Architecture

Observed|Shameless Promotions

The Hypothetical Development Organization

The Hypothetical Development Organization will be included in the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale.

Observed|New Ideas

The Architecture of Television

Brandi Roberts is an interior designer by training and TV afficionado by choice who draws fictional floorplans of classic television shows.

Observed|Shameless Promotions

Women, Equity, Architecture

Parlour, a new Australian site with the tagline"Women, Equity, Architecture", has a dual project: creating a forum for discussion of and opportunities for women in architecture, and reporting on research, scholarship and the history of …

Alexandra Lange|Books

The Mother of Us All

Reyner Banham on Esther McCoy: "She speaks as she finds, with sympathy and honesty, and relevantly to the matter at hand." Could there be a better definition of the role of the critic?

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?