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A Leader in Socially Conscious Architecture Is Closing Amid Financial Woes

Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit design group that sought to repair the world with socially conscious construction in places like Kosovo, Haiti and hurricane-ravaged Mississippi, has abruptly closed its San Francisco headquarters and plans to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection.
external linkhttp://nytimes.com/2015/01/18/arts/…
 

Shape Shifter

A reflection on a half century of architect Michael Graves’s work spans failures and triumphs.
external linkhttp://metropolismag.com/December-2…
 

Swanke Hayden Connell Files for Bankruptcy

The architecture and interior design firm, known for its work on the Fifth Avenue Trump Tower in Manhattan and restoring the Statue of Liberty in the 1980s, claims it is unable to collect more than $2 million from an assignment in Russia.  
external linkhttp://architectmagazine.com/busine…
 

How Much Public Space Does a City Need?


external linkhttp://nextcity.org/daily/entry/how…
 

Civic Duty

An architect returns to Italy.  
external linkhttp://newyorker.com/magazine/2015/…
 

Compelling case for gray at Pomona College’s Studio Art Hall


external linkhttp://latimes.com/entertainment/ar…
 

Harvard’s three-in-one ‘teaching museum’ offers other art institutions much to learn

Teaching museums.
external linkhttp://washingtonpost.com/entertain…
 

The Remarkably Intimate Houses Of Father-Son Architects Eliel And Eero Saarinen

A new book focuses on the small-scale projects of the Finnish-American architecture family.
external linkhttp://fastcodesign.com/3040687/the…
 

O-office renovates immigrant dormitory into colorful youth hotel


external linkhttp://designboom.com/architecture/…
 

The Failures of Architecture Criticism

Many architects are out of touch, but so are architecture critics.  
external linkhttp://huffingtonpost.com/lance-hos…
 

‘House With a Floating Roof’ is Flattened


external linkhttp://eichlernetwork.com/blog/dave…
 

271 Years Before Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every Color Imaginable in an 800-Page Book


external linkhttp://thisiscolossal.com/2014/05/c…
 

Village Health Works Staff Housing / Louise Braverman

Embedded in mountainside of the rural village of Kigutu, the 18-bed Village Health Works Staff Housing is a romance between East African elemental aesthetics and inventive off-the grid sustainability.  
external linkhttp://archdaily.com/584768/village…
 

From World War II To Woodstock And Beyond: The History Of Volkswagen In 2 Minutes

Watch how Volkswagen's famous wheels have been parked at the front of many important moments in world history.          
external linkhttp://fastcompany.com/3037164/from…
 

Behemoth on the Beach

Christian de Portzamparc's massive, much-maligned Cidade das Artes is a grandiose emblem of Rio's ambitions.
external linkhttp://archrecord.construction.com/…
 

Bringing city planning to the people who live with it


external linkhttp://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/plac…
 

Thom Collins Named Director of Barnes Foundation


external linkhttp://mediabistro.com/unbeige/thom…
 

Artists worldwide respond to Charlie Hebdo tragedy with powerful drawings

Illustrators worldwide respond to Charlie Hebdo tragedy with powerful drawings.  
external linkhttp://designboom.com/art/artists-w…
 

Five Teams Shortlisted To Restore Mackintosh’s Glasgow School Of Art


external linkhttp://archdaily.com/585359/five-te…
 

Tower design at Market and Van Ness dramatic but down to earth


external linkhttp://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti…
 

Architecture Continues To Implode: More Insiders Admit The Profession Is Failing


external linkhttp://forbes.com/sites/justinshubo…
 

How Designers Turn Data Into Beautiful Infographics

Behind the scenes of information architects' creative processes.  
external linkhttp://fastcodesign.com/3040415/how…
 

Ricardo Porro, Exiled Cuban Architect, Dies at 89


external linkhttp://nytimes.com/2014/12/30/arts/…
 

The Life and Death of U.S. Architecture: 10 Buildings That Were Rescued or Razed in 2014


external linkhttp://architizer.com/blog/rescued-…
 

Revive the Grand Theatre

   
external linkhttp://grayarea.org/
 

Placewares | Sea Ranch

A must-see if you are up at Sea Ranch.
external linkhttp://placewares.com