Today’s News - Tuesday, May 28, 2019
● Sasaki's McCarthy ponders, with 3 "black churches in Louisiana burned in a series of alleged hate crimes, 3 churches in Sri Lanka bombed, and a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, riddled with bullet holes - why are architects focusing on Notre Dame?"
● Florida parses the feedback (and blowback) to his analysis of Storper & Rodríguez-Pose's study about upzoning and affordable housing: Their "research has kicked off a war of words among urban scholars - there is more agreement than disagreement. (I often say that urbanism suffers from the narcissism of small differences on steroids.)"
● Holder & Capps take a deep dive into how "despite resistance, cities turn to density to tackle housing inequality" - from Minneapolis to Seattle - but "skeptics of density still retain power, despite the upswell in interest in upzoning."
● Schneider considers the hypocrisy of "liberal America": "Soon, a series of proposals to increase urban density" in a number of states and cities "will shed light on whether liberal America is willing to live according to its purported values - or remain fundamentally conservative spaces defined by an 'I got mine' philosophy."
● Jacobs cheers TEN Arquitectos' design of a new home for Make the Road New York in Queens - a "gathering place in an age of walls. I'm struck by how much optimism and courage it takes for an immigrant rights group to build a largely transparent community center in the age of Trump."
● Libeskind is commissioned by Leakey to design the Ngaren: Museum for Humankind "built on a cliff edge in Rift Valley, Kenya, where Leakey found the most complete skeleton of early man" (they're both crowd-sourcing for the project).
● Betsky, inspired by Do LaB's tent at the Coachella festival (and a tent at Taliesin West designed by students from Beijing), calls for a "tent revival": "I have always loved tents and wonder why we do not see more of them in architecture. Airports seem to be the only places where exuberant tents have a more or less permanent place, and most of those are also quite bland."
● Sitz reports that "some 80" participants just announced for the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial (themed "...and other such stories") "will present work that investigates with how architecture relates to land, memory, rights, and civic participation."
● One we couldn't resist: "Owners of biblical replica of Noah's ark [in Kentucky] sue over ... rain damage (and it wasn't even 40 days and 40 nights)."
● ICYMI: ANN feature: Susanne Angarano: Building Abundance #4: Abundance from Regeneration - Our Opportunity as Designers.
● ICYMI: ANN feature: Bernstein's beautiful obit of Pei, who "was as urbane as his best buildings": "If there's one thing I know I didn't do wrong, it's the Louvre."
● ICYMI: ANN feature: Weinstein's review of "Buildings and Almost Buildings - nARCHITECTS" by Bunge and Hoang that "wryly showcases their journey to create 'almost buildings.'"
High (and not-so-high) praise of Pei:
● Rose considers Pei "an audacious daredevil" who "was too modern for his time - but his angular marvels look perfect now - respectful, practical and mindful of its site" (Bank of China HQ is "one of the greatest, boldest, most distinctive skyscrapers ever designed").
● Filler explains why considers Pei "establishment modernism lite. By the time he reached his professional heyday, his social skills were so highly developed that few seemed to notice his deficiencies as a designer or his fundamental want of originality," though "when it came to cultural refinement, Pei beat all other architects by a country mile."
Winners all:
● Peters parses the 15 urban design projects that won C40 Cities' Reinventing Cities competition: "The results are an extraordinary example of what future cities could look like" (with links to great presentations!).
● Cheers to the winners of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2019 Architecture Awards: Eduardo Souto De Moura, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Mario Gooden & Mabel O. Wilson, Eric Höweler & Meejin Yoon, and Anne Rieselbach!
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Meredith McCarthy/Sasaki: Why are architects focusing on Notre Dame and not St. Landry Parish? Notre Dame was far from the only house of worship to suffer catastrophic damage this year. Three historically black churches in Louisiana burned in a series of alleged hate crimes, three churches in Sri Lanka were bombed on Easter Sunday, and a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, was riddled with bullet holes...All of these events are tragic too. Why is the design world addressing only one?- The Architect's Newspaper |
Richard Florida: How Housing Supply Became the Most Controversial Issue in Urbanism: New research has kicked off a war of words among urban scholars over the push for upzoning to increase cities’ housing supply: All in all, this is a good and productive debate. I actually think there is more agreement than disagreement...(I often say that urbanism suffers from the narcissism of small differences on steroids.)...Solving the affordable-housing problem is not an either/ or proposition, it is both/and... -- Michael Storper/Andrés Rodríguez-Pose; David Schleicher/Yale Law School; Joe Cortright; Michael Manville/Michael Lens/Paavo Monkkonen/UCLA; Mark Muro/Brookings Institution; Will Wilkinson/Niskanen Center; Yonah Freemark- CityLab (formerly The Atlantic Cities) |
Sarah Holder & Kriston Capps: Despite Resistance, Cities Turn to Density to Tackle Housing Inequality: Residential “upzoning” policies being adopted from Minneapolis to Seattle were once politically out of the question. Now they’re just politically fraught: As housing affordability and inequality become national political issues, the people who have long dominated those meetings are starting to see their anti-development agenda upended...For the cities jumping on the densification train, however, no single one-size-fits-all solution has surfaced...Skeptics of density still retain power, despite the upswell in interest in upzoning. -- Katherine Levine Einstein/Maxwell Palmer/David Glick/Boston University- CityLab (formerly The Atlantic Cities) |
Benjamin Schneider: Liberal America’s Single-Family Hypocrisy: Increasing the density of America’s cities is a crucial part of progressive city planning: Soon, a series of proposals to increase urban density in California, Oregon, Seattle, Austin, and numerous other places will shed light on whether liberal America is willing to live according to its purported values...[or] remain as they are: fundamentally conservative spaces defined by an “I got mine” philosophy...it’s instructive to look back at the political choices that have dictated where, and for whom, new housing could be built.- The Nation |
Karrie Jacobs: TEN Arquitectos Designs a Beacon for the Resistance: The new home for Make the Road New York, a leading immigrant rights group, aspires to be a transparent gathering place in an age of walls: ...hired prior to the 2016 election...Hiring the right architect was more complex than finding funding, and also part of Hester Street’s job...I’m struck by how much optimism and courage it takes for an immigrant rights group to build a largely transparent community center in the age of Trump. -- Enrique Norten; Andrea Steele; Betsy MacLean/Hester Street- Architect Magazine |
Studio Libeskind's Ngaren: Museum for Humankind to track human evolution in Kenyan landscape [Rift Valley]: ...built on a cliff edge in Rift Valley, where Richard Leakey found the most complete skeleton of early man...design comprise two structures modelled on some of the earliest hand tools used by humans to make carvings...Libeskind, 73, and Leakey, 74, are currently crowd-sourcing for the project...raised $4.08 million (£3.15 million) of goal figure $7 million (£5.4 million)... [images]- Dezeen |
Aaron Betsky: Why We Need a Tent Revival: He finds a futuristic appeal in the temporary (and technicolor) structures at Coachella: I have always loved tents and wonder why we do not see more of them in architecture...Airports seem to be the only places where exuberant tents have a more or less permanent place, and most of those are also quite bland...Coachella...made me realize that even large tents can be put up in a short amount of time and have tremendous spatial ingenuity and beauty...structures that don’t just serve but also celebrate communities, wherever and however they form. -- Do LaB/Lightning in a Bottle [images]- Architect Magazine |
Miriam Sitz: Chicago Architecture Biennial Names 2019 Participants: ...some 80 contributors...will present work, much of it new, that investigates with how architecture relates to land, memory, rights, and civic participation ["...and other such stories"]... -- Yesomi Umolu; Sepake Angiama; Paulo Tavares; Paola Aguirre Serrano/Borderless Studio; Detroit Planning Department; Forensic Architecture; Invisible Institute; Adrian Blackwell; MASS Design Group- Architectural Record |
Owners of biblical replica of Noah's ark sue over ... rain damage (and it wasn't even 40 days and 40 nights): The owner of the life-size replica of Noah’s Ark in Northern Kentucky has sued its insurers for refusing to cover, of all things ... rain damage....caused a landslide on its access road...The ark itself was not damaged and the road has been rebuilt...- Louisville Courier Journal (Kentucky) |
Steve Rose: IM Pei: an audacious daredevil who built the impossible: From his provocative Louvre pyramid to his inverted wedge for Dallas, the Chinese-American architect was too modern for his time - but his angular marvels look perfect now: So bold were [his] designs, they were often regarded as wilfully controversial, designed to shock. But Pei himself never saw it like that...what appears to be jarring proves to be respectful, practical and mindful of its site...Bank of China HQ in Hong Kong - one of the greatest, boldest, most distinctive skyscrapers ever designed...- Guardian (UK) |
Martin Filler: I.M. Pei: Establishment Modernism Lite: [He] unquestionably had the temperament of a great architect. He possessed an abundance of attributes...The only thing that kept Pei from becoming one of the immortals was his paucity of artistic talent...By the time he reached his professional heyday, from the 1960s through the 1980s, Pei’s social skills were so highly developed that few seemed to notice his deficiencies as a designer or his fundamental want of originality...When it came to cultural refinement, Pei beat all other architects by a country mile... -- William Zeckendorf/Webb & Knapp- New York Review of Books |
Adele Peters: These 15 urban design projects are reinventing cities for a zero-carbon future: The Reinventing Cities competition asked architects to find new uses for vacant and abandoned spaces in cities around the world. The results are an extraordinary example of what future cities could look like. -- C40 Cities; Perkins+Will/Architects; Sensual City Studio/E. Bardají y Asociados/Estudio Periferia; Ambitare Architecture Strategies; Sic Arquitectura y Urbanismo; Barreca & La Varra; Ambrogio Risari/DRM architetti/Emanuela Sara Cidri/16Bis Studio; Carlo Ratti Associati; Giancarlo Marzorati/J+S Srl; MAD Arkitekter/Landskap+ AS; LPO Architects/SLA; Coldefy & Associés Architectes Urbanistes; Atelier d'Architecture Triptyque/Pila Studio/Moz Paysage; Jakob+MacFarlane/NAIK; Jakob+MacFarlane/T.ark Architects/Landslag; Basalt Architects/Landmótun- Fast Company |
American Academy of Arts and Letters announces 2019 Architecture Awards: ...four winners will receive a $10,000 award...and Eduardo Souto De Moura will receive $20,000 for the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize. -- Hernan Diaz Alonso; Mario Gooden & Mabel O. Wilson/Global Africa Lab, Columbia University; Eric Höweler & Meejin Yoon/Höweler + Yoon; Anne Rieselbach/Architectural League of New York- The Architect's Newspaper |
ANN feature: Susanne Angarano: Building Abundance #4: Abundance from Regeneration - Our Opportunity as Designers: Design strategies that are driven by an understanding of place, community, and full intentionality can achieve abundance.- ArchNewsNow.com |
ANN feature: Obituary by Fred A. Bernstein: I.M. Pei, 1917 - 2019: Pei was as urbane as his best buildings: ...designed scores of widely admired - and a few not-so-widely admired - buildings during his 70-year career...“If there’s one thing I know I didn’t do wrong, it’s the Louvre.”- ArchNewsNow.com |
ANN feature: Norman Weinstein: Book Review on the Day of a Book Launch Party for nARCHITECTS: "Buildings and Almost Buildings - nARCHITECTS" by Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang wryly showcases their journey to create "almost buildings."- ArchNewsNow.com |
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