for concrete architecture.
http://citylab.com/design/2015/12/t…
Laurent Kronental’s Souvenir d’un Futur photos show Paris’ monumental housing estates
French photographer Laurent Kronental has spent four years capturing the "grands ensembles" housing projects in Paris, juxtaposing the huge buildings with their elderly occupants.
http://dezeen.com/2016/01/03/lauren…
The Artist’s Artist: Robert Irwin Continues to Create and Inspire
With multiple works on display at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Dia: Beacon in New York and a 13,000-square-foot installation in Marfa, Texas, 15 years in the making, the 87-year-old artist shows no signs of slowing down.
http://wsj.com/articles/the-artists…
A Brutalist Acropolis in the Great White North: Simon Fraser University
Looking at Burnaby through the eyes of Canadian architect Arthur Erickson.
http://modernistarchitecture.blogsp…
