Topic
Architecture
97 published works
Jotwell
Architecture Reveals Property’s Power
By P. T. Babie
Andrew Leach & Jasper Ludewig, Back to the Land, 28 Wolkenkuckucksheim: Int'l J. Architectural Theory 37 (2024/2025).We know that private property allows its holder to exercise choice about how to…
Althouse
"The center’s mixed messaging is incarnated in the Janus-faced facade of the tower whose eccentric cuts and grooves from some angles…"
By Ann Althouse
"... can bring to mind the heroic architecture of Louis Kahn or a Noguchi sculpture. When sunlight after a rain turns the gray stone pink, the building can look like…
Simple Justice
Was The Arc d’ Trump Pre-Approved?
There are three pressing questions when it comes to Trump’s pursuit of architectural hegemony over the District of Columbia, determined to leave his mark so that no one forgets that…
Althouse
"The aura is lowkey sinister. The landscaping is busted…."
By Ann Althouse
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Land Use Prof Blog
Films for land use lovers
The Chicago Architecture Center's Architecture and Design Film Festival has a bunch of great films that any good land use lover might want to see. Some of them are already…
Boundary Breakthroughs
Notice when Macro and Micro Meet
By Bob Zierman
“Form is Content.” Notice how Orca’s whale tale is an echo of the roof, or is it the other way around? At any rate the micro and macro imitate one…
Kim L. Kirn
Mediating the EURO note
By Kim Kirn
Have you ever compared the design of US dollars to other countries’ notes, like the Euro? Each Euro numerical denomination includes color and architectural treasures. I’ve included a picture of…
The Right Coast
Two doors, few windows and 4,500 students: Architect quits over billionaire s mega-dorm | The Seattle Times
Dennis McFadden, a Los Angeles architect and member of the university s design review committee of 15 years, wrote in his resignation letter that he was disturbed by the 11-story,…
The Right Coast
Notre Dame s collapse and the loss of what it stood for
Notre Dame stands for so many qualities that we now lack patience and staying power, the cultivation of beauty, a deep religious faith, a cultural confidence and ambition that could…
Ahead of Schedule
A New Architectural Icon Opens in Seattle
By Karl Oles
The dramatic “Spheres” at the new Amazon headquarters in downtown Seattle have joined the Space Needle, downtown Seattle Library, Smith Tower, and Pacific Science Center as architectural icons of the…