Architectural drawings were limited to mostly monochrome in Europe until color appeared in the 17th century.
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Thousands Pledge To Egg Jeff Bezos’s Mega-Yacht As It Passes Through Rotterdam Bridge
“We don’t just take [Rotterdam] apart for the phallus symbol of a megalomaniac billionaire,” said the protest’s organizers, who oppose dismantling the historic bridge.
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A Teenager’s Dreamy Art Deco Bedroom From 1929
A new book reconstructs a unique teen bedroom from 1929 and resurrects Joseph Urban’s far-reaching but now-forgotten influence on modern American design.
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The Politics of “Santa Fe Style” Modernist Architecture
A new project looks at the modernist influences on the city’s residential designs.
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Climate-Conscious Hospital In Bangladesh Wins “Best New Building” Award
It beat out a German art gallery designed by David Chipperfield and a vehicle-free bridge in Denmark.
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A Treasure Trove of Midcentury Modern Architecture
Breuer’s Bohemia is centered around the life and work of Marcel Breuer, but touches upon an entire cohort of Modernist influencers.
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Plans for a Billion Dollar College Dormitory Are a Strange Mix of Carceral and Utopian
The plans for Munger Hall may just be the most ruthlessly efficient way to house 4500 students.
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The Complicated Legacy of Modernist Minoru Yamasaki, Architect of World Trade Center
Yamasaki’s most well-known projects — the twin towers and the Pruit-Igoe housing project — were both destroyed on national television.
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Important “Arts and Crafts” Architecture Archive Gifted to the Huntington Library
The gift will allow the institution to incorporate the Greene brothers’ archives into its online systems to make it searchable online.
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The Tricky Role of Humor in Activist Art and Design
An SFMOMA exhibition raises questions about what it means when museum board members have ties to politicians who support border wall policies.
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Eileen Gray’s Masterpiece in the French Riviera, No Longer Overshadowed by Le Corbusier
While staying as a house guest, a naked Le Corbusier defiled Gray’s minimalist, color-blocked walls that were only restored in 2015.
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Owner of California’s “Flintstone House” Settles Lawsuit Over Dinosaur Sculptures
“We’re in the United States, they can’t tell you to get rid of a dinosaur,” the owner’s attorney said in 2019.