If you’re judging from the amount of blog traffic that posts about her generate, the most popular woman in the architecture profession this year isn’t Jenne Gang or Zaha Hadid. It’s Barbie.
Thursday morning on the expo floor of the AIA show in New Orleans, I attended a preview of TOTO's Universal Design Minicourse at their booth (#1227). During the demo, Sean Stadler, Principal of WDG Architects (winner of the 2011 AIA Young Architects Award) wore an Advanced Age Simulation Suit and attempted typical bathroom tasks (such as getting up from a toilet seat), in both a traditional bathroom set-up and in a set-up designed for people of all abilities.
Yes its about 90 degrees and humid, but it’s a great pleasure to be in New Orleans whose recovery since Katrina seems remarkable. Friday afternoon, web editor Bill Hanley and I plan a bike ride to the Ninth Ward where evidence of the damage might be more pronounced. Arriving yesterday in time to join
Two years after guiding the Art Institute of Chicago through the completion of its Renzo Piano-designed Modern Wing, museum director James Cuno announced that he is leaving the eminent Windy City institution to head the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles. In addition to research and conservation programs, the Getty Trust operates the Richard Meier-designed Getty Center as well as the Getty Villa in Malibu, which reopened in 2006 following a renovation and expansion by Machado and Silvetti Associates.
The subject of the previous post—Philip Johnson’s Glass House—may be New Canaan’s most famous modern home, but it is hardly the only one. The Connecticut town is full of fine examples of mid-century modern residential architecture (and more contemporary examples as well). On Saturday, May 14, several
It’s official—yesterday, the International Living Building Institute announced that the Energy Lab at Hawaii Preparatory Academy, in Kamuela, had achieved Living Building Challenge certification—only the third project in the world to do so. The “Challenge,” a program created
The Museum of the City of New York has sent us this invitation for our readers who live in or near New York City (note the discount): THURSDAY, MAY 5 AT 6:30 PM GREAT ESCAPES: NEW DESIGNS FOR NEW YORK HOTELS Since the 19th century New York’s hotels have provided glamorous, romantic, relaxing, and
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Adorable introduction