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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Life, In Hipster-Friendly Illustrations
All images courtesy Laurence King Given all that’s been published about Frank Lloyd Wright, another introductory volume on the architect might seem superfluous. To illustrate that volume, and so invite...
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“5×5” Exhibition Proves Architects Can Still Tackle Thorny Political Issues
5×5: Participatory Provocations is currently on show at New York’s Center for Architecture. It’s easy to caricature architecture as groveling valet, dutifully carrying out the wishes of the powerful...
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See the Swan Song Designs of Paul Rudolph
The Lippo Centre in Hong Kong Photography by Ian Lambot, courtesy the Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation and Nora Leung If Paul Rudolph might have deserved a sweeping survey on his centennial, it’s no...
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Urban Renewal, A Blight on Other American Cities, Sparked an Architectural...
Aerial composite of Pittsburgh’s Lower Hill, including the proposed Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (Skidmore Owings & Merrill), and Washington Plaza Apartments (I. M. Pei & Associates), from an...
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You Can’t Spell SOM Without Gordon Bunshaft
Gordon Bunshaft stands in front of the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University (1963). Courtesy Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library You couldn’t invent a firm of more interest or...
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The Cooper Union Showcases Costantino Nivola’s Impact on New York City
Sand-casts, Apartment Building Lobby, 1955. 1025 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. Photo by Norman Oberferst. Courtesy of the Nivola Family Archive The strength of Nivola in New York: Figure in Field,...
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High Rises Are Not High Density
Housing Density: From Tenements to Towers is on view at the Skyscraper museum in Manhattan. Courtesy Skyscraper Museum Housing Density: From Tenements to Towers at the Skyscraper Museum is full of...
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With the Reissue of Reyner Banham’s Classic, Tracing the Megastructural Moment
An early built megastructure, the Montreal Expo pavilion, themed Man the Producer, opened in 1967. Courtesy Monacelli Monacelli Press’s reprint of Reyner Banham’s 1976 Megastructure: Urban Futures of...
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Design Before Air Conditioning Surveys Early Experiments in Climate Control
A graphic shows some early microclimate-tailored strategies detailed in Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning by Daniel A. Barber. Courtesy Princeton University Press It’s...
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The Getty and USC Launch Talks Shedding Light on the Impact of Architect Paul...
Portrait of Paul R. Williams, photography by Julius Shulman, 1952. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles Paul Revere Williams, the late architect who was the first black member...
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