Review> Togetherness
Lina Bo Bardi: Together explores the prolific career of the Italian-Brazilian modernist architect.
http://archpaper.com/news/articles.…
Open> Washington Square Convenience Station
Paulett Taggart plops a jewel of a restroom facility in San Francisco's Washington Square Park.
http://archpaper.com/news/articles.…
The Architecture of Harry Weese
The achievements of a postwar generation that brought to professional design practice a vigorous sense of mission — at once artistic, cultural, and political — are more evident than ever. In an ongoing and occasional series, historians and critics offer new assessments of modern masters.
https://placesjournal.org/article/t…
East Regional Chilled Water Plant / Leers Weinzapfel Associates
Infrastructure is difficult to do well.
http://archdaily.com/769231/east-re…
Michael Heizer: Early Paintings, Altars And Granite At Gagosian Gallery
From now until July 2, 2015, Gagosian New York presents the exhibition ‘altars’ by Michael Heizer, comprising rarely or never-before-seen early paintings, the ‘altar’ series of new steel sculptures, and negative wall pieces featuring igneous rocks.
http://designboom.com/art/michael-h…
35 Books Every Designer Should Read
We asked some of the world's top design schools to share their favorite books. Here's what they recommend for your summer reading list.
http://fastcodesign.com/3047814/35-…
What 10 Dieter Rams Products Reveal About The Principles Of Good Design
Even some of the lesser known work from Dieter Rams and his studio demonstrate his famous 10 principles of good design. Here's how.
http://fastcodesign.com/3047450/wha…
Good Design
A public interest movement redefines architecture.
http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/03/…
Kate Macintosh: one of Britain’s great unsung architects of social housing
Kate Macintosh’s bold, humane buildings for public benefit began in the 60s with the remarkable Dawson’s Heights estate in Dulwich, south London. And yet much loved work like hers is now under threat from some of the very local authorities that commissioned it.
http://theguardian.com/artanddesign…
Is Craig Ellwood’s beachfront Hunt House in jeopardy?
Documents filed with city of Malibu seek demolition of Craig Ellwood-designed Hunt House.
http://latimes.com/entertainment/ar…
Home Renovation for a Modern Family in Bel Air
A renovation by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects and Planners.
http://nytimes.com/2015/06/21/reale…
MoMA Adds Rainbow Flag To Permanent Design Collection
New York's Museum of Modern Art announced today that it has added the Rainbow Flag, the universal symbol of gay pride, to its permanent design collection.
http://dezeen.com/2015/06/17/new-yo…
Boys & Girls Club Design Enhances Surroundings And Kids’ Lives
This isn’t marquee architecture. Think of it instead as well-modulated modernism — an affirmation of a city’s need to provide landscapes for all its residents, especially children who might have few other places to go that are both stimulating and safe.
http://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/plac…
Indian architect Charles Correa dies aged 84
The founder of Mumbai-based Charles Correa Associates – whose work includes the Mahatma Gandhi memorial in Ahmedabad and the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Portugal – died on 16 June in the Indian city. He was 84.
http://dezeen.com/2015/06/17/charle…
Corb’s lost tapestry comes ‘home’ to Sydney Opera House
Le Corbusier’s little known tapestry commissioned by Jørn Utzon for the Sydney Opera House will finally be installed in its intended place.
http://architectureau.com/articles/…
Crit> Whitney Museum Of American Art
Renzo Piano has not made a building to love, but one in which the art viewing experience is given priority.
http://archpaper.com/news/articles.…
What Would Mies Say?
David Chipperfield’s “Sticks and Stones” Installation in The Neue Nationalgalerie
http://archdaily.com/642394/gallery…
Didier Faustino captures Cuba’s ruined School of Ballet using cage-mounted device
French artist Didier Faustino is staging a month-long performance around Havana's Modernist School of Ballet, strapping a camera rig to a local resident who is exploring the ruins during the city's art biennial.
http://dezeen.com/2015/06/15/didier…
The Slow Death of a Brutalist Vision for Buffalo
Architect Paul Rudolph had an ambitious plan for Buffalo's waterfront, but it was only ever partly realized. Today, proof of it is beginning to disappear.
http://citylab.com/housing/2015/06/…
How Teddy Cruz is Reimagining the American Dream
Teddy Cruz thinks we've got suburbia all wrong. He has a new way of developing cities, and he's drawing inspiration from an unlikely place just across the border from his home in San Diego.
http://politico.com/magazine/video/…
ÉCAL students take over Apartment N°50 at Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse
Students from Swiss university ÉCAL are the latest designers to refit an apartment in Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse housing block in Marseille.
http://dezeen.com/2015/06/12/ecal-s…
Glass House Landscape: A “Permanent Camping Trip” for Architect Philip Johnson by Betsy Gleick
Architecture and landscaping, Johnson once said, are "one art." At his own home, the Glass House in New Canaan, Conn., where he lived for almost 60 years until his death in 2005, he deliberately made the walls between the two virtually invisible. We got permission to photograph the secluded 49-acre property at dawn.
http://gardenista.com/posts/glass-h…
When Albers Met Saarinen Alexander Gorlin Reimagines An Eero Saarinen Landmark
The adaptive reuse of the great Bell Laboratories.
http://interiordesign.net/projects/…
Video: Tadao Ando on Designing His First New York Building
“A living space should be a sanctuary. It has to be a place where you can reflect on your life.” – Tadao Ando
http://archdaily.com/639999/video-t…
Wildwood: The East Coast Capital of Googie… uh, I mean Doo-Wop
This is just so groovy!
http://modernistarchitecture.blogsp…
Culture by Design: Lessons From Today’s Tech Workplaces
Huntsman Architectural Group president, Sascha Wagner on modern tech workplaces.
http://nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/contrac…
