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Michael Bierut|Audio
Episode 120: Federal Style
The Trump Administration’s draft executive order Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again, the rise of the blur, a CBS brand book at the California Antiquarian Fair, Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley
Steven Heller|Books
Don Wall: Brave New Book Design
Steven Heller talks to architect Don Wall about his radical book from 1971: Visionary Cities: the Arcology of Paolo Soleri.
Justin Ross Muchnick|Essays
Between Space and Place: The Entrance to the Churchill War Rooms Museum
If “place is security" and "space is freedom” how does an entrance to a museum celebrating an underground bunker define that boundary?
Alan Rapp|Essays
Personal Space
Robert Sommer’s Personal Space: The Behavioral Basis of Design was published in fifty years ago, and its compact title concept — an invisible but perceptible security zone surrounding an individual — caught on.
Steven Heller|Essays
Hudson Yards Lays an Egg
On Thomas Heatherwick’s much anticipated giant honeycomb, 150 foot-tall “Vessel” structure, the centerpiece of the Hudson Yards outdoor plaza, bathed in reflective copper-steel, comprised of 154 staircases and 80 …
Laetitia Wolff|Profiles
Radical Architecture on Paper
NN Studio, a small Belgian design studio, advocates for emergent forms of architecture and urbanism.
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