Thursday, September 29, 2016

EDITOR'S NOTE: Tomorrow and Monday will be no-newsletter days. We'll be back Tuesday, Archtober 4.

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Hohenadel is fairly wowed by Hadid's new Antwerp Port House: "It goes without saying that [it] is daringly experimental, in-your-face architecture of the love-it or hate-it variety" (with pix to prove it!). -- Mortice takes a deep dive into Chicago's public housing crisis, and explores how architects and developers are trying to work with residents "to change a broken system" (as in many cities). -- Kriss takes on Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule tower: "Architectural failure can be beautiful, like the intrusion of another world into our own." -- Following inaccurate reports, architect Tesoro sets the record straight re: what he really thinks of his former client Donald Trump. -- Call for entries deadline reminder: 64th Annual P/A Awards. -- Weekend diversions (and lots of 'em!). -- The 4th New Urbanism Film Festival kicks off in L.A. next week ("foodie tours" included). -- Capps doffs his cap to MoMA's "Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter" that tackles how architects, designers, and artists are responding to the global refugee crisis. -- Peters cheers "The City + The City: Housing the next 100,000" that presents "innovative ideas about where those units could fit by rethinking how people live" at San Francisco's SPUR. -- The Cooper Hewitt's "By the People: Designing a Better America" looks at "how socially conscious design can help solve the country's toughest problems." -- NJIT celebrates Newark, New Jersey's 350th anniversary with a one-man show on native son Richard Meier. -- al-Sabouni's new vision for Homs is detailed in her new book "The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria" and a great TED talk. -- Two very different takes on Kanigel's "Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs": Garner calls it "flawed" and "a word-heap - graceless, infantilizing of its subject and strangely unbuttoned in tone" (ouch!). -- Gopnik, on the other hand, finds Kanigel "has found the right tone for his subject, light but serious." -- Pedersen ponders Settis's "If Venice Dies": it's a "terrific" book that "focuses on the slow, strangling death of Venice via mass tourism," and "paints a dreary picture of Venice as theme park, an ancient Disneyland - an exquisite corpse." -- Stead finds Manaugh's "A Burglar's Guide to the City" to be "very intriguing, well researched, and original in conception," but treating the burglar: "as a kind of gleeful trickster may well leave you queasy." -- Rhodes likes "Parliament" that explores design's "funkadelic impact on politics." -- Welton calls Hill's "100 Buildings in 100 Years" a "winner - a journey worth taking - in person or in print."

The Russian architect talks about creative freedom (and sometimes lack thereof), wooden architecture, and what St. Petersburg might look like in 50 years.

 
by Vladimir Belogolovsky

August 25, 2016

A review of three recent books involving the life of Philip Johnson

 
by Christian Bjone

July 7, 2016

Architecture alone cannot change the world, but the issues that populate this year's Biennale, as curated by Alejandro Aravena, explore how we are all responsible for making an effort.

 
by Johannes M.P. Knoops, FAAR, Assoc. AIA

June 23, 2016