Review > Doodling In The Grid
Aaron Betsky finds a chorus of ad-hoc proposals in the sprawling Chicago Biennial.
http://archpaper.com/news/articles.…
Q+A > Frank Gehry
Don't Look Back: Gehry on art, legacy, and hydrology.
http://archpaper.com/news/articles.…
Ethics And Architecture: Where Do You Draw The Line?
While Zaha Hadid’s treatment by BBC Radio 4’s Today programe brought sympathy from fellow architects, the interview has prompted a discussion of architects’ moral responsibility, reports Richard Waite.
http://architectsjournal.co.uk/news…
Chicago Architecture Biennial Secures The City’s Place As A Mecca For Building Buffs
With the police stations of tomorrow and $9,000 extendable homes, Chicago’s first Biennial is a diverse pick’n’mix of architecture today. But why won’t it engage with the city in a more meaningful way?
http://theguardian.com/artanddesign…
Zaha Hadid Is “Resentful And Wronged” Says Stephen Bayley
Design critic Stephen Bayley has attacked architect Zaha Hadid, describing her as aggressive, intractable and bitter. Writing for The Spectator last week, Bayley rounded on Hadid after she terminated a BBC radio interview when the interviewer questioned her about problems with her stadium projects in Tokyo and Qatar.
http://dezeen.com/2015/10/05/zaha-h…
TWA Flight Center at Kennedy Airport to Briefly Open to Public
This month may be your last chance to see Eero Saarinen’s T.W.A. Flight Center at Kennedy Airport in its current form before the building is redesigned as part of a hotel.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2…
Jewellery Exhibition Focuses On Early Work By Harry Bertoia
An exhibition at the Cranbrook Museum of Art outside Detroit examines the jewellery of the mid-century American sculptor and designer Harry Bertoia.
http://dezeen.com/2015/10/01/jewell…
Frank Gehry’s Urban Renewal
Throughout "Frank Gehry" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the repeated and insistent message is that his work "distinguished him as an urbanist," as if trying so hard to convince us that it's true. The curator doth protest too much.
http://archnewsnow.com/features/Fea…
Constraints and Creativity Shape Affordable Housing for Seniors in Oakland, California
In the first two weeks after Lakeside Senior Apartments in Oakland opened its application process for residency last year, more than 2,400 applications poured in. Constructed to house very-low-income and formerly homeless seniors, the building had just 91 units to offer.
http://urbanland.uli.org/planning-d…
From Armed Forces to Arts Enthusiasts: Fort Mason Center’s Pier 2
San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center's $21 million rehabilitation and seismic upgrade.
http://urbanland.uli.org/planning-d…
Broad Museum: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
L.A. Screenplay: An art museum lifts its perforated veil, revealing the repository for its vast holdings.
http://archrecord.construction.com/…
Feilden Fowles Plans Rammed-Earth Visitors’ Centre For Yorkshire Sculpture Park
London architecture studio Feilden Fowles has revealed plans for a visitors' centre with rammed-earth walls in Europe's largest modern and contemporary sculpture park. Due for completion in 2017.
http://dezeen.com/2015/09/02/feilde…
Critique: Inside Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Broad Museum
Joseph Giovannini discovers that DS+R's new project stands up to its much vaunted neighbor.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Naked Cities
The death and life of urban America.
http://newyorker.com/magazine/2015/…
Dismaland To Be Taken Down And Sent To Calais To Build Shelters
Banksy said his ‘bemusement park’ is to be dismantled and timber used to build shelters for migrants near French port. An estimated 5,000 people displaced from countries including Syria, Libya and Eritrea are believed to be camped in and around the French port.
http://theguardian.com/artanddesign…
US Firm Announces Plans To Open “The Bauhaus Of Africa”
MASS Design Group, a nonprofit US firm, plans to start an architecture and design training centre in Kigali, Rwanda, to help address the "dearth of professional designers" across Africa.
http://dezeen.com/2015/09/24/mass-d…
Affordable Housing Energizes San Francisco’s Mission Bay
In San Francisco, a city famous for its beloved neighborhoods—but infamous for its astronomical cost of living—the development of a new neighborhood on a brownfield site proved to be a rare opportunity to address a housing shortage that has displaced low-income households and threatens the city’s cultural and economic diversity.
http://urbanland.uli.org/economy-ma…
LA’s Broad Museum: A Downtown Destination Fit for the Instagram Age
In this edition of Alexandra Lange's monthly column, she journeys west to ogle the brand new Broad Museum in Los Angeles.
http://curbed.com/archives/2015/09/…
Nonprofit Youth Organization and Market-Rate Housing Share a Site in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley
The Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco (BGCSF), a nonprofit organization that offers young people afterschool programs, wanted to replace its outdated 1950s-era clubhouse in the Haight district with a new one closer to the populations it serves. A parcel in the city’s Hayes Valley neighborhood, on Fulton Street, had been freed up after the Central Freeway was torn down. The city sold it to the BGCSF with the agreement that a portion of it would be used for housing.
http://urbanland.uli.org/economy-ma…
Zaha Hadid: from Baghdad to global ubiquity (and the RIBA gold medal)
One of the most sought-after architects in the world, Iraqi-born London-based Hadid is first woman to be awarded prestigious Riba gong in her own right.
http://theguardian.com/artanddesign…
The Architecture of Liminal Spaces
Columnist Aaron Betsky re-examines public spaces, and the roles of architects and citizens in shaping them.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Can Big Data Bridge The Gap Between Biophilia Hypothesis And Spatial Design
Biophilic design at a fundamental level, it is the adoption and conceptualization of principles we find in nature into building and landscape design that many studies have shown to increase occupant wellbeing. Biophilia is a tricky construct to convey, let alone capture in a design. Somewhere between a social science and life science, biophilia – an instinctive bond between ourselves and living systems – poses a unique challenge but also holds many opportunities – from competitive advantage to supporting human health.
http://terrapinbrightgreen.com/blog…
Robin Day’s Works in Wood Displayed On Assemble’s “Forest” Of Columns At The V&A
London Design Festival 2015: an exhibition designed by Turner Prize-nominated architecture collective Assemble at the V&A museum celebrates the heritage of late British furniture designer Robin Day.
http://dezeen.com/2015/09/22/robin-…
The Problem With The Broad Is The Collection Itself
The newly built museum in Los Angeles recaptures the spiritual drama of the monumental museums of yesteryear.
https://washingtonpost.com/entertai…
Winds Of Change At Dyson
Can the pioneering vacuum maker transform itself into a full-blown tech company? An exclusive peek inside the house that suction built.
http://fastcodesign.com/3050256/inn…
Experiencing Architecture Through ‘Hippie Modernism’ and Retrospectives
In 1965, four artists bought seven acres in southeastern Colorado, intending to make live-in works of art. Their communal project came to be known as Drop City, where residents lived in zonohedron domes of their own creation, sometimes constructed of automobile roofs and other scavenged materials.
http://nytimes.com/2015/09/13/arts/…
