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Events

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  Modern Architecture USA: Survival in the Sub-urbis

  In conjunction with the exhibition Marcel Breuer, architect Diane Lewis lectures on the competition-winning “Riverview Music Quadrangle,” a project to save Paul Rudolph’s first…

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  Design USA: Contemporary Innovation

  This exhibition features outstanding contemporary achievements in American architecture, landscape design, interior design, product design, communication design, corporate design, interaction…

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  Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture

  This Marcel Breuer retrospective, conceived and organized by Vitra Design Museum, presents almost all of Breuer’s major furniture pieces, as well as twelve exemplary buildings.

Articles

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  Charlie Cannon and Innovation Studio

  Charlie Cannon is the energetic founder and teacher of RISD's award-winning Innovation Studio. An interdisciplinary class in its eleventh year, the studio invites industrial design, landscape…

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  A Look Inside V&A Pattern

  London's Victoria and Albert Museum has opened up its extensive archives and published the fantastic V&A Pattern volumes. The first four hardcover editions in the series are William Morris…

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  Master Architects Lecture Series in San Diego to Honor Louis Kahn

  I posted recently about a great looking spring lecture series at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. Not to be outdone by its neighbor to the north, San Diego has assembled a top-drawer raft of speakers for…

Product

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  Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century

  An exhaustive history of modern Western urban-planning theory and practice, Cities of Tomorrow tackles everything from major figures and events that shaped 20th-century urban life to fundamental…

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  Seen But Not Heard

  "You want to live with the children, but you also want to be free from them, and they want to be free from you," Marcel Breuer, 1955.