Architecture

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Still-Expanding Airport

In 1958, after some failed attempts by the Saarinen office to make a stop-motion film of their model for Dulles Airport, Eero Saarinen called upon his old friend Charles Eames to help him out.

Thomas de Monchaux|Events

In Search of Sukkah City

Sukkah City: NYC, a design/build architecture competition taking place at Union Square Park in New York City, Fall of 2010.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Sukkah City

The sukkah, a (green!) temporary structure erected to celebrate the Jewish harvest festival, is an ideal form for an experimental architectural competition.

Alexandra Lange|Opinions

If These Walls Could Talk

On the ABC sitcom Modern Family, three different families are visually defined by their living rooms.

Mark Lamster|Baseball

The Old Ballpark in the Bronx

The new Yankee Stadium is heading toward the close of its second season, and though I can't say I love it, I think I've come to terms with its existence.

The Editors|Essays

Lella and Massimo Vignelli: A Celebration

Vignelli Celebration: The opening and dedication of the Vignelli Center for Design Studies, set to open September 16, 2010 at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Highboy Hullabaloo

Lately I've been thinking a lot about the Sony (nee AT&T) Building, as I research my Philip Johnson bio.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Make It Bigger

Anthropologie, the latest tenant of the Design Research Headquarters, simply doesn't get it.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Coming to the V&A: Tower of Power

It is not often that a museum blogs about Postmodernism, Michael Sorkin (one of the great take-downs) and credits the (female) renderer who made the AT&T Building look the best it ever has.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Lunch with the Critics: Park51 and 15 Penn Plaza

In my second critical lunch with Mark Lamster, in the creepy climes of the Hotel Pennsylvania, we discuss the urbanism, politics and skyline posturing of Park51 and 15 Penn Plaza.

Mark Lamster|Essays

At Home with Bob & Denise

Over the weekend I had the very good fortune to spend an afternoon with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown at their home in suburban Philadelphia.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Eero Saarinen at 100

Eero Saarinen, who died prematurely in 1961, would have been 100 years old today.