Journey to the Doomsday Glacier
Thwaites could reshape the world’s coastlines. But how do you study one of the world’s most inaccessible places?
Duncan Hannah’s Seventies New York
In the last decade, a cottage industry has sprung up around wistful recollections of New York in the seventies.
Field Notes on Design Activism: 1
This is the first installment of a narrative survey in which several dozen educators and practitioners share perspectives on the intensifying demands for meaningful change across design pedagogy and practice.
The Erotics of Cy Twombly
When I read this “biography” of Twombly I wasn’t sure why the author finished the book. This article crossed my screen today and is worth reading.
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Caroline Kent
The first time I looked at Caroline Kent’s mural installation at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), I felt a moment from childhood calling.
Poetry, Power and Loss in Theaster Gates’s Survey
Known for his social practice, performance, sculpture and work with archives, the Chicago artist memorializes those who shaped his worldview in his first major American museum survey.
I Remember All Too Well: Taylor Swift and Joe Brainard
Last year, I began running the trail at Lake Storey in Galesburg, Illinois, where I live. My friend S. recommended Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)”
Return to Sender
The Eames Collection contains hundreds of postcards ranging from marketing materials Ray and Charles created for the Herman Miller Furniture Company to souvenirs they bought during their travels and items
Maurice Sendak’s ageless imagination
The Columbus Museum of Art’s exhibition “Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak,” the first retrospective of Sendak’s work since his death, in 2012.
Theodore Prudon: ‘Modernism Has Never Been a Popular Movement’
Theodore Prudon, the founding president of Docomomo US, recently stepped down as the organization’s head.
Monterey Design Conference: The Non-Round-Up
For years, I would attend the AIACC Monterey Design Conference at Asilomar and write a round-up of what I saw and heard.
The Broken Dreams of L.A.’s Grand Avenue
Frank Gehry’s decades-in-the-making tower complex in the center of Downtown Los Angeles fails to live up to its signature.
How One Architect Helped Imagine a Better Future for a Nigerian Village in Crisis
After suffering a terrorist attack in 2014, Ngarannam is now celebrating the opening of its new village, a project by the UNDP and Tosin Oshinowo that promises to make their
The Berkeley Art Museum, a Modernist Landmark, is Reengineered and Redesigned
A team led by MBH Architects have shored up the seismically vulnerable building and threaded in new labs and offices to create the new Bakar BioEnginuity Hub.
Where the Global and Local Intersect: A Conversation with Enrique Norten, FAIA
Enrique Norten, Hon. FAIA, spoke at the Monterey Design Conference on Saturday September 13, 2003.
On a Mission: A Profile of Herman & Coliver: Architecture
The office resembles other South of Market design studios. Concrete walls, wood trusses, diffuse daylight. But Herman & Coliver: Architecture is unlike most architectural offices.
A New Yet Familiar Neighbor: Goldman School of Public Policy UC Berkeley by Architectural Resources Group
A new annex becomes a hands-on experience in preservation and urban design policy that garners neighborhood groups and local preservationists approval.
Interview with Elaine Jones
Quincy Jones, FAIA, died ten years ago on August 3, 1979. Kenneth Caldwell talks with Quincy’s widow, Elaine Jones, about some of his inspirations, projects, and ideas.