Aging Gracefully: How Midcentury Modern Classics Adapted
In the years after World War II, when suburban towns were still "the country," this unassuming village an hour north of Manhattan became an epicenter of modernist architecture, and a birthplace of then-radical concepts like family rooms, floor-to-ceiling windows and open-plan living.
http://nwitimes.com/lifestyles/home…
David Chipperfield Named as Architect to Redesign Metropolitan Museum’s Modern and Contemporary Art Wing and Adjacent Areas
Project is first phase of long-term plan to sustain and enhance the museum for the future.
http://metmuseum.org/about-the-muse…
David Chipperfield Architects Kunsthaus Zurich Design Gets The Go-Ahead
Due to open in 2017, the construction for David Chipperfield‘s design for the extension at the Kunsthaus in Zurich is underway.
http://designboom.com/architecture/…
Rem Koolhaas: “There’s Been Very Little Rethinking Of What Cities Can Be”
The Pritzker prize-winning architect dishes on cities, what architecture and film have in common, and the idiocy of design competitions.
http://fastcodesign.com/3044008/rem…
In Japan, a Farmhouse Becomes a Journalist’s Elegy
A film about place and memory, a farmhouse in Japan, and the lives of the people who called it home.
http://nytimes.com/2015/03/19/trave…
The American Institute Of Architects’ Outreach Campaign Is Doomed To Fail
"As well-intended as it is, the AIA’s I Look Upcampaign is, like Modernist architecture, doomed to failure."
http://forbes.com/sites/justinshubo…
Last-ditch bid launched to save Robin Hood Gardens from demolition
A high-profile campaign to save the Brutalist Robin Hood Gardens housing estate in London has been revived.
http://dezeen.com/2015/03/17/robin-…
The Future Was Latin America
Note Barry Bergoll's comment, "At that time, there was a very close relationship between the exhibition policies of MoMA and, through Rockefeller, the politics of the Office of Inter-American Affairs."
http://metropolismag.com/March-2015…
A New Life for Dead Malls
Developers have had to to get creative when it comes to salvaging America's failing shopping centers, turning them into hospitals, churches, and even parks.
http://theatlantic.com/business/arc…
Dieter Rams: If I Could Do It Again, “I Would Not Want To Be A Designer”
The lauded Braun designer reveals how architecture has influenced his work, what Apple gets right, and the kind of design he truly hates.
http://fastcodesign.com/3043815/die…
Next Progressives: SurfaceDesign
San Francisco-based SurfaceDesign finds inspiration in cultural elements excavated from the sites upon which the firm works.
http://architectmagazine.com/practi…
New Wing at Corning Museum of Glass Invites the Light
The new $64 million wing at the Corning Museum of Glass opens on March 20. Its three facades are entirely composed of oversized, almost seamless glass sheets, made opaque with a layer of white or gray silicone sandwiched in the middle.
http://nytimes.com/2015/03/15/arts/…
4 Reasons Why Design Is Taking Over Silicon Valley
VC design partner John Maeda says that the most successful tech companies of the future will really be design companies. Here's why.
http://fastcodesign.com/3043740/4-r…
Cultural Venue Cubed
Colgate University to build $21 million Center for Art and Culture by David Adjaye.
http://archpaper.com/news/articles.…
The Case Against Open Design Competitions
Open design competitions might seem democratic, but they're a lot of wasted work by a lot of talented people.
http://fastcodesign.com/3043286/the…
Hate Your Soulless Office Tower? Blame The Seagram Building
Mies Van Der Rohe's famed New York city skyscraper is the mid-century modernist equivalent of the gigantic hit record.
http://fastcodesign.com/3042844/hat…
Michael Graves, Prolific Architect, Dies at 80
Michael Graves was first associated with the New York Five, a group of prominent architects that achieved cultish stature by helping to redefine modernism during the 1970s.
http://nytimes.com/2015/03/13/arts/…
It’s Time for Architecture to Celebrate Diversity
Metropolis's editor in chief looks forward to a more diverse architectural field.
http://metropolismag.com/Its-Time-f…
In San Francisco, Affordable Housing with Imagination
Local firm, David Baker Architects converts a derelict motel into affordable and sustainable housing for people who were formerly homeless in the city’s needy Bayview neighborhood.
http://azuremagazine.com/article/sa…
TriBeCa Synagogue’s Memorable Building and Stubborn Architect
The TriBeCa Synagogue's potbellied sanctuary was designed by the architect William N. Breger.
http://nytimes.com/2015/03/12/nyreg…
Sarasota Museum of Art Names New Executive Director
Anne-Marie Russell, executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, Arizona, has been named executive director for the Sarasota Museum of Art.
http://artforum.com/news/id=50606
Frei Otto Wins The 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize
The 89 year old architect and engineer known for his daring glass and steel superstructures including the 1972 Munich Olympic Stadium.
http://blog.archpaper.com/2015/03/f…
Architect Visit: The Medieval Mist and Mystery of Big Sur
San Francisco-based architect Anne Fougeron designed a three-bedroom house with dramatic views (and the requisite walls of glass) and Marin-based landscape architect Eric Blasen surrounded it with a garden that thrives on medieval morning mist.
http://gardenista.com/posts/archite…
L.A.’s Longest Building Fits An Entire Neighborhood Under One Roof
Architect Michael Maltzan's latest housing development is a social experiment stretched over a quarter of a mile.
http://fastcodesign.com/3043236/sli…
Legislators Fail to Save Paul Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center
A vote to save Paul Rudolph's Orange County Goverment Center in Goshen, N.Y., was unsuccessful.
http://architectmagazine.com/preser…
