‘Is this going to be a joyous place?’ … the architects asking revolutionary questions
How do you build the perfect town? You send for Public Practice, the initiative that’s tempting architects back into the public sector.
On Gordon Walker: A Poetic Architecture: Coming Summer 2019, ARCADE Publications
Over dinner one December evening in 2018, architectural scholar Grant Hildebrand held court with the team for his forthcoming book on Northwest architect Gordon Walker. They discussed the nature of
TEN Arquitectos Designs a Beacon for the Resistance
The new home for Make the Road New York, a leading immigrant rights group, aspires to be a transparent gathering place in an age of walls.
Valerio Dewalt Train Blends Virtual and Natural Worlds for YouTube Headquarters Lobby
San Bruno, California.
Dredging Up Old Modern Memories
Recollections of the first families who lived in homes designed by architects such as Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier.
WTARCH’s Elysian Fields Project Embraces L.A.’s Eclecticism
Pal Sam Lubell writes on a new project in LA.
The Untold Story of Aline Louchheim Saarinen
Dr. Eva Hagberg writes a long piece that is essential reading.
How Two Getty Initiatives Are Saving Global Modernist Heritage
The Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative (CMAI) and Keeping It Modern grant are dedicated to supporting new methods and technologies for the conservation of Modernist buildings.
Sterile or stirring? Britain’s love-hate relationship with new towns
Paternalistic social engineering or make-Britain-great-again utopianism? A new archive film compilation takes a look at the UK’s controversial postwar towns.
Studio VARA Revitalizes a Spacious Apartment in San Francisco’s SoMa Neighborhood
The apartment, which looks out to the Bay Bridge, features ample exposed concrete, white oak accents, and a luxe travertine bathroom.
The modernist enclave that tested a utopian vision of LA
Part of the Crestwood Hills dream lives on in a canyon above Sunset Boulevard (so glad Curbed is doing these long form pieces).
Kuth Ranieri + TLS transform a dilapidated roller coaster into steel mesh aviary in china
Tom Leader Studio Landscape Architecture (TLS) and Kuth Ranieri Architects’ winning proposal for a new 74-hectare urban park at the foot of lion mountain in Suzhou, China.
Another view on Sea Ranch and its SFMOMA exhibit
I review the exhibit, The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA).
David Baker Architects Designs Healdsburg’s Intoxicating Harmon Guest House
Piazza Hospitality and David Baker Architects.
A Look Back at the Work of Several Celebrated Photographers
An important piece by Pierluigi Serraino, AIA.
All the Stories: John van Duyl 1951–2019
The first time John van Duyl picked me up for lunch, he was driving a recent model Mercedes. He probably took me to Chez Panisse. I thought, “This PR business
With a roving food truck, a Californian design studio gives and gains urban insight
Design road trip.
Opinion: What Was the Bauhaus?
The legacy of the legendary design school is both universal — and universally misunderstood.
Balfron Tower
We’re all to blame for the gentrification of Erno Goldfinger’s brutalist Balfron Tower, says Owen Hatherley, so stop getting angry at the architects.
Martin Puryear, Citizen-Sculptor
One of my favorite American artists, Martin Puryear, goes to Venice.
Watergate is a place, too
Once at the forefront of D.C. development, can the (in)famous complex adapt for a new generation?
