Age of the Modern Home
New England’s modern house museums experience a surge of interest.
http://artnewengland.com/ed_picks/a…
To What Will Pullman Be a Monument?
Columnist Aaron Betsky reacts to the recent designation of Pullman, Ill., as a national landmark.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Peter Zumthor’s Plan For LACMA Undergoes Makeover
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor's lastest design for a new Los Angeles County Museum of Art is less curvy and incorporates double-height galleries that will extend beyond the roofline.
http://latimes.com/entertainment/ar…
A Rare Interview With Graphic Design Legend Massimo Vignelli
From 2006, the late designer shares the story behind his infamous New York subway map and why typographic elegance will prevail.
http://fastcodesign.com/3044133/a-r…
Empty gestures: Starchitecture’s Swan Song
Architecture must move on from pandering to preposterous concepts in an adolescent search for momentary excitement. But to do this will require a more critical perspective from architectural academe and the media.
http://architectural-review.com/ess…
25 Ideas Shaping The Future Of Design
What the landscape of design will look like in 2020, according to the most innovative designers of 2015.
http://fastcodesign.com/3043624/25-…
Bolling Building An Architectural Gem In Roxbury
The Ferdinand building in Dudley Square, built in 1901, has been restored as part of new Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building in Roxbury.
https://bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/0…
The iF Design Award Honors The Top 10 Interior Architecture Projects Of 2015
http://designboom.com/architecture/…
What Does It Take for an Architect to Disown a Project?
http://architizer.com/blog/architec…
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…
