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Archive of modernist residential architecture thrives in North Carolina

All of the back issues of The Architect’s Newspaper have recently become available online as the publication has joined a digital archive of virtually all of the major U.S. architecture and design...

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Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani proposes foundational principles for design

Modernity and Durability: Perspectives for the Culture of Design Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani DOM Publishers, 2018 The ghost of modernity—the quest to define what it means to be modern, and what its...

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Roger Scruton fired from U.K. housing commission over inflammatory comments

Controversial conservative scholar Roger Scruton has been removed from his position as the chair of the U.K.’s Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission over inflammatory comments on George Soros,...

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Sigfried Giedion gets a fresh look in new book

Giedion and America: Repositioning the History of Modern Architecture Reto Geiser GTA Verlag $85.00 Was it an ironic coincidence or part of the modern movement’s DNA that the heroic architectural...

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California Preservation Conference

The California Preservation Conference brings more than 600 participants from across the state to learn, network, and share successes. The conference includes over 40 sessions, special events,...

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New book grapples with ambitious, contentious moment in Pittsburgh’s urban...

Imagining the Modern: Architecture and Urbanism of the Pittsburgh Renaissance Rami el Samahy, Chris Grimley, and Michael Kubo The Monacelli Press List Price: $50.00 In times of cynicism, revisiting...

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Barry Bergdoll showcases a new wave of modern architecture on Long Island

The “North Fork” of Long Island, from the town of Riverhead to Orient Point at the eastern tip, is one of the most varied and beautiful landscapes in the New York region. A peninsula jutting out into...

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A little-known Mies van der Rohe design will be built at Indiana University

Indiana University’s (IU) Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design is about to gain a brand new building designed by Mies van der Rohe. Originally planned for IU’s Bloomington campus in 1952, the...

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Remembering César Pelli’s lost mark on the Midwest

César Pelli, the world-renowned architect who passed away in July, will likely be remembered for his largest and most recognizable commissions: the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, the National...

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Did Elizabeth Hirsh Fleisher build Philadelphia’s modernist stone pavilion?...

The city of Philadelphia is moving forward with plans to demolish the beloved modernist stone pavilion in Columbus Square, affectionately referred to as the ‘Roundhouse’ (not to be confused with the...

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Another modernist New Canaan icon gains full historic protections

A 72-year-old modernist icon in New Canaan, Connecticut, will live on with its original look. Last month, the National Trust for Historic Preservation signed off on a preservation and conservation...

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Lair puts a spotlight on the homes of famous movie villains

Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains By Chad Oppenheim / Andrea Gollin Tra Publishing $75.00 Bad people don’t always have good taste, but when they do, their homes are the stuff of...

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X-Ray Architecture asks us to reimagine building materiality

X-Ray Architecture Beatriz Colomina Lars Müller Publishers MSRP $40.00 One of the many provocative images in Beatriz Colomina’s X-Ray Architecture (Lars Müller Publishers, 2019) is a 1956 Life magazine...

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AECOM designs Center for Cyber Innovation for the United States Air Force...

Since 1954, the United States Air Force Academy has been training cadets on its 18,500-acre-campus on the edge of Colorado Springs, 60 miles south of Denver, Colorado. The Academy is regarded as the...

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A new book argues Frederick Kiesler was the influencer at the center of...

Instead of charting an artist or architect’s career as a sequence of projects, what if you mapped it according to the people with whom they conversed, commiserated, and collaborated? That is the...

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Modernist Michigan gem threatened with significant alternations

Southfield, a first-ring Detroit suburb and commercial hub in Oakland County, Michigan, is known as a hotbed of modernist architecture complete with sprawling, National Register of Historic...

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In Modern Architecture and Climate, climate control takes command

At the age of 26, eight years after I had left the comfort and safety of my parents’ mid-90s brick-and-vinyl ranch, I moved into my first apartment with central air [...] Read More... The post In...

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Brazilian officials move to add anti-drone gear to Brasília’s modernist palaces

When Brasília was inaugurated in 1960, the new capital of Brazil was meant to be a state-of-the-art city fit for the future. Today, it looks like something imported straight from [...] Read More... The...

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Exhibit Columbus reveals 2020–2021 curatorial theme and Miller Prize recipients

As hinted at by Exhibit Columbus 2020-2021 co-curator Mimi Zeiger to AN in June, the just-announced curatorial theme for the “exploration of architecture, art, design, and community” held in Columbus,...

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The Farnsworth House gets period decor in an effort to shine light on its...

The inner life of Edith Farnsworth remains something of a mystery. A woman of social standing in midcentury Chicago, her true identity would eventually be eclipsed by two names—her own [...] Read...

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