“True architecture is life” says RIBA Royal Gold Medal-winner Balkrishna Doshi
Architecture should seek to respond to human behaviour and not dictate it, says this year’s RIBA Royal Gold Medal-winner Balkrishna Doshi in this interview.
Celebrating the Centennial of (Arguably) the World’s First Modern House, in West Hollywood
R. M. Schindler’s austere experiment in communal living is still an inspiration.
Design Q&A: Max Lamb
By connecting art and anthropology to materiality and improvisation, furniture designer Max Lamb creates work that embodies new histories of craft.
Postcard from Austin
Austin is hot in the summer. One way to escape the heat is to get in the water, especially cold water. Austin has one of the most remarkable swimming “pools”
The Historical Present: Collective Solitude at Coenties Slip
For the past five years I’ve been consumed by the story of a group of artists who lived and worked from 1956–1967 in nineteenth-century sailmaking and maritime lofts on a
Los Angeles Architects and Leaders Take on Their City’s Homeless Crisis
Christopher Hawthorne, L.A.’s chief design officer, discusses how a culture of design innovation is helping tackle a growing calamity and provide dignity, shelter, and gracious interior spaces to thousands.
Paul Robeson Spent His Life Fighting Against America’s Extreme Right
Paul Robeson, the socialist actor, musician, and civil rights campaigner, dedicated his life to battling against right-wing red-baiting that has echoes in reactionary crusades against progressive education and “critical race
What Landscape Architects and Urban Designers Can Learn About Public Space From Cuba
It was certainly what I had come for: I was sitting on broad, cobbled steps, watching people interact in the public realm.
David M. Roth on Andrew Schoultz
Andrew Schoultz may be tempering his more extravagant theatrical impulses, but his desire for wide-angle views of the human condition remains intact.
Architecture Media in the Attention-Economy Era
Australian sociologist Robert van Krieken has argued that we live in a celebrity-obsessed society driven by an economy where “attention has become a form of capital in the Information and
Design practices must lead the way in rethinking capitalism to save the planet
The environmental crisis is rooted in the same systems of oppression as capitalism and colonialism.
Wild waves, perfect pipes: Milton Avery, the original abstract expressionist – review
As this brilliant exhibition shows, Avery was an experimental dreamer whose sublime landscapes and beach scenes paved the way for Rothko, Pollock and Newman.
Why Are We Still Talking About Black Mountain College?
In 1933, a handful of renegade teachers opened a school in rural North Carolina that would go on to shape American art and art education for decades to come.
Messages from Angel Island: Powerful Personal Histories at a Former U.S. Immigration Station
Around December of 1923, Mrs. Lee (born Jeong Hing Tong) boarded a steamship in Hong Kong, bound for San Francisco.
Grace Jones: The Design Evolution of a Superstar
So perfect was the cultivation of Jones’ public image that it has become embedded not only in our retinas but in pop culture itself.
How Do the Critics of Yesteryear Think About Urban Density?
In the 1960s and 1970s, a series of critiques of the modern city appeared.
Los Angeles Architects and Leaders Take on Their City’s Homeless Crisis
Christopher Hawthorne, L.A.’s chief design officer, discusses how a culture of design innovation is helping tackle a growing calamity and provide dignity, shelter, and gracious interior spaces to thousands.
Is There a Difference Between a Cult and a Brand?
The recent slew of TV shows on cults + tech titans proves that they’re way more similar than we think.