Short and Not-So-Sweet: A Collection of Architecture Haiku Criticism, Mon, Nov 28 '16

In honor of November's XS theme, we asked readers to send us notes of architectural criticism, in haiku: the Japanese poetic form restricted to three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, in that order. And boy, did folks deliver. You can pack a lot of sour into 17 syllables, but also ...

Architects Respond to the AIA’s Statement in Support of President-Elect Donald Trump, Mon, Nov 14 '16

The AIA’s formal statement, and follow-up, in response to Donald J. Trump’s election has elicited outrage within the architecture community. Architects, AIA-members and not, feel that the organization has failed to represent their interests, choosing instead to cooperate with what many ...

The Bartlett's Director of Architecture, Bob Sheil, Pushes for Evolving Research in Academia, Tue, Oct 11 '16

The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London is consistently one of the most highly ranked architecture schools globally, and occupies a significant part of revolutionary educational history in the UK. Founded in 1826, UCL was the first English university to accept students ...

Working out of the Box: Kwinten Crauwels, architect and music encyclopedist, Tue, Oct 4 '16

Working out of the Box is a series presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths.In this installment, we're talking with Kwinten Crauwels, a Belgian architect, music data visualizer, and aspiring filmmaker.Are you an architect ...

Screen/Print #45: Orhan Ayyüce interviews "The Wire" actor Bob Wisdom for LA Forum's summer issue, Thu, Sep 22 '16

For locals and beyond, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design has a simple aim—highlight what makes L.A.'s architecture and urbanism discourse special, and what it can teach the rest of the world. Seasonally, LA Forum draws on its own board members and reaches into the ...

Deborah Berke shares her vision as incoming dean at the Yale School of Architecture, Wed, Sep 14 '16

As of this July, Deborah Berke took over the deanship at the Yale School of Architecture, succeeding Robert A.M. Stern after his nearly twenty years in the position. Having taught at Yale herself for almost thirty years, Berke is no stranger to its academic culture, and has expansive plans now ...

Cuteness and the fight for architectural preservation, Fri, Aug 19 '16

We all know architecture is a deathly serious business—but sometimes, that severity weighs so heavily that it becomes oppressive, restricting debate to an academic mean and setting a glacial pace of cultural influence. When that happens, the key to liberating architectural discourse might just ...

Aaron Betsky, dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, lays out Taliesin's legacy in architecture education, Wed, Jul 6 '16

When Aaron Betsky started his deanship at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, the historic school was in a difficult spot. Under new requirements by the Higher Learning Commission, if it didn’t raise $2 million to become a separate institution from its funding organization, the ...

Screen/Print #42: Harvard's New Geographies 07, 'Geographies of Information', Fri, Jun 24 '16

It’s easy to forget that, in an era of unprecedented access to information fueled by an accelerating Moore’s Law, everything weighs on the land. While unlikely to be visible from the backyard, the infrastructure of digital technologies will only become more pervasive, and should be ...

Beatriz Colomina on "Playboy Architecture" and the masculine fantasy , Wed, May 11 '16

Playboy gets lip service as a leader in the sexual revolution, a vanguard publisher of emerging talent in fiction and interviews, and of course, a historic showcase for sexy ladies. While the publication has since lost its centerfolds, it is now being celebrated for its role in architecture and ...

In Focus: Scott Benedict, Sun, Apr 10 '16

In Focus is Archinect's series of features dedicated to profiling the photographers who help make the work of architects look that much better. What has attracted them to architecture? How do they work? What type of equipment do they use? What do they think about seeing their work in ...

Coy Howard, interviewed by SCI-Arc students: part 3 of 3, Wed, Mar 23 '16

Last fall, students in John Southern's “Architectural Media and Publishing” Cultural Studies seminar at SCI-Arc, democratically voted to interview Coy Howard, together, as part of the course. Their reasoning, according to Southern, is that while Howard has long been a fixture at ...

Coy Howard, interviewed by SCI-Arc students: part 2 of 3, Wed, Mar 16 '16

Last fall, students in John Southern's “Architectural Media and Publishing” Cultural Studies seminar at SCI-Arc, democratically voted to interview Coy Howard, together, as part of the course. Their reasoning, according to Southern, is that while Howard has long been a fixture at ...

Coy Howard, interviewed by SCI-Arc students: part 1 of 3, Mon, Mar 14 '16

Last fall, students in John Southern's “Architectural Media and Publishing” Cultural Studies seminar at SCI-Arc, democratically voted to interview Coy Howard, together, as part of the course. Their reasoning, according to Southern, is that while Howard has long been a ...

Ray Kappe, founder of SCI-Arc, revisits the school's roots, Thu, Mar 10 '16

Distinguished by nearly forty-five years of SCI-Arc history between them, founding director Ray Kappe sat with current director Hernan Diaz Alonso last Wednesday evening for a reflective public conversation at the school. Part of SCI-Arc’s “Duel + Duet” speaker series, where a ...

Interview with Escobedo Solíz Studio, winners of MoMA PS1's 2016 Young Architects Program, Tue, Feb 16 '16

Beating out other finalists First Office, Ultramodern, COBALT OFFICE and Frida Escobedo to win this year’s Young Architects Program, the Mexico City-based Escobedo Solíz Studio’s “Weaving the Courtyard” proposal is simple and relatively hands-off. With three previous ...

Inside Pamphlet: How one of the most enduring experimental architecture publications got its start, Fri, Feb 12 '16

The first issue of Pamphlet Architecture, the high-minded zine-like experimental publication started in 1978 by architect Steven Holl and bookseller William Stout, wasn’t exactly readable. “Its cover was printed by Mark Mack on letterpress in black ink on black paper,” Holl ...

Screen/Print #38: Ma Yansong of MAD Architecture's "Shanshui City", Mon, Dec 21 '15

Part humanist wake-up call, part architecture manifesto, Ma Yansong’s Shanshui City emerges at a critical point for Chinese urbanism, as urban development accelerates to a breakneck speed of environmental damage and social concessions. Yansong draws stark lines between the Beijing he grew up in ...

"A continuation of his way of being" – an interview with the editor of "Slow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods Blog", Wed, Dec 16 '15

The champion of “radical reconstruction,” the revolutionary architect who wasn’t technically an architect, the artist, the teacher and theorist – Lebbeus Woods was also a blogger. Beginning in 2007 and lasting into 2012, up until a few months prior to his death, Woods ...

Screen/Print #37: "S,M,L,XL" from the Journal of Architectural Education, Tue, Oct 20 '15

Approaching 70 years in publication, the Journal of Architectural Education is a foundational resource in the profession. As the peer-reviewed, biannual academic journal from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, JAE seeks to provide a platform for discussion of issues relevant to ...

The humanity of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Tue, Oct 13 '15

As anticipation rumbled towards the opening of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, excitement and reservation came hand in hand. The eclectic mix of over 120 participating firms, coming from over 30 countries, made the snapshot of the profession appear, depending on your side of the spectrum, as a ...

Deans List: Amale Andraos of Columbia University's GSAPP, Wed, Oct 7 '15

The Deans List is an interview series with the leaders of architecture schools, worldwide. The series profiles the school’s programming, as defined by the head honcho – giving an invaluable perspective into the institution’s unique curriculum, faculty and academic environment. For ...

Deans List Special: Nader Tehrani shares his thoughts as he transitions to his new appointment at Cooper Union, Fri, Sep 25 '15

On September 2, students at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art returned to a school in rocky flux. Faltering under the weight of a $12 million deficit, the New York institution defaulted on its more than 150-year founding tradition, and began charging undergraduate tuition for the ...

The Broad Museum opens its doors for a look beyond the veil, Wed, Sep 23 '15

The white cube museum to end all white cube museums has touched down in Los Angeles. This past Sunday, the personal post-war and contemporary art collection owned by billionaire philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, housed in Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s meshed white box, opened for public viewing ...

UpStarts: Christian Lahoude Studio, Sat, Sep 19 '15

When just starting out, firms often struggle to find clients, and beef up their portfolio with small projects for friends and family. It can be difficult to establish a client base strong enough to keep the work flowing and the referrals positive, especially if the firm is hoping to specialize in ...

And the winners of Archinect's Dry Futures competition, "Pragmatic" category, are..., Wed, Sep 16 '15

As much of the US is put through a record heatwave and the drought in California staggers on, jurors for Archinect's Dry Futures competition have been sweating through the entries to find which proposals will prevail. After reviewing the many submissions, and discussing them at length ...

Finding "Shelter" in Los Angeles' housing chaos, Tue, Sep 8 '15

With all the media attention on California’s drought, the “atoning L.A.” narrative has gotten pretty common. The city’s gluttonous lawns, sprawling infrastructures and indulgent residents – in short, its sinful stereotypes – have become untenable as the drought ...

Screen/Print #36: Harvard Design Magazine's "Well, Well, Well", Fri, Aug 14 '15

“Well, Well, Well”, the fortieth issue from the Harvard Design Magazine, explores the tricky business of designing for health, and provokes considerations on the flip-side of neglecting to do so.

Looking to "Frank Gehry", after Paris but before Los Angeles, Wed, Aug 5 '15

On September 13 of this year, Los Angeles will get its first major exhibition of Frank Gehry’s work, ever. Despite being the adopted hometown of the world-famous architect, and the city whose new-millennium architectural identity has been inflected most by his work, Los Angeles has not yet ...

Screen/Print #35: PennDesign's "LA+", Thu, Jul 23 '15

It all comes back to the land. LA+, the new publication produced by the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design, places landscape architecture at the origin point of a diverse panoply of disciplines. Put out twice annually, LA+​ features ...

Screen/Print #34: KTISMA's "Lick Your Buildings", Tue, Jun 30 '15

Student-run, annual, peer-reviewed journal KTISMA, from the University of Oregon’s School of Architecture and Allied Arts, does not appear to have any specific agenda. Instead, it aims to poke and prod a diverse community of professional peers into writing on whichever facet of environmental ...

What makes an artless museum?, Tue, Jun 16 '15

Architectural criticism that begins with “it looks like [insert Platonic object here]” is suspect at best, but the temptation to gamble with semiotic stickiness is too great: if I see a contraceptive sponge when I look at the new Broad Museum, I want to say that.

The forever unfinished business: Curated thoughts from our conversation with Kevin Roche, Wed, Jun 10 '15

When Kevin Roche speaks, you should listen. Roche is a hero of the long-game – during his sixty-five year career in the U.S. (and counting), he has trained or worked alongside seminal architectural vanguards Charles and Ray Eames, Mies van der Rohe and Eero Saarinen, and on projects for ...

Screen/Print #33: the alternative history of Edith Farnsworth and her architect, from MIT's "Thresholds", Sat, Jun 6 '15

MIT’s Department of Architecture is the oldest in the US, and its journal is comparably formidable. Known as Thresholds, the peer-reviewed publication is issued annually, and not uncommonly features work by established leaders in architectural thought, associated with the school or not. It ...

Screen/Print #32: NAAM's "On the Edge of Architecture", Wed, May 13 '15

In our scope of Screen/Prints, architectural writing runs the gamut from object-oriented and project-specific analysis, to the fantasy realm of future conjectures and other worlds. The pieces can’t be generalized by topic or style, only by approach – taking on any genre with architecture as ...

Screen/Print #31: Dialectic III, "Dream of Building or the Reality of Dreaming", Tue, May 5 '15

The official publication of the University of Utah’s School of Architecture, Dialectic is an explicit extension of the discussions and issues taking place within the school. The annual publication seeks to add nuance and opposing viewpoints to content already being produced by students, culling ...

Deans List: Michael Speaks of Syracuse Architecture, Mon, Apr 13 '15

The Deans List is an interview series with the leaders of architecture schools, worldwide. The series profiles the school’s programming, as defined by the head honcho – giving an invaluable perspective into the institution’s unique curriculum, faculty and academic ...

Designing the Hyperspace: UCLA studio imagines Hyperloop's future in California, Wed, Apr 1 '15

Walking into the enormous Hercules building on UCLA’s IDEAS campus, in the tech-infused suburb of Playa Vista, feels a bit like a traveling through a rip in space-time. The Hercules building is a giant airplane hangar – now, it’s neighbor to YouTube’s offices and a twin ...

Screen/Print #30: SOILED's "Cloudscrapers", Tue, Mar 31 '15

SOILED is back, dirtier than ever. Our first-ever Screen/Print featured SOILED's Windowscrapers, and for its next issue, the Chicago-based publication devoted to making “a mess of the built environment and the politics of space” set it sights a bit higher up. After ...

Working out of the Box: Abraham Burickson, poet, conceptual artist and founder of "Odyssey Works", Fri, Mar 27 '15

Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths.In this installment, we're talking with Abraham Burickson, founder of Odyssey Works.Are you an architect working out of the box? Do ...

An open letter to Guest Lecture series, Fri, Mar 20 '15

Screen/Print #29: trans, "Lust", Sat, Mar 14 '15

trans magazin, true to its grammatical form, is a journal of multiple cross-disciplinary perspectives on architectural and urban issues. An independent student cohort from the Department of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETHZ manages the editorial, publishing twice a ...

Screen/Print #28: PLACE-HOLDER's interview with Greg Lynn for Issue 1/2, "Afterschool", Mon, Feb 23 '15

It’s foolish to think of process as a straight-line; tangents, detours, dead-ends and roundabouts are the foundation of architecture's process, however immaculate its presentation. PLACE-HOLDER, a publication out of the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the ...

Deans List: Monica Ponce de Leon of University of Michigan's Taubman College, Thu, Feb 12 '15

The Deans List is an interview series with the leaders of architecture schools, worldwide. The series profiles the school’s programming, as defined by the head honcho – giving an invaluable perspective into the institution’s unique curriculum, faculty and academic environment. For ...

Student Works: Cellular Tessellation pavilion lights the way in Sydney, Tue, Dec 30 '14

Part of an 18-day arts festival in Sydney, Australia, the Vivid Lights pavilion explores the pedestrian dynamic in touch and light. A collaborative research effort led by the Abedian School of Architecture at Bond University, the Vivid pavilion Student Works puts a human scaled experience in ...

Student Works: "Townization", a new Chinese urbanization paradigm from the GSD, Fri, Dec 26 '14

It would be something of an understatement to say the last thirty years of urbanization in China have been rough. Rapid and often unsustainable growth made newly transitioned cities difficult to maintain and economically fraught, burdened by their own heft. So when the Chinese government revised ...

Working out of the Box: Production Designer and Art Director, Colin Sieburgh, Tue, Dec 23 '14

Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths.In this installment, we're talking with production designer and art director, Colin Sieburgh.Are you an architect working out of the box? ...

Screen/Print #27: "Future Anterior", a champion of historic preservation, Wed, Dec 17 '14

If the job’s done right, the architecture will outlast the architect. But when building for the present and unknowable future, the past is the only reliable hint at what may come next. Future Anterior is here towards that end, to critique and analyze architectural historic preservation.

Deans List: David Mohney of the Kean University's Michael Graves School of Architecture, Tue, Dec 16 '14

The Deans List is an interview series with the leaders of architecture schools, worldwide. The series profiles the school’s programming, as defined by the head honcho – giving an invaluable perspective into the institution’s unique curriculum, faculty and academic ...

Showcase: "Groenlândia" by TRIPTYQUE, Thu, Dec 11 '14

A gentle giant of marble, glass and concrete, this stately commercial space makes an impact without imposing on the street.

Working out of the Box: Santiago Borja, Thu, Dec 11 '14

Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths.In this installment, we're talking with artist and architecture theorist, Santiago Borja.Are you an architect working out of the box? Do you ...

Showcase: Antoine de St exupéry home for dependent elderly people, by Naud & Poux Architectes, Mon, Dec 8 '14

In the complex and fraught world of elder care, architecture can seem indifferent, dictated primarily by medical and physical concerns. Not so with Naud & Poux Architectes' facility in Villejuif, France, whose solid and distinctive design accommodates the needs of dependent elderly people ...

Home is where the art is: Contemporary Artists and the Modern House, Wed, Nov 26 '14

Hosting new art in old homes can make for some strange bedfellows.

Showcase: Sparrenburg Visitor Center by Max Dudler, Wed, Nov 26 '14

Max Dudler's brutalist beauty falls serenely in line with Sparrenburg Fortress's 800-year history in Bielefeld, Germany.

Showcase: Garden School / Beijing No.4 High School Fangshan Campus by OPEN Architecture, Fri, Nov 14 '14

Taking cues from the urban and pastoral, Beijing No. 4 High School (aka Garden School) strives not only to model elite Chinese public education, but also to also drive development in its relatively new town of Fangshan.

Working out of the Box: Greg Henderson of Hendo Hoverboards, Tue, Nov 11 '14

Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths.In this installment, we're talking with Hendo Hoverboard inventor and co-founder of Arx Pax, Greg Henderson.Are you an architect working ...

Showcase: Slate House by Affleck de la Riva architects, Thu, Nov 6 '14

Suburbia doesn't have to be faceless. Slate House, a proud black sheep in a family of tract houses, manages a demurely chic presence amid the former farmlands of Laval, Montreal's largest suburb.

View from above: ACADIA Conference 2014 in a nutshell, Wed, Nov 5 '14

At thirty-three years old and counting, the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture has seen a lot of changes in the field of digital design. Its annual conference is a time to step back and reflect, and particular to this year's conference, consider the power computers have over ...

The theory of everything in sandbox city: Will Wright's keynote at ACADIA 2014, Tue, Nov 4 '14

How the creator of SimCity turns reality into playground.

Screen/Print #26: Intern Magazine, interview with Jessica Walsh of Sagmeister & Walsh, Mon, Oct 20 '14

Intern Magazine is devoted to “intern culture” in the creative industries, elevating the talents of an oft under-valued workforce in a classy, bi-annual glossy. Part polemic and part showcase, the magazine is dissatisfied upfront with the current state of unpaid/underpaid intern labor ...

The Deans List: Hernan Diaz Alonso of SCI-Arc, Fri, Oct 17 '14

The Deans List is an interview series with the leaders of architecture schools, worldwide. The series profiles the school’s programming, as defined by the head honcho – giving an invaluable perspective into the institution’s unique curriculum, faculty and academic environment. For ...

AfterShock #4: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neuroscientific Architecture Research, Tue, Oct 14 '14

You’ve heard it before. In the span of architecture folklore, this origin story is old hat: I wanted to become an architect because it combines art and science. As pithy as it sounds, this always struck me as problematic, because it presumes that such a combination is easily wrought. What is ...

Screen/Print #25: The debut issue of The Bartlett's "LOBBY", Thu, Sep 25 '14

With a name like LOBBY, The Bartlett School of Architecture’s new architecture magazine puts itself in two camps. Interpreted as an architectural metaphor, the magazine is a waiting area, a limbo-space between inside and outside. Alternatively, it’s a political rallying group ...

Working out of the Box: Adora Lo, Architect turned Pro LEGO Builder, Wed, Sep 24 '14

Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths.In this installment, we're talking with Adora Lo, LEGO model designer.Are you an architect working out of the box? Do you know of someone that ...

Showcase: Stadthaus M1 by Barkow Leibinger , Thu, Sep 11 '14

The subtle strength of Barkow Leibinger's Stadthaus M1 derives from its passive house standards and connection to local environment. The basic polygonal form of the overall structure, which includes a hotel and street-level shops separate from apartments, is jointed by a “pocket ...

Screen/Print #24: Architectural fantasies from "Fairy Tales — When Architecture Tells A Story", Wed, Sep 3 '14

A good fairy tale, like good architecture, makes fantasy inhabitable. It provides a foundation for the reader to stand on, and then let’s them loose to fill in the rest with their own experiences, making a universal structure personal. But sometimes, when architects try to tell the story of ...

Prototyping: "Architecture in Digital Fashion" makes parametricism personal, Fri, Aug 29 '14

Fashion design may seem far removed from architecture, but both disciplines have the human scale at their centers. One intimately wraps the body, the other moderates its passage through the world, but both are occasions for self-expression and vital to survival. The organizers ...

Working out of the Box: Julia Watson of "Studio Rede", Fri, Aug 22 '14

Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths.In this installment, we're talking with Julia Watson, landscape architect turned sacred space conservationist.Are you an architect working ...

Screen/Print #23: REM magazine interviews Philippe Rahm and Ugo La Pietra, Thu, Aug 21 '14

It might be best to consider REM magazine as a performance, rather than a publication. The “short-term” magazine isn't solely about Koolhaas, but began publishing at the start of his Venice Biennale of Architecture in June, placing its feet firmly alongside other satellite ...

Screen/Print #22: Interview with Steven Holl for "MacMag39", Thu, Aug 14 '14

The Glasgow School of Art’s architecture is a concise conversation between old and new. Recent events on campus, however, tipped the discussion in favor of the contemporary — a new building by Steven Holl Architects opened, and just a few weeks later, a fire ravaged the school’s ...

Working out of the Box: Francis Tsai, Wed, Aug 13 '14

Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths.In this installment, we're talking with Francis Tsai of Francis Tsai Illustration and Concept Design.Are you an architect working out of ...

Show Case: ‘Schapenboeten’ Holiday Home by Benthem Crouwel Architects, Thu, Jul 31 '14

Slightly quirky, modest and covered in fishnets, Benthem Crouwel Architect’s holiday house turns a piece of Dutch vernacular into a sleek but cozy nest. Modeled after the local ‘schapenboeten’ sheds for storing hay and tools in a windy climate, the home is now part of the ...

Student Works: Fantasy and reconstructed realities in MIARD's "Interior Atmospheres", Wed, Jul 30 '14

Sometimes, 3D models and sectional diagrams aren’t the best means for an architect to communicate their design. Sometimes fantasy and memoir take the reins, motivating a different approach run by personalized narrative, exhibited solely through images. A couple of standout theses from the ...

ShowCase: Concrete House by Studio Gil, Tue, Jul 29 '14

Studio Gil’s extension of a Victorian terraced house in East London works from the inside out. Situated in a conservation area in the Mile End neighborhood, "Concrete House" maintains its exterior cladding while opening up its interior to the outside, knitting together remodeled ...

Screen/Print #21: Log 31, "New Ancients", Fri, Jul 25 '14

Log is an insistently literary architecture publication — that is, it prioritizes text far over image. Rejecting “the seductive power of the image in media”, Log tries to communicate the significant aspects of contemporary architectural discourse within the diverse and often divisive ...

AfterShock #3: Brains and the City, Thu, Jul 24 '14

Navel-gazing has become a data-driven sport. We are awash in technology that allows us to track our own activities, and then take responsibility for that scrutiny, holding us accountable for calories consumed or credit cards exhausted. The quantified-self movement can be a sandstorm of ...

Working out of the Box: Otaat / Myers Collective, Fri, Jul 18 '14

Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths.In this installment, we're talking with Albert Chu and Jenny Myers of Otaat / Myers Collective.Are you an architect working out of the ...

Koolhaas wreaks havoc at A+D Museum's "S,M,L,XLA" exhibition, Mon, Jul 14 '14

In the 1958 classic film "The Blob", a globular alien terrorizes a small Pennsylvanian town, ravenously absorbing everything and everyone in its path. It's formidable but silly looking at the same time, and the more it takes in the bigger and angrier it gets. Walking through the ...

Screen/Print #20: "Architecture in Formation", design manual for the second digital revolution, Fri, Jul 11 '14

Part provocation, part manifesto-by-committee, part historical benchmark, Architecture in Formation is designed as the digital architecture manual for the second digital revolution. Anticipating a merger between theory and practice, the book combines formerly unpublished essays and interviews with ...

The Deans List: Mark Wigley of Columbia University's GSAPP, Mon, Jul 7 '14

The Deans List is an interview series with the leaders of architecture schools, worldwide. The series profiles the school’s programming, as defined by the head honcho – giving an invaluable perspective into the institution’s unique curriculum, faculty and academic environment. For ...

Cutting Room: "Interiors" takes classic films back to the drawing board, Mon, Jun 23 '14

Filmmaking is a labor of love that shares architecture’s compulsion: to model a stratum of life down to the most precise detail, creating entire worlds that do not (yet) exist. It seems natural then that an architect and filmmaker would combine forces to create Interiors, a journal of ...

"I am trying to function a little bit, in a humble way, as an ambassador for Los Angeles": Interview with Gabriel Kahane about his new album, The Ambassador, Fri, Jun 20 '14

Gabriel Kahane's new album, The Ambassador, builds songs from the moods of places within Los Angeles. Born in Venice Beach, raised in northern California and living in Brooklyn, Kahane has created an unlikely ambassador for Los Angeles' pathos.

Screen/Print #19: "Chicagoisms" honors the Windy City's architectural clout, Tue, Jun 17 '14

Judging by its nicknames, Chicago is a city driven by industry and a competitive mentality, whether matched up against comparable US metropolises or cities abroad. And while it may no longer be regarded as the urban symbol of architectural influence, Chicago has played an undeniably central ...

"This incredible, derogatory, racialized way people talk about the space": director Kelly Anderson's Cutting Room interview on gentrification and activism in her doc, "My Brooklyn", Thu, Jun 12 '14

My Brooklyn takes a close look at the guiding forces behind Brooklyn’s gentrification, from the highly personal perspective of documentary filmmaker (and self-identifying gentrifier), Kelly Anderson. Pivoting around Anderson’s and producer Allison Lirish Dean’s investigation ...

Screen/Print #18: "New SubUrbanisms" by Judith K. De Jong, Mon, Jun 9 '14

The American suburbs no longer exist as physically and conceptually peripheral to the downtown, the central consciousness of urban development. According to Judith K. De Jong’s new book, New SubUrbanisms, the suburbs' mainstream designation as places of seclusion, domesticity ...

While buildings rot, film preserves architecture's memory: Cutting Room's interview with Malachi Connolly, director of "Built on Narrow Land" documentary, Thu, Jun 5 '14

Before the Cape Cod National Seashore was declared public land in 1959, the grassy dune landscape was already dotted with a handful of Bauhaus-inspired beach houses. Built by a strain of rogue bohemian architects, the houses served as beloved, experimental cottages until the land underneath them ...

Screen/Print #17: Scenario Journal's "Building the Urban Forest", Fri, May 30 '14

Scenario Journal pools fresh, collaborative conversations on urbanism from design and the sciences, focused on rethinking urban landscape performance. Metamorphosing from its previous incarnation as the Landscape Urbanism Journal, the journal builds on the theoretical ...

Working out of the Box: Daniel Carper, Thu, May 29 '14

Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths.In this installment, we're talking with Daniel Carper, Product Designer at Loaded Boards and Orangatang Wheels.Are you an ...

Cutting Room: Talking architectural dissent and climate-proof buildings with Eugene Tssui, subject of Kyung Lee's "TELOS" documentary , Wed, May 28 '14

TELOS: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui is a slice of the architect's uphill battle against the built environment’s status quo, documenting his crusade for what he calls “Evolutionary Architecture”. Maligned for his off-beat sustainable design principles as a student and struggling ...

A new nature: Interview with Ma Yansong of MAD Architecture, Thu, May 22 '14

Ma Yansong is a trailblazing figure for Chinese architecture, having made a name for himself around the world as a business leader and innovative architect. Recently named 2014's Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business, Yansong ...

Screen/Print #16: Project Journal's "Issue 3", featuring a conversation with Neil Denari, Wed, May 21 '14

Project Journal is a place for critical architectural discourse, with few restrictions regarding content, but an insistence on zealous, young voices. The journal aims simply to provide a platform for new, potentially dissenting ideas in architecture, but (as the name implies) was initially ...

Prototyping: Developing fantastical habitats for the untamed in New-Territories' "DIY-Feral Child Workshop", Tue, May 20 '14

True to its name, the DIY-Feral Child workshop is devised around an imagined feral child, found deep in the Thai Jungle and now being assimilated into human society. Spanning one summer month in the north-east of Bangkok, along the Kwai River, the workshop is a tri-fold effort of design, material ...

Cutting Room: Listen to John Szot, creator of "Architecture and the Unspeakable", discuss cyber-architectural realities and speculative practice, Mon, May 19 '14

John Szot, architect and creator of the Architecture and the Unspeakable film series, is a pioneer in film's unique architectural exploration, working with digital animation to investigate parts of the built environment that remain hidden at the street level. In our interview ...

Student Works: 3D printing the new millenial domicile with UCLA and HUD, Fri, May 16 '14

Taking a minimalist approach to both design and production, students in UCLA’s 3M futureLAB studio condensed micro-housing to an even smaller scale, with their 3D-printed, one-person, transportable housing unit. Conceived for the ideals of a fiercely mobile young professional, the full-scale ...

ShowCase: Villa CP by ZEST Architecture, Thu, May 15 '14

Restored from a stone Catalan farmhouse, Villa CP by ZEST Architecture stands as a memento to historical craftsmanship and future sustainability. The sturdy stone structure has been opened up into two distinct layers on the villa’s property, and incorporates strong elements of wood, clay ...

Cutting Room: We talk with Patrick Creadon, director of "If You Build It", about the documentary and the power of design education in post-recession U.S., Wed, May 14 '14

If You Build It documents a year in the classroom of Project H, an experimental design-build workshop for high school students in Windsor, North Carolina. Guided by designer Emily Pilloton and architect Matt Miller, the creators of Project H, ten high schoolers set out to design and build a ...

The Deans List: Chris Knapp of Abedian School of Architecture, Mon, May 12 '14

The Deans List is an interview series with the leaders of architecture schools, worldwide. The series profiles the school’s programming, as defined by the head honcho – giving an invaluable perspective into the institution’s unique curriculum, faculty and academic ...

Screen/Print #15: Sophie Yanow's "War of Streets and Houses", Thu, May 8 '14

Student protests broke out in Montreal in February of 2012, rallying against Quebec’s proposed university tuition hike. The protests were massive, flooding the streets for days with students, sympathizers and police, while universities saw dramatic student walkouts. Sophie Yanow was one such ...

What is the Los Angeles Biennale of Architecture / Urbanism?, Tue, May 6 '14

For three days this past February, eight loosely-affiliated individuals sat around a makeshift table in Shenzhen and talked about Los Angeles. This is the purely pragmatic explanation of what the Los Angeles Biennale was, in its inaugural form at 2013’s Bi-City Biennale of Architecture ...

ShowCase: Fall House by Fougeron Architecture, Wed, Apr 30 '14

The California Coast is a dramatic fluctuation of cliffs, redwood trees and sand dunes, at once powerful and peaceful. California’s famous Pacific Coast Highway winds down the state, with alternating western views of ocean and forest, with little else visible from the narrow road. But draped ...

Screen/Print #14: SAN ROCCO's "What's Wrong with the Primitive Hut?", Tue, Apr 29 '14

What can an architectural publication accomplish in a five year lifespan? Can it deliver on its promises and produce something of value, while holding itself accountable throughout? This is the self-imposed challenge of SAN ROCCO, an architecture magazine based in Milan, Italy. The magazine began ...

Screen/Print #13: One:Twelve's "Black and White", Fri, Apr 18 '14

One:Twelve, the student-run journal from the Knowlton School of Architecture, is both a collaborative and expansive effort. Jointly managed across the school’s architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning departments, the journal's content is culled from Knowlton and beyond, with ...

Screen/Print #12: The Cairo Review's "Future of the City", Tue, Apr 15 '14

The American University in Cairo is an institution focused on global diplomacy and policy, attracting journalists, politicians, lawyers, academics and experts from all over the world. The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, the quarterly journal couched within the University's School of Global Affairs ...

Working out of the Box: Emily Fischer of Haptic Lab, Tue, Apr 15 '14

Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths.In this installment, we're talking with Emily Fischer, Founder of Haptic Lab.Are you an architect working out of the box? Do you know of someone ...

Interview with John Szot of "Architecture and the Unspeakable" film series, Fri, Apr 4 '14

Architecture and the Unspeakable is a triptych of short, magnificently animated films, each exploring a different symptom of architecture’s vulnerabilities. Produced by Brooklyn Digital Foundry and directed by architect John Szot, the films feature architecture proposals from John Szot Studio ...

Screen/Print #11: OASE's "Building Atmosphere", Fri, Mar 28 '14

OASE runs on the steam of academic discourse. The peer-reviewed architecture journal is based in the Netherlands, but keeps a high standard of international contributions, most of whom have a foot in both camps of design practice and academia. The journal is published twice a year, our ...

ShowCase: Residence in Weinheim by Wannenmacher-Möller Architekten, Tue, Mar 25 '14

While designed as a private residence, the shape of Wannenmacher-Möller's Weinheim Residence has inklings of cultural and industrial institutions. The home's stretched linearity is a sleek version of the stacked shipping container aesthetic, made of aluminum and glass on the ground ...

ShowCase: White Wolf Hotel by AND-RÉ, Sat, Mar 22 '14

The White Wolf Hotel sits low to the ground in the verdant landscape of Penafiel, Portugal, calmly set by forest and stream. AND-RÉ's neutral white hotel is no-frills in and out, its simple geometry free of distracting stimuli for visitors to enjoy a complete mental and physical ...

Student Works: "[X]City: Making Interior Cities" from the Piet Zwart Institute, Thu, Mar 20 '14

Focusing on a defunct submarine wharf in the Port of Rotterdam, students in the Masters of Interior Architecture and Retail Design program at the Piet Zwart Institute explored whether interior design can give way to urban redevelopment. As part of last fall's [X]City studio, students proposed ...

Screen/Print #10: Zawia's "Utopia", Tue, Mar 11 '14

Zawia is a relatively young and highly ambitious architecture publication, one that places a strong emphasis on community politics with global connections. Coordinated between representatives in Cairo, Milan and London, Zawia also produces a series of collaborative events on architecture, design ...

Student Works: Tectonic Studio from Tsinghua University, Fri, Mar 7 '14

The “pop-up” shop has long been a steadfast option for small-scale enterprises to sell their wares, creating a flexible and relatively cheap venue for businesses. The challenge is to build space that is not only efficient, but mobile and expressive of that business&rsquo ...

ShowCase: Casa H by Bojaus Arquitectura, Wed, Mar 5 '14

Bojaus Arquitectura’s Casa H is a modernist white cube, but it’s also not what you think it is. The cube is sometimes interpreted as a reflex towards neutrality, to get the spaces and the inhabitants within to speak for themselves. But Casa H isn’t arbitrarily a white cube ...

Screen/Print #9: Sean Lally's "The Air From Other Planets", Tue, Mar 4 '14

Screen/Print is an experiment in translation across media, featuring a close-up digital look at printed architectural writing. Divorcing content from the physical page, the series lends a new perspective to nuanced architectural thought.For this issue, we’re featuring Sean ...

Screen/Print #8: Satellite, Fri, Feb 28 '14

Screen/Print is an experiment in translation across media, featuring a close-up digital look at printed architectural writing. Divorcing content from the physical page, the series lends a new perspective to nuanced architectural thought.For this issue, we’re featuring ...

Prototyping: Tiny House Design Workshop, Thu, Feb 27 '14

Workshops can open up architectural education to those beyond the university community, rolling theory and practice into concentrated and productive sessions. Prototyping, a new feature series on Archinect, will highlight some of the more ambitious and intriguing workshops out there, to ...

Student Works: "Eidos" Housing Project - GSAPP, Sun, Feb 23 '14

The “Eidos” housing complex collapses communal and individual extremes into a ruthlessly mathematical structure, that somehow manages to be both homogenized and personalized at once. The building structure is equipped with its own means of production, enabling new spaces to be grafted into the ...

Jason Pomeroy, the "City Time Traveller", Tue, Feb 18 '14

City Time Traveller, a new travel show that spotlights architectural wonders throughout Asia, debuted earlier this month on Channel NewsAsia. Mixing city history and architectural heritage, the show is hosted by Jason Pomeroy, an architect, academic and urban planner based in Singapore. As an ...

Screen/Print #7: Horizonte, Tue, Feb 18 '14

Screen/Print is an experiment in translation across media, featuring a close-up digital look at printed architectural writing. Divorcing content from the physical page, the series lends a new perspective to nuanced architectural thought.For this issue, we’re featuring ...

In Focus: Pygmalion Karatzas, Thu, Feb 13 '14

In Focus is Archinect's series of features dedicated to profiling the photographers who help make the work of architects look that much better. What has attracted them to architecture? How do they work? What type of equipment do they use? What do they think about seeing their work in blogs?In ...

Student Works: Martin McSherry's "Vertical Graveyards", Wed, Feb 12 '14

Martin McSherry’s “The Vertical Graveyards” is a speculative proposal for a new infrastructure of death, mimicking the skyscraper as a symbol of expanding and densifying urban systems. Currently an MArch student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, McSherry initially drafted ...

The Deans List: Jack Davis of Virginia Tech, Tue, Feb 11 '14

The Deans List is an interview series with the leaders of architecture schools, worldwide. The series profiles the school’s programming, as defined by the head honcho – giving an invaluable perspective into the institution’s unique curriculum, faculty and academic environment.For ...

ShowCase: Archaeological Pavilion by kadawittfeldarchitektur, Fri, Feb 7 '14

ShowCase is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers representing all creative fields and all geographies.We are always accepting nominations for upcoming ShowCase features - if you would like to suggest a project, please send us a message.

Working out of the Box: Miguel McKelvey, Thu, Jan 30 '14

Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths.In this installment, we're talking with Miguel McKelvey, Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer at WeWork.Are you an architect working out of the ...

Screen/Print #6: MONU's "Greater Urbanism", Mon, Jan 27 '14

Screen/Print is an experiment in translation across media, featuring a close-up digital look at printed architectural writing. Divorcing content from the physical page, the series lends a new perspective to nuanced architectural thought.For this issue, we’re featuring MONU's 19th ...

ShowCase: Pocinho Rowing High Performance Center by Alvaro Andrade, Tue, Jan 21 '14

ShowCase is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers representing all creative fields and all geographies. We are always accepting nominations for upcoming ShowCase features - if you would like to suggest a project, please send us a message.

Take a Walk: Mike the Poet on L.A.'s Grand Avenue, Mon, Jan 20 '14

On the verge of metamorphosis, Los Angeles' Grand Avenue could do with a check-up. To take a record of the historic street, Mike "The Poet" Sonksen walks its length from Grand Park to South Park, and muses on its rich history from downtown's beginnings.

Screen/Print #5: Portal 9's "Fiction", Wed, Jan 15 '14

Screen/Print is an experiment in translation across media, featuring a close-up digital look at printed architectural writing. Divorcing content from the physical page, the series lends a new perspective to nuanced architectural thought. For this issue, we’re featuring Portal 9's Fiction ...

ShowCase: Abedian School of Architecture by CRAB Studio, Fri, Jan 10 '14

ShowCase is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers representing all creative fields and all geographies.We are always accepting nominations for upcoming ShowCase features - if you would like to suggest a project, please send us a message.

Screen/Print #4: MAS Context, Tue, Jan 7 '14

Screen/Print is an experimentation in translation across media, featuring a close-up digital look at printed architectural writing. Divorcing content from the physical page, the series lends a new perspective to nuanced architectural thought.For this issue, we’re featuring MAS ...

The Deans List: Sarah Whiting of Rice University, Fri, Jan 3 '14

The Deans List is an interview series with the leaders of architecture schools, worldwide. The series profiles the school’s programming, as defined by the head honcho – giving an invaluable perspective into the institution’s unique curriculum, faculty and academic environment. For this ...

Screen/Print #3: BI's "Free", Thu, Dec 19 '13

Screen/Print is an experimentation in translation across media, featuring a close-up digital look at printed architectural writing. Divorcing content from the physical page, the series lends a new perspective to nuanced architectural thought. For this issue, we’re featuring BI's ...

Student Works: rub-a-dub's "Space Oddity", Thu, Dec 5 '13

“Space Oddity” meditates on what architecture can be in deep space. In such an indifferent and inhospitable vacuum, architecture as static form loses meaning, and must instead rely on a self-sustaining momentum of adaptable materials.

Screen/Print #2: The Petropolis of Tomorrow, Thu, Nov 28 '13

Screen/Print is an experimentation in translation across media, featuring a close-up digital look at printed architectural writing. Divorcing content from the physical page, the series lends a new perspective to nuanced architectural thought. For this issue, we’re featuring The Petropolis of ...

Aftershock #2: "Serendipity Machines" and the Future of Workplace Design, Wed, Nov 27 '13

AfterShock is a non-conclusive series that grapples with the impact and responsibility of contemporary architectural design, hoping to instigate dialogues on how to make architecture more accountable.

The Deans List: David Gissen of California College of the Arts, Thu, Nov 21 '13

The Deans List is an interview series with the leaders of architecture schools, worldwide. The series profiles the school’s programming, as defined by the head honcho – giving an invaluable perspective into the institution’s unique curriculum, faculty and academic environment.For ...

ShowCase: Vienna University Buildings by CRAB Studio, Thu, Nov 14 '13

ShowCase is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers representing all creative fields and all geographies. We are always accepting nominations for upcoming ShowCase features - if you would like to suggest a project, please send us a message.

Student Works: Resilient Public Housing from Parsons, Wed, Nov 6 '13

Responding to a daunting list of post-Sandy urban concerns, M.Arch students at the Parsons New School for Design proposed a variety of affordable housing complexes in an under-developed patch of Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Screen/Print: SOILED's "Windowscrapers", Tue, Oct 29 '13

Screen/Print is an experimentation in translation across media, featuring a close-up digital look at printed architectural writing. Divorcing content from the physical page, the series lends a new perspective to nuanced architectural thought.For this issue, we’re featuring SOILED ...

ShowCase: Barneveld Noord Station by NL Architects, Wed, Oct 23 '13

ShowCase is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers representing all creative fields and all geographies. We are always accepting nominations for upcoming ShowCase features - if you would like to suggest a project, please send us a message.

Working out of the Box: Steven Fleming, Wed, Oct 23 '13

Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths. In this installment, we're talking with architectural-theorist of cycling Steven Fleming. Are you an architect working out of the box? Do you know of ...

Shock of the new: "Beyond the Assignment" and architectural photography's future, Fri, Oct 18 '13

Smack in the middle of Hollywood, among costume shops, bars and a Scientology center, WUHO Gallery celebrated the opening of "Beyond the Assignment: Defining Photographs of Architecture and Design", an exhibition honoring the work of active architectural photographers from across the United ...

7 Lessons from the 3rd International Architectural Education Summit, Mon, Oct 7 '13

Just over a year ago, the Architectural Review published “Alternative Routes for Architecture”, calling for a drastic reinterpretation of architectural education in the face of rigid institutions and extreme financial strains. Certainly this demand is older than a year -- as we allow ...

In Focus: Nico Marques, Fri, Oct 4 '13

In Focus is Archinect's series of features dedicated to profiling the photographers who help make the work of architects look that much better. What has attracted them to architecture? How do they work? What type of equipment do they use? What do they think about seeing their work in blogs? In ...

Student Works: "Saltworks" from Washington University in St. Louis, Wed, Oct 2 '13

Finding inspiration in the genetics behind a giraffe’s neck, students at Washington University in St. Louis used parametric design methods to build a flexible piece of public furniture for the university campus.

ShowCase: Tussen-Ruimte (Between Space) by Office Jarrik Ouburg, Wed, Sep 25 '13

ShowCase is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers representing all creative fields and all geographies. We are always accepting nominations for upcoming ShowCase features - if you would like to suggest a project, please send us a message.

No Such Thing As Nowhere: Discussion with Matthew Coolidge, author of "Around the Bay", Mon, Sep 23 '13

Around the Bay: Man-Made Sites of Interest in the San Francisco Bay Region, a new photobook from the Center for Land Use Interpretation, catalogues portraits of the Bay Area's complex and historied landscapes.

AfterShock #1: Architectural Consumers in the Experience Economy, Wed, Sep 11 '13

AfterShock is a non-conclusive series on Archinect that grapples with the impact and responsibility of contemporary architectural design, hoping to instigate dialogues on how to make architecture more accountable.

Architecture Photography in the 21st Century: Interview with Bilyana Dimitrova, Tue, Sep 3 '13

There’s no denying that architectural discourse has drastically expanded with the ease of image-sharing technology. Without even being in the same country as a building, anyone feels entitled to form an opinion of that structure based on photographs that are perpetuated over the internet, to ...

Student Works: Building Soft takes on the L.A. River's infrastructure, Fri, Aug 23 '13

SWA’s Summer Student Program challenges students to reconfigure established systems of infrastructure and landscape, adapting regional developments within a preexisting cultural environment. In its fifth year, the program has dealt mostly with California’s diverse terrain, and now turns its ...

What's Next?: A Panel Discussion for A+D Museum's "Never Built: Los Angeles", Mon, Aug 12 '13

Does L.A. even want to be defined by a provincial architecture? Is it necessarily a disadvantage that the city serves as an incubator, rather than a fairground, for architectural innovation -- or as Thom Mayne put it, as a world-class global exporter of urban and architectural ideas? It may be ...