Alexis Sablone, a recent graduate from MIT’s M.S. Arch.S. Program and architecture undergrad from Columbia University shares a letter to her 80 year-old self about her path, on and off the skateboard. Written in January 2017, Alex addresses her future self and tells the tale of her love of skating, since she was 10, when […]
(via QZ) Daniel Horn, a fresh New York architecture graduate, has launched a global competition around a tricky design question—what is the most aesthetic way to raise the elevation of an entire neighborhood block by eight to 10 feet? Call it extreme weather architecture. Horn, a 23-year-old graduate of the New York Institute of Technology […]
(via National Trust Preservation Leadership Forum) The Farnsworth House is one of the most revered buildings of the 20th century. Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1945 and constructed in 1951, it is a vital part of modern iconography. The building first opened to the public in 2005 and a modest visitor’s center […]
(via Bustler) On the somber occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 10 shortlisted proposals for the UK Holocaust Memorial Design Competition have been publicly revealed. The proposals were designed by the 10 star-studded teams who were invited to submit concepts this past fall. With Malcolm Reading Consultants as adviser, the jury — Communities Secretary Sajid Javid; Mayor of London Sadiq […]
(via University of Arkansas News) FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts will allow the University of Arkansas Community Design Center to assist the city of Conway in developing a plan for a town square that integrates wetland-based storm water treatment landscapes with urban land uses and an outdoor […]
(via GSAPP News) “Everything In Quotes” Virgil Abloh Response by Michael Rock Virgil Abloh is a longtime creative consultant to Kanye West and the founder of the award-winning luxury fashion label Off-White™. The Chicago-based designer received his Masters of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology and his undergraduate in Civil Engineering at the University […]
(via Mobile Mag) Getting builders to construct your own planned house on your property is like having a car maker come and assemble your car in your driveway. But according to Clive Vorster, visiting professor of architecture at Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture and Design, it makes more sense to build the components off-site then […]
(via U. Chicago News) A feathery mix of purple, blue and green light glows from the newly opened ArtHouse: A Social Kitchen, a multipurpose space in downtown Gary, Ind. that’s becoming a destination for food, culture and art. The once-underutilized building that’s now home to ArtHouse is wrapped in an installation titled Light-Lab. The steel […]
(via Archinect) LIBRARY EXHIBITION José Oubrerie The Chapel of the Mosquitoes February 3 – March 26, 2017 Friday, February 3, 7pm: Opening Reception LOS ANGELES, CA (January 9, 2017) – SCI-Arc is pleased to present José Oubrerie’s Chapel of Mosquitoes architecture and paintings, opening February 3, 2017 in the SCI-Arc Library. Oubrerie’s Chapel of Mosquitoes synthesizes the opposite spatial […]
The first time I visited Detroit, five years ago, I got a grand tour one evening from one of the city’s most tireless boosters, advertising exec and author Toby Barlow. He took me to an avant-garde piano concert in the hip neighborhood of Corktown, an artisanal pizza joint near Eastern Market, and, oddly, a wrap […]