Architecture

Eric J. Herboth|Essays

Eames the Typeface

A look at the new Eames Century Modern typeface, designed by Erik van Blokland, and developed by House Industries in collaboration with the Eames Office.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Straw Men Redux

I can't help but compare and contrast Nicolai Ourossoff's opening sentences of his recent work.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

For My German Readers

As time goes on my negative impressions of Morphosis's 41 Cooper Square are coloring my previous positive feeling about all of Mayne’s work.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Now What? Or, Beware Panels

Last night after I got back from The Changing State of the Design Press: Now What? I wrote a long crabby post about how boring it was, and also tweeted to that effect.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Gores House

Of the many individuals who found themselves in the orbit of Philip Johnson over his long life, Landis Gores stands as one of the more fascinating.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Guru Track

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, win the Pritzker Prize and Denise Scott Brown’s “Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture,” becomes a topic of discussion.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Philip Johnson: A Biography

This seems like an opportune moment to make public the news that I am at work on a new biography of the late architect Philip Johnson, to be published by Little, Brown.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Moynihan on Design

At tonight’s lecture at D-Crit, Casey Jones, director of design excellence and the arts for the U.S. General Services Administration, quoted from Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture, written in …

Azby Brown|Essays

Bent by the Sun

What a longtime American-born resident of Japan has learned about his adopted country's ancient practice of sustainability.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

My Favorite SANAA

It is thrilling that SANAA has won the 2010 Pritzker Prize for many reasons.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The World's Foremost Female Architect

Not to belabor the point, but Martin Filler takes up the discussion of female architects and puts Denise Scott-Brown in her rightful place.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Scarano's School for Scandal

What was so terrible about Robert Scarano’s practice is what is terrible about Scarano’s practice.