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Trends, Strategies, Research for Design Professionals - DesignIntelligence. D-Crit. Home. CASE / Center for Architecture Science and Ecology. DSGN AGNC. Jackself.com. Alexandra Lange. Lucia Eames, the only child of Charles Eames and his first wife, Catherine Woermann, died on April 1.
An artist and designer herself, after Ray Eames’s death in 1988 Lucia Eames took on the not inconsiderable task of preserving the Eames legacy. The 1976 film “The Chase,” starring Lucia, shows a freedom about the Eames House, a freedom translated into the branching ways the Eames legacy will come down to future generations of designers. Lucia Eames was the first generation to learn from them; thanks to her she will not be the last. In Mexico, everyone seems to be Alexander Girard. Chistopher Hawthorne, Architecture Critic. 6:00 AM PDT, June 15, 2013 Le Corbusier as a force for nature? NEW YORK — It's easy to imagine that "Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes," a vast, dense and beautifully installed new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, began as a kind of parlor game. You can almost picture the curators, Jean-Louis Cohen and Barry Bergdoll, brainstorming to come up with the most unlikely, counterintuitive thesis about Le Corbusier they could — and then setting out to defend it with straight faces, deep scholarship and a good deal of museological firepower. 5:00 AM PDT, June 7, 2013 Sunnylands presidential summit spotlights estate's public mission Even when it was just an architectural glimmer in the eye of Walter and Leonore Annenberg, the desert estate where President Barack Obama will greet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday was never in danger of being confused with a mere vacation house.
Costa rica. Adventures in the world of architectural communication. Archispeak. Repeat - Writings on Architecture in Chicago and the World. Harboe at Carson's, Neutra discusses Neutra, Studio/Gang at Columbia College - SCB in Abu Dhabi, and much more: the August architectural calendar On August 12th, Dr Raymond Richard Neutra, son of the famous architecture will lecture on the significance and survival of Neutra's Los Angeles VDL Studio and Residences for AIA Chicago, which is also offering a panel of architects including Walter Eckenhoff and Jackie Koo talking about hotel design throughout the world on Tuesday, the 10th, Christine Caryle discussing her firm's planning work in Abu Dhabi at Solomon Cordwell Buenz on the 11th.
On Thursday the 19th, AIA/Chicago will be offering a tour of the new Columbia College Media Production Center with a representative from the building's architects, Studio/Gang, as a guide. The same afternoon, the Glessner House Museum is offering a tour of the recently restored Louis Sullivan formerly known as Carson Pirie Scott by architect Gunny Harboe. And that's not all! Summer reading? Now it's dust. ALLISON ARIEFF - Opinionator. The driverless car, like other utopian pursuits, seems always to be just out of reach.
It’s captured the imagination of many for at least a century: in 1918, the Oakland Tribune reported (in a section I wish all newspapers would bring back called “New and Interesting Facts from Science and Life”) that “the new car will be all glass-enclosed and controlled entirely by a set of push buttons. Performing and Visual Arts News and Commentary - HuffPost Arts. Justin McGuirk - Home. Trend Tablet.
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It unleashes valuable knowledge, contextualizes the knowledge into relevant examples for you to apply back to your business, and then empowers you to connect with the future in hands on translation sessions and immersion techniques centered on core themes. Home Archive Subscribe (RSS) Submit Random post Twitter Visit our Website! Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor. Connecting Architects Since 1997. Architecture News - World Architects + Buildings.
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IAKC Home - InteriorArchitectureCommittee. The American Institute of Architects Board of Directors awarded the 2013 AIA Architecture Firm Award to Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, who blend exquisite care for detail with subtle, reverent architecture that's both timeless in its abstracted, meditative forms and materially specific to context and place.
The AIA Architecture Firm Award, given annually, is the highest honor the AIA bestows on an architecture firm, and recognizes a practice that has consistently produced distinguished architecture for at least 10 years… Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects respect the Modernist legacy of orthogonal, functional minimalism, but place it in a wider context of earthen, material richness. Read the full interview with Billie Tsien.
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