Fifty Years of “Learning from Las Vegas”
The cool appraisal of Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi’s revolutionary book has a lot to inspire the architects of today.
https://newyorker.com/culture/cultu…
Sacralized Space: Theaster Gates on the Practice of Placemaking
Place. It’s the ability to locate oneself where one belongs. Place is the manifestation of care.
https://deemjournal.com/stories/the…
The architecture does matter in the storming of the National Congress
On 8 January, supporters of defeated Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro swarmed the heart of the nation's capital, Brasília, in a mass protest that turned into a rampage of vandalism.
https://dezeen.com/2023/01/26/archi…
The Case for Truly Public Housing
A municipal authority in Massachusetts has deftly negotiated the privatization and deregulation of the housing market.
https://placesjournal.org/article/t…
America, the Bland
Across the country, new developments are starting to look the same, raising fears that cities are losing their unique charm. But in the current housing crisis, does that matter?
https://nytimes.com/2023/01/20/real…
Natural Light / Symbiosis Exhibition
John Priola’s exhibition of ten recent photographic prints, Natural Light / Symbiosis, slyly exemplifies such moments, eliciting slow and careful looking.
https://squarecylinder.com/2023/01/…
Practice With Purpose: How to Radically Redesign the Practice of Architecture
Architecture isn’t about one or two things—it’s about everything.
https://commonedge.org/practice-wit…
Watching What’s Next: Architectural Record’s Cathleen McGuigan on Her Tenure, Evolution, and Mentorship
In her interview with Julia Gamolina, she talks about her focus during her time at Architectual Record and what’s next, advising those just starting their careers to find mentors across generations.
https://madamearchitect.org/intervi…
How should we think about our different styles of thinking?
Some people say their thought takes place in images, some in words. But our mental processes are more mysterious than we realize.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2023…
Frank Auerbach: Artist Friends
In this candid interview with Richard Calvocoressi, the painter Frank Auerbach reminisces on his friendships with Michael Andrews, Francis Bacon, and Lucian Freud.
https://gagosian.com/quarterly/2022…
How the Artist Kehinde Wiley Went from Picturing Power to Building It
His portrait of Obama sparked a nationwide pilgrimage. Now he’s establishing an arts empire of his own.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2023…
There’s More Than One Way to Define Context
Bauer Wurster Hall is the home of the school’s College of Environmental Design (CED). Originally, it housed the departments of architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and design.
https://commonedge.org/theres-more-…
Under the Influence
Playing with the tension between photography and design, two architects create a novel form of image making.
https://issues.aperture.org/article…
Witold Rybczynski on The Story of Architecture
Witold Rybczynski’s latest book—he’s written 22 now, at last count—is The Story of Architecture (Yale University Press), and it’s as comprehensive as the title implies.
https://commonedge.org/witold-rybcz…
The Iterative States of America
In a political era defined by dysfunction, can design play a role in engaging voters—and even help them believe in democracy again?
https://eamesinstitute.org/kazam-ma…
How Much Would It Cost to End Homelessness in California for Good?
About $8 billion per year, according to a new housing needs assessment — or less than 3% of the state budget.
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles…
Mike Kelley: the Fine Art of Dropping Out
Mike Kelley’s interest in architecture peaked in 1990, when he collaborated with Frank Gehry on a design proposal for the offices of the Chiat/Day ad agency.
https://eastofborneo.org/articles/t…
Lessons from my dying therapist: care less, have fun – and accept the inevitable
In watching my beloved counsellor die, I finally learned how to live.
https://theguardian.com/society/202…
Mark Van Proyen on Joan Brown
Twenty-two years have passed since the last Joan Brown retrospective was held in two parts at the University Art Museum at Berkeley and the Oakland Art Museum.
https://squarecylinder.com/2022/12/…
Field Notes on Design Activism: 2
This is the second installment of a narrative survey in which several dozen educators and practitioners share perspectives on the intensifying demands for meaningful change across design pedagogy and practice
https://placesjournal.org/article/f…
Tom Stoppard Fears the Virus of Antisemitism Has Been Reactivated
“There are lines in the play,” says Tom Stoppard, thinking back to a few years ago, when he was working on “Leopoldstadt,” “that land in a very different way now.”
https://nytimes.com/interactive/202…
An Architecture Critic’s Street-Level Take on a Restless Metropolis
In “The Intimate City,” Michael Kimmelman takes readers on a series of history-laden strolls through a New York City that never stops changing.
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles…
Walter De Maria: The object, the action, the aesthetic feeling
The definitive monograph on the work of Walter De Maria was published earlier this fall.
https://gagosian.com/quarterly/2022…
Move over Sydney Opera House – there’s a new superstar in town
It has been called the most significant cultural addition to the Australian city for 50 years.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Journey to the Doomsday Glacier
Thwaites could reshape the world’s coastlines. But how do you study one of the world’s most inaccessible places?
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2022…
Duncan Hannah’s Seventies New York
In the last decade, a cottage industry has sprung up around wistful recollections of New York in the seventies.
https://theparisreview.org/blog/201…
