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Today’s News - Thursday, July 25, 2019

EDITOR'S NOTE: Tomorrow and Monday will be no-newsletter days. We'll be back Tuesday, July 30.

●  ANN feature: Duo Dickinson: Lesson Plan #2: A Time of Change: The coming technological changes in architecture will impose a full deconstruction of the way we educate architects, the second in our series on architectural education curated by Salingaros.

●  Crosbie pens an eloquent tribute to Pelli, "a nurturing gardener-practitioner - my sustaining memories are of his deep humility and humanity. His architecture was an expression of his kindness."

●  Haar talks to Clarke re: "their decades together on the first workday at the firm after Pelli's death - a picture emerges not of international glitz, but rather, of an unassuming giant, a consummate collaborator who neither shunned nor sought the limelight."

●  RIBA CEO, Alan Vallance: "Boris Johnson has a mammoth task on his hands as soon as he enters No.10. Brexit, climate change and ensuring the U.K. has a safer, high-quality built environment must be priorities."

●  Gallagher reflects on Detroit Planning Director Cox's impact on Motor City as he gets ready to head to a similar role in Chicago: "Detroit is losing its most consequential planning director for decades past" who "promoted a vision of walkable neighborhoods. But not everyone was a fan."

●  Kamin: "How can architects change their image as self-indulgent aesthetes?" Chicago's Disruptive Design Competition for affordable housing "offers an answer" - the winning design is a "useful addition to the urban planner's tool box, and of far greater social utility than the soulless flash of Hudson Yards or the silly schemes for rebuilding Notre Dame" ("self-inflicted wounds" and architects as "ambulance chasers" - ouch!).

●  King cheers San Francisco's newest tower by OMA & Fougeron: "What's clear is that the Avery doesn't want to be just another glass box - and that's a very good thing" - it's "nuanced urbanism - modern in looks but with an old-school desire to make passersby feel at home."

●  Firshein has a fine time exploring the new TWA Hotel at JFK: "Aviation and design geeks and preservation advocacy groups have been waiting for decades to see Saarinen's winged creature take flight again" - it "offers an excerpted version of history - fresh-and-cool this, fresh-and-cool that."

●  Keh reports that a preservation easement has secured the future of Eliot Noyes' 1954 family home in New Canaan, Connecticut, a town "considered a hotbed of design" that "stems back to the arrival of the so-called Harvard Five."

●  Anticipating Australia's National Tree Day on Sunday, Aliento explains "why some people hate trees and 5 ways to love them - many Australians simply don't like them. Ignorance is one reason."

●  One we couldn't resist: Kolson Hurley parses how an NRA ad and an Infowars video use avant-garde buildings as "potent symbols of liberal decadence - both bear the same message about modern architecture: It is the province of the liberal urban elite, and that it stands for oppression."

Weekend diversions:

●  Russell sees a glimpse of "our post-consumption future" at the "Nature: Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial" - a "sweeping exhibition" that "celebrates ambitious collaborations by teams of designers and scientists - we can't afford to think of nature as the implacable foe that must be civilized."

●  Pownall cheers the Tate Modern's "Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life" that presents 30 years of his work and "prompts visitors to think about their impact on the planet."

●  Sayer sees the Eliasson retrospective as "a bonanza of flashy environmental art - he is best at creating stuff that's fun, as squeals of delight from around the corner forewarn us of" - not everything "dazzles," but "for the moments of genuine playfulness and engagement, the show is well worth it."

●  Keh brings us eyefuls of Rockwell Lab's "Lawn" at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., "a sprawling and sloping green space, right in the heart of the museum's iconic atrium."

●  Summer shows at The Shed at Hudson Yards "take an eclectic look at the built environment."

Page-turners:

●  A Q&A excerpted from Tenenbaum's "Your Guide to Downtown Denise Scott Brown": "I have been a circus horse rider between architecture and urbanism most of my life. But reining together animals that have been tugging apart over five decades has made for a bumpy ride."

●  Gardner's Q&A with Maughan re: "Infinite Detail," the "dystopian novel that explains what's wrong with real smart cities. He finds an ingenious and plausible way to bring the world as we know it to an end: Someone breaks the internet."

●  Moore's Q&A with Meuser re: "Zoo Buildings: Construction and Design Manual," and "what zoo design reveals about human attitudes to nature" and "the balance between science and slick branding."

●  Stathaki cheers "Claude Parent: Visionary Architect": The "new, carefully edited tome celebrates his life and contribution - his vision is nowhere clearer than in his beautiful and thought provoking drawings" (also features contributions by the likes of Gehry, Nouvel, Decq, etc.).

●  Edelson, Medina, Rogers & Sgambati round up "a fresh batch of 19 exciting texts on architecture and design, past and present - a testament to the design world's expansive purview and deep history - there's truly something for everyone here."


  


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