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Interviews
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Chicago's Green Mile
Chicago bills a one-and-a-half-mile-long stretch of Cermak Road as "the greenest street in America," a surprising characterization considering it was once one of the grittiest industrial...
written by: Diana Budds04.24.13 -
Mills & McGregor on "Beginners"
Beginners, a new film by Mike Mills starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, and Melanie Laurent, takes place in the Los Angeles of Richard Neutra, Deco hotels, humble Spanish bungalows, and...
written by: Diana Budds06.08.11 -
Enoc Perez: The Andy Warhol of Architecture
Painter Enoc Perez grew up in Puerto Rico, a place rich with modernist buildings in places like La Concha and the Hix Island House. His move to New York amplified an admiration for the style. There...
written by: Mark Byrnes01.16.13 -
Blair Kamin, on Criticism
Blair Kamin is a Pulitzer Prize–winning architecture critic from a town blessed with some of the best buildings in the world. He writes for The Chicago Tribune, passing unflinching near-daily...
written by: J. Michael Welton10.18.10 -
Life in Space: Email from the ISS
For our December/January 2010 The Future issue, we asked science fiction writer Bruce Sterling to pen a piece describing The Future of Space Living. In addition to taking us on a step-by-step tour...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake11.24.09 -
Arik Levy
Arik Levy’s designs have been produced by a variety of big names—e15 (SH05 ARIE shelf, pictured below), Zanotta, Council, Living Divani, and Bernhardt Design, to name a few—but...
written by: Dwell Staff09.02.09 -
Sam Kaufman on Breuer's B32
I moved apartments over the weekend, and in the great push to clean out the old place in anticipation of the new, I decided to finally do away with a set of (free at the time) dining...
written by: Aaron Britt12.27.10 -
Richard Schulman's Photographs
Last week I talked to photographer Richard Schulman about his career photographing legends of the architecture and art worlds. This week Richard pulled 21 images from his impressive catalog to...
written by: Bradford Shellhammerphotos by: Richard Schulman04.20.10 -
Chroma at the San Francisco Ballet
Last week I caught the stunning dance Chroma at the San Francisco Ballet. Choreographed by Wayne McGregor with a set designed by the famed British minimalist architect John Pawson, Chroma is...
written by: Aaron Britt02.23.12 -
7 Questions for Cecilie Manz
Republic of Fritz Hansen launched Danish designer Cecilie Manz’s chair and table at this year’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan. Inspired by the rounded shape of a stone on...
written by: Olivia Martin08.06.12 -
David Carlson
“I’m not particularly interested in ‘design,’” says David Carlson, a man who has spent much of his career focused on the subject. “I see it as more of a cultural...
written by: Jordan Kushins07.07.10 -
Moments with Winka
Award-winning designer Winka Dubbeldam is the principal of leading design firm Archi-Tectonics, NYC, a Professor of Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, and—while widely considered...
written by: Sara Ost08.03.12 -
Architect Marcel Beaudin
Vermont-born architect Marcel Beaudin never planned to design buildings. Trained as a draftsman for the monuments his family’s granite-quarrying business produced, Beaudin was working as a...
written by: Lindsay J. Westleyphotos by: Lindsay J. Westley09.17.12 -
Q&A with Black+Blum Founder
For more than a decade, London-based design company Black+Blum has been cranking out beautiful, sometimes quirky or humorous, and always functional products for the home. From its elegant tabletop...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake08.18.11 -
Sandy Chilewich
In our July/August 2012 issue, we profiled a cross-section of women working in the design field from architects to curatorial theorists and a handful of professions between. One prominent figure in...
written by: Diana Budds07.16.12 -
Young at Any Age
Japanese designer Mikiko Endo lets her wild imagination go to work—–so we can play.
written by: Winifred Bird07.24.11 -
Emily Pilloton
In January 2008, Emily Pilloton founded Project H Design in an effort to "turn criticism into action" by connecting socially minded designers with the communities in need of their...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake01.29.10 -
Tom Dixon
"You can take the principles of what something stands for and use them in a completely new way. Otherwise you’re just a retrospective company," says designer Tom Dixon.
written by: Amber Bravo01.07.10 -
Sixteen Ways of Looking at a Bedouin Tent
Architect, systems designer, Cradle to Cradle founder, and sustainability guru William McDonough talks entropy, Walker Evans, paper houses, and “buildings like trees” with science...
written by: Alexis Madrigal03.22.12 -
Jack White on Design
We got the low down on Jack White’s Rolling Record Store in our October issue, but the man had much more to say. Here, he talks about unfinished furniture designs, high school with Harry...
written by: Jordan Kushinsphotos by: Jo McCaughey09.28.11
