Theaster Gates Will Design London's Serpentine Pavilion in 2022 Bridget Goldberg May 18, 2021 One Comment The Chicago artist was selected by the Serpentine Galleries for its annual commission next summer.Read More
Malo A. Hutson Named Dean of UVA’s School of Architecture Ilana Herzig May 18, 2021 No Comments The current director of Urban Planning at Columbia University’s GSAPP will assume the new role in July.Read More
Los Angeles Announces Winners to Open Design Low-Rise Challenge Sarah Amelar May 17, 2021 No Comments The initiative—launched last November by the mayor’s office, along with the city’s chief design officer, Christopher Hawthorne—drew nearly 400 responses worldwide.Read More
La Bourse by Tadao Ando with NEM Paris Andrew Ayers May 17, 2021 No Comments Tadao Ando and a team of French architects have turned the cylindrical La Bourse, the onetime commodities exchange of Paris, into a whorling museum.Read More
Obituary: Art Gensler, 1935–2021 Fred A. Bernstein May 11, 2021 8 Comments He founded the world's largest architecture firm with 50 offices and 5,000 employees.Read More
Obituary: Helmut Jahn, 1940–2021 Fred A. Bernstein May 10, 2021 6 Comments A leader in Chicago’s architectural scene for half a century has died in a bicycle accident.Read More
Review of 'Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past' By Reyner Banham Anthony Vidler May 6, 2021 No Comments A reprint of Reyner Banham’s historical survey provides insight into the aims behind what was called the “megastructural” movement.Read More
Review of 'Unless: The Seagram Building Construction Ecology' By Kiel Moe Eric Höweler, FAIA May 6, 2021 2 Comments This critical assessment of Mies van der Rohe's Modernist icon demolishes much of the building's mythology.Read More
Carol Willis on the State of the Supertall James S. Russell, FAIA Emeritus May 6, 2021 One Comment "Supertalls can be about dreams, the urge to build icons, and ego—but they have got to pay back," says the founding director of the Skyscraper Museum.Read More
The Philadelphia Museum of Art Opens Long-Awaited Gehry-designed Galleries and Public Spaces James S. Russell, FAIA Emeritus May 5, 2021 No Comments In Philadelphia, Frank Gehry trades exquisite refinement for his trademark bravura.Read More
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