The new documentary marks the finale of filmmaker Gary Hustwit's design trilogy. Photo courtesy Gary Hustwit The film features scenes from Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai. Photo courtesy Gary Hustwit Hustwit critically assesses the Stuttgart 21 project, which calls for tearing down a landmark train station and handing over a large parcel of public land to private developers. The project has drawn considerable opposition. In the echo chamber of American documentaries, Gary Huswit’s films reverberate for all the right reasons. They are open explorations, not narrow screeds, that encourage insiders and philistines alike to robustly and respectfully debate the cultural
Determined to make interior design affordable for all, this 23-year-old Stanford graduate recently launched his own firm, 50 for Fifty. Photo courtesy Noa Santos Armed with a joint bachelor’s degree in architectural design and management science from Stanford, Noa Santos took his first job at a Madison Avenue interior design firm in New York shortly after graduating in 2010. Disenchanted with the work, the 23-year-old decided to launch his own company, 50 for Fifty. Established in August, the one-man firm charges a mere $50 for a 50-minute consultation (“It’s more like an hour,” he says). The service is geared toward
An aesthetic that mined the past gets a historical consideration of its own at a New York City symposium. Photo ' Alexander Gorlin Architect Alexander Gorlin snapped this photo of Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture dean Mark Wigley (left, foreground) watching New Urbanism impresario Andrés Duany speak at the two-day conference. “Postmodernism” entered the architectural discourse 36 years ago—in an essay by the British polymath Charles Jencks. Lately, Jencks said, he has been enjoying a holiday from the term he introduced. “I was sick and tired of it.” But his vacation has been interrupted by a spate of retrospectives,
In an effort to try to relieve some of the stress of the recession in construction, the American Institute of Architects is becoming an online matchmaker, of sorts. On Nov. 7, the AIA launched a stalled-projects online database intended to hook up developers, architects and other industry leaders with investors and funders to restart mothballed U.S. building projects. The find-a-business-partner initiative is designed to help architects and their clients find a solution to the 'primary issue plaguing the design and construction industry'access to credit,' says the AIA. Related links: Online database of stalled projects Stalled Construction Projects and Financing “The
World Building of the Year (and Office): Media-TIC, Barcelona, Cloud 9, Spain The fourth annual World Architecture Festival (WAF) wrapped up in Barcelona on November 4. More than 1,300 people attended this year’s awards ceremony, which capped the three-day event, and got a peek at the 700-plus international projects entered. Seminars and keynote speakers touched on issues of “disaster” and “difference,” including David van der Leer, assistant curator of Architecture and Urban Studies at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, who also led the museum’s team in executing the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a touring project that wrapped up its New York City
Brad Cloepfil takes Architectural Record on a tour of his 'introverted' building'a $29 million project that exceeded his expectations. Photo by Jeremy Bittermann/courtesy Clyfford Still Museum The new Clyfford Still Museum, by Allied Works, is located next to the Daniel Libeskind-designed Denver Art Museum. Photo by Jeremy Bittermann/courtesy Clyfford Still Museum Northwest corner of the Clyfford Still Museum. Related links: Cloepfil Unveils Design for Clyfford Still Museum Museum of Contemporary Art by Adjaye Denver Art Museum by Libeskind Denver Art Museum Shop by Roth + Sheppard Brad Cloepfil walks through the second-floor galleries of Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum, taking it
The procurement of three pieces by Colombian architect Giancarlo Mazzanti signals a new direction for the Museum of Modern Art. Parque Biblioteca Espa'a, Medell'n, Colombia. Presentation model in white cardboard of Parque Biblioteca Espa'a. Related Links: "Small Scale, Big Change" Exhibition Opens at MoMA Parque Biblioteca Espa'a Steven Holl Architects Unveils Design for Bogot' Building Coliseums for the South American Games The Department of Architecture and Design at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has acquired three architectural models of recent projects by Colombian architect, Giancarlo Mazzanti. The selection represents two firsts: These are the first Colombian buildings
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