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Hannah Wood reflected on MoMA’s retrospective of Frank Lloyd Wright, ‘Unpacking the Archive’, in a conversation with architect, cultural historian and Wright scholar Mabel O. Wilson. stevenvansteenhuyse "enjoyed this article for its challenging view of Wright's legacy as America's greatest... View full entry
Justine Testado featured the 'Spaceships' series of Hamburg-based Lars Stieger. RaúlGHO commented "Tal vez, el arquitecto diseño el detalle esperando que así se descubra, como una nave espacial de serie de televisión." Plus, Matthew Allen reviewed the exhibit ‘architecture, architectural... View full entry
Anthony Morey introduced Cross-Talk #2: Pedagoy. ryanbacha complained "the architectural academies of old generated inside their walls self-referential pedagogies. God forbid the layman being able to understand anything you said in this article." Responding to the criticism Anthony Morey... View full entry
David Capener penned an entry in the Practice Diaries series. It is in part, a reaction to deadly Grenfell Tower blaze, wherein he argues What we do as architects is not neutral: it is political. ubu loca summed up the mood of many I suspect "Thank you David. Architects of conscious must speak up... View full entry
ICYMI, the always "into it" Julia Ingalls, sat down with Harvard GSD's K. Michael Hays + Lisa Haber-Thomson to discuss the role of jargon in pedagogy, a new GSD online course offering and the "vexed notion of architecture’s autonomy." Will Galloway was "very impressed that Michael Hays and... View full entry
ICYMI Anthony Morey launched Archinect’s latest series Cross-Talk. Each session of Cross-Talk will be oriented around one topic. Each topic will be addressed by four texts. Each text will be produced by a different author. Each writer will have their own stance. Each stance will be meant to... View full entry
Stefano Colombo, Eugenio Cosentino & Luca Marullo published their second text in a series conceived for Archinect on deserts and radical islands. It is a heady exploration of subcultures (ranging from Punk to Dark Valley, Dark Enlightenment and the Neoreactionaries) and how they "can be seen... View full entry
ICYMI, back in April Nicholas Korody published an interview with Bryan MacKay-Lyons and Talbot Sweetapple, about their contextually-sensitive, regionally specific, vernacular. Therein MacKay-Layons explains "The other non-object sense of our work is that we see the buildings as helmets that... View full entry
Nicholas Korody started publishing excerpts from Archinect’s fourth live podcasting event, Next Up: Floating Worlds. Looking at potential roles for architecture in the contemporary neoliberal economy, with a focus on issues pertaining to gender and identity, the event featured... View full entry
WBYA? is a coalition of architects, activists, scholars, and educators that tackle the pressing question: who builds your architecture? Check out their Critical Field Guide...Plus, for the latest edition of Dean's List: Nicholas Korody spoke with Qingyun Ma, of the University of Southern... View full entry
Nicholas Korody profiled an on-going project 'Coded Plumbing', by QSPACE, a "queer architecture research organization" which "juxtaposes the language of these bills with the language of building codes, plumbing codes and best-practice standards, finding that design regulations parallel the... View full entry
Nicholas Korody, published HGTV Theory: Tiny House Hunters, Debt Resistors. Wherein he ponders "Are tiny homes the pots of today? Are tiny homeowners the Diogenes of the 21st century? Their lifestyle, a hyperbolic negation of some of the dominant values that define contemporary domesticity, draw... View full entry
For the latest in the newish series, Small Studio Snapshots, Nicholas Korody chatted with Los Angeles-based studio MILLIØNS. Daniel Elmore felt "these guys sound legit in their intentions and I'm looking forward to seeing what they produce in the future...The rest of the article is uncommonly... View full entry
Carme Pinós was featured in conversation with Orhan Ayyüce. They talked about her belief that "Responsibility gives us freedom" as well as, the poetics of practice. Plus, Nicholas Korody penned The Exhibitionary Complex. Therein he makes reference to "blood money" and how a "vast architecture... View full entry
Nicholas Korody talked with Michael Rotondi, a man of deeply-held spiritual convictions, about his spiritual practice and how it affects his architectural and educational practices.To wit;"What you learn from the Buddhists, the Tibetan Buddhists in particular, is that you work on yourself first... View full entry