On Wednesday, May 20, A+A co-sponsored a book giveaway for a copy of Randolph Langenbach’s “Rome Was,” published by ORO Editions. The range of responses was global, with entries from Austrailia, the U.K., Malta, Colombia, Bosnia, Lithuania, and Canada. Here in the states, we heard from people in Alabama,...
Robert Schneider’s finds his passion in three areas: coffee, design and architecture. So he combined them all into a book proposal for Images Publishing, took a deep breath and sent it off. “I had the idea of a book that would showcase different coffee shops, espresso machines, coffee-making apparatus...
Ten years after she hiked the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine in 2008, Sarah Jones Decker celebrated her trail-iversary. By doing it again. This time though, she had a purpose other than the hike. This time, she was documenting each of the trail’s 276 shelters, lean-tos and huts. Inspired by a pair...
Kristen Becker leads a charmed life. A $25,000 renovation for a Manhattan apartment launched her architecture career – then led to a penthouse design – and later, to a return to Seattle, where promising projects followed. She’d already interned at Olson Kundig there, with favorable results. “Tom...
First there were the photography courses and the Harvard education. Then came the photo spread in Fortune during his senior year, followed by LIFE and Time. Next up: a column on his work by The New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable. By 2002 Randolph Langenbach had been awarded the Rome...
CHYBIK + KRISTOF is an architecture and urban design studio with offices in Prague, Brno and Bratislava and operates with more than team members. The firm’s past projects are closely aligned with sustainability and are heavily influenced by the architectural legacy of Central Europe. Their newest project...
Almost everything about this Rustic Canyon residence in the eastern Pacific Palisades was a challenge for Kristopher Conner and James Perry. They were working through design and schematics for architect Duncan Nicholson, a protégé of John Lautner, when the older architect passed away. They went through...
To say that design gurus Bob and Cortney Novogratz get around is like saying Anthony Fauci is merely a doctor. And this couple has a new book from Rizzoli to prove it. “We’ve done so many projects – we redid an old castle in L.A., but also a trailer in Montauk, an Airbnb home, and […]
Seventy works by three generations of Wyeths might sound like a dream show, but it’s real. Sponsored by The Bank of America Art in Our Communities Program, it’s an exhibition of paintings and illustrations by N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth that’s slated to open July 25 at the Peninsula Fine Arts...
Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects is working on some very interesting interpretations of modernism on the West Coast, using outdoor spaces like courtyards and terraces to blur the lines between indoors and out – along with the Japanese idea of borrowed landscape. One of their newest projects is the Pendry...
