Editorial > It’s The Client, Stupid
Sam Lubell asks architects to widen their focus, not fight over style.
Crit > Princeton Train Station
Rick Joy’s design for a commuter rail station in Princeton is endowed with civic importance and a sense of grace.
The Art Of Design: Q+A With MoMA’s Paola Antonelli
Undeniably one of the most important people in design today, Paola Antonelli is MoMA’s (Museum of Modern Art) senior curator in the Department of Architecture and Design.
Exhibition on “The Russian Bauhaus” Illustates the Birth of Modernism
By the 1920s, airplane travel had made art and architecture a global profession, at least in the dissemination and cross-contamination of ideas. All over the globe, colonialism and otherwise globalized
Pierre Paulin: Beyond Pop
A revival of interest in the iconic 1960s and ’70s work of the French designer has revealed an artist whose career was more varied and extensive than most realize.
James Beard Foundation Announces Six Nominees in Restaurant Design
The awards for Restaurant Design, which were added to the JBF Awards in 1994, recognize aesthetic contributions to the culinary industry by architects and designers in North America.
Nueva School In California Explores Architecture’s Role In Learning
San Francisco-based Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects designed the Nueva School in San Mateo in a way which offers an “ecology of learning” and addresses the issue of architecture’s role in
Frei Otto’s Lightness Of Being
In recent years, the announcement of the Pritzker Prize has fueled as much debate about the prize itself and about the state of the architecture profession as it has about
Age of the Modern Home
New England’s modern house museums experience a surge of interest.
To What Will Pullman Be a Monument?
Columnist Aaron Betsky reacts to the recent designation of Pullman, Ill., as a national landmark.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.”