Architecture

Observed|Recommended Books

A Pattern Language

Alexandra Lange reviews A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Against Kickstarter Urbanism

You can Kickstart an edible spoon, but not a city.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Fixing South Street Seaport: Is New Architecture Enough?

Fighting over Ben Thompson's postmodernist landmark Pier 17 at South Street Seaport. Should it stay or should it go?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Carlo Scarpa, Quilter

Olivetti and Doges: How Carlo Scarpa updated the Venetian treasure chest.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Frank Lloyd Wright + Katniss Everdeen

On photographing architecture as sculpture and telling stories via architecture.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

City of Shoes: Is Urbanism Scalable?

Can Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh scale his online shoe business into a city?

Nancy Levinson|Essays

Design Indaba 2012

Design Indaba 2012 gathered creative people from graphic and product design, architecture and landscape, film and video, not to mention Danish gastronomy and Bollywood movies.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Reassembling the American Dream

"Foreclosed" at the Museum of Modern Art asks what people really like about suburban living. And then, Can they do that with less?

Debbie Millman|Audio

James Biber

In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, James Biber discusses growing up in a house with a womb chair, visual illiteracy and designing the Museum of Sex.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Downton Abbey: Fell In Love With a House

Downton Abbey, for all its melodrama and dropped teacups, is really the story of falling in love with a house.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Round Thermostats and Crystal Lanterns, Revisited

Old designs, new tricks: updates on lawsuits filed against the new Nest thermometer, and on behalf of midcentury masterpiece Manufacturers Hanover.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

A Memorial to (Random Access) Memory

What does "RAMAC Park" mean to you?