At Home With Maira Kalman
Walking into the New York City home of author and illustrator Maira Kalman is like stepping into the pages of one of her beautiful books.
Going to Church for Charlie
The slaughter of 12 people in or near the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is an attack on the freedom of the press, which is an attack on freedom. It is important that we don’t let it become anti-Islamic fodder for the right wing. It is critical that freedom-loving people stand in solidarity for a free press, for freedom of worship, and for some, freedom from worship.
Cape Cod Modern: Midcentury Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape
by Peter McMahon and Christine Cipriani
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
by Charles M. Blow. After childhood abuse, ‘Times’ columnist says he chose life over vengeance.
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
In high school, his novel, “A Meeting by the River reached out and told me it was fine to be gay and in search of something larger. Over the years
Desert Oasis
Palm Springs Art Museum opens architecture and design center.
A rule-breaking public artwork, but it’s just plain broken
The video screen installed on the side of Moscone West supposedly “explores how space functions in our culture.” Only problem: It’s been nonfunctioning since its 2003 installation.
George Lucas says museum could land in L.A. if Chicago falls through
George Lucas discusses his plans for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago in 2014.
It Takes a Village: Restoring Santa Monica’s Civic Center
‘Santa Monica Moved Towards that Rare Event in Los Angeles – A Pedestrian-Oriented Place’
Architecture for Humanity Files for Bankruptcy
Though the non-profit organization is closing due to a lack of funding, chapters around the world have expressed their desire to continue to stay active.
Q+A> GREG CASTILLO
Greg Castillo discusses the intersection of modern design and 1960s radicalism.
D.C. Historic Preservation Board to Review MLK Memorial Library Renovation Project
A look at the latest, though not final, designs for the renovation of the only library ever designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
The Forgotten History of Mies van der Rohe’s MLK Memorial Library
Looking back at the making of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library helps to explain its future.
Designing for Past and Future
The updated Cooper Hewitt museum makes 21st-century technology mesh with a Neo-Georgian building.
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
Shape Shifter
A reflection on a half century of architect Michael Graves’s work spans failures and triumphs.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
He reminds us that the impossible is possible. Still. And we continue to fight racism, poverty, and militarization.
Louis Kahn (1901-1974)
Louis Kahn was the 20th century architect who explored through the built environment several meanings of the word secular until it almost touched the sacred.
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.
Civic Duty
An architect returns to Italy.