The New Republic
Architecture occupies a peculiar place in the life of democratic societies. Most buildings get built because some private concern, an individual or a corporate entity, commissions it. Because procuring land and constructing buildings is expensive, the private concerns that do so typically enjoy the benefits of wealth, which include social and political influence in excess of the democratic credo …
Shigeru Ban: Winner of the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize
The New Republic
Globalization, climate change, and digital technology have thoroughly reshaped architecture as a profession and as an art. 2014 Pritzker Prize winner Shigeru Ban is leading the revolution.
Frank Lloyd Wright Was a Genius at Building Houses, But His Ideas for Cities Were Terrible
The New Republic
Most educated Americans can recite the names of at least a few of the principal figures of twentieth-century art—Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Jackson Pollock, maybe Jasper Johns—but ask about the architects of the same era and the only name you are almost guaranteed to hear is Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Bridge for Laboratory Sciences at Vassar College
Bridging disciplines—literally and figuratively—has become a concern du jour for colleges and universities as multidisciplinary collaborations continue to proliferate.
Concrete Future – Art in America
The Met Breuer, housed in the revamped concrete building that Marcel Breuer designed for the Whitney Museum, launched with a survey show whose “unfinished” theme chimes with the rough materiality of the modernist architectural landmark.
DECONSTRUCTION SITE: REVIEW OF THE BROAD MUSEUM
Art in America, December issue.
I posted this photograph on Twitter the day of the press opening, writing “Broad Makes Koons Look Deep!”
CRITIQUE: CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL
Architectural Record
The picture is a wonderful rethinking of how to downside a McMmansion, by overunder, a firm in Australia.
