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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.http://nytimes.com/2015/01/18/arts/…
Shape Shifter
A reflection on a half century of architect Michael Graves’s work spans failures and triumphs.http://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.http://architectmagazine.com/busine…
Harvard’s three-in-one ‘teaching museum’ offers other art institutions much to learn
Teaching museums.http://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.http://fastcodesign.com/3040687/the…
O-office renovates immigrant dormitory into colorful youth hotel
http://designboom.com/architecture/…
The Failures of Architecture Criticism
Many architects are out of touch, but so are architecture critics.http://huffingtonpost.com/lance-hos…
271 Years Before Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every Color Imaginable in an 800-Page Book
http://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.http://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.http://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.http://archrecord.construction.com/…
Artists worldwide respond to Charlie Hebdo tragedy with powerful drawings
Illustrators worldwide respond to Charlie Hebdo tragedy with powerful drawings.http://designboom.com/art/artists-w…
Five Teams Shortlisted To Restore Mackintosh’s Glasgow School Of Art
http://archdaily.com/585359/five-te…
Architecture Continues To Implode: More Insiders Admit The Profession Is Failing
http://forbes.com/sites/justinshubo…
How Designers Turn Data Into Beautiful Infographics
Behind the scenes of information architects' creative processes.http://fastcodesign.com/3040415/how…
The Life and Death of U.S. Architecture: 10 Buildings That Were Rescued or Razed in 2014
http://architizer.com/blog/rescued-…