Caroline Baumann: At Home in the Design Museum
The Cooper Hewitt director on the museum's expanded exhibition spaces, new curatorial focus, and bringing the institution into the digital age.
http://metropolismag.com/Caroline-B…
Crumbling Classic: A Louis Kahn to Call Your Own, for Less Than $300,000
A 3-bedroom residential property designed by the legendary American architect.
http://architizer.com/blog/crumblin…
PoMo Redux
Inside the decision to save Michael Graves' Portland Building, and why there's still life in Postmodernism.
http://architectmagazine.com/arts-a…
Architecture for Humanity Board of Directors Issues Official Statement on Closure
The board confirms that international chapters and U.S.-based volunteer directors will continue Architecture for Humanity's work.
http://architectmagazine.com/pro-bo…
What’s Next For Architecture For Humanity?
Where the architecture nonprofit went wrong, and where volunteers hope to take it now.
http://fastcodesign.com/3041234/wha…
At Home With Maira Kalman
Walking into the New York City home of author and illustrator Maira Kalman is like stepping into the pages of one of her beautiful books.
http://designsponge.com/2014/12/at-…
Desert Oasis
Palm Springs Art Museum opens architecture and design center.
http://archpaper.com/news/articles.…
A rule-breaking public artwork, but it’s just plain broken
The video screen installed on the side of Moscone West supposedly “explores how space functions in our culture.” Only problem: It’s been nonfunctioning since its 2003 installation.
http://sfgate.com/bayarea/place/art…
George Lucas says museum could land in L.A. if Chicago falls through
George Lucas discusses his plans for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago in 2014.
http://latimes.com/entertainment/ar…
It Takes a Village: Restoring Santa Monica’s Civic Center
‘Santa Monica Moved Towards that Rare Event in Los Angeles – A Pedestrian-Oriented Place’
http://multihousingnews.com/in-focu…
Architecture for Humanity Files for Bankruptcy
Though the non-profit organization is closing due to a lack of funding, chapters around the world have expressed their desire to continue to stay active.
http://architectmagazine.com/pro-bo…
Q+A> GREG CASTILLO
Greg Castillo discusses the intersection of modern design and 1960s radicalism.
http://archpaper.com/news/articles.…
D.C. Historic Preservation Board to Review MLK Memorial Library Renovation Project
A look at the latest, though not final, designs for the renovation of the only library ever designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
http://architectmagazine.com/archit…
The Forgotten History of Mies van der Rohe’s MLK Memorial Library
Looking back at the making of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library helps to explain its future.
http://architectmagazine.com/archit…
Designing for Past and Future
The updated Cooper Hewitt museum makes 21st-century technology mesh with a Neo-Georgian building.
http://wsj.com/articles/designing-f…
A Leader in Socially Conscious Architecture Is Closing Amid Financial Woes
Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit design group that sought to repair the world with socially conscious construction in places like Kosovo, Haiti and hurricane-ravaged Mississippi, has abruptly closed its San Francisco headquarters and plans to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection.
http://nytimes.com/2015/01/18/arts/…
Shape Shifter
A reflection on a half century of architect Michael Graves’s work spans failures and triumphs.
http://metropolismag.com/December-2…
Swanke Hayden Connell Files for Bankruptcy
The architecture and interior design firm, known for its work on the Fifth Avenue Trump Tower in Manhattan and restoring the Statue of Liberty in the 1980s, claims it is unable to collect more than $2 million from an assignment in Russia.
http://architectmagazine.com/busine…
