The Czech Center in New York has put together a three-part program on Adolf Loos’s rarely seen (and previously unseen) interiors in Pilsen, Czech Republic. It’s ongoing now, and open through March 11. Details on dates and times can be found at the end of this post. A world-renowned architect, Loos...
Australia-based Landini Associates was founded in 1993, with work that melds strategy, architecture, interior, graphic, product, furniture and digital design. Its clients span all sectors of retail and hospitality — from global brands like ALDI, Hilton Hotels, and McDonald’s to lifestyle brands...
Sometimes, serendipity spurs events that clearly were meant to happen. For example: A 2017 encounter between two artists in residence at Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Il. has led to a book that explores the relationship between artists and their environments. Writer Melissa Wyse and illustrator...
A 1987 painting by Robert Overby ignited the imaginations of Jessica Shaw and the client who showed it to her. It’s called “Computer Whiz” and it hangs in TriBeca’s Andrew Kreps Gallery. And Shaw’s design for an eighth-floor, five- bedroom apartment at 81st and Broadway, in a building by Robert...
Today, we thought it appropriate to take a look back at a post about our third president – the only amateur architect among the entire 46. Like the rest of us, Thomas Jefferson was a complex person, full of conflicts and contradictions. In May 2019 we covered an exhibition about the man in full...
After publishing three books on masterworks by his great-grandfather, Samuel G. White is zeroing in on the finer points of his work. “Stanford White in Detail” focuses on ornament and interiors that the partner in McKim, Mead & White dispatched with unmatched elegance in the late 19th and early...
In the end the 1920s-era home in Austin, designed by architect Henry Bowers Thomson for clients Edgar and Lutie Perry, was too much. When Edgar Perry sold the 10-acre estate and its 10,600-square-foot residence in 1944, he said the mansion was “a great place to throw a party, but too big to live in.”...
On a site where Black factory workers once manned a Ford assembly line in Charlotte, four young African American architecture students soon will see their designs come to life. Their work will be part of a 73-acre development with an industrial past and a promising future, in one of Charlotte’s lowest-income...
It took five years but it felt like 25, says architect, planner, and author Victoria Ballard Bell. That’s because her new book – “Triangle Modern Architecture” – is about as thorough a tome on the topic as possible. She takes us back to the beginning – to the Bauhaus and Josef Albers and Black...
Photographer Wayne Thom arrived in Southern California too late for the midcentury modernists. He was too early for the history-bending postmodernists. But he was just in time for the late modernists. And he went after them with a vengeance. “He would ride on window washers’ scaffolding, hang out of helicopters,...
