Review> Inside Stories of Handcrafted Space
Every now and then, a book arrives which is not just a handsome presentation of information, but also a completely satisfying aesthetic object.
Urban Field Notes: Eight Bay Area landmarks make the case for concrete
When I was growing up, anti-urbanists spoke about concrete as if it were the material of the devil: “concrete jungle” or “ribbons of concrete” or “cold as concrete.”
Review> Ben Thompson’s Retail Love Affair
The iconic D/R store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, opened in 1969, made a powerful urban statement while signaling the future of seductive retail design.
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Shaun O’Dell
It’s been five years since Shaun O’Dell visited Paulson Bott Press.
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Christopher Brown
Chris Brown is an optimist who reworks material that celebrates ambiguity.
Berkeley’s Many Revolutions
A review of Design on the Edge: A Century of Teaching Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, 1903–2003
Barry Elbasani, FAIA, 1941-2010
A recent conversation with the gruff optimist and realistic urbanist about his history, inspirations, and aspirations.
Water: Reordering the Paradigm
Bill Wilson is a jack-of-all-trades water guy, an environmental engineer, water resources advocate, and finance and development consultant.
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Edgar Arceneaux
Edgar Arceneaux is well known for his videos as well as his exquisitely detailed drawings.
Art in the Time of Recession
Purchasing art for public spaces requires balancing an authentic aspiration to support the visual arts against the prosaic need to fill a specific interior space.
David Sokol interviews Kenneth Caldwell
Over the years, I’ve fielded queries from designers hunting for a public-relations agent.
CAMP Notes: Forget Don Fisher. Do we want the art or not?
More and more articles keep appearing about the new design for the Contemporary Art Museum at the Presidio (CAMP) in San Francisco, intended to house Gap founder Donald Fisher’s art
Ask an Urban Historian
San Jose, Calif. and London, England find themselves in a similar historic preservation predicament: Both cities are deciding whether to save or demolish large libraries built in the Brutalist style.
Design for Aging: Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Joyce Polhamus
This area of architecture, senior living, has negative connotations for a lot of people, including architects.
Meet Lucia Eames, the Latest Midcentury Design Celebrity
Crate & Barrel just introduced a new line of Eames housewares. No, not that Eames.
Behind Business Development: A step-by-step guide to creating a consistent flow of work
Business development is about putting yourself in your clients’ shoes and communicating with them about what they are interested in.
CAMP Reconsidered – an interview with Mark Horton, AIA
The Contemporary Art Museum in the Presidio, known as CAMP, ran into several roadblocks in 2008.
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews David Huffman
David Huffman arranges rich compositions that explore identity and socio-political history in a futuristic world of metaphor.
Joan Didion and the Western Spirit
The Hammer Museum won the claim on Didion’s legacy, with its expansive new show on the poet of California.
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Christopher Brown
Christopher Brown was the first artist to work with Paulson Press.
Q&A: John Rahaim
John Rahaim, former planning director for the City of Seattle, assumed his duties as San Francisco’s new planning director in January.
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Caio Fonseca
Last year Caio Fonseca returned to Paulson Press and created four new prints that relate to his earlier work but also foreshadow his recent, more reductive paintings.