Lonnie Holley

Artist Lonnie Holley works in a variety of forms and materials. His first pieces were sandstone carvings, tombstones for two of his sister’s young children, who had died in a

35 Books Every Designer Should Read

We asked some of the world’s top design schools to share their favorite books. Here’s what they recommend for your summer reading list.

Sea Ranch Is 50: Kenneth Caldwell Looks At The History And Future Of The Iconic California Site

This article originally appeared in the The Architect’s Newspaper, May 26, 2015 Studio Visit subject Moore Ruble Yudell is the legacy firm of architectural master Charles Moore, who founded the company more than

What 10 Dieter Rams Products Reveal About The Principles Of Good Design

Even some of the lesser known work from Dieter Rams and his studio demonstrate his famous 10 principles of good design. Here’s how.

Good Design

A public interest movement redefines architecture.

Kate Macintosh: one of Britain’s great unsung architects of social housing

Kate Macintosh’s bold, humane buildings for public benefit began in the 60s with the remarkable Dawson’s Heights estate in Dulwich, south London. And yet much loved work like hers is

Is Craig Ellwood’s beachfront Hunt House in jeopardy?

Documents filed with city of Malibu seek demolition of Craig Ellwood-designed Hunt House.

The Lawn Road Flats (History of British Intelligence)

by David Burke

Home Renovation for a Modern Family in Bel Air

A renovation by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects and Planners.

MoMA Adds Rainbow Flag To Permanent Design Collection

New York’s Museum of Modern Art announced today that it has added the Rainbow Flag, the universal symbol of gay pride, to its permanent design collection.

Boys & Girls Club Design Enhances Surroundings And Kids’ Lives

This isn’t marquee architecture. Think of it instead as well-modulated modernism — an affirmation of a city’s need to provide landscapes for all its residents, especially children who might have

Indian architect Charles Correa dies aged 84

The founder of Mumbai-based Charles Correa Associates – whose work includes the Mahatma Gandhi memorial in Ahmedabad and the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Portugal – died on 16 June in the

Corb’s lost tapestry comes ‘home’ to Sydney Opera House

Le Corbusier’s little known tapestry commissioned by Jørn Utzon for the Sydney Opera House will finally be installed in its intended place.

Crit> Whitney Museum Of American Art

Renzo Piano has not made a building to love, but one in which the art viewing experience is given priority.

What Would Mies Say?

David Chipperfield’s “Sticks and Stones” Installation in The Neue Nationalgalerie

Didier Faustino captures Cuba’s ruined School of Ballet using cage-mounted device

French artist Didier Faustino is staging a month-long performance around Havana’s Modernist School of Ballet, strapping a camera rig to a local resident who is exploring the ruins during the city’s art biennial.

The Slow Death of a Brutalist Vision for Buffalo

Architect Paul Rudolph had an ambitious plan for Buffalo’s waterfront, but it was only ever partly realized. Today, proof of it is beginning to disappear.

How Teddy Cruz is Reimagining the American Dream

Teddy Cruz thinks we’ve got suburbia all wrong. He has a new way of developing cities, and he’s drawing inspiration from an unlikely place just across the border from his

ÉCAL students take over Apartment N°50 at Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse

Students from Swiss university ÉCAL are the latest designers to refit an apartment in Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse housing block in Marseille.

Glass House Landscape: A “Permanent Camping Trip” for Architect Philip Johnson by Betsy Gleick

Architecture and landscaping, Johnson once said, are “one art.” At his own home, the Glass House in New Canaan, Conn., where he lived for almost 60 years until his death

When Albers Met Saarinen Alexander Gorlin Reimagines An Eero Saarinen Landmark

The adaptive reuse of the great Bell Laboratories.

Video: Tadao Ando on Designing His First New York Building

“A living space should be a sanctuary. It has to be a place where you can reflect on your life.” – Tadao Ando

Wildwood: The East Coast Capital of Googie… uh, I mean Doo-Wop

This is just so groovy!

Culture by Design: Lessons From Today’s Tech Workplaces

Huntsman Architectural Group president, Sascha Wagner on modern tech workplaces.

Uber Eleventh Floor

“This eleventh floor is the more rebellious cousin of the Uber headquarters,” says Denise Cherry, principal at Studio O+A.

California housing by Leddy Maytum Stacy addresses the needs of residents with autism

Designing for autism.