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Monday> Panel Discussion Investigates Urban Maps & Public Discourse

Branden Klayko — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:10:45 +0000

This Monday, February 27 at 6:30p.m., the Van Alen Institute and the Austrian Cultural Forum are hosting a panel discussion on urban mapping and participatory public discourse in the city at the Austrian Cultural Forum on New York. The event celebrates the publishing of Sophie Hochhäusl’s new book Otto Neurath – City Planning: Proposing a Socio-Political [...]

Rice + Lipka and Field Operations to Remake MOCA Detroit

Alan G. Brake — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:40:19 +0000

When it opened in 2006, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit became known as a cutting edge venue for showing contemporary art. Designed by Zago Architecture, the museum’s raw interior and graffitied exterior seemed to fit its mission and speak to the Motor City’s gritty present. How quickly museums grow up! Today, the museum [...]

Foreclosed Forum: Suburbs, Cities, and Crisis

Tom Stoelker — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:21:42 +0000

It might have been the first time that the works of Jay-Z, Malice, and Nas were evoked under the great dome of Columbia’s Low Library, but given the trend among young academics to cite rap alongside Socrates, it’s probably won’t be the last. That the quotes were used in the panel discussion called “Suburbs, Cities [...]

LA Architect Charged After House Fire

Sam Lubell — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:57:16 +0000

LA Architect Gerhard Becker was charged with involuntary manslaughter last week after the Hollywood Hills mansion that he designed burned down. According to the LA Times prosecutors claim that Becker installed outdoor fireplaces inside the $11 million, 13,500 square foot home at 154 Viewsite Terrace after inspections were completed. The home was set to host Germany’s [...]

EVENT> Architecture Criticism Today: February 27 in NYC

The Editors — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:40:39 +0000

Monday, February 27 Architecture Criticism Today 6:00pm-8:00pm Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place Who is best served by criticism? Who is the proper audience? Can it simultaneously serve the profession and the wider public, or are they mutually exclusive? How has role of general-interest media critics evolved? As a project comes to life, at what [...]

Cabrini-Green Now Gone, But Not Forgotten

Alan G. Brake — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:50:36 +0000

AN has covered the Chicago Housing Authority’s “Plan for Transformation” from a variety of angles, including, most recently, one of the few public housing developments that is likely to be spared. Over at Places, MIT urban planner and historian Lawrence Vale takes a long look at the now demolished Cabrini-Green and the ongoing impact of [...]

Construction Watch: Tattuplex

Sam Lubell — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:40:40 +0000

Meet architect Tom Marble’s Tattuplex. The steel-framed duplex, cantilevering off a steep hill in LA’s Silver Lake neighborhood is being built for nurse and buddhist-monk-in-training Tim Tattu. The project’s steel frame was fabricated off-site by Ecosteel, allowing it to be bolted together onsite in just a few days. And of course, it has one of the most [...]

On View> Stanley Tigerman: Ceci n’est pas une rêverie, in Chicago

The Editors — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:49:36 +0000

Stanley Tigerman: Ceci n’est pas une rêverie Madlener House, Graham Foundation 4 West Burton Place Chicago Through May 19 Curated by Yale School of Architecture Professor Emmanuel Petit, Ceci n’est pas une rêverie (“This is not a dream”), is a retrospective that examines the architectural and conceptual work of Stanley Tigerman (top, 1966). Occupying three [...]

Pratt Student Awarded Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship

The Editors — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:59:32 +0000

While most design students are starting the scramble for plum summer internships, Tina Uznanski can rest easy, knowing a desk with her name on it will be waiting at Gensler’s London office. Uzanski, an interior design student at the Pratt Institute, has received Gensler’s annual Brinkmann Scholarship, winning a paid summer internship at the Gensler office [...]

On View> Luka Fineisen: Phase Transitions

The Editors — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:18:37 +0000

Luka Fineisen: Phase Transitions Hosfelt Gallery 531 West 36th St. Through March 31 “Phase transition” refers to the transformation of a thermodynamic system from one state of matter to another. German artist Luka Fineisen explores these shifts by framing the moment of transformation from one condition to another; she sculpts dynamic systems, the final work [...]