2018 COTE Top Ten
Our pals at LMS receive two more COTE Top Ten Awards.
https://aia.org/resources/186291-20…
Big Data Is A Sham
Big companies are hoarding big data and doing nothing with it–except invading our privacy. It’s time to think small, writes Paddle Consulting’s Brian Millar.
https://fastcodesign.com/90168426/b…
A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing
Ben Austen's new book: High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing.
https://nytimes.com/2018/04/13/book…
Forensics Helps Widen Architecture’s Mission
A survey of Forensic Architecture’s work is now on view at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, through May 6.
https://nytimes.com/2018/04/06/arts…
Growing Up in a Glass House: An Architect’s Daughter Explores Modernism’s Shadow
A daughter tells the story of growing up in a glass house, designed by her father, Woodie Garber, once called “Cincinnati’s most extreme, experimental, and creative Modernist architect.”
http://commonedge.org/an-architects…
The Strange Beauty Of Brutalist Architecture, Mid-Demolition
A new exhibition collects stark photos of important architecture as it’s being razed–a phenomenon that’s as wasteful as it is heartbreaking. Heavy at every turn.
https://fastcodesign.com/90167445/t…
A Glass House renovation
Philip Johnson’s masterpiece replaces its ceiling with wood (and plaster).
https://curbed.com/2018/4/10/169807…
A Radical Proposal to Save Union Carbide
Karrie Jacobs on how we should fight the impending demolition of this Natalie Griffin de Blois-designed skyscraper.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Why Factories Aren’t Tourist Attractions Anymore
For a long time, American factories were symbols of technology and modernity. They symbolize something very different now.
https://slate.com/culture/2018/04/b…
Milton Glaser: “Art and design are not the same thing”
A book of over 400 of his posters from the last six decades.
https://designweek.co.uk/issues/12-…
Beyond LEED-Achieving True Sustainability
Ophelia Wilkins on the the Living Building Challenge.
http://kuthranieri.com/blog/beyond-…
A Historic Hotel Helps The Homeless
Lisa Yergovich and David Wessel discuss renovating the historic Jessie Hotel into ATC’s new home.
https://argsf.com/blog/historic-hot…
Continuing Education: Wildfire-Adapted Design
Our pals at Kuth Ranieri are trying to figure out solutions for the fire zone.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Yamasaki’s Regret
The sad decline of Minoru Yamasaki after Pruitt-Igoe.
https://citylab.com/design/2018/03/…
Natalie de Blois: a pioneer of postwar corporate modernism
An appreciation of the trailblazing architect behind some of Park Avenue’s most iconic buildings.
https://ny.curbed.com/2018/3/8/1709…
Blair Kamin on Writing and Reporting on Architecture’s #metoo Moment
Eva Hagberg Fisher chats with Blair.
http://commonedge.org/blair-kamin-o…
What if gentrification was about healing communities instead of displacing them
Our pal Liz Ogbu's Ted Talk!
https://ted.com/talks/liz_ogbu_what…
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture by Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects
The old pier structure was restored and transformed into an expansion for the San Francisco Art Institute.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Finding architectural solutions to LA’s homelessness crisis
David Martin FAIA has provided the seed money for this important effort.
https://la.curbed.com/2018/3/16/171…
‘This is the house that we built’: homeless people on their makeshift residences
When you have to build your own.
https://theguardian.com/us-news/201…
