Search Results for 'Modern'

On AIA Austin tour: A Travis Heights bungalow with modern in...

A 1930 home redone for a modern family - that's the idea behind the remodeled 604 Academy St. Allison Orr, the creative force of Forklife Danceworks, and her husband, Blake Trabulsi, the mind of graphic arts studio Zócalo Desig [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Three Houses That Would be Modern Masterpieces (But Aren't)

Despite what Dwell Magazine says, you don't have to be rich and live on the Westside to have a forward-thinking modern house. So take note you students of SCI-Arc, you patrons of Pomona School of Architecture: these three Southland ho [...]

Posted On : Sep, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Postmodernism at the V&A … more than ironic teapots and ugly...

The exhibition fills just three rooms at the V&A. The presentation is noisy, disjointed, crowded, clever, at once slick and messy, elegant and cacophonous, complex and enervating. Phew. The show mirrors its subject and becomes one with it [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 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 ...

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

Modernist buildings: examples from the era

The nautical theme has been reduced to a corny joke in British seaside architecture, but there's a dignified restraint to it here. The modernist tides of 1930s Europe washed this elegant culture palace up on our shores thanks to an e [...]

Posted On : Sep, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

A modern country home - kid and pet proof

Robin Ward is a furniture designer, working mostly with wood through her own company, Element 55 Designs. When she and her husband, Alexander Stickler, decided in 2009 to build a home for themselves and their three young children (plus th [...]

Posted On : Sep, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Dubai home shows an ultra-modern approach to Arabic architec...

It's not what most people would describe as Arabic architecture. With its sleek, minimalist lines and stark geometry, it bears none of the hallmarks that we have come to associate with local design. There are no wind towers or mock ma [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Modern and personalized residential construction: the Phinne...

Phinney Residence in Seattle’s Phinney Ridge neighborhood features a collection of exceptional interiors while displaying an interesting modern architecture. The collaboration between architects of Pb Elemental Architecture an [...]

Posted On : Sep, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

A taste for the modern

Picture a building from the 1960s or 1970s, and you may conjure up acres of concrete and cold, windswept walkways in an unfavourable location. Modernist architecture has always had British traditionalists wincing at the very mention of th [...]

Posted On : Sep, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Eclectic visual art of modern architecture

THIS is a beautifully illustrated coffee-table book with a strange title but which explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. A professor of architecture and urban design at the University [...]

Posted On : Aug, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

The Exo Tiny Modern Emergency Shelter

The Exo looks like some sort of space station, but it’s actually a clever housing unit for emergency shelter situations. A cargo truck can carry about 15 of these — packed in two pieces, the base and upper [...]