Although (Joseph) Urban had only three major commissions in New York, what remains of his sensitive and distinctive work offers an evocative legacy. NYTimes View full entry
"The Artists' Architect, Building For Art's Sake." Richard Gluckman builds house-studios for Richard Serra Ellsworth Kelly and Chuck Close and maybe his play of light reverberates in their work. View full entry
After being ignored for most of his career, the Boston Globe shows why Eero Saarinen is finally getting his due. Read View full entry
Edouard François, through projects like Flower Tower and Chateau-le-Lez, is quickly becoming the archi-darling of Paris. Mai Oui. | Frame surveys | prev View full entry
The Oregonian suveys prefabrication and mass customization, including Atelier Z. View full entry
Henry Klumb was a German emigrée and FLW disciple who came to Puerto Rico in 1927 and spent the rest of his life there, refining a strain of tropical modernism. A retrospective is on display at the MAPR and soon to travel abroad. HK and the Poetic Exuberance of... View full entry
Since the Stata Center at MIT designed by Frank Gehry is a leaky mess, and apparently gave Noam Chomsky vertigo before passing out when he first moved in, Frank says he will go back to Boston in a minute to fix it up. Read. View full entry
Will Alsop has reportedly “sold 40% of the business to R Capital, a London-based firm of venture capitalists, as part of a rescue plan after a string of dramatic and costly projects worldwide came to nothing, according to a report in today's Building Design magazine.” ( Guardian... View full entry
After moving his offices to Marina del Rey (and after being a Santa Monica bastion for ages), Frank Gehry is set to build a house in Venice, Cali. This time, the neighbors are cozy and ready to become "Gehry-adjacent." Read (subsn reqd) View full entry
James Gardner deflates FLW's mythic legacy. (NYSUN)Wright's Many Wrongs Architecture BY JAMES GARDNER October 25, 2004 It is time for some old-fashioned criticism, the kind one rarely reads any more, the kind that takes a sacred cow, filets it, and serves it up as finger food. Let me begin by... View full entry
The Globe and Mail has Ai Weiwei going off on the Chinese establishment. He is known in the West mostly for his collaboration with Herzog and DeMeuron on the Beijing Olympic Stadium. Read View full entry
Read here Dominique Perrault's interview on the topics of gov. projects, Frank Ghery, and urbanism.La Vanguardia [-] Translator View full entry
Listen to I.M. Pei tickle himself reflecting on the JFK Library, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Here & Now radio | Imgs View full entry
Next Thursday, Oct. 28th, the 2004-2005 winner of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture on the City , Teddy Cruz will speak at the CCA in Montreal. His entry was chosen unanimously, reflecting his work which merges theory and design to evolve the notion of border identity and the “informal... View full entry
Ann M. Beha FAIA , Marion Pressley FASLA, and Martha Schwartz will receive the 2004 Women in Design Awards of Excellence in recognition of the spirit, innovation, transformation, and enhanced level of design women have brought to the profession of architecture. Read | "Leadership for Change: In... View full entry
