Art
Lego Wants You to Unleash Your Inner Modernist
Lego released a new kit this month with no instructions, almost entirely white bricks, and the hopes that you'll turn the blocks into mini-modernist experiments.
Architecture
Art
Unbuilt Museums
Some museums just aren't meant to be. For reasons of being too complicated, expensive, or just too out there to exist, many architects' plans for museums have been unrealized.
Art
Le Corbusier's Objects of Poetic Reaction
With his heavy modernist hand and love of concrete, you wouldn't really think of architect Le Corbusier as someone who communed with nature. Yet in the current MoMA exhibition Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, there is among the architectural drawings and cubic models a small case of natu
Art
Remaking the City with Architectural Collage
From a standpoint of cohesion, the architecture of the 20th century was a mess. Brutalist monoliths were constructed alongside shimmering aluminum waves, while some architects clung to scraps of classicism like life preservers in a swelling sea of modernism. However, it was this mishmash of styles a
Art
The Repurposed Beauty of Former Movie Palaces
There's repurposed architecture all over New York City, from banks that have become grocery stores to a water tower becoming a speakeasy, but the most monumental transformations are definitely to be found among the city's old cinema palaces.
Art
A Micro-Apartment of One's Own
Do you know anyone who lives in New York with three roommates? How about someone who lives in a tiny studio apartment? If so, you may be consorting with a lawbreaker. That’s right: in most of New York City, the maximum number of roommates who can share an apartment, legally, is three. And every apar
Art
Antarctic Architecture and Extreme Weather Design
It's been just over a century since Roald Amundsen and his party became the first people to stand at the South Pole, and while they shivered and suffered from frostbite in tents and sleeping bags, the current explorers of Antarctica are dwelling in architecture that confronts the extremes of the sou
Art
The Architectural Poetry of Lebbeus Woods
LOS ANGELES — “Yeah, yeah, Lebbeus Woods: conceptual architecture ... ” said a friend and recent architecture school grad just before I dodged beach traffic and made my way downtown for a new exhibit at The Southern California Institute of Architecture “ ... never built anything.”
Art
The Architectural Poetry of Lebbeus Woods
LOS ANGELES — “Yeah, yeah, Lebbeus Woods: conceptual architecture ... ” said a friend and recent architecture school grad just before I dodged beach traffic and made my way downtown for a new exhibit at The Southern California Institute of Architecture “ ... never built anything.”
Art
A Landmark Modernist House Needs a Home
A small house that once heralded the arrival of Le Corbusier–style architecture in the United States needs a home, but its potential new neighbors aren't terribly keen on the structure's stark modernism.
Opinion
Building Parity: On Women Architects
LOS ANGELES - Too many documentaries on architecture feature the same faces, and they're mostly male. Same goes for panel discussions, lectures, and exhibits. The new documentary Coast Modern does a better job, yet there's still far to go.
News
NYC Culture Shed, a Permanent Space for Temporary Events
The possible future site of New York Fashion Week and hundreds of other arts and culture events resembles a futuristic, moving building more than a Barclays Center for the arts. The so-called Culture Shed, a structure slated to be part of the Hudson Yards development, will occupy West 30th Street be