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More Than A Little Green

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Instead of just trying to build environmentally, some people now are trying to build as part of the environment. (more…)

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A View from Nowhere: The Point of Pointless Architecture

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Downtown Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, now the tallest building in the world, briefly opened in January with a stunning celebration. In photographs, the building’s inauguration, replete with fireworks and video projections (more…)

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A Little Less Frank: The Evolving Design of Atlantic Yards

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Frank Gehry is known for his easily identifiable style: big, swooping titanium and glass forms that seem to float like sails on the wind or the skirts of a dancer. Some compare his architecture to Disneyland, larger than life and a bit too whimsical (more…)

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Eero Saarinen: The View from a Chair

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

In the vernacular of furniture, the chair is the apparatus that forms the intimate bond between the individual and the room, as the great architect and designer Eero Saarinen no doubt observed. A chair may only be empty space until someone sits in it (more…)

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Demolishing Los Angeles: Artist Gustavo Artigas Campaigns to Raze L.A.’s Least Attractive Landmarks

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

The Bradbury Building. Copyright 2009. Photo by: Al Blackford

I first encountered the Bradbury Building in the way I assume most people do: as the murky home of J.F. Sebastian in Blade Runner. As soon as the building’s stoically self-confident interior appears on screen, it turns the film from something hectically over-stimulating into something really, truly ominous. (more…)

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Still Radical: Schindler’s Design for Living

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Rudolph Schindler’s Kings Road House once stood out because, in an era that prized prominence, it settled unpretentiously into the landscape. Now, the house stands out precisely because it doesn’t stand out. (more…)

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Architecture and Being

Monday, August 17th, 2009

A few years ago, a girl sat in front of me and recounted her experience of the Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland. The conversation went something like this: (more…)

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Book Review: The Infrastructural City

Monday, July 13th, 2009

In 1971, Reyner Banham’s well-known book, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, offered an inspired version of what the city had to offer. Rather than deride the sprawling, car-crazy metropolis, Banham embraced the place, dividing it into four zones (more…)

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From Minimalism to “No Style”

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

It would be hard to find a night sky darker than the one over U.S. Route 67, on the way to Marfa, Texas. According to some accounts, it would be more difficult to miss the strange, floating balls of colored light known as the Marfa Lights, which occasionally float against the jet black horizon. (more…)

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Biomimicry: Breathing New Life Into Design

Monday, May 18th, 2009

One of the oldest truisms in design has to be, “Don’t reinvent the wheel.” And yet, the wheel itself was a reinvention – a microscopic, electromagnetic motor, complete with hub, spokes, and axle, is fundamental machinery deep within every cell of your body. (more…)