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Glen Small gets podcasted by the Urban Homesteaders at Root Simple

2016-02-05T00:00:00-05:00

In seventies I would ask the architects if they were doing anything ecological with their work and they wold turn around and say who is this guy get him out of here...

Mr Homegrown interviews Glen Small.

Editor's Picks #367

2014-05-14T14:10:00-04:00

She explains "Our role then, in Shenzhen, wasn’t to play cultural ambassador or artistic exposition-ers, but to effectively perform the moods of Los Angeles from a distance, through whatever interpretative media each individual deemed to be most fit"...

Amelia published What is the Los Angeles Biennale of Architecture / Urbanism?

Plus, the fifteenth edition of Screen/Print featured Sophie Yanow ’s graphic novel,War of Streets and Houses. The novel examines the student protests in Montreal in February of 2012

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Orhan Ayyüce alerted readers, to the news that the Sandinista government finally managed to blow down Managua’s iconic Concha Acústica the elegant shell-shaped structure designed by architect Glen Small. snooker-doodle-dandy mourned "Now this is a Sad Day!"

Over at the Atlantic Cities, Sarah Goodyear reviewed her time spent wearing NeuroSky, one of a range of new "brain-computer interfaces" that promise to Measure the Brain's Response to Urban Design. C hris Teeter was looking fo...

Glen Small Buildings Demolished in Nicaragua

2014-05-09T21:08:00-04:00

“I never heard anybody say it was ugly or weird, I had reached universal beauty and Rosario Murillo sadistically destroyed that beauty. How sad and senseless.” - Glen Small

Concha Acústica (demolished this week)

Glen Small designed iconic "Concha Acústica" in Managua is demolished by the orders of an interior decorator, Rosario Murillo, who designs with nature in the form of yellow painted tree cut-outs framing the portraits of late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in uniform. She is also the wife of the Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega.

Concha Acustica was the largest of Glen Small's three public monument projects and the second one demolished. They were commissioned by late Managua Mayor Herty Lewites who was running for Nicaraguan presidency against Daniel Ortega. He unexpectedly died in a 'massive heart attack" in a hospital, shortly before the elections in 2006. He was widely popular and trailing Mr. Ortega with a small margin.

Editor's Picks #344

2013-12-03T18:49:00-05:00

eric chavkin penned a review of "Glen Small: Recovery Room" an exhibit at Assembly in Los Angeles, organized and curated by Archinect's own Orhan Ayyüce. MightyMike (aka Michael Locke) commented "For local (Los Angeles) fans of Archinect, there's a wonderful example of Small's work in the Franklin Hills...the Leiberman House". For his part davidd felt "This review and Small's work seems to come from an ingroup/niche point of view".

eric chavkin penned a review of "Glen Small: Recovery Room" an exhibit at Assembly in Los Angeles, organized and curated by Archinect's own Orhan Ayyüce. He concluded "Despite the flaws the works of Glen Small offer so much that another architect could base an entire career on re-doing, modifying, repeating any one of his single works".

MightyMike (aka Michael Locke) commented "For local (Los Angeles) fans of Archinect, there's a wonderful example of Small's work in the Franklin Hills...the Leiberman House, designed by Glen Howard Small, AIA c.1989 and completed by Anthony Eckelberry in 1995". For his part davidd felt "This review and Small's work seems to come from an ingroup/niche point of view".

Plus, in latest edition of the series Working out of the Box, Archinect spoke with with Microsoft Design Leads Mary-Lynne Williams and Moneta Ho Kushner.

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Brian Henry noted a move by Ohio towards banning LEED. katscan thought "It sure is about time, I was wondering why stat...

Glen Small: Recovery Room exhibition opens Nov. 9 in Los Angeles

2013-11-06T19:27:00-05:00

If you're in the L.A. area and are already thinking of weekend plans, check out the "Glen Small: Recovery Room" exhibition which opens at Assembly this Saturday, Nov. 9 from 7 to 9 p.m.

Presented by AssemblyⓇ and Archinect Senior Editor Orhan Ayyüce, the exhibition will present a selection of works throughout the career of architect Glen Small, whose progressive but mostly unbuilt projects introduced new ideas of urban development and housing particularly in the Southern California region from the 1960s-'80s.

Accompanying programs related to the exhibition will also be held throughout the month of November.

A Blast from the Past 2: Which Way To The Future

2013-08-12T14:38:00-04:00

Shelly Kappe moderates a panel consisting of Charles Moore, Frank Gehry, Helmut Schulitz, Peter de Bretteville, Roland Coate, and Glen Small. They discuss their ideas about the future. This Fall 1976 series was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation. Moore emphasizes the importance of the past.

Gehry proposes new material possibilities. Schulitz questions the values of contemporary commercial society. De Bretteville discusses complexity and its various forms in architecture. Coate discusses diversity in the world of architecture, proposing that the discipline of architecture will cross traditional boundaries and link with other fields and disciplines, citing Christo, Robert Irwin, and Frank Gehry. Small teases his fellow panelists and labels each with a nickname. He discusses his work on the Biomorphic Biosphere. The tape ends before he finishes.

You can fast forward to Glen Small at 53:50 or browse the video in its entirety.

A Blast from the Past 1: MOVE : Sites of Trauma

Glen Small: VERTICAL CITY 3, DOWN TO EARTH

2012-09-18T16:49:00-04:00

TO THIS DAY I FIND THE PROCESS OF TEACHING WITH NUMBER CRUNCHING A HUGE MISTAKE. THE PRINCIPLES ARE WHAT COUNT. IF A STUDENT IS AWARE HOW THE STRUCTURE WORKS TO BE THE STRONGEST AND WEAKEST THEN THEY CAN DESIGN WITH KNOWLEDGE.

Genius of Glen Small strikes and stuns again... This time it is Vertical City 3 from his student years at Cranbrook Academy of Art. It is "Down to Earth."

ILLUSIONIST

2012-08-28T16:22:00-04:00

THE HYPE OF THE SCHOOL IS WAY DEEPER THAN WHAT I BRIEFLY EXPERIENCED LAST SEPTEMBER. WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SAY I HAVE MENTIONED TO ERIC, BUT NOT IN DETAIL. ERIC SHOWED NO INTEREST IN ME ELABORATING.

Another take on Sci Arc. This time from the horse's mouth... Glen Small was one of the original and visionary founders of the school. Particularly interesting first person up close and personal storytelling in which Eric Moss referred as "ILLUSIONIST". Excuse some of the name spellings.

Question of the Year and SCI-Arc 2011 Thesis Reviews by Glen Small

2011-10-06T14:28:00-04:00

“HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE FORTY YEARS TOO SOON?” Question of the year from Jeffrey Kipnis to Glen Small at a rooftop bar.

SCI-ARC SCREEN TEST, I SHALL RETURN is a fun to read blog post with behind the scenes imagery. It includes an honest review of SCI Arc 2011 Thesis Projects as told by one of school's founding fathers, a visionary green architect and great critic, Glen Howard Small.

The big squeeze

2011-09-30T17:44:42-04:00

Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture’s reorganisation of a 44 sq m studio apartment in New York in 2009 shows how architects in the Big Apple are designing better, smaller homes. The practice transformed an untidy, student-style pad in Manhattan’s East Village into “a live/work sculpture for a grown up” for its owner, Michael Pozner, head of retail development at American Apparel.

Glen Small's Detroit Trilogy

2011-07-03T18:05:01-04:00

Glen Small's visionary urban projects of Detroit 1966-69:

KERN BLOCK
VERTICAL ROAD MASS TRANSIT DETROIT
THE GREAT STADIUM