Architect, @worldarchitects editor, tour guide & author of "Buildings in Print" & 6 other books. And I have a weekly newsletter about architecture books.
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Just learned that Netsch's library and other historic buildings at Wells College are under threat after the school permanently and abruptly closed in the spring, and water and heat will be shut off this winter. Details: wellslegacysociety.org/news/…
Just learning about the Louis Jefferson Long Library at Wells College (Walter Netsch/SOM, 1968), I'm thinking a summer road trip to Aurora, NY is in order. Aerial from Wells College website, rest from March 1968 Progressive Architecture, via usmodernist.org/index-pa.htm
Just learning about the Louis Jefferson Long Library at Wells College (Walter Netsch/SOM, 1968), I'm thinking a summer road trip to Aurora, NY is in order. Aerial from Wells College website, rest from March 1968 Progressive Architecture, via usmodernist.org/index-pa.htm
Sorry to annoy those of you who are annoyed by the misuse of the word "architect," but there has to be a better term/phrase than this:
lehighvalleylive.com/bethleh…
"Chicago, Illinois is America's railroad capital." Yeah, sure, except when, one second later, Chicago turns into New York City.
Oops, @SmithsonianChan's "How Did They Build That."
Looks like INOA Architecture is copy-pasting what I call the Astoria Eyebeam, which could have turned out a lot better, for the design of a taller apartment building in East Flatbush: newyorkyimby.com/2024/09/ren…
Maybe the change from rounded to square corners will make it work better
A landform for Helsinki's South Harbour? I waded through the 623 submissions in the first stage of the competition for the New Museum of Architecture & Design in Helsinki—competitiongallery.admuseo.f…—and pulled out 24 entries that propose to some sort of landform.
Just now seeing this unfortunate news. I can't help agree with Theodore, further down in his thread, that LPC is more aligned with owners' interests than architectural history.
Terrible 💔 news...
#HistoricPreservationAlert #DemolitionAlert #NYC
The Aalto Rooms—a.k.a. the Edgar J. Kaufman Conference Center—designed by Alvar and Elissa Aalto (1964) have been COMPLETELY DESTROYED for a redecoration—by the building's new owner, the government of Qatar.
RIP, Fumihiko Maki. I was able to visit the Spiral twenty years ago and remember really liking it. I could have spent the day there, it had so many things (shopping, eating, art, culture) stuffed inside it; the facade illustrates all that.
The architects writing to Progressive Architecture were none to happy with its April 1975 "Historical Allusions" issue, none more—or more poetic—than Lebbeus Woods. (Images from PDF scans at US Modernist Library: usmodernist.org/index-pa.htm)
Learned about this letter to the editor via an essay by Eliyahu Keller, "In Place of Light: On Early Writings," in the great March/April @AD_books on Woods: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/…
John Hill retweeted
The Architecture Exchange is soliciting nominations for the most significant architectural theory texts in the period between 2008 and 2024. Please share with us your nominations for up to five texts before June 15th 2024 architecture.exchange/home-p…
My first thought on seeing issue 36 of @pinupmagazinex in my inbox today is how its shape is perfect for a "blow book" – not a naughty book, but "the oldest trick book in the world," per Ricky Jay, where manipulatable tabs make the contents of the book change with each flip.
Super-handy illustrations (by Ben Keel) early in a lengthy but valuable article (by @AYReport ) on the story of Atlantic Yards (now Pacific Park) just after the megaproject's 20-year anniversary, published @UrbanOmnibus: urbanomnibus.net/2024/05/wat…
Out next week: "Trapped: Life under Security Capitalism and How to Escape It" by Mark Maguire and @sethalow: sup.org/books/title/?id=3523…
I have to say the choice of cover photo is perfect.
Being open just one Friday each month is barely "public," as the new Skyspace at a private Quaker school is being described, but at least this one, squeezed onto a rooftop by Frances Halsband, has a retractable roof, so it won't be closed during bad weather like the one @MoMAPS1.
James Turrell’s Skyspace at the Friends Seminary, a private Quaker school in Gramercy, opened this week on the sixth floor. trib.al/BZguxiN
