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Q&A With A Modern Architect that Dared to Build Exactly What He Wanted in Conservative Royal Oak

Q&A With A Modern Architect that Dared to Build Exactly What...

Architects able to built masterpieces of modernism in the suburbs of Detroit are few and far between. But a local preference for more historical styles in Royal Oak was not going to stop architect Frank Arvan from building exactly what he [...]

Posted On : Oct, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Exceptional modern architecture displayed by the Horizontal House

Exceptional modern architecture displayed by the Horizontal ...

The excellent skills and collective talent and efforts of the Eastern Design Office team has resulted in building this fascinating residence at the edge of residential architecture. Displaying a fabulous shape inspired by the surroundings [...]

Posted On : Oct, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Bad Boy Architects & China's New Face

Bad Boy Architects & China's New Face

They are an unmistakable part of the urban cityscapes. But is China a playground for international architects or an abused testing ground for bad design? Liu Yujie examines the landscape and finds out if these new buildings are towering l [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Critic's Notebook: A film twist on LACMA's architectural mix

Critic's Notebook: A film twist on LACMA's architectural mix

When Michael Govan was named director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2006, there was reason to hope that LACMA's campus — in its jumbled, sprawling form something of a microcosm of Southern California urbanism &mdash [...]

Posted On : Oct, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Anthony J. Lumsden dies at 83; Southern California architect

Anthony J. Lumsden, a prolific Southern California architect who helped develop new ways of wrapping buildings in smooth glass skins, accelerating a shift that reshaped skylines around the world, died Sept. 22 in Los Angeles. He was 83. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Art of Architecture: Mid-century modern

The film "Mid-Century Modern Architecture in Arkansas," which focuses on post-war design, from the University of Arkansas's Fine Arts Building to the abandoned Hotel Mountainaire in Hot Springs, will be shown at 6 p.m. tonig [...]

Posted On : Oct, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Architect Hadid's zig-zag school wins top UK prize

Architect Hadid's zig-zag school wins top UK prize

The Royal Institute of British Architects' judges awarded the 20,000-pound prize to Hadid for the Evelyn Grace Academy, a new school in south London which they described as a "highly stylized zig-zag of steel and glass". [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Modern classicist: Architect Leon Krier talks visionary desi...

Leon Krier is in Detroit, at the DIA’s Film Theatre tonight, to speak about how Detroit can envision its future city form. Mr. Krier has been a vital part of the dialog on the nature of cities since the 1970s. His work was essential [...]

Posted On : Sep, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Modern classicist: Architect Leon Krier talks visionary design at DIA

Modern classicist: Architect Leon Krier talks visionary desi...

Leon Krier is in Detroit, at the DIA’s Film Theatre tonight, to speak about how Detroit can envision its future city form. Mr. Krier has been a vital part of the dialog on the nature of cities since the 1970s. His work was essential [...]

Posted On : Sep, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

An architect speaks out for cities in colour

An architect speaks out for cities in colour

Toronto has a smattering of colourful houses and skyscrapers. Most of them went up during a vogue for rainbow-hued façades that suddenly dawned, briefly flourished and quickly faded some 30 years ago. Since then, architects in Hogt [...]

Posted On : Sep, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Big Sky Chronicles: Modernist architecture in Montana

Although you may not recognize it right away, modernist architecture is featured all over Montana. “One of the ones that I like is kind of a road side modernist building. It's the old Midas Muffler shop on the corner of Last Ch [...]

Posted On : Sep, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Parabolas to Post-Modern: Architecture from the Collection

Parabolas to Post-Modern: Architecture from the Collection is a brief survey of post-war architecture by National Academicians (NAs) and reflects the immense growth and changes in American architecture over the last seventy years. The ins [...]

Posted On : Sep, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Modernist Islamic Architecture: Toward preserving a migrant past

Modernist Islamic Architecture: Toward preserving a migrant ...

The firm’s founder and director, Shahed Saleem, is a modernist architect who believes in preserving heritage, he is also in the process of writing a book about the history of mosques in Britain for the National Heritage Commission. [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Modern architecture is a broad church

At the start of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, I made one of the very few visits I was able to make to Charlotte Square this year to hear a discussion of the future of St Peter’s Seminary at Cardross, pegged to the publi [...]

Posted On : Sep, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

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