Bowery Poetry Stages Le Corbusier's Women Photo © Architectural Record As the Museum of Modern Art plans to close the curtain on its blockbuster Le Corbusier exhibition, Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, three miles downtown a considerably more risqué side of the Swiss-French architectural master took the spotlight on Sunday. In a one-man, one-night show at Bowery Poetry Club, U.K.-based Charles Knevitt, former architecture critic of The Times in London, staged his play Le Corbusier’s Women, a monologue in which the architect discloses a sexual appetite as intrepid as his plans to raze Paris. Bespectacled and bathed in

"Screen Play," a proposal by Collective-LOK—a team comprised of Jon Lott, William O’Brien Jr., and Michael Kubo (from left to right)—experiments with transparent partitions to create a variety of interior spaces and to expand the storefront into the street. Van Alen Institute (VAI)—architecture nonprofit and bookstore in New York’s Flat Iron District—announced Monday the winner of a design competition for its new street-level space. The storefront’s current cascading, yellow stair will be replaced by new design by Collective-LOK, a design trio consisting of Jon Lott, William O’Brien Jr., and Michael Kubo. Developed over the course of six weeks, the winning

“It’s still a sausage factory here,” explained Elizabeth Diller, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) principal, of the work in progress during last week’s hard hat tour of The Broad Museum, a 120,000-square-foot, three-story contemporary art museum built by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad in downtown Los Angeles. Workers climbed atop scaffolding, structural innards lay bare on the walls, and a fine dust settled on the concrete floors, but one could already see glimpses of what was to come.Sited beside the Walt Disney Concert Hall, DS+R (with Gensler as executive architect and Matt Construction as general contractor) adhered to a “veil

On September 1, 2013, the Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, had its Civic Opening. Measuring 8,611-square-feet, it is the latest and the largest paper tube structure designed by the Japanese architect and the world’s go-to guy for emergency buildings, Shigeru Ban. Located within the city’s decimated central business district, Ban’s building is a temporary replacement for Christchurch’s Anglican cathedral, a Gothic style structure built in the 19th century but damaged beyond repair by the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that shook the city in February 2011. Inspired by the original building, the Cardboard Cathedral is trapezoidal in plan and triangular in

On Thursday, October 3, in New York City, the editors of Architectural Record will present its 11th annual Innovation Conference, a daylong event featuring presentations from architects, urban planners and other leaders in design.

This article first appeared on GreenSource. Ecococon - Straw Panels The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute has announced 10 finalists in their first annual Product Innovation Challenge. This debut competition, sponsored by the Schmidt Family Foundation and the Dutch Postcode Lottery, asked entrants to create a new building product that can be safely returned to nature or industry after its use (a defining concept of Cradle to Cradle certification). This year’s partnership in the challenge was with Make It Right; founded by Brad Pitt in 2007, this organization builds homes, buildings, and communities for people in need. Since the

Le Corbusier (second from left) may have had a romance with Josephine Baker. On Sunday, September 22, Le Corbusier will be "live" on stage at New York City's Bowery Poetry Club in a one-man show, "Le Corbusier's Women." The "architect of the century" and "Picasso of architecture," Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is played by Charles Knevitt, former architecture critic of The Times (London). He also wrote the show. "Le Corbusier’s Women" tells the story of the most prominent women in the architect’s life: his mother, his wife, his mistress of 30 years, and a score of other lovers including, allegedly, Josephine

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Photo courtesy Architecture Forum Aedes An exhibition this summer at Berlin's Aedes showcased the research and planning scenarios that grew out of MyIdealCity.com. The start of the school year marks Winka Dubbeldam’s first fall semester as chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design. But the principal of New York firm Archi-tectonics has hardly been on summer vacation. She has been traveling the globe to discuss MyIdealCity.com, a crowd-sourced, bottom-up urban planning project for downtown Bogotá, Colombia, that she and her office helped develop. (“I love working there. I might be a closet Latin

A rendering of the QueensWay, a 3.5-mile segment of track in Queens, New York, to be transformed into a landscaped greenway and cultural hub. The High Line, Manhattan’s elevated rail line-turned-catwalk, gets all the attention, but rails-to-trails projects have been cropping up across the country for decades, and New York City could welcome another soon in Queens. After two years of grassroots organizing, a new phase for a forgotten branch of the Long Island Railroad may lie around the bend. In August, the Trust for Public Land (TPL) and Friends of the QueensWay announced that WXY Architecture + Urban Design