Maira Kalman’s Irreverent Pictures for the Grammar Bible
I love Maira Kalman.
Judith Chafee: Dean of desert architecture
A great talent in the desert.
The overlooked African American architect who completed Louis Kahn’s masterpiece
Talking about Henry Wilcots.
Can Tiny Homes Help Solve America’s Big Homelessness Problem?
Problem solving with the tiny house movement.
USC Architecture Students and MADWORKSHOP Collaborate to Combat LA’s Homeless Epidemic
Thinking about LA’s homeless population.
Letter from London
I had been hoping to spend the summer looking at art, architecture, and design in London and other places in the EU. And then sharing what connections I could
Notting Hill’s famous Trellick Tower
Stories from Trellick Tower.
Architecture at Play: A New Class of Exhibits at the National Building Museum
In the last five years, the National Building Museum has begun hosting a “Summer Block Party,” a program that takes over the Great Hall and features wonderfully surprising large-scale exhibitions.
Los Gatos Home by Mark English Architects
Renovation and addition to an existing single-family midcentury hillside house.
Met Breuer exhibit introduces an Ettore Sottsass you’ve never seen before
Sot’s was never my cup of tea but sounds like an exhibit worth seeing.
wHY chosen to complete landmark ross pavilion next to Edinburgh castle
US firm wHY has been selected ahead of David Adjaye, Bjarke Ingels, and Sou Fujimoto to complete a new building on a historically significant site in Edinburgh, Scotland. Wonder how Edinburgh
My Buddy
Patti Smith on Sam Shepard.
Charles Moore (1925-1993)
Aaron Betsky on Charles Moore.
Emergency Shelter: Housing for the Age of Mass Displacement
Today, forced displacement affects more people than any crisis or conflict. According to the UN, 65.3 million people, or one person in every 113, is now internally or externally displaced.
L.A. architect David C. Martin’s unusual Mexico travel journal
David Martin, FAIA, paints beautifully.
Walkie Talkie tower: stark reminder of forces that rule the City
Rafael Viñoly’s controversial tower is news again, this time due to its record-breaking £1.3bn sale price – 167% profit on development cost
The sublime and brutal architecture of Vito Acconci
Vito Acconci from art to architecture/design.
Harvard Reveals Richard Rogers’ Wimbledon House Restoration
Originally designed for the British architect’s parents in the 1960s, the property is now home to Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Richard Rogers Fellowship.