Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurant, Los Angeles, Grinstein/Daniels Architects Just when you thought things couldn’t get any more tumultuous at Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), which has been buffeted by a string of financial and personnel crises in recent years, a new brouhaha has surfaced. And this time it concerns architecture—to be precise, a significant controversy surrounding a planned MOCA exhibition called A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California. The show is a major component of Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A. (see page 59), a series of exhibitions running through the summer in venues across
What Le Corbusier’s only realized project in North America says to us today. The center’s iconic ramp is wonderful to walk on, but a drag from below. And the landscape is merely a leftover space. How fast the radical present becomes the historical past. This new-is-old transformation has struck again at Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard. The boldly sculpted reinforced-concrete building, the architect’s only realized project in North America and one of the final commissions before his death in 1965, turned 50 on May 28, two weeks before New York’s Museum of Modern Art would
Product designers and producers descended on New York last weekend for the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, Wanted Design, and a large group of other events in galleries, showrooms, and studios throughout the city. RECORD sent out a team of editors to scout for the best new products and check out the most interesting exhibitions. Click the image below to view a slide show of what they found. At ICFF Close up of StokkeAustad’s “The Woods: Autumn” glass sculpture.
Theaster Gates, 12 Ballads for the Huguenot House, 2012. Installation view, Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany. It’s probably safe to say few people—if any, at all—have made a connection between the Huguenots who were run out of France in the 1700s and the waves of African Americans who fled the cruelties of the South during the 20th century. But drawing such unique parallels is a hallmark of artist Theaster Gates, whose work touches art, urban planning, culture, and music. For his well-received 12 Ballads for the Huguenot House, Gates and his team dismantled much of the worn interior and timbers of
Photo courtesy Peter Murray The Portland to Portland peloton. British architect, journalist, and cyclist Peter Murray has embarked on a bike ride from Portland, Oregon, to Portland Place in London. As he makes the 4,347-mile journey with a rotating group of participants, he plans to survey the state of cycling in American cities, meet up with members of the design community, and raise funds for Architecture for Humanity and U.K. relief organization Article 25.Along the way, Murray is filing updates about his progress for Architectural Record. Photo courtesy Peter Murray On the road. Just what we Brits can learn from
What began as architects Catherine Johnson and Rebecca Rudolph’s provocative response to the question “What is architecture?,” posed by the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles chapter as part of a 2010 competition, became the ethos of the duo’s collaboration: “It is design, bitches” was their answer.
The retail sector is slowly improving after taking a sharp hit during the recession. New York City, in particular, has been a hub of activity, with several high-profile renovation and new-construction projects. Source: McGraw-Hill Dodge Analytics Click the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].
Installation view of the Los Carpinteros exhibition, Irreversible, at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. The show runs through June 22. On Saturday, the Cuban art duo Los Carpinteros (“The Carpenters”) opened an exhibition of new work titled Irreversible. It should be called Irreverent. The show, which occupies the entire Sean Kelly Gallery in Manhattan through June 22, includes an 11-foot-wide architectural watercolor, a room-size installation involving smashed tomatoes, a video depicting a conga dance in reverse (music also in reverse), and three sculptures that look like spacecraft.The “Carpenters” are Dagoberto Rodriguez and Marco Castillo, Cuban-born artists who have worked
June 18-19, the CityAge conference, which bills itself as a "platform for dialogue designed to amplify new ideas in business, government, and society," will hit New York City. Architectural Record is a media sponsor of the event, which includes speakers Bjarke Ingels of BIG, Jill Lerner of KPF, and many others. Image via CityAge.tv Time & PlaceTuesday, June 18 — Wednesday, June 19, 2013New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, Washington Square60 Washington Square South, Suite 503New York, NY 10012Purchase Tickets Speakers Donald B. Marron, Chairman, Lightyear Capital Jung Hee Song, Senior Executive Vice President, KT Richard Barkham,
On the evening of May 14th, the Design Trust for Public Space is presenting a roundtable discussion on manufacturing, technology, and infrastructure in New York City. The program is part of the citywide NYCxDesign event. Time & Place Tuesday, May 14, 2013Parsons The New School for Design 560 Seventh Avenue, 2nd Floor AuditoriumNew York CityFREEAdvanced reservations required: rsvp@designtrust.orgProgramWelcome: Joel Towers, Executive Dean, Parsons The New School for DesignIntroduction: Susan Chin, Executive Director, Design Trust for Public SpaceModerator: Clifford Pearson, Deputy Editor, Architectural RecordRoundtable participants:Miquela Craytor, Director of Industrial Initiatives, Center for Economic Transformation Team, NYC Economic Development CorporationAdam Friedman,
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