A/N Blog

Digitizing Saarinen’s Miller House

Carren Jao — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:06:56 +0000

Even if Columbus, Indiana is not on your travel itinerary Eero Saarinen’s Miller House and Garden may come to you via the internet. Last week, the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) announced a $190,000 grant from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) to digitize its Miller House and Garden Collection. The house—a celebrated collaboration between architect [...]

Who Builds Your Architecture?

Matt Shaw — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:04:33 +0000

Who builds your architecture? “Not architects,” said Reinhold Martin. “By definition, architects do not build; they make drawings, write contracts, and do all these other things.” At New School’s Vera List Center on May 3, a roundtable facilitated debate and speculation on the rights of the lesser-discussed “workers” that make architecture happen. The discussion focused [...]

Stop Dumping on Hadrian’s Villa

Julie V. Iovine — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:43:39 +0000

Hadrian’s Villa—the real one, the 2nd century site of pilgrimages by architects, classicists, and any human interested in the origins of culture—has been selected as the site of a new garbage dump by a Berlusconi-appointed sanitation minister. That stinks! An international effort with a petition already signed by the likes of Richard Meir and Salvatore [...]

Cooper Hewitt Open for Business

Branden Klayko — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:16:42 +0000

While the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s headquarters at the Carnegie Mansion is under renovation (set to reopen in 2014), the museum is popping up in locations across New York City to keep design in the eyes of the public. In the digital world, the Cooper-Hewitt launched its new online store, allowing design enthusiasts to bring [...]

YKK AP Enlists Students to Rap About Green Facades

Michael Storm — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:49:36 +0000

“The Energy Tour” is a music video and performance tour premiering at the AIA 2012 convention, happening now in Washington D.C. Produced by YKK AP America, the video introduces the new YUW 750 XT unitized wall system, part of the company’s enerGfacade product line. Part advertisement, part SNL Digital Short, part amateur YouTube upload, the [...]

Retail Reality at WTC

Tom Stoelker — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:04:49 +0000

The Westfield Group made it official yesterday: They will be curating the 450,000 square feet of retail space at the World Trade Center, the New York Post reported. The group made a $93 million payment to the Port Authority toward the $612.5 million deal that will bring retail to the podia of Towers Four and [...]

Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud City

Jennifer K. Gorsche — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:45:24 +0000

Brought to you by: The artist’s first major U.S. commission lands at the Met On Monday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art held a preview of the latest installation to take root in its Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Designed by Tomás Saraceno, the installation is the largest of the artist’s Cloud Cities/Airport Cities [...]

Public Art, If It Holds Up

Branden Klayko — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:19:33 +0000

If all the world is a stage, according to Shakespeare, all the city is a kunsthalle in the eyes of the New York City Department of Transportation. Bogardus Plaza, a tiny pedestrian plaza carved out of a little-used block of Hudson Street in Lower Manhattan and named for architect James Bogardus, the inventor of the cast-iron [...]

The Architectural League’s Folly

Matt Shaw — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:03:46 +0000

The word “folly” is derived from the French folie, or “foolishness.” Also known as an “eyecatcher,” a folly was traditionally an extravagant, non-functional building, which was meant to enhance the landscape. Rooted in Romantic ideals of the picturesque, a folly often acted as an ornate small-scale intervention which transformed and visually dramatized the landscape around [...]

Watch a 1956 Jean Prouvé House Being Built Live in Paris

William Menking — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:49:44 +0000

The Parisian gallery Patrick Seguin features 20th century furniture and architecture and is currently showing Jean Prouvé’s 1956 Maison Des Jours Meilleurs from May 25 to September 29. But if you can’t make it to 5 Rue des Taillandiers this summer, you can still watch the live set-up of the house in the gallery at Seguin’s [...]