Work as If Immortal: A Review of Wendy Lesser’s “You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn”
Pal John Parman reviews the new Kahn biography.
Homage to Mexico: Josef Albers and His Reality-Based Abstraction
A radiant Guggenheim exhibition grounds the proto-Minimalist abstract paintings of Josef Albers in the geometric grandeur of Mesoamerican monuments.
Successful replacement for decrepit but beloved funky-art Howard Street site
John King reviews Bill Sorro designed by Owen Kennerly.
Tod Williams And Billie Tsien Dallas Home Tour
A modern architecture lover taps Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects to build her dream house in Dallas.
This Designer Quit His Federal Job. Now He’s Working To Elect More Women
The website Project 100 aims to get 100 women elected to Congress.
London’s new US embassy: a very diplomatic America on Thames
London’s new US embassy may be just a glass cube with disguised fortifications, but it is also restrained, efficient, green… the antithesis of Donald Trump.
From Brownfields to a New Transit-Oriented Downtown
David Baker Architect’s modular development in Northern California.
How 5 Technology Companies in NYC Are Incorporating Design Into Their Workspaces
Pal Primo Orpilla gets a shout-out in the Huffington Post.
Paul Goldberger Reflects on Vincent Scully’s Legacy
Paul Goldberger on the passing of Vincent Scully.
9 Things You Might Not Know About Landscape Architect Dan Kiley’s Enduring Milwaukee Legacies
A local (Milwaukee) piece on Dan Kiley.
Richard Rogers’ Wimbledon House Gets a New Lease on Life
22 Parkside, the experimental London home architect Richard Rogers designed for his parents in the late 1960s, has been converted to a research and event space.
Richard Meier on the Getty Center as it turns 20
The Getty at Twenty. Chris Hawthorne talks to Richard Meier.
Potrero 1010 Combines Mixed-Income With Neighborhood-Serving Space in San Francisco
David Baker Architects designs a new infill concept for a public–private partnership.
After the fires, the Monterey Design Conference offers a chance for reflection
Your loyal correspondent reports on the Monterey Design Conference.
Off the Grid on Hawaii Island
Pal Lianne Yu discovers some Hawaiians living off the grid. There might be more models there than we think.
Publicity Stunt? “Working-Class Theme Park?” Questions Loom for the V&A’s Three-Story Robin Hood Gardens Fragment
The Victoria & Albert Museum is preserving a three-story chunk of the Peter and Alison Smithson–designed Robin Hood Gardens housing project.
