‘Shigeru Ban: The Paper Log House’ lands at the Glass House to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the landmark New Canaan, Connecticut, residence and its recently restored brick guest cottage.
Closed for 15-years due to disrepair and water damage, this integral component of the architect’s Connecticut compound will reopen for the landmark property’s 75th anniversary in April 2024.
Architects, designers, and scholars have demanded that MoMA remove Philip Johnson’s name from the New York City institution in response to the late architect’s “white supremacist views and activities.”
A major restoration by ARO with George Sexton Associates and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects opened last fall. The chapel celebrated its 50th anniversary on February 26–28, 2021.
The Glass House is polka-dotted no more, as Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s month-long installation, Dots Obsession – Alive, Seeking for Eternal Hope, at the New Canaan landmark has drawn to a close.
In 1958, the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research (IPAR) at the University of California, Berkeley, set out to study the personalities of creative people—specifically, 40 top architects living or working in the U.S. A July 2016 issue of the podcast 99% Invisible reexamines the IPAR study.
In 1958, the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research (IPAR) at the University of California, Berkeley, embarked on an ambitious endeavor to closely study 40 of the most creative architects living in the U.S. or working in the country at the time.