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…
The Best Architecture of 2015: Their Modesty Becomes Them
Invisible architecture.
http://wsj.com/articles/the-best-ar…
The Goodsill Residence
Honolulu architect Vladimir Ossipoff.
http://modernistarchitecture.blogsp…
Architects Ernest and Esther Born’s work: lessons in urban design
I don't entirely agree with King's assessment of the Borns. Although the public housing in North Beach was run down when it was replaced it had some aesthetic merits. What it did not have was maintenance by the SFHousing Authority on either the buildings or the landscape. To overlook the incredible accomplishments of a talented couple because of a single compromised project isn't the full story.
http://sfchronicle.com/72hour-sale-…
Concrete in Paradise: The East-West Center at the University of Hawaii
A collection of buildings on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Manoa designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect I.M. Pei.
http://modernistarchitecture.blogsp…
A Filtered View #3: Socially Progressive, Architecturally Conservative: A San Francisco Paradox
This is the third in a new series of musings by San Francisco-based architect Charles F. Bloszies, FAIA.
http://archnewsnow.com/features/Fea…
Oscar Niemeyer Through the Lens of Haruo Mikami
Oscar Niemeyer’s most important works in Brasília through the eyes of architectural photographer, Haruo Mikami.
http://archdaily.com/778850/oscar-n…
Should We Save Mid-Century Modern Icons That Hurt The Environment?
An important conversation.
http://fastcodesign.com/3054647/sho…
Knoll Showrooms: 1951-1961
Archival photographs showcase a decade worth of work by Florence Knoll Bassett.
https://knoll.com/knollnewsdetail/k…
What should be done with Palace of Fine Arts? For starters, think big
Three contenders are in the running to restore and revive the century-old structure, but it’s hard to escape the feeling that the ideal solution is one that we haven’t yet seen.
http://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/plac…
