Architecture

Andrew Blauvelt|Unusual Suspects

Designer Finds History, Publishes Book

Andrew Blauvelt takes stock of the graphic design history movement that began in the 1980s.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Modern Views, Home and Abroad

What would Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson have thought of sharing the billing in Modern Views, the new book celebrating the Farnsworth House and the Glass House?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

In Dwell: Platner’s Opulent Modernism

I see Warren Platner as a missing link between modernism and post-modernism, and another hero of the interior ignored by architectural history.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

FT Weekend: People in glass houses

UUsually it feels churlish, biting the hand that feeds, to draw back the curtain on reporting. But in the case of my story, “People in Glass Houses,” for FT Weekend, every step of the process of spending the night in two …

Mark Lamster|Essays

Stirling’s Gold

James Stirling's drawings on view at Yale are extraordinary — it’s a shame that this skill, which was obviously so central to the design process, has become all but obsolete.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Change Observer: "Small Scale" Reviewed

My review of the Museum of Modern Art's first foray into socially conscious design: Small Scale, Big Change.

Alexandra Lange|Reviews

Uncommon Ground

Exhibition review of "Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement," Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Center of Controversy

By now you’ve surely seen the new renderings by SOMA architects for Park51, the Muslim cultural center in Lower Manhattan.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Not Afraid of Color

Alice Rawsthorn and I think alike on the Le Corbusier palette.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Upside Dome

Gijs Van Vaerenbergh’s “Upside Dome” installation at St. Michiel’s in Leuven is so beautiful I can’t help but post a picture of it here

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Masdar: So Many Questions

I was not planning to post anything about Sukkah City. It all just looked like an architecture studio: so much effort, such worked-over results, and an inability to see the forest for the trees.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Rendering v. Reality in Sukkah City

I was not planning to post anything about Sukkah City. It all just looked like an architecture studio: so much effort, such worked-over results, and an inability to see the forest for the trees.