Oct. 30, 2024 Ι Metropolis Magazine As the front door to one of the nation’s oldest botanical gardens in continuous operation, the new Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s most important job was to get out of the way and let the 79-acre campus filled with historic architecture and some of… Continue reading This Botanical Garden’s New Addition Is as Subtle as Light and Shadow
Month: November 2024
The Tartarian Candidate
Oct. 25, 2024 Ι Bloomberg CityLab At a New Hampshire GOP meeting in January, Donald Trump took off on an odd tangent. Lamenting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he talked about its architectural heritage. “I mean, the country, how does it ever rebuild those cities, those magnificent buildings that came down that are a thousand… Continue reading The Tartarian Candidate
Architecture Program Leaders Face Existential Accreditation Crisis
Oct. 24, 2024 Ι Architectural Record The collapse of what should have been a routine renewal of a funding agreement between the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) and its partner organizations has incited howls of protest and a near-existential crisis at many architecture programs. In 2022, NAAB requested a 47 percent funding increase, according to… Continue reading Architecture Program Leaders Face Existential Accreditation Crisis
Sometimes, Democratic Design Doesn’t “Look” Like Anything
August 26, 2024 Ι Untapped Journal There is a lesser-known shadow twin to Daniel Burnham’s epic 1909 Plan of Chicago, which synthesized many elements of contemporary urbanism we have come to expect from cities: comprehensive parks and highway systems, an orderly street grid, preserving the city’s waterfront as a public amenity, and coherent neighborhood-scaled civic… Continue reading Sometimes, Democratic Design Doesn’t “Look” Like Anything
In Chacarita Moderna: The Brutalist Necropolis of Buenos Aires, Itala Fulvia Villa’s architectural authorship of the necropolis is reclaimed
July 12, 2024 Ι Architect’s Newspaper In letters from Argentina’s Sociedad Central de Arquitectos in the 1930s, Itala Fulvia Villa, only the sixth Argentine woman architect, was addressed as “Senorita Arquitecto,” as if the letter writers feared setting a precedent with the feminine gendered form of “architect” in Spanish. They had little reason to fear… Continue reading In Chacarita Moderna: The Brutalist Necropolis of Buenos Aires, Itala Fulvia Villa’s architectural authorship of the necropolis is reclaimed
A Living Room for Bronzeville is a pop-culture revision of Mies van der Rohe’s legacy at IIT
June 12, 2024 Ι Architect’s Newspaper There are not one, but two, View-Master toys on display in A Living Room for Bronzeville, an exhibition at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) focused on how Mies van der Rohe’s epochal vision of the modern campus inflicted itself on its neighborhood. Invented by a Black IIT graduate… Continue reading A Living Room for Bronzeville is a pop-culture revision of Mies van der Rohe’s legacy at IIT