FEATURES:
April 2018
Hannah Wood asks: What new roles will drones adopt both in the architectural design process and outcomes? If your firm is intending to mobilize a drone, what should you be aware of in terms of its operation and the law?
In September of 2017, Heather Roberge stepped into the role of Chair of UCLA’s Architecture Department. Having taught there since 2002, she talks with Archinect about how her time as a faculty member has informed her new position, how the department's positioning within the School of Arts and Architecture is reflected in its programming, and the school's role as a leading public university.
In April, we began a new interview series in which we talk with the editors of today’s most provocative architectural publications. To inaugurate the series, we spoke with those behind Pidgin, the magazine produced and edited by graduate students at the Princeton School of Architecture.
↑ Cross-Talk #5: Criticism — Introduction + et al.
April of this year, through our Cross-Talk Series, we invited practitioners and academics to interrogate the role of criticism in architecture today, a topic that has been a prevailing part of the architectural discourse in 2018.
NEWS:
April 2018
This year ushered in the #metoo movement within architecture, prompted by allegations against Richard Meier and followed by a “Shitty Men in Architecture” list. With a number of men implicated by the list connected to Harvard GSD, students organized to pressure the administration to take substantive action.
↑ The Steel Tariff and Construction Cost: Putting It Into Context
Slapping tariffs on two of the building industry’s most favored materials—steel and aluminum—Trump spent the year putting our construction costs in a state of crisis. Here, we looked at some is potential consequences.
↑ First photos of Edoardo Tresoldi's wire mesh cathedrals at Coachella
For many, the month of April has become synonymous with Coachella and the start of music festival season. As the gates opened to one of the year's biggest events, we took a look at one the biggest and baddest installations of the year.
One of architecture's hottest pieces of gossip this year was Brad Pitt's reported new friendship with MIT professor Neri Oxman—to which we can only say, in the words of Donna Sink, "I CAN HARDLY BREATHE, I'm so excited by the possibilities!"
A partnership not quite as exciting as Pitt and Oxman, Kanye West began hanging out with right-wing personalities Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk, bringing them to SCI-Arc's Spring Show.
↑ Marcel Breuer's Brutalist Pirelli Building is slated for new life as a hotel
The brutalist icon, which was taken over by IKEA in the 90s, receives interest from a developer keen on transforming the building designed by Breuer into a hotel.
↑ America's long overdue memorial to the victims of lynchings opens in Alabama today
One of most moving architectural projects of the year was The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, which opened to visitors in April. The memorial commemorates the more than 4,400 black men, women, and children who were lynched by white mobs between 1877 and 1950.
↑ Plans announced for a gondola to connect LA's Dodger Stadium with Union Station
A number of cockeyed transportation projects were proposed in 2018—and as dunk-worthy as Elon Musk's tunnels have been, the prize for Most Unnecessary Transit Idea has got to go the the gondola that would take passengers in LA from Union Station to Dodger Stadium.
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