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Peter Marino looks back on some harsh influences and early lessons

2022-06-29T11:59:00-04:00

Marino spoke to artist Rashid Johnson for Interview at length about his early client, the magazine's founder Andy Warhol, as well as a host of other topics, including his art collection, time at Cornell, and what he sees as the gradual evolution of pop art’s influence into the works of contemporaries like Michael Graves.

“I think some of Graves’s work is very good, but as an architectural movement, it’s very mannerist. It’s one person’s interpretation. Pop art shaded him, and I was always a bit terrified of the postmodern movement. I thought Venturi, Scott Brown [and Associates] did good work, but I think it’s fair to describe it as a niche section in the field.”

Previously on Archinect: Check out these quotes from Peter Marino's '60 Minutes' episode

The famed retail designer also recalled his early days in the offices of Nelson and SOM, reacting to changes in the city’s architectural palette that he found aberrant and blamed squarely on dramatic post-war shifts in design education ...

Symposium sheds light on Nelson

2012-11-12T11:36:00-05:00

In the lecture series “Context and Collaboration” given by Paul Makovsky of Metropolis Magazine, Pullman and architect Jane Thompson of the Thompson Design Group, Nelson was described as rejecting the Howard Roark paradigm of the “hero architect” due to his socially conscious approach and his choice to work on interiors during the mid-20th century when furniture design was considered “feminine.”

Arts & Architecture, 1945-54: The Complete Reprint

2009-01-02T12:19:00-05:00

The LA Times' Greg Goldin reviews the recently released Arts & Architecture, 1945-54: The Complete Reprint

Arts & Architecture, which folded 41 years ago, is the most influential architecture magazine ever published. During the height of its run, from 1945 to 1967, it convinced the world that Los Angeles was at the vanguard of reinventing the single family home. John Entenza, the editor, quietly featured the work of Isamu Noguchi, Henry Moore, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, Richard Neutra, George Nelson, Charles Eames, George Nakashima and Bernard Rudofsky.