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Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward opened yesterday at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The exhibition marks the New York institution’s 50th anniversary and runs until August 23. The exhibition follows last year’s completion of the building’s three-year restoration and is the first on the architect of this scope in a building [...]

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Yes is More by Bjarke Ingels Group
DAC, 2009
Paperback, 400 pages

The monograph has become a fairly predictable format for architecture books, varying, it seems, only in terms of how much content is presented and what the page looks like. Collecting photographs of finished buildings, renderings of unbuilt or soon-to-be-built projects, conventional architectural drawings, descriptive [...]

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Sunday I moseyed over to DUMBO and BKLYN DESIGNS™. Lest you forget, the event is “New York’s hottest exhibition of designers and manufacturers of contemporary furnishings, lighting, and accessories made and/or designed in Brooklyn, all handpicked by a jury of editors from leading design and shelter magazines.”

This is the show’s seventh year but [...]

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We’ve featured a few articles about MR+A’s work in the past, from furniture to prefab, so I was pretty stoked to open the mailbox today and find a copy of Princeton Architectural Press’ recent book, Marmol Radziner + Associates: Between Architecture and Construction. Published in July 2008, this book runs the gamut of MR+A’s [...]

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Before his talk last week at Postopolis! LA, Matthew Coolidge, director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, joked that someday he should bring a laser pointer up there to the roof deck and give a new lecture, pointing out specific offices visible around us in the nighttime sky.
That afterhours galaxy of Xerox machines [...]

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[Image: A dream of freeways above the city, at Postopolis! LA; I believe this was from Ted Kane's presentation. Photo by Dan Hill].
One Postopolis!, a minor car accident, and 500 miles later, I’m back in the rain of San Francisco. I owe a huge thanks to everyone who came out for the event last [...]

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We’ve got a huge final night planned here at Postopolis! LA, after an incredibly interesting Day Four (which you can read about via our Twitter feed, @postopolis). Days One and Two, meanwhile, have been written up by our erstwhile scribe, Dan Hill, over at his blog City of Sound – including full-length posts about [...]

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[Image: Postopolis! LA, photographed by Gaia Cambiaggi. Check out the Postopolis! LA Flickr pool for more].
Another reminder that we’re up here, live, on the roof again at Postopolis! LA, brought to you by ForYourArt and the Storefront for Art and Architecture. Be sure to check out our Twitter feed – @postopolis – for ongoing [...]

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[Image: Hyde Park, London. Image courtesy of The Royal Parks].
Note: This is a guest post by Nicola Twilley.
The Royal Parks of London already boast a long list of worthy, if specialized, publications, from the Kensington Gardens Shared Use Assessments to an executive summary of the Cycle Review at The Regent’s Park. But Thursday, May [...]

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[Image: An airplane flies above Los Angeles, a landscape of now-forgotten airports].
Buried beneath the streets of Los Angeles are lost airfields, airports whose runways have long since disappeared, sealed beneath roads and residential housing blocks, landscaped into non-existence and forgotten. Under the building you’re now sitting in, somewhere in greater L.A., airplanes might once [...]

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[Image: Elias Redstone stands inside the facade of Casa Poli, designed by Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects; read more about his visit to the house here. Photo by Jaffer Kolb].
Regrettably, I have not until now pointed readers’ attention to the soon-to-finish travels of Elias Redstone, curator of London’s Architecture Foundation, as he visits the work [...]

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[Image: Photo by Satya Pemmaraju, courtesy of the Architectural League].
Here are some upcoming events, courses, and lectures that I would attend if I could:
—Tonight, March 26, author William L. Fox speaks in Reno at the Nevada Museum of Art about his new exhibition, co-curated with Matthew Coolidge of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, [...]

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[Image: From ¡Super NAFTA Land! by Richie Gelles].
Another project from the Rice University final thesis reviews that I helped to jury back in January is Richie Gelles’s project ¡SUPER NAFTA LAND!.That project imagines a kind of Mad Max salvage economy, made up of equal parts post-industrial subculture and bioengineered agri-futurism, set along the US/Mexico [...]

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[Image: From the amazing Superheroes series by photographer Gregg Segal].
As many readers will no doubt know, the New York Times last week sent a “cease and desist” letter to Apartment Therapy, demanding that AT stop posting New York Times proprietary material on their website. Though the story has since undergone a few less confrontational [...]

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[Image: From Library of Dust by David Maisel].
In an earlier post, I mentioned that there will be at least one more big event coming up in New York City that I’ll be a part of; the information for that is now available (at least on Facebook!).On Monday, April 13, from 7-9pm, the New York [...]

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[Image: Napoleon in Egypt].
I started reading Nina Burleigh’s recent book Mirage on the flight over to New York this afternoon. Burleigh’s book is a review of Napoleon’s 1798 invasion of Egypt, during which “more than 150 French engineers, artists, doctors, and scientists – even a poet and a musicologist – traveled to the Nile [...]

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It’s nice to see a friend (and coworker) get an opportunity to discuss his work: Dwell’s Design Director, Kyle Blue, talks to Arkitip about why we make Dwell the way we do, in this short video shot just the other day in the office. Congrats, Kyle! Also visible in the background of the video [...]

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It’s been a pretty slow week here with new posts, but there is a lot going on; I thought I’d relay some news to everyone, both to catch up on things backstage here at the blog and because I’m really looking forward to what’s to come.
[Image: From "the ruins of San Francisco," 1906, [...]

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[Image: The Guardian's architecture blog roll, cropped down from a scan by John Coulthart; view larger].
I was excited to see that BLDGBLOG made it onto the Guardian’s list of recommended architecture blogs this weekend, along with Pruned, Archidose, entschwindet und vergeht, Architecture List, and Arcilook. It seems notable that four of those, if you [...]

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[Image: Grapes, 2008, by Ai Weiwei; courtesy of Phillips de Pury & Company].
The new exhibition Ai Weiwei: Four Movements opened today in London at Phillips de Pury & Company, and it will remain on display until March 28. I’m proud to have contributed an essay to the show’s catalog, alongside a text by Arthur [...]

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It’s been a while since I’ve fully enjoyed myself during a New Year’s Eve celebration. Since I live in a young area of the city and work at a company filled with energetic twenty-somethings, there’s always been talk of the latest open bar special or New Year’s party. Don’t get me wrong – [...]

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Unfortunately my iPod has started to die after three years (is that normal?). It’s come to the point where it just won’t hold the charge for more than 15 minutes and I’ve already been faced with the fearful battery/lightning symbol across my screen. I think I felt even worse when I pulled it [...]

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Big, white and beautiful. Those words sums up this house located in the Brighton neighborhood of Melbourne, Australia. Architect Nic Bochsler carefully created a masterplan to “maximize the utility of the space and to capture the beauty of its design and surrounds.”

My, that swimming pool…
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Located in the forest of Karuizawa, Japan, this ultra modern house resembles the cross-section of a seashell, with its double-elliptical shapes and curves. The designers combined sexy curves, intricate details and clean lines for a futuristic look.

Circular skylights provide architectural interest while flooding the dark corners with bright natural daylight. The rooms [...]

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Frank Lloyd Wright
George Nelson
Eames Design
Noguchi Lamps
Bauhaus Design
New Modern
Modern Furniture Design – A Brief History
Near the end of the nineteenth century, many changes were transpiring the world over. Social change, new inventions, and new philosophies helped pave the way for innovations in many different fields, among them furniture design. These new methods [...]

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Gregory La Vardera is an Architect located in Merchantville, NJ. He has been developing plans for modern homes that have something for everyone. There are three great things about his work. You buy plans for houses that are already designed, saving a great deal of money while still having the creative design of [...]

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This month’s Dwell magazine is devoted to prefab housing and has a wealth of information for anyone considering a prefab home. The cover features this beautiful home. Art object or machine for living in? Architect William Massie’s personal prefab project takes the mass out of mass customization to create a one-of-a-kind wonder.

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On the heels of 2007’s opening of the administrative/visitor center at Queens Botanical Garden, the borough I call home has a string of high-profile public projects in the works, many under construction. Below are some details.

[Museum of the Moving Image by Thomas Leeser | image source]
One of the borough’s cultural gems is the [...]

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Here’s a few shots I snapped today walking past Cooper Union’s New Academic Building by Morphosis under construction.

The building is located between 6th and 7th Streets, catty-corner from the school’s main building. The above and below shots are looking northeast across Third Avenue, the street between the old and new buildings.

The below shot [...]

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The rear section of the Juan Valdez Flagship on 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan used to look like this:

[photograph by Paul Warchol]
When I visited the 2004 storefront designed by Hariri & Hariri Architecture for first time two years ago that was the case. The undulating walls gave the space character, but they also [...]

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Charles Pictet Architecte designed this house in Frontenex, France as an addition to an original building. I love how the new structure is visually integrated into the old through the use of concrete.
Personally, the interiors are a little too stark for me to imagine living in them, but it is a beautiful project!
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The W-Window House is the home of the architecture duo, Kentaro Takeguchi and Asako Yamamoto of Alphaville. The architects were interested in blurring the distinction between commercial and residential, as can be seen in several elements – the concrete floors on the entry level, the corrugated metal facade, and the relative blankness of the [...]

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