Cloud-shape design floated for Lucas museum
He’s back.
Art Dealers Move Out of the Gallery and Into a Taco Bell
Art and architecture together!
Meet Patrik Schumacher, Zaha Hadid’s Ambitious, Abrasive Successor
Our pal Sam Lubell interviews Zaha Hadid’s architectural heir.
Landslide: Northwestern Modernist Gem At-Risk
The campus faces an uncertain future due to a proposed re-development.
Road Trip Through America’s Great Open Spaces
The Wright Road Trip.
The Dying Dream of Arcosanti, a Futurist’s Utopian Fantasy
A nostalgic future.
Midcentury dreamin’: Inside an architect’s knockout home in San Diego
A real pick me up!
A West Coast Firm Establishes an East Coast Base: An Interview with Primo Orpilla of Studio O+A
Our pals Primo and Verda of Studio O + A collect the Cooper Hewitt Design today!
The New York That Could Have Been
Sam Lubell is in The New Yorker!
Great Man Theory: A Review of Pierluigi Serraino’s “The Creative Architect: Inside the Great Midcentury Personality Study”
John Parman checks out Pierluigi Serraino’s new book!
Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards: Catching Up With Winner Studio O+A
Architizer talks with husband-and-wife team Primo Orpilla and Verda Alexander.
César’s palace: restoring Luis Barragán’s Casa Prieto-Lopez
Casa Prieto-López was designed in the late 1940s by Barragán and is widely recognized as one of his most iconic residential projects.
The Goldberg variation: High-rise public housing that works
Bertrand Goldberg’s Hilliard Homes opened as a model community in 1966. It still is today.
The Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker on Renovating a Landmark
Martin Pedersen interviews Darren Walker.
When public housing goes private
Zach Mortice checks in from Chicago.
INSIGHT: Communication Issues in A/E/C Firms
10 predominant communications failures that hinder both individual career growth and business success.
The Barbican laid bare: inside London’s most famous Brutalist housing estate
Inside the Barbican!
What Is A ‘Stabilized Relic’?
David Wessel, Principal of ARG Conservation Services talks about stabilizing de la Montanya Monument.
What Architecture Has in Common with Organized Religion
What does modern religion and architecture have in common?
Bhutan’s Buddhist Architecture
Laura Blake is an architect with an independent practice in San Francisco. She has degrees in art history and architecture and was the writer and photographer for a recent book
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, on the edge
Alexandra Lange weighs in on some recent work from DSR.
Which William Pereira Buildings Are Worth Preserving?
Aaron Betsky raises a good question. I am not a big fan of Pereira’s and I still find the Transamerica Pyramid clunky. But it’s good we are having the discussion.
Art Deco Los Angeles
Deco delicious in downtown LA.
Parliament for the people: the architect rebuilding Burkina Faso’s political heart
I heard this architect, Francis Kéré speak at the Record Innovations Conference. Simply amazing.