Contrary to Architecture’s Critical Establishment, Robert A.M.
WEBSep 13, 2018 · In late January I attended a moving memorial service at Yale’s Battell Chapel for Vincent Scully, the man who led me to architecture as a career, and who continues to inspire me as a writer and historian. While there I took the opportunity to tour Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray Colleges, Yale’s first new residential colleges in half a …
Juhani Pallasmaa: “Architecture is a Verb” - Common Edge
WEBJul 19, 2021 · Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa is the author of more than 300 essays in 30 languages as well as two dozen books. His landmark volume The Eyes of the Skin is one of the most-read texts in architecture schools worldwide. A former professor of architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology and former director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, his design work has received numerous ...
The Restoration Argument: Respecting Viollet-Le-Duc at Notre …
WEBApr 25, 2019 · Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) invented modern restoration—both theory and practice. His first laboratory was Notre-Dame de Paris, and he spent virtually his entire professional life studying the cathedral and restoring it. Indeed, everything he added, subtracted, or restored is documented in extensive records and writings.
Hidden Figures: The Historic Contributions of Black Architects
WEBOct 5, 2020 · Designer Paul Wellington, based in Milwaukee, is the author of Black Built: History and Architecture in the Black Community, a book that documents more than 40 works of architecture around the country by Black architects that have had a direct impact on communities or color.He’s now working on a new book that will focus on Black women architects in a field dominated by white males.
Sea Change: Community-Centered Planning in an Era of Risk and ...
WEBOct 19, 2021 · The first one, held at the Ashe Cultural Arts Center in New Orleans, focused on a $93 million planning effort funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development called Louisiana Strategic Adaptations for Future Environments (LA SAFE). The project was designed to explore how six Louisiana coastal …
Household Dame: The Visionary Modernism of Eileen Gray
WEBNov 2, 2020 · It was reputedly a lovers’ spa t: Two passionate artists had a falling out and broke up. Like many things in Eileen Gray’s 98-year life, it was dramatic, consequential, and shrouded in mystery. Now considered one of the 20th century’s most influential modernist pioneers in the male-dominated fields of architecture, interiors, and furniture design, the Irish-born Eileen Gray (1878–1976 ...
Activating the Edges: How to Create Lively, Active Streets
WEBSep 14, 2022 · Activating the edges means preventing dormant spots where dynamic uses should prevail. Prioritize interactive uses—community spaces, courtyards, entries, or seating—in the prime space where the building meets the street edge, to ensure a lively interaction between the building and public realm. When placing required elements like …
Robert Venturi and the Difficult Whole – Common Edge
WEB09.26.2018. By Mark Alan Hewitt. Robert Venturi (1925-2018) was the most influential American architect of the last century, though not primarily for his built work, or because of his stature as a designer. He will never stand beside Wright, or Kahn, or even Gehry in that regard. Between 1965 and 1985 he and his collaborator, Denise Scott Brown ...
Laurel Canyon: The Classic California Urban Ecosystem
WEBAug 27, 2020 · The most arresting image, among many, in the documentary Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time, directed by Alison Ellwood, is a black-and-white photograph of Eric Clapton visiting Los Angeles for the first time on tour with Cream. He sits a few feet from Joni Mitche ll, who is playing guitar, with a visibly stoned David Crosby in the background on the backyard lawn of Cass Elliot’s house.
The Power of Lo-TEK: A Design Movement to Rebuild …
WEBJun 21, 2019 · A Mythology of Technology: Stemming from the Greek mythos, meaning “story of the people,” mythology has guided mankind for millennia. Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European Enlightenment constructed a mythology of technology. Influenced by a confluence of humanism, colonialism, and racism, the mythology ignored local wisdom and indigenous innovation, deeming it primitive.