tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31519191921288397822024-03-04T21:57:34.333-08:00Architecture Designblonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.comBlogger1000125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-70458777712373048542015-06-11T10:45:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.486-07:00Book of the Moment: Six Canonical Projects by Rem KoolhaasIngrid Böck's Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas: Essays on the History of Ideas will be released by Jovis on July 28.Per the publisher's website:Rem Koolhaas has been part of the international avant-garde since the nineteen-seventies and has been named the Pritzker Architecture Prize for the year 2000. This book, which builds on six canonical Koolhaas projects [Exodus, or the Voluntary blonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-84699432944743106482015-06-10T06:45:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.498-07:00Book Review: MONU #22MONU #22 - Transnational UrbanismReviewed by Iulia Hurducaș[All photographs are courtesy of MONU Magazine.]Continuing the conversation on urbanism, this issue of MONU Magazine picks up on a topic opened in MONU #8 on border urbanism. Transnational Urbanism expands the topic of trans-border relations between cities close to nation state borders, to interrogate the flux of exchanges that blonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-85643613013720938342015-06-09T10:30:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.510-07:00Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in TimeMark your calendars: MAD (Museum of Arts and Design) is presenting a retrospective of director Andrei Tarkovsky's films this Summer. Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time "presents the work of the revolutionary director and includes screenings – all on 35 mm – of all seven feature films and a behind-the-scenes documentary." The retrospective starts on July 10, with one film screened per week until blonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-52527246471508425932015-06-09T08:44:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.520-07:00BIG's 2WTC for FOXWired magazine has unveiled Bjarke Ingels' design for Two World Trade Center, which he took over from Norman Foster after Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox and News Corp decided to move into the tower developed by Larry Silverstein.[All images are screenshots from the video found at the bottom of this post]In a three-minute video from Silverstein Properties, Ingels describes the 1,340-foot-high blonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-87514607088032437102015-06-08T14:00:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.530-07:00A Short Guide to the LFAHead on over to World-Architects to see some highlights from the London Festival of Architecture taking place this June.[Yellow Pavilion by Hall McKnight Architects in King’s Cross, as part of ID2015’s New Horizon_architecture from Ireland, for the London Festival of Architecture 2015. Photo: ©Ed Reeve] blonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-81564794248450343122015-06-06T16:45:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.540-07:00Today's archidose #842Here are some photos of The 606 by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, which opened today in Chicago, Illinois. Photos by John Zacherle.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just::: Tag your photos #archidoseblonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-84196365760753820552015-06-05T10:15:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.551-07:00The Collectivity ProjectLast Thursday, artist Olafur Eliasson, with some architects from the area (OMA, Field Operations, Steven Holl, DS+R, BIG, etc.), unveiled The Collectivity Project on the High Line at 30th Street. It looked like this:[Photo by Timothy Schenck, courtesy of Friends of the High Line] Two days later, when I visited with my wife, our daughter, and some friends, it looked more like this:My wife blonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-12293204844109146532015-06-04T11:30:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.561-07:00Book Review: Portraits of the New Architecture 2Portraits of the New Architecture 2 by Richard SchulmanAssouline, 2015Hardcover, 170 pagesAs the title to this coffee table book makes clear, it is the second Portraits book by photographer Richard Schulman; the first was released in 2004. Paul Goldberger, in his introduction, states Schulman didn't intend that book to be the first in a series, and when my sister got me the book for my birthday ablonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-71810449986883142042015-06-03T11:00:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.570-07:00Book Review: Conversations with ArchitectsConversations with Architects: In the Age of Celebrity by Vladimir BelogolovskyDOM Publishers, 2015Paperback, 584 pagesCurator and author Vladimir Belogolovsky did not set out to make a book on the celebrity phenomenon in architecture, as the name to this collection of 30 interviews with well known architects might indicate. Rather, as part of his work as a curator and a curiosity he partly blonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-47944377441319915762015-06-01T08:00:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.580-07:00Today's archidose #841Here are some photos of the Communist Party Headquarters (PCF, 1972) in Paris, France, by Oscar Niemeyer, photos by Victor Tsu.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just::: Tag your photos #archidoseblonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-29248351596955986402015-05-30T04:00:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.588-07:00Building with WasteBelow are some of my photos of the ETH Zurich Pavilion that is part of the IDEAS CITY Festival in New York City. To learn more about the pavilion, which is made from old beverage cartons, head over to World-Architects to see the piece I wrote.blonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-40924284652279773222015-05-29T08:30:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.599-07:00Today's archidose #840Here are some photos of the Community Church Knarvik (2014) in Hordaland, Norway, by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter, photographed by Sindre Ellingsen.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just::: Tag your photos #archidoseblonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-73611553704463700512015-05-28T07:50:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.608-07:00Ross Barney Architects Studio VisitHead on over to World-Architects to see a studio visit I made to Ross Barney Architects in Chicago. The firm opened a stretch of the Chicago Riverwalk over Memorial Day Weekend, one of the projects highlighted in the piece.[Ross Barney Architects occupies the old office of Harry Weese | Photo by John Hill] blonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-70536731683167036682015-05-27T09:00:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.618-07:00AE32: Climbing NetsNo less than three projects featuring nets – at least two for climbing – were featured in today's email from Arch Daily.OB Kindergarten and Nursery by HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro:[Photo: Studio Bauhaus, Ryuji Inoue] Garrison Treehouse by Sharon Davis Design:[Photo: Elizabeth Felicella]Saigon House by a21studio:[Photo: Quang Tran]Add to those projects a few more...Brazil Pavilion at Expo Milano blonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-62915817623498550612015-05-26T11:15:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.626-07:00Book Review: Architectural StylesArchitectural Styles: A Visual Guide by Owen HopkinsLaurence King, 2014Paperback, 240 pages In the introduction to his visual guide to architectural styles, Owen Hopkins lets the reader know that architectural "style" is a 19th century creation, something that enabled architectural historians to chart developments in the appearances of buildings over time. But 220 pages later, in the book's blonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-1224718928041557722015-05-26T08:00:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.636-07:00LEGOs coming to the High LineFriends of the High Line has announced that Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson will be presenting "The collectivity project, an installation of white LEGO bricks that features an imaginary cityscape conceived and designed by the public," from May 29 until September 30 on the High Line at West 30th Street. The collectivity project was previously installed in public squares in Tirana, Albania blonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-54308955204020069392015-05-25T18:15:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.644-07:00Today's archidose #839Here are some photos of the Northeastern Illinois University El Centro Campus (2014) in Chicago, Illinois, by JGMA, photographed by John Zacherle.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just::: Tag your photos #archidoseblonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-44665176502490215332015-05-24T18:00:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.654-07:00Book Review: Local ArchitectureLocal Architecture: Building Place, Craft, and Community by Brian-MacKay-Lyons, edited by Robert McCarterPrinceton Architectural Press, 2015Hardcover, 224 pagesGhost, a laboratory run by Canadian architect Brian MacKay-Lyons where architecture students would design and build small structures on land owned by the architect in Nova Scotia, started in 1994 with "a resurrection of a house silhouette blonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-71887727269115267412015-05-22T11:45:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.666-07:00"I'm OK. The world's all wrong."The quote of this title's post comes from the notebook of Harry Weese, which is featured in a 2010 episode of Chicago Tonight. The 13-minute piece gives a good overview of a late Chicago architect who, like Bertrand Goldberg, has been overshadowed by Mies, SOM, and other architects in the city, even though he produced some of the city's best architecture. It's worth watching if you don't know hisblonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-53925539553116073592015-05-20T09:45:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.675-07:00Book Review: Fuksas Building UpdateFuksas Building Update by Massimiliano & Doriana FuksasActar, 2015Hardcover, 250 pagesFirst off, I should admit that I don't have nor haven't seen the first Fuksas Building, published by Actar in 2011, which this book updates. So I can't really comment on how well this book extends the content of that monograph, nor if it is worth having in addition to that book. Second, I should admit that Iblonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-3428810030505104322015-05-19T12:03:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.685-07:00What's that ↑ up there?Unless you're reading this post on a mobile device or in your email browser, you're seeing a new widget with three images tucked between the title atop the blog and this post below it. This widget features three recent posts from the World-Architects Daily News, where I am Editor in Chief. Given that a good deal of my time during the day is spent adding posts to the Daily News, I felt it would beblonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-65454181765373961682015-05-19T09:45:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.694-07:00Today's archidose #838Here are some photos of the Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux (2015) in Bordeaux, France, by Herzog & de Meuron, photographed by JP2H.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just::: Tag your photos #archidoseblonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-58259460175659180882015-05-17T18:00:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.704-07:00Book Review: The Japanese House ReinventedThe Japanese House Reinvented by Philip JodidioMonacelli Press, 2015Hardcover, 288 pagesIn the introduction to Philip Jodidio's new book highlighting fifty recent Japanese houses, the author mentions that Japan and the United States share a preference for single-family houses over apartments. While not a surprising statement, the similarities end there, since each country's geography, culture, blonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-34131791429085596342015-05-14T14:00:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.716-07:00Today's archidose #837Here are some photos of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (1963) at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, photographed by Hassan Bagheri.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just::: Tag your photos #archidoseblonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3151919192128839782.post-72219366327135017932015-05-13T07:10:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:42:56.726-07:00Book Review: ExtrastatecraftExtrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space by Keller EasterlingVerso Books, 2014Hardcover, 252 pagesRecently, the Center for Architecture hosted two book talks organized by the AIANY Oculus Committee that I attended: one on Keller Easterling's Extrastatecraft, and on on Justin McGuirk's Radical Cities. Though both have subjects quite separate from each other, they share some traits, blonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15842370143326215745noreply@blogger.com0