Architects’ Newspaper Ι March 21, 2023 Drawn in by the propulsive four-on-the-floor bass that could be heard blocks away through the then-derelict streets of Chicago’s West Loop, in the late 1970s and early ’80s young club-goers gathered at a modest but stylish three-story former industrial warehouse where the party raged from midnight until 8:00 a.m.… Continue reading Preservation Chicago names The Warehouse, the birthplace of house music, as one of the most endangered buildings in Chicago
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‘Shelter’ Is the Criterion Collection of Home Makeover TV
Feb. 18, 2023 Ι Bloomberg CityLab Often subtitled, not too eager to explain itself, and mercifully light on quartz countertops and eat-in kitchens. That’s the M.O. of Shelter, the highbrow streaming service for architecture and design-themed TV content.
How a Health Care Clinic Applied Trauma Informed Design to Serve the LGBTQIA+ Community
Jan. 27, 2023 Ι Metropolis Magazine At the Family Tree Clinic in Minneapolis designed by Perkins&Will, a floor-to-ceiling bank of windows faces the street, leading to a lounge filled with sharp, graphic murals by local BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists, focused on the theme of healing. Brightly colored Modern furniture matches the art, and polished, sealed… Continue reading How a Health Care Clinic Applied Trauma Informed Design to Serve the LGBTQIA+ Community
Mary Dill Henry’s Life-long Search for the “Vital Forces” of Art and Technology
Jan. 25, 2023 Ι Metropolis Magazine As an art student from California studying at László Moholy-Nagy’s Institute of Design in the mid-1940s, Mary Dill Henry described the world as such in her MFA thesis: “The world we live in is a vast and beautiful place, full of vital forces that work upon us and within… Continue reading Mary Dill Henry’s Life-long Search for the “Vital Forces” of Art and Technology
An HBCU’s Historic Preservation Program Starts with Its Own Campus
Metropolis Magazine Ι Dec. 1, 2022 Tuskegee University was the first Historically Black College or University to offer an architecture degree, starting back in 1893, and today, it’s the only HBCU to offer a degree in historic preservation; one that is uniquely focused on the institution’s own storied history. This spring, the program’s first cohort… Continue reading An HBCU’s Historic Preservation Program Starts with Its Own Campus
In Detroit, a Home for LGBTQ Youth Balances Being Seen With Being Safe
Bloomberg CityLab Ι Nov. 22, 2022 When the Ruth Ellis Center, a Detroit nonprofit that helps support LGBTQ youth, began a foster care program 10 years ago, they kept it very quiet; no press release, not even a sign on the door. “We were so afraid of how the community would react,” says Mark Erwin,… Continue reading In Detroit, a Home for LGBTQ Youth Balances Being Seen With Being Safe
Chicago critic Blair Kamin’s Who is the City For? takes aim at aesthetic bungles while thornier issues go largely unaddressed
Architect’s Newspaper Ι Nov. 4, 2022 In a 2011 column, “Signs Uglify Our Beautiful Bridges,” anthologized in Blair Kamin’s book Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago, the recently retired Chicago Tribune architecture critic takes aim at garish vinyl Bank of America (BoA) ads affixed to the Wabash Avenue… Continue reading Chicago critic Blair Kamin’s Who is the City For? takes aim at aesthetic bungles while thornier issues go largely unaddressed
An Ouster at the Institute
New York Review of Architecture Ι September-October 2022 In May of last year, president of AIA Middle East Ali Lari thought he had done a rather difficult thing: diffused a sensitive political situation without compromising the AIA’s stated commitments to equity and human rights. The topic at hand was the occupation of Palestine by Israel.… Continue reading An Ouster at the Institute
Floating Museum Collective Named Artistic Directors of 2023 Chicago Biennial
Architectural Record Ι Sept. 23, 2022 The fifth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) will be led by the Floating Museum, a Chicago collective of artists and designers that focuses on large-scale, site-specific installations created in concert with public institutions. The Floating Museum’s members—architect Andrew Schachman and artists avery r. young, Faheem Majeed, and… Continue reading Floating Museum Collective Named Artistic Directors of 2023 Chicago Biennial
IIT and CTBUH launch new tall-buildings degree programs
Architect’s Newspaper Ι Sept. 20, 2022 Antony Wood, president of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), begins just about every speech he delivers with “Ninety-five percent of tall buildings are crap; they should have never been built.” That is why he started a new degree program at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s… Continue reading IIT and CTBUH launch new tall-buildings degree programs