Forum of Design for the Public Realm
Places
AboutFoundation
Partner Schools
Print Archive
Peer Review
Submissions
Donate
Contact
Departments
CritiqueEssays
Gallery
Interviews
Multimedia
Partner News
Peer Reviewed
Poetry & Fiction
Projects
Topics
ArchitectureArt
Books
Cities / Places
Community
Culture
Design History
Design Practice
Development
Ecology
Economy
Education
Energy
Environment
Film / Video
Food/Agriculture
Geography
Health / Safety
History
Housing
Ideas
Infrastructure
Landscape
Photography
Planning
Politics / Policy
Preservation
Public / Private
Reputations
Sustainability
Technology
Theory/Criticism
Transportation
Urbanism
Water
Design Observer
ArchiveBooks + Store
Job Board
Email Archive
Comments
About
Contact
Log In
Register
Design History
04.08.13: Phyllis Lambert
Seagram: Union of Building and LandscapeOn Places, Phyllis Lambert explores the evolution of the Seagram Building, focusing on Mies van der Rohe's profound concern for the relationship between building and nature.
READ MORE
11.13.12: Barbara Penner
“We shall deal here with humble things”On Places, Barbara Penner considers the design, culture and politics of the bathroom — and how "this smallest of domestic rooms is linked to the larger worlds of engineering and infrastructure."
READ MORE
05.14.12: Keith Eggener
The Uses of DaylightOn Places, Keith Eggener casts new light on the little-known Boley Building in Kansas City, by Louis Curtiss, which featured one of the first glass curtain walls in America.
READ MORE
03.19.12: Gabrielle Esperdy
Banham's AmericaOn Places, Gabrielle Esperdy traces the American journeys of Reyner Banham, and views the British historian in the lively tradition of European travelers who tell us Americans something important about ourselves.
READ MORE
03.12.12: Stan Allen
The Future That Is NowOn Places, Stan Allen assesses architecture education in North America during the past two decades of rapid and profound technological and social change.
READ MORE
02.27.12: Belmont Freeman
What Is It About the Art Schools?On Places, Belmont Freeman recounts the dramatic saga of the National Art Schools in Havana — and argues that we are overlooking the larger narrative of post-revolutionary Cuban architecture.
READ MORE
02.06.12: Keith Eggener
Louis Curtiss and the Politics of Architectural ReputationOn Places, Keith Eggener assesses the work of the neglected Kansas City architect Louis Curtiss — and highlights the politics of professional repuation.
READ MORE
02.02.12: Mitchell Schwarzer
Building After AuschwitzOn Places, Mitchell Schwarzer reviews Building After Auschwitz, the new book by historian Gabriel Rosenfeld that asks a thorny question: Is there a Jewish architecture?
READ MORE
12.12.11: David Heymann
The Evil, Evil Grain ElevatorOn Places, David Heymann continues his exploration of buildings and landscapes — and shows how even a building form as familiar as a grain elevator can come to seem evil.
READ MORE
12.05.11: David Heymann
A Mound in the WoodOn Places, David Heymann continues his exploration of the charged relationship between architecture and landscape.
READ MORE
12.01.11: Thomas Fisher
The Death and Life of Great Architecture CriticismOn Places, Tom Fisher argues that architecture criticism is ripe for bold reinvention.
READ MORE
11.28.11: David Heymann
Landscape Is Our SexOn Places, David Heymann analyzes the logics — and illogics — of the idea that the relationship of a building to its landscape is — or should be — a key element of its design..
READ MORE
06.16.11: Alice T. Friedman
Girl Talk: Marion Mahony Griffin, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Oak Park StudioOn Places, architectural historian Alice Friedman explores the pioneering career of architect Marion Mahony Griffin, who rose to prominence in the Oak Park office of Frank Lloyd Wright.
READ MORE
05.19.11: Ian Baldwin
The Architecture of Harry WeeseOn Places, Ian Baldwin reviews The Architecture of Harry Weese, and finds an overlooked modernist whose work was "highly original and often stunning."
READ MORE
05.09.11: Mirko Zardini & Jean-Louis Cohen
Architecture in UniformOn Places, selections from Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War, the new exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, curated by Jean Louis Cohen.
READ MORE
03.31.11: Anuradha Mathur
Visualizing Landscapes: In the Terrain of WaterOn Places, an exhibition on the visualization of water and landscape, from the Beaux Arts to the digital, curated by Anuradha Mathur.
READ MORE
03.29.11: Jonathan Massey
Breuer, Baby!On Places, selections from "Marcel Breuer and Postwar America," a recent exhibition at the Syracuse School of Architecture, organized by Jonathan Massey and Barry Bergdoll.
READ MORE
03.21.11: Kristi Dykema Cheramie
The Scale of Nature: Modeling the Mississippi RiverOn Places, Kristi Dykema Cheramie explores the ruins of the abandoned Mississippi River Basin Model and ponders the decades-long battle to control the great river.
READ MORE
01.20.11: Sandy Isenstadt
American GlamourOn Places, Sandy Isenstadt reviews Alice Friedman's American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture.
READ MORE
12.06.10: David Heymann
Nature-ization Takes CommandOn Places, the second in a series of essays by David Heymann exploring the dynamic relationship of landscape and architecture, evident in works ranging from big civic projects by Norman Foster to small rural houses by Glenn Murcutt.
READ MORE
11.29.10: David Heymann
A Cloud on a LakeOn Places, architect David Heymann explores the charged relationship between buildings and landscapes in works as diverse as Diller Scofidio + Renfro's notorious Blur Building and Hiroshi Sugimoto's minimalist seascapes.
READ MORE
09.16.10: Kim Förster
Massimo Vignelli: Oppositions, Skyline and the InstituteOn Places, a gallery of Massimo Vignelli's graphic design work for the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, written and curated by Kim Förster.
READ MORE
06.22.10: Alice T. Friedman
Modern Architecture for the "American Century"On Places, an excerpt from Alice Friedman's American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture, on Eero Saarinen's iconic projects for General Motors and TWA, and the rise and fall — and rise — of the architect's reputation.
READ MORE
05.13.10: Belmont Freeman
Havana: Nostalgia Is a Dangerous BusinessOn Places, New York architect Belmont Freeman reviews the recent literature on Havana architecture and urbanism, including Havana Revisited: An Architectural Heritage.
READ MORE
03.01.10: Ian Baldwin
Reading RudolphOn Places, architect Ian Baldwin reviews Paul Rudolph: Writings on Architecture, and makes a compelling case for looking anew at several important but neglected projects.
READ MORE
01.25.10: Ian Baldwin
Architect, Park ThyselfThe auto-urban relationship, writes Ian Baldwin, is "fumbling, overheated, unsatisfying for both parties." Baldwin reviews House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage, currently on exhibit at the National Building Museum, and The Architecture of Parking, by Simon Henley.
READ MORE
11.15.09: Mimi Zeiger
Our Design DecadeMimi Zeiger reviews Design USA, which opened last month at the Cooper-Hewitt, marking ten years of the National Design Awards program.
READ MORE
10.30.09: Donlyn Lyndon
Lawrence Halprin, 1916 – 2009Lawrence Halprin, one of the leading landscape architects of the postwar era, remembered by his longtime friend and colleague Donlyn Lyndon.
READ MORE
09.16.09: Sandy Isenstadt
Crystal and ArabesqueSandy Isenstadt reviews Jonathan Massey's Crystal and Arabesque, which retrieves the life and work of the long-neglected early 20th-century architect Claude Bragdon.
READ MORE
