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10 Diagrams that Changed City Planning
From now until February 15, SPUR in San Francisco is holding a rather interesting exhibition on the charts, diagrams, and visualizations that have changed the face of urban planning. From Ebenezer...
written by: Aaron Britt11.16.12 -
131-Day House
Architect Jayna Cooper had never designed a house before, much less played general contractor, when she broke ground on her new home in the middle of Los Angeles in 2009. After a grueling four...
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Mikey Tnasuttimonkol07.11.12 -
20/200 Vision
What if you could get a real work of art for as little as $20? And it’s not a coffeehouse portrait of Neil Young?
written by: Aaron Britt12.30.10 -
2010 Pritzker: Sejima and Nishizawa
Kazuyo Sejima (just the second woman ever!) and Ryue Nishizawa of the Japanese architecture firm SANAA were awarded the 2010 Pritzker Prize. The pair (just the second duo to win the Pritzker Prize)...
written by: Aaron Britt03.29.10 -
3 Tips for Mid-Century Modern Collectors
One of the great pleasures of visiting the McKenzie Residence in our September 2012 story "Borrego Springs Eternal," is owner Stacey Chapman Paton's collection of mid-century furniture...
written by: Aaron Britt08.20.12 -
8 Questions for Giulio Cappellini
A new San Francisco-based lecture series, Design Assembly, kicked off Wednesday with a talk from one of the dons of contemporary furniture, Giulio Cappellini. He spoke to a full crowd of local...
written by: Aaron Britt05.25.12 -
9 Amazing Modern Houses by Paul Archer
We're big fans of British architect Paul Archer, so much so that we ran a story on the incredible Green Orchard house he designed for his parents in our June 2013 issue. Naturally we were thrilled...
written by: Aaron Britt06.14.13 -
A Bold Bathroom in Marfa
Designer Barbara Hill, whose renovation of a West Texas dance hall we adore, admits to putting her bathtub in the middle of her bedroom for "purely romantic reasons." From the bed, she can gaze...
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Misty Keasler03.08.13 -
A Clever Window Treatment: Bus Graphics
From an unlikely source comes a clever privacy solution for a pair of prefabbed town houses in Los Angeles.
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Sharon Risedorph01.07.13 -
A Dramatic San Francisco Living Room
"A fallacy about modernism is that every space should be light,” says San Francisco architect Abigail Turin about her Pacific Heights home. “I don’t need every space in my house to be bright and...
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Justin Fantl03.04.13 -
A Greener Version of Clorox Cleans Up
Clorox launched an eco-friendly line of cleansers earlier this year and has seen its Green Works line leap to the head of the green cleansers class. A recent story in the San Francisco...
written by: Aaron Britt10.21.08 -
A London Ramble
At the tail end of my Scottish excursion last month, I got a chance to visit London. It was my first time in the city and man was I floored. I loved it to bits and can't wait to go...
written by: Aaron Britt06.07.10 -
A Modern Prefab Addition to a Mid-Century California Classic
A 1950s Joseph Esherick home in Berkeley, California, inspires an addition that pays homage to the past yet is poised to host the next generation.
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Caren Alpert12.30.12 -
A Northern Haven
North Haven, a rocky island in Maine’s Penobscot Bay, is quintessentially New England. As it happens, so is this boat barn–inspired brand of rugged, regional modernism.
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Raimund Koch06.17.09 -
A Pair of Modern Nativity Scenes
Whether you prefer your Christmas decor splashy or humble, this pair of nativity scenes from a two fountainheads of modern design should see you, Mary, baby Jesus, and all the wisemen through the...
written by: Aaron Britt12.20.11 -
A Piece of Home
Made of hardy Scottish materials and holding a Japanese heart, this Edinburgh house shows that two architects from disparate cultures can design a home that bridges the gap.
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Ben Anders07.27.11 -
A Proper Primer on Modernism
The historicization of modern architecture is quick to lionize Mies, Gropius, Wright and others, but too often treats them as though they existed in a vacuum, a far-sighted brotherhood whose sole...
written by: Aaron Britt01.28.09 -
A Surfer's Small Modern Backyard
We've called out our outdoor furniture favorites before, but the deft use of these Loop chairs by Willy Guhl for Eternit puts them squarely on our list. Matt Jacobson and Kristopher Dukes's small...
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Dave Lauridsen03.25.13 -
A Week at the Airport: Part I
Not so long ago I read the English pop philospher and writer Alain de Botton's book The Architecture of Happiness. It was a middling book, one that took great pains to make the case that the...
written by: Aaron Britt10.26.10 -
A Week at the Airport: Part II
Earlier this week I had a go at the first half of Alain de Botton's new book A Week at the Airport, where he reports on a week spent at Heathrow's Terminal 5 as the airport's writer-in...
written by: Aaron Britt10.28.10 -
Aaron Britt
We’re starting a new series on dwell.com this week called Three Buildings. In it we ask people from all corners of the design world two simple questions: Which are your three favorite...
written by: Aaron Britt08.06.09 -
Above Santiago's Architecture Biennial
This mesmerizing video comes from one of our favorite photographers, Cristobal Palma. It's incredible what Palma is able to do here, as his camera hovers and rises over the exhibition design that...
written by: Aaron Britt01.16.13 -
AC/DC on Rochester Castle
Okay, okay, this is a pretty blatant act of movie-meets-architecture branding, but man oh man I'm a total sucker for this amazing animation that somehow marries Iron Man 2, AC/DC, and a 12th...
written by: Aaron Britt08.30.11 -
Adjaye Tapped for Two DC Branch Libraries
This weekend I met up with a friend who lives in Washington DC and was in San Francisco for a visit. I lived in Washington from 2004-2006 and we soon started talking DC politics. She’s...
written by: Aaron Britt10.09.08 -
Aether's Airstream
Here at Dwell, we love all things Airstream, that modernist silver bullet racing toward the freedom of the open road. And though some of the best Airstream design takes the object as a mobile home,...
written by: Aaron Britt10.27.11
