Architecture

52-Blue|Audio

(in)Fringe 05: Hushed Spaces

POPOS and the public

Adam Harrison Levy|Essays

The Master

On the occasion Frank Lloyd Wright’s birthday Adam Harrison Levy pays tribute to a life that was as spectacular as any of his buildings.

Rob Walker|Essays

Defending The Standpipe

A curious concentration of designs to discourage people from sitting on standpipes.

Bryan Finoki|Essays

Architecture vs. the People

How anti-homeless measures diminish a city’s responsibility to its most vulnerable citizens

Rob Walker|Essays

Scalies in the Spotlight

The uncanny figures populating architectural renderings get some fresh scrutiny

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Restaurant de la Réserve by Jean Gilletta

Wonder and yearning by the sea

Erik Spiekermann|Essays

Ideas Come First

The observations of a graphic designer as client

Steven Heller|Essays

A Memory of Mickey

Steven Heller remembers Mildred Friedman, who passed away late Wednesday.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Tracking the Locations of J.G. Ballard’s Super-Cannes

A photo-essay on the futuristic marina and business park in the south of France that inspired Ballard’s disquieting fantasy about corporate crime

Erik Spiekermann|Essays

Should Architects Understand Type?

The relationship between architecture and graphic design has deep roots.

Mark Yoes|Essays

Elinor Evans : Some Truths from the Master

The artist, educator, and architecture guru Elinor Evans turns 100.

Observed|Events

House Housing

Opening today is House Housing: An Untimely History of Architecture and Real Estate in Nineteen Episodes — the first public presentation of a multi-year research project conducted by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the …