Today’s News - Thursday, February 28, 2019
EDITOR'S NOTE: Tomorrow and Monday will be no-newsletter days. We'll be back Tuesday, March 5 (February sure whizzed by!).
● D'Aprile explains why "women in architecture need a new set of role models - beyond the star system" (not only women). "From the first day of architecture school, every student is a Starchitect-in-Training" - and that's got to change.
● Dickinson explains "why architectural style wars are becoming irrelevant - the present state of architecture has evolved into a place that is losing its sense of humor and tolerance," but a "third way beyond 'style' is finding a voice" (both great reads).
● Lorinc has a great idea to help fight Toronto's affordable-housing crisis: "Plenty of schools have underused parking lots. Why not look at finding a higher purpose - build modestly scaled, affordable rental housing," which could also "transform school sites into community hubs" (other cities: take heed!).
● A great profile of the African Design Centre, a new design school in Rwanda that is "re-shaping Africa's future - 10 inaugural fellows are now upending architecture, design and construction across a continent."
● Waldek cheers Uganda-based Studio FH Architects teaming up with "one of the oldest indigenous tribes in Africa to rebuild a permanent village after being displaced" by a new national park - a "clever way that works in favor of the tribe, the gorillas, and the visitors who want to meet both."
● UPenn renames its school of design and its central plaza in recognition of a footwear icon's lifetime support. The new name: University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design (plaza redesign by Olin).
● Meanwhile, PennDesign and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation have begun a five-year collaborative research agreement that will focus on the preservation of Taliesin and Taliesin West.
● A good reason to head to Shanghai next week: Shanghai 2019 / Xintiandi Design Festival: "Back to the Social Origin: Building Connections in the Real World."
● One we couldn't resist: O'Sullivan ogles "the good, bad, and ugly public transit seat covers of the world. If some of the moquettes can be said to fail their brief, then at least they are heroic failures" (Pittsburgh's "cosmic spaghetti"; Belfast's "cheap holiday rental bedspread"; Boston's "diagram of a serial killers brain synapses").
● ICYMI: ANN feature: Saxon Henry: Raw Elegance in Black and White: Q&A with JoAnn Locktov, the editor and publisher of "Dream of Venice in Black and White," who talks about her creative process and strategies in creating the third book in the "Dream of Venice" trilogy (luscious images!).
Deadlines:
● Call for entries: New York City Privately Owned Public Space (POPS) Logo Design Competition (international; no fee; cash prizes).
● RFQ: Walton Family Foundation Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program for architects, landscape architects, and design firms with specific experience in urban design within small communities (no fee).
● Call for Entries: Architect magazine's 13th Annual R+D Awards for innovative research, projects, products, and initiatives (reduced fee for faculty, students, and researchers).
● Call for Entries: 2019 AL Light & Architecture Design Awards honoring outstanding architectural lighting design.
Weekend diversions:
● The High Line's multi-city exhibition "New Monuments for New Cities" tackles the question: "What should a contemporary monument look like?" First stop: Houston's Buffalo Bayou (great pix).
● "Dimensions of Citizenship" moves from the Venice Biennale to Chicago's Wrightwood 659.
● NYC x 2: The Center for Architecture "explores what makes a city just" with Toni L. Griffin's "Design and the Just City" that "raises awareness about urban inequality by exploring generations of flawed policy, systematic injustices, and the psychological effects of undesirable architecture and weak urban design."
● "Destruction and Transformation: Vernacular Photography and the Built Environment" at the Walther Collection "looks at what happens when buildings disappear" in New York City and Appalachia via photographic series ranging from 1876 to 2000.
● Smee uses "The Bauhaus and Harvard" to ponder whether the school really made the world better: It was a "healthy ideal of unification," but "quickly became a ruthless drive toward uniformity - blighting urban environments worldwide. Behind its admirable idealism, you sense a kind of disgust with difference, and with humanity as it is."
● Stinson gives a shout-out to the Vitra Design Museum's "Anton Lorenz: From Avant-Garde to Industry" that celebrates "the man behind the steel tube aesthetic" and "the Bauhaus' famous 'machined aesthetic.'"
● "In the World of an Architect" series at the Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark, "invites a diverse, nuanced understanding of what it means to be a Nordic architect in a globalized era," beginning with Reiulf Ramstad Architects.
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Marianela D'Aprile: Women in Architecture Need a New Set of Role Models - Beyond the Star System: Advancing the profession must start with improving working conditions for everyone: From the first day of architecture school, every student is a Starchitect-in-Training...It’s no wonder, then, that the prevailing theory of change...is that it comes from the top...We need a new theory of change for architecture, if we’re going to win the profession every architect deserves...We don’t have to wait until the peak of our career to make change. We can start now.- Common Edge |
Duo Dickinson: Confusion of the Vanities: Why Architectural Style-Wars Are Becoming Irrelevant: Might there be a less rigid, style-blind, third way? The boring style wars between the in-crowd of High Modernism and the insurgent, but marginalized, cadre of classical schools and practitioners seems less relevant than ever...third way beyond “style” is finding a voice...the understanding of how humans perceive beauty is becoming better understood, and it has nothing to do with ideology or canon...The folly of style wars...is becoming more and more obvious...the present state of architecture has evolved into a place that is losing its sense of humor and tolerance. There has to be a larger place for architects...- Common Edge |
John Lorinc: How school boards can help fight Toronto’s affordable-housing crisis: Plenty of schools have underused parking lots...what if we could turn them into housing? Why not look at finding a higher purpose for even just some of those underused lots...the school board and the city should work together to develop a strategy to build modestly scaled, affordable rental housing on portions of those lots...This kind of infill project could also support efforts to transform school sites into community hubs. -- Alex Bozikovic- TVO.org (Province of Ontario, Canada) |
The Rwandan design school re-shaping Africa's future: Last summer, the first cohort of African Design Centre graduates completed its inaugural 20-month fellowship...10 fellows, hailing from eight African nations, are now upending architecture, design and construction across a continent where rapid urbanization and population growth are presenting severe challenges to governments, with the needs of the poorest left unmet. Their signature achievement is the Ruhehe Primary School...A severe shortage of qualified architects and designers has left most sub-Saharan African countries lacking the homegrown expertise needed to build cost-effective infrastructure. -- Tshepo Mokholo; Christian Benimana; MASS Design Group; Victor Iyakaremye; Zani Gichuki- CNN Style |
Stefanie Waldek: After Losing Their Home in Central Africa, an Ancient Tribe Gets a New Start: The Uganda-based firm Studio FH Architects teamed up with the one of the oldest indigenous tribes in Africa, the Batwa, to rebuild a permanent village after being displaced: In creating the national parks, the Batwa...were ousted from their forest homes, and they’ve been living as squatters...a clever way to turn over a new leaf for the Batwa - one that works in favor of the tribe, the gorillas, and the visitors who want to meet both. -- Felix Holland [images]- Architectural Digest |
University of Pennsylvania Names School of Design in Recognition of Stuart Weitzman’s Lifetime Commitment and Support of Penn: The new name, the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, reflects his enduring influence in the world of design...In addition, the School’s central plaza...will be named The Stuart Weitzman Plaza and will undergo significant redesign and renovation...by...Laurie Olin...- PennDesign News (University of Pennsylvania School of Design) |
PennDesign Announces Partnership with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation: The University of Pennsylvania begins a collaboration to engage with the late architect and his work: ...has begun a five-year collaborative research agreement...The main focus of this scholarship will be on the preservation of Taliesin and Taliesin West...Frank Matero...will shepherd the collaboration...- Architectural Digest |
Design Shanghai 2019 / Xintiandi Design Festival: Back to the Social Origin: Building Connections in the Real World, March 6-9- Media 10 Limited |
Feargus O'Sullivan: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Public Transit Seat Covers of the World: An international roundup of bus, train, and subway seat designs, based on CityLab’s rules for a commuter-friendly textile: If some of the moquettes can be said to fail their brief, then at least they are heroic failures. [images]- CityLab (formerly The Atlantic Cities) |
Call for entries: New York City Privately Owned Public Space (POPS) Logo Design Competition (international); design a new logo that may be featured on signage at NYC's 550+ POPS; cash prizes; no fee; deadline: March 15- Advocates for Privately Owned Public Space (APOPS) / NYC Department of City Planning / Municipal Art Society of New York |
Call for entries: Request for Qualifications/RFQ: Walton Family Foundation Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program: open to landscape architects and design firms with specific experience in urban design within small communities; no fee; deadline: March 15- Walton Family Foundation |
Call for Entries: ARCHITECT's 13th Annual R+D Awards for innovative research, projects, products, and initiatives; early bird registration deadline (save money!): April 19 (reduced fee for full-time faculty members, students, and researchers at academic institutions); submission deadline: April 26- Architect Magazine |
Call for Entries: 2019 AL Light & Architecture Design Awards honoring outstanding and innovative projects in the field of architectural lighting design (international); early entry deadline (save money): May 15; final entry deadline: May 31- Architectural Lighting Magazine |
What Should a Contemporary Monument Look Like? A new multi-city art exhibition called “New Monuments for New Cities” tackles this question head on: Friends of the High Line launched a collaborative public art exhibition at Buffalo Bayou [Houston]...yearlong initiative will travel to five different urban reuse projects throughout North America, with stops at Waller Creek in Austin, The 606 in Chicago and The Bentway in Toronto before ending at the High Line in New York City. [images]- Smithsonian magazine |
"Dimensions of Citizenship: Architecture and Belonging from the Body to the Cosmos" Exhibit Moves from Venice Biennale to Chicago: The display for the 16th International Architecture Exhibition can now be seen at Wrightwood 659: ...explores what it means to be a citizen today, the meaning of home, the right to public space, the dynamics of borders, and architecture’s role in belonging. thru April 27 -- Ann Lui; Niall Atkinson; Mimi Zeiger; Iker Gil/MAS Studio- Architectural Digest |
New York’s Center for Architecture explores what makes a city just: ...an exhibition that explores how urban communities can be empowered to create more resilient and sustainable futures. "Design and the Just City" raises awareness about urban inequality by exploring generations of flawed policy and systematic injustices, and the psychological effects of undesirable architecture and weak urban design. thru March 30 -- Just City Lab/arvard GSD; Toni L. Griffin- The Architect's Newspaper |
Hit by the Wrecking Ball: New exhibition studies destruction and demolition in New York City and Appalachia: "Destruction and Transformation: Vernacular Photography and the Built Environment"...at New York City’s Walther Collection...looks at what happens when buildings disappear...will showcase 16 photographic series ranging from 1876 to 2000...thru May 25 [images]- The Architect's Newspaper |
Sebastian Smee: Bauhaus designers changed the way the world looks. But did they make it better? Its aim was to revolutionize everyday life. You are living with its legacy...“The Bauhaus and Harvard” illustrates the full range of its activities...It was, in a word, vast...healthy ideal of unification...quickly became a ruthless drive toward uniformity...blighting urban environments worldwide...Behind [its] admirable idealism, you sense a kind of disgust with difference, and with humanity as it is. thru July 29 [images]- Washington Post |
Liz Stinson: New exhibition celebrates the Bauhaus’s tubular steel furniture: Meet Anton Lorenz, the man behind the steel tube aesthetic: “Anton Lorenz: From Avant-Garde to Industry"...Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, looks at Lorenz’s legacy as the man behind the Bauhaus’ famous “machined aesthetic.” thru May 19 -- Marcel Breuer; Mies van der Rohe [images]- Curbed |
Reiulf Ramstad Architects' Exhibition at the Utzon Center Investigates the Local-Global Architect: ...inaugurates a new exhibition series “In the World of an Architect”...invites a more diverse, nuanced understanding of what it means to be a Nordic architect in a globalized era. Aalborg, Denmark, thru May 26 -- No Nordic [images]- ArchDaily |
ANN feature: Saxon Henry: Raw Elegance in Black and White: Q&A with JoAnn Locktov: The editor and publisher of "Dream of Venice in Black and White" talks about her creative process and strategies in creating the third book in the "Dream of Venice" trilogy. [images]- ArchNewsNow |
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