An Outsider architect who tends to work for outsider clients (the disabled, the deviant, the disenfranchised), is an exemplary member of the so-called "Red School" of Japanese architecture. artscape View full entry
Rem Koolhaas will give a presentation titled, “Public Space,” at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13 at The Seattle Public Library, Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Microsoft Auditorium. Koolhaas of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture and former Seattleite Joshua-Prince Ramus were... View full entry
What can a designer bring to the world of architecture? The popularity of Heatherwick’s designs is a testament to his drive to make his work comprehensible to people who don’t know the first thing about design.New Yorker View full entry
In the 1970s, visionary architect Paolo Soleri built an extraordinary eco-city in the Arizona desert. Did it work? Steve Rose tracks down a guru who now finds himself back in demand. Guardian View full entry
His groundbreaking book A Pattern Language urged architects consider emotional and spiritual ideas when designing. It was the beginning of an elaborate, nuts-and-bolts philosophical system. Alexander failed to revolutionize the practice of architecture, but he inspired a movement in computer... View full entry
Frank Lloyd Wright’s many renovations haven’t exorcised the ghost of his murdered mistress from Taliesin, the home the famed architect built for her in Wisconsin. Last Exit Magazine View full entry
The New Republic 's Sarah Williams Goldhagen discusses the Pritzker Prize and this year's winner Jean Nouvel. Read View full entry
In its ten-year history, few practicing architects have won the Vincent Scully Prize. The award honors individuals who have made noteworthy contributions to architectural practice—in addition to scholarship and criticism—but the majority of winners have been academics, policymakers... View full entry
An exhibition at the Hammer Museum, makes a strong case that John Lautner’s legacy has been curiously underestimated. NYT View full entry
Jean Nouvel was featured in today's Morning Edition on NPR. Read/Listen View full entry
Hidenori Watanave (Associate professor of Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) and students are developing 3D image database of "Oscar Niemeyer" on Second Life. This is an official art project of "The 100th anniversary of exchanging between Japan and Brazil". View full entry
The John Lautner House Tours start this Sunday with visits to The Harpel Residence (1956), The Tyler Residence (1953), and The Schwimmer Residence (1982), as part of the Hammer Museum's current exhibition Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner. Future tours will be held on... View full entry
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas talks about new trends in architecture and urban development, the end of the European city, the rise of Dubai, Russia and China, the obsession with XXXL and the difference between the people who design buildings for a living and "star architects."Der Spiegel A... View full entry
An urbanist who lived in a fishing cottage, an iconoclast who invented the highrise, an architect who wanted to be a painter ... Steve Rose goes in search of the man who designed the 20th century. View full entry
In an article that purports to be about the Standard Hotel, nearing completion in Chelsea's Meatpacking District, Philip Nobel praises Polshek Partnership's quiet confidence and their propensity for operating without a fixed stylistic mode...even in this vaunted age of carpetbagging stars... View full entry