A Yen For The Past: Farewell To Tokyo’s Hotel Okura
Tragedy to lose such a beautiful hotel. Kudos to Interior Design for featuring it in their April issue.
http://interiordesign.net/projects/…
MoMA’s Latin American Mea Culpa
The Museum of Modern Art’s new exhibition, “Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980” (until July 19), is an assembly of work that may never be repeated.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Chiharu Shiota Weaves An Immersive Labyrinth Of Keys And Yarn
The installation seeks to explore the notion of memory, using tens of thousands of keys collected from people across the globe in its realization.
http://designboom.com/art/chiharu-s…
Corning Museum of Glass Contemporary Art + Design Wing
A 100,000-square-foot, $64 million wing.
http://architectmagazine.com/projec…
Eileen Gray’s E1027: a lost legend of 20th-century architecture is resurrected
This modernist villa on the Côte d’Azur, designed by Irish architect Eileen Gray, has witnessed wartime shootings, murder and vandalism by Le Corbusier. Now, at last, it has been brought back to life.
http://theguardian.com/artanddesign…
The Citroën DS 19: Why It’s the Ultimate Classic Car
I love these cars!
http://wsj.com/articles/the-citroen…
Top 10 Business Tips for Architects
Tips from lots of folks including yours truly.
http://archrecord.construction.com/…
Crafton Hills College: Eloquent Brutalism in the Foothills
When Palm Springs Architect E. Stewart Williams was first awarded the commission to design an entire college campus in the foothills of nearby Yucaipa, California his initial reaction was to tell the college trustees that it couldn't be done.
http://modernistarchitecture.blogsp…
Le Corbusier, the man, the modernist, the nudist – in pictures
He redefined architecture for the 20th century, pioneered modernity, made radical urban utopias for the masses – and spent his last years nearly nude in a cabin inspired by human physiology.
http://theguardian.com/artanddesign…
A Love-Hate Relationship
Results of the Architectural Record/Van Alen Institute Design Competition Survey are in.
http://archrecord.construction.com/…
How Urban Planning Failed Kathmandu
Haphazard urbanization and rampant building code violations in Nepal pushed up the earthquake death toll.
http://citylab.com/housing/2015/04/…
Q+A: Public Architecture Founder John Peterson
Peterson was named the new Loeb Fellowship curator at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, but even though he's moving across the country for the new position, he will remain on the board of the organization he founded in 2002.
http://architectmagazine.com/practi…
Editorial > Design Orgs Need To Meet The Street
William Menking urges design organizations to keep their street side presence to better engage the public.
http://archpaper.com/news/articles.…
AD Classics: German Pavilion, Expo ’67 / Frei Otto and Rolf Gutbrod
I remember it like yesterday.
http://archdaily.com/623689/ad-clas…
How Legendary Illustrator Maira Kalman Stays Creative
We caught up with the whimsical illustrator about productivity, creativity and why her spirit animal is a "tiny, delusional bird."
http://fastcodesign.com/3045020/how…
The Craig Ellwood Bobertz Residence: a Man And His House
With no formal training in architecture, design or landscape solutions, Keith York(the current owner of the Craig Ellwood Bobertz house) never foresaw becoming a devoted proponent of all three in the city of San Diego which he loves so dearly.
http://midcenturyhome.com/craig-ell…
Whitetail Woods Regional Park Camper Cabins
Nestled into the hillside of a new regional park within the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area, three new camper cabins - built by county employees with the aid of high school students in a vocational training program - weave their way into a stand of pine trees.
http://architizer.com/projects/whit…
The 7 Lamps of Architecture Criticism
What is the "serious criticism" of architecture?
http://huffingtonpost.com/lance-hos…
AIA Announces 2015 Housing Awards
Check out David Baker's Bayview Hill Gardens affordable housing and the other great 2015 Architect magazine Housing Awards
http://architectmagazine.com/awards…
Florida’s Mecca for Midcentury Modernism Welcomes a New Center for Architecture
The newly renovated Center for Architecture Sarasota opened last month in a 1960 Sarasota Modern landmark, which was once a furniture store.
http://metropolismag.com/Point-of-V…
How Midcentury Architect Gregory Ain Mixed Social Responsibility With Great Design
Many architects pay lip service to the idea that good design can and should ennoble the lives of average people not blessed with bountiful wealth.
http://architecturaldigest.com/blog…
Will S.F.’s Market Street Be Redesigned Into a Place for Play?
Arena/Play, as the installation was called, was one of the hits of last week’s Market Street Prototyping Festival, a three-day trial run of more than 50 projects vying to become permanent additions to the city’s most prominent thoroughfare ahead of its planned reconstruction in 2018.
http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/mar…
The New Whitney Marks a Change in Museum Design
The Whitney Museum reopens on May 1 in a vast space designed to wow artists as much as audiences.
http://wsj.com/articles/the-new-whi…
Vitra and G-star RAW Present Prouvé RAW Office Edition
Jean Prouvé is considered one of the most important designers and engineers of the 20th century. During the 2015 Salone Del Mobile, Vitra and G-star RAW debut the limited Prouvé RAW office edition — a 10-part edition comprising furniture and lamps.
http://designboom.com/design/vitra-…
The Golden Ratio: Design’s Biggest Myth
In the world of art, architecture, and design, the golden ratio has earned a tremendous reputation. It's bullshit.
http://fastcodesign.com/3044877/the…
Build Up or Build Out? Spoiler Alert: The Answer is Neither
The world’s population is going through the proverbial roof, set to surpass 9.5 billion by 2050.
http://architizer.com/blog/build-up…
