Architecture

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 …

Adam Harrison Levy|Essays

The Last Unknown Place in New York

If you want to see a version of the future you could try to take a boat to an island off the coast of the Bronx.

Owen Edwards|Essays

Rizzoli Erased

Owen Edwards remembers the elegant old Art Nouveau building that housed the Rizzoli bookstore, just what a bookstore ought to be.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Lucia Eames, 1930-2014

An appreciation of Lucia Eames (1930-2014).

Observed|Essays

Shape: A Film About Design

Shape is a short film that is part of MakeShapeChange , a project aimed at young people to get them thinking about how the world is made around them and where design fits in.

Observed|Books

Deventer

In Deventer, the Netherlands, a routine real estate deal and demolition became the site of innovation and new intelligence in urban design.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Astrodome and the Challenges of Preservation

The Astrodome and the future of preservation.

Observed|Competitions

Liget Budapest International Architectural Design Competition

Four competitions. Five buildings. Six institutions. The Liget Budapest Project is possibly the world’s most extensive architectural competition in 2014.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Not Afraid of Noise: Mexico City Stories

A photographic tour of Mexico City, house by house, wall by wall.