Architecture Sarasota explores tropical modernism in search of key lessons...
There’s no question that climate change is intensifying. If we’re not experiencing a record-breaking deep freeze in the winter, we’re dealing with scorching heat waves. One of the most serious The post...
View ArticleA Swarthmore College exhibition personifies the concealed life of Edith...
Edith: An Architectural History Swarthmore College List Gallery Parrish Hall Road Swarthmore, PA 19081 Through February 25 For architecture buffs, a mention of the Edith Farnsworth House conjures up an...
View ArticleRaymond Moriyama’s Ontario Science Centre could be demolished under...
In his master’s thesis, Raymond Moriyama wrote: “The future of all Canadians is a rosy one, although one to challenge the wit and imagination of every planner.” The Canadian architect’s The post...
View ArticleProminent voices decry plans to renovate Wallace K. Harrison library at the...
Architects, preservation organizations, and faculty members at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) have spoken out against intentions to significantly remodel Wallace K. Harrison’s Historical...
View ArticleThe Commission on Chicago Landmarks gives preliminary landmark approval to...
Chicago’s modernist Eugenie Lane Apartments were found to qualify for a preliminary landmark designation by the city’s Commission on Chicago Landmarks (CCL) earlier this month. The CCL, which is housed...
View ArticleA century after his birth, the work of Harry Seidler continues to inspire
Harry Seidler, who called himself “the torchbearer of Modern architecture,” would have turned 100 last month. His first built work, Rose Seidler House (1948–50) in Wahroonga, a northern Sydney suburb,...
View ArticleSarasota’s New College launches competition to significantly overhaul an I....
Sarasota, Florida’s New College will work with Architecture Sarasota to host a competition for the adaptive reuse of the campus’s I. M. Pei–designed dormitories. Reimagining Pei will seek proposals for...
View ArticleThe Getty launches “first-of-its-kind” architecture course for preserving...
In Art Forum, Reyner Banham prophetically said “Los Angeles is the harbinger of America’s future.” Fifty years after Banham expressed his love for L.A., its modern architecture, infrastructure, and...
View ArticleDocomomo’s 2023 Modernism in America Awards recognize 13 technically...
The preservation advocacy group Docomomo U.S. announced this morning thirteen recipients of Modernism in America Awards. Each project demonstrates excellence for employing a “technically innovative,...
View ArticleAfter two years of fundraising, Palm Springs Art Museum will move Aluminaire...
When it was first displayed in 1931 at the Architectural League of New York’s annual Exposition of Architectural and Allied Arts, the Aluminaire House designed by Albert Frey and A. Lawrence The post...
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