The Contract Multivitamin: Joe Lawton of Valerio Dewalt Train
A dose of Joe Lawton's design musings in his own words.
https://contractdesign.com/practice…
Commentary: Past pandemics changed the design of cities. Six ways COVID-19 could do the same
Pal Sam Lubell on what might happen next.
https://latimes.com/entertainment-a…
Artists Are Hunkered Down, but Still Nurturing Their Inner Visions
Artists and architects may be sheltering at home, but their creativity still flows — and the results surprise even them. Here’s what 10 famous makers are looking at, reading, and sketching now.
https://nytimes.com/2020/04/21/arts…
Classic Skyscrapers Define New York. Take a Virtual Tour.
The epitome of the ‘Mad Men’ era, the sleek midcentury buildings of Park Avenue glimmer. NYT's critic strolls with the architect Annabelle Selldorf.
https://nytimes.com/2020/04/22/art…
Is it Time to Redesign Earth Day?
Local writer Alison Arieff looks at Earth Day.
https://metropolismag.com/sustainab…
Smart lifts, lonely workers, no towers or tourists: architecture after coronavirus
Is the open-plan office dead? Can skyscrapers survive? Will our phones control everything from the lights to ordering coffee? Meet the architects already shaping the post-Covid-19 world.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Studio O+A Revamps McDonald’s Chicago-Area Research Compound
Bold graphics impose a fun aesthetic on the lab, where the fast-food giant tests its equipment innovations.
https://metropolismag.com/interiors…
The Reality of Design Fiction: How Storytelling Can Save the World
Write.
https://commonedge.org/the-reality-…
On Listening To A Pandemic
Thank you writing about Sally. She was important to all of us.
https://arcadenw.org/journal/on-lis…
Inside the HQ of London designer Ilse Crawford.
One of my favorite photographers visits one of my favorite designers.
https://lesliewilliamson.com/ilse-c…
Remembering William Menking (1947-2020)
The memorial page for Bill Menking in The Architect's Newspaper
https://archpaper.com/william-menki…
Obituary: William Menking, 1947-2020
My kind of guy.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Shigeru Ban
Rather than going from one high-profile commission to the next, the architect has an alternative focus: designing shelters for the displaced.
https://nytimes.com/interactive/201…
Industry Leaders Discuss the Future of the Workplace and Wellness, Post-Pandemic
Pal Primo Orpilla talking with Avinash Rajagopal at Metropolis about wellness and the workplace.
https://metropolismag.com/interiors…
Documenting Crossroads: The Coronavirus In Poor, Minority Communities
Camilo José Vergara and Chrysanthe Broikos document life in Oakland and Richmond, CA; Newark, NJ; Harlem, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, NY.
https://nbm.org/exhibition/document…
The Magic of Empty Streets
Local writer Allison Arieff in the NY Times.
https://nytimes.com/2020/04/08/opin…
Cooper Union Exhibition Highlights the Work of Costantino Nivola
Cathleen McGuigan writes about a favorite sculptor.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Moss, Mayne, Holl, and more remember the late Michael Sorkin
This has been one of the strangest weeks of my life. Michael Sorkin was a guiding light of the architecture profession. Many of this week's stories are about him.
https://archpaper.com/2020/04/moss-…
MASS Design Group Asks: “What is the Role of Architecture in Fighting a Pandemic?”
The Boston- and Kigali, Rwanda-based practice is launching a response to the spread of COVID-19, and making available information and best practices developed over a decade of designing to minimize the spread of infection.
https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
How to Deliver Thousands of COVID-19 Rooms in Weeks
New York City.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Sorkin Spoke Truth to Power
Let Michael Sorkin’s unflinching advocacy of the commonweal serve as an inspiration to the architecture profession, as we fight the coronavirus and look toward a better future.
https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
The barefoot architect: ‘I was a starchitect for 36 years. Now I’m atoning’
Pakistan’s first female architect looks back on an extraordinary life.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Obituary: Michael McKinnell, 1935-2020
Michael McKinnell.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
American architects mobilise to make coronavirus face shields for hospital workers
Good news from the design world.
https://dezeen.com/2020/03/29/ameri…
Michael Sorkin, 71, Dies; Saw Architecture as a Vehicle for Change
Mr. Sorkin, who died of the coronavirus, promoted social justice in his prodigious output of essays, lectures and designs.
https://nytimes.com/2020/03/29/arts…
Michael Murphy on the Singular Voice of Michael Sorkin
Remembering.
https://commonedge.org/michael-murp…
