Los Angeles architectural firm CO Architects on Tuesday announced a joint venture with New York City’s FXFOWLE to extend the geographic reach and expertise of each company.
The firms will maintain individual identities and operations while pursuing new projects together under the name CO/FXFOWLE, including participating in a new competition to design a building for a prestigious educational institution in New York City.
— labusinessjournal.com
Below are the 11 most visited Firm Profiles during 2011. For a full list of all of our top 11 lists for 2011, click here. 1. 1100 Architect 2. Shlemmer Algaze Associates 3. Richard Meier & Partners Architects LLP 4. Diller Scofidio + Renfro 5. Remedios Studio 6. MAD 7. Belmont Freeman... View full entry
Below are the 11 most visited People Profiles during 2011. For a full list of all of our top 11 lists for 2011, click here. 1. Orhan Ayyüce 2. Donna Sink 3. Amy Leedham 4. Michael Villegas 5. Carolyn Ng 6. Steven Ward 7. Virginia Melnyk 8. Tim Do 9. J. James R. 10. Marco Rocha 11. Adam... View full entry
A REVOLUTION in cognitive neuroscience is changing the kinds of experiments that scientists conduct, the kinds of questions economists ask and, increasingly, the ways that architects, landscape architects and urban designers shape our built environment.
This revolution reveals that thought is less transparent to the thinker than it appears and that the mind is less rational than we believe and more associative than we know.
— nytimes.com
Architecture critic, Sarah Williams Goldhagen wrote a brief piece exploring the use of embodied metaphors in contemporary architecture. Looking at recent works by Junya Ishigami, Jürgen Mayer H., Zaha Hadid and Sanaa for instance, Goldhagen notes that the use of metaphors that allude... View full entry
Y Design Office has proposed Unit Fusion, a modular, plug-in high-rise residential typology for Hong Kong. However, as of yet, the 75-story tower project is still in its conceptual design phase. Liebchen quipped "Who wants to bet it won't leave the conceptual design phase?"
As we enter another new year (Archinect's 15th!), it is an opportunity to reflect back on the previous year and share the most trafficked pages in Archinect's diverse online ecosystem, with a list of 11 top 11 lists for '11, based exclusively on visits by unique page-views. The most popular news... View full entry
Anne Tyng, a pioneering woman architect whose ideas about geometry influenced Louis Kahn's buildings and who later had a child with him, died Tuesday, Dec. 27, in Greenbrae, Calif. She was 91, said her daughter, Alexandra, who lives outside Philadelphia.
Although Ms. Tyng was among the first group of women to graduate from Harvard University's architecture school in 1944, she struggled her entire career to be taken seriously. Firms would not hire her because she was a woman.
— philly.com
Below are the 11 most visited Blog posts during 2011. For a full list of all of our top 11 lists for 2011, click here. 1. Rafael Viñoly on a Sunday 2. Live Blog: The Core of Architecture’s Discourse Now: A New Generation of Scholar Critics Speak Out 3. Live Blog: Stan Allen and... View full entry
I've read that it's biodegradable, right? I ask Ball.
"It's degradable," he says. "I don't know about bio."
— domusweb.it
Our friend Katya Tylevich covers Ball Nogues Yucca Crater installation in Joshua Tree National Park, CA. You may recall Katya's UpStarts feature on Ball Nogues that we published here a couple years ago. View full entry
Below are the 11 most visited Discussion threads during 2011. For a full list of all of our top 11 lists for 2011, click here. 1. 2012 M.Arch Applicants, Commiserate Here! 2. Architect Salary Increasing? 3. Is architecture a hard career? 4. 2011 M.Arch Applicants - Final Results, Decisions... View full entry
Some have described the Cyclorama building on the Gettysburg battlefield as an eye sore and called for it to be demolished. But a group of architectural historians is organizing to preserve the building — The Evening Sun
Tim Prudente examines the fate of the modernist Cyclorama building in Ziegler's Grove, designed by architect Richard Neutra. The National Park Service is set to make a final decision on what to do with the building early this year. The Park Service wants to remove the building to restore... View full entry
Below are the 11 most visited News posts during 2011. For a full list of all of our top 11 lists for 2011, click here. 1. Plans for new Apple HQ, by Norman Foster, officially released 2. MVRDV designs The Cloud for Seoul’s Yongsan Dreamhub 3. Not Your Mama's (Skateboard) House 4. Alleged... View full entry
Anthony Stephens offered up his euology for Ricardo Legorreta. "Ricardo Legorreta is the reason I began to study architecture...The spaces he designed had something long gone from most architects, soul. Unlike so many of the steel, glass and white wall designs that seem so clever and popular nowadays, his buildings could convey a feeling to those that laid eyes on the spaces he designed."
In Top 10 Design Initiatives to Watch in 2012—for the public good, John Cary, offered up a "a simple meditation on initiatives poised to advance the field, and how they can be scaled up, refined, tweaked, borrowed, and leveraged." While in the latest edition of the Contours... View full entry
Legorreta continued the tradition of architect Luis Barragan, who died in 1988. Like Barragan, Legorreta used bright colors, massive solid walls, courtyards and geometric cutout windows to interact with Mexico’s abundant sunlight. — washingtonpost.com
People are searching for something more authentic, says Kenneth Frampton, a British architect and critic and professor of architecture at Columbia University, who helped define this movement as "critical regionalism." Mr. Frampton says these houses are a reaction to the past couple decades of "compulsive uniformity," whether it's McMansions or the proliferation of "white box" modern houses. — Nancy Keates
But Madrid Río is a project whose audacity and scale, following the urban renewal successes of Barcelona, Spain’s civic trendsetter, can bring to a New Yorker’s mind the legacy of the street-grid plan, which this year celebrates its 200th anniversary. That’s because the park belongs to a larger transformation that includes the construction of dozens of new metro and light-rail stations that link far-flung, disconnected and often poor districts on Madrid’s outskirts to downtown. — NYT
The NYT features two interesting (when compared side by side) reviews of architectural/urban design projects this week. First, Michael Kimmelman visits Madrid Río, the almost completed freeway to park conversion, designed by a group of local architects, led by Ginés... View full entry