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D.J. Morphosis
What does a Pritzker Prize–winning architect have on his iPod? Thanks to Santa Monica, California, public radio station KCRW, we now know that Thom Mayne of Morphosis likes to listen to Dr....
written by: David A. Greene12.14.08 -
A Note on Our Expert, Peter Bentel
Peter Bentel is a modernist raised by modernists: The son of influential mid-century architects Frederick and Maria Bentel, Peter is a partner at Bentel & Bentel, which his parents established in...
01.01.09 -
Built Like a Concrete House
Dorit Mizrahi and Oliviero Godi, working in Bergamo, Italy, as the firm Exposure Architects, have designed a house using prefabricated panels made of pollution-eating TX-Active concrete.
written by: David A. Greene12.20.08 -
Ant Farm Documentary at SF MoMA
Documentarians Elizabeth Federic and Laura Harrison's 2008 video about Ant Farm, the merry band of architects, video artists, nomads and pranksters of the late 60s and early 70s, shows at San...
written by: Aaron Britt12.15.08 -
Unpacking My Library
I just got a wonderful new book in the mail today concerning famous archtiects and their personal collections of books. Unpacking My Library: Architects and their Books is due out from Yale...
written by: Aaron Britt11.23.09 -
Reflecting on Kimonos
Sixteenth-century Japanese costuming and stainless steel don't typically have a lot in common. Paris-trained architect Andreea Avram Rusu, though, has changed that for the better.
written by: Jamie Waugh11.18.08 -
American Bill Price Makes a Stir in Seoul
Perhaps I’m displaying my own design ignorance here, but I had never heard of American architect, inventor and professor of industrial design at the University of Houston, Bill Price....
written by: Aaron Britt11.03.08 -
Green Prefab at a (Relatively) Bargain Price
The New York Times recently picked up on the story of Thomas Small and Joanna Brody's Culver City, California, house designed by Whitney Sander of Sander Architects.
written by: David A. Greene10.27.08 -
Zaha Hadid in Central Park
In time for the Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Week is London-based architect Zaha Hadid's collaboration with Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld to design a pavilion that explores just what it would feel...
written by: Jamie Waugh10.17.08 -
AIA SF Design Awards 2009
San Francisco is a hotspot for incredible architecture—and this past year was no exception. Last week the American Institute of Architect’s San Francisco chapter celebrated the best of...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake03.11.09 -
Santa Cruz Home's 'Bale Raising'
For "Gotta Bale," the Off the Grid story in our October 2012 issue, we visit the Santa Cruz, California, home of college professors Bernie Tershy and Erika Zavaleta. Though there's a lot...
written by: Aaron Britt09.18.12 -
Ideas for Japan's Reconstruction
A new word has been added to the vocabulary of Japanese architects: 3/11. That's the date when an earthquake and tsunami killed 20,000 people, crashed through over 900,000 buildings along 300 miles...
written by: Winifred Bird09.27.11 -
California Love
With the first day of spring quickly approaching and the weather getting warmer, we've decided to pay homage to the Golden State by compiling seven of our favorite sun-kissed California homes.
written by: Ivane Soyombo03.01.13 -
House Vision Exhibit Tokyo
What should Japan’s homes of the future look like? A few years ago, designer Kenya Hara posed that question to a group of Japanese architects and companies. The result is the House Vision...
written by: Winifred Bird03.19.13 -
Back in Black
Black is the color (or absence of color, rather) of choice for these twelve homes from San Francisco to Berlin to Tokyo and beyond.
written by: Diana Budds02.15.13 -
Making Room
Making Room, an exhibition opening today at the Museum of the City of New York, celebrates our growing citywide fascination with living small.
written by: Sara Carpenter01.23.13 -
Designing Retail Spaces at City Modern
In the final City Modern panel, a talented group of architects and designers met at the Flexform showroom in Manhattan to discuss retail design. The panelists spoke on their efforts to translate...
written by: Emily Nonko10.08.12 -
Clever Kitchen Storage Trick
What to do if you want a small, minimalist kitchen—but, like any normal person, you have lots of stuff you need to stash away? In this farmhouse in Outgaarden, Belgian architects 51n4e devised a...
written by: Jaime Gillin04.03.13 -
More from the 2012 Venice Biennale
The 2012 Venice Biennale is currently taking place until September 25th. Earlier in the week, we shared a recap of the event and here we bring you more photos from the exhibition.
written by: Linda Taalman09.06.12 -
Venice Biennale 2012: Common Ground
The theme for the 13th Venice Biennale as defined by David Chipperfield is Common Ground. Common ground has a wide range of interpretations from the very process of architecture and its language of...
written by: Linda Taalmanphotos by: Linda Taalman09.03.12 -
Catch A Wave
An undulating wall made from over 40,000 dowels adds a dose of awe to a Massachusetts loft.
written by: Diana Buddsphotos by: John Horner01.24.13 -
Rana Creek: The Design Firm Bringing Architecture to Life
In a nursery off the coast of Monterey, California, Rana Creek raises millions of plants each year. From there, many will be raised again, off their grids of soil and up onto roofs and walls,...
written by: Thomas Travagli01.07.13 -
Brooklyn Design at City Modern
The newly opened Wythe Hotel proved to be an apt setting for the City Modern Brooklyn Design panel. A converted warehouse turned boutique hotel, the Wythe is a fine case study in the types of...
written by: Emily Nonko10.05.12 -
Mass Modern
A Martha’s Vineyard retreat surpasses the traditional boundaries of Cape Cod architecture with a contemporary design by Harvard professor and practicing architect Toshiko Mori.
written by: Marc Kristalphotos by: Iwan Baan07.04.12 -
An Atypical Tree House
When a 40-year-old pine tree fell over at the rear of a Brentwood estate in Los Angeles a few years back, its owner, an art lover and a philanthropist, let it lie. The tree revived itself,...
written by: J. Michael Weltonphotos by: Eric Staudenmaier10.28.09
