Homeboy on TuppervillePhotographs: Michael RotondiStory: Orhan Ayyüce View full entry
Many architects dream of starting their own firm. Many will try. Many will fail. However, many will have failures, but keep working to achieve success and establish their own practice. Many architects dream of starting their own firm. Many will try. Many will fail. However, many will have... View full entry
Earth artist Dennis Oppenheim (1938-2011) has passed into the great sculpture park in the sky. One of the icons of the 1970s NY art world, his oeuvre included body art, conceptual art, ‘machine peices’, drawings, pop art, and most recently, public art.Earth artist Dennis Oppenheim... View full entry
The Mies van der Rohe Society's new website will knock your socks off. Guaranteed. The Mies van der Rohe Society's new website will knock your socks off. Guaranteed. View full entry
Charles W. Moore is indeed one of the pivotal architect and the author of the now notorious and often inadequately understood (and naively dismissed on formal grounds) Po Mo period of 70's and 80's. In early eighties, Moore's collaborative, still known and functioning to date as Moore Ruble... View full entry
A major collective of design offices in Brooklyn that includes; Terreform ONE, Interboro, Patten Studio, EcoSystems and more are featured in the New York Times. A major collective of design offices in Brooklyn that includes; Terreform ONE, Interboro, Patten Studio, EcoSystems and more are featured... View full entry
Rowan Moore goes in search of the country's most exciting young architects, and finds them keen to get back to the basics of building Rowan Moore goes in search of the country's most exciting young architects, and finds them keen to get back to the basics of building - GuardianMy mission is to... View full entry
"I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It’s demeaning. It’s derisive, and once it’s said, it sticks. I get introduced all the time, “Here’s starchitect Frank Gehry.…” My reaction: “What the... View full entry
Around downtown LA today and looking to pair your lunch with a great lecture? Walter van Dijk of NL Architects will be joining the SCI-Arc Future Initiatives Review 12/17 and giving a somewhat impromptu lecture before hand at 1 pm. The lecture will take place in Room 226 (north end of building)... View full entry
Robert A. M. Stern has been named the 2011 recipient of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. Stern will receive $200,000 and a model of the Choregic Monument of Lysikrates during a March 26, 2011, ceremony in Chicago. Bustler View full entry
Includes his various proposals, built public monuments and stories behind them. Includes his various proposals, built public monuments and stories behind them."HERTY WANTED A SUB DIVISION ON SOME ADJACENT LAND. THE BULLDOZERS HAD ALREADY STARTED LAYING OUT SOME MUNDANE GRIDDED STREET PATTERN WHEN... View full entry
To Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger, Frampton's great achievement was to "shift the focus of the theoretical dialogue in architecture" from buildings as symbols "to the way buildings are made, to the way they feel and to the way they are perceived." In recent decades... View full entry
"I don’t known where I find the time to play around with this, but my samba is just foolishness, a bit of fun, but nothing important," Niemeyer said in an interview published Saturday in the daily O Globo. — Latin American Herald Tribune
Oscar Neimeyer may have found the key to old age - positivity. To write a samba at the age of 102, while laying in a hospital bed titled "Tranquilo con la Vida" (Feeling Good about Life), is the sign of a special individual. The lyrics by Neimeyer will be performed by musicians Edu Krieger and... View full entry
Why are so many great architects short of stature? - SlateWhy are so many great architects short of stature? - Slate View full entry
Studio Banana TV interviews Ole Bouman, director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI), Holland. Studio Banana TV interviews Ole Bouman, director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI), Holland. StudioBanana.tv / Previously on Archinect: OLE BOUMAN: On Survival View full entry