Today’s News - Thursday, November 21, 2019
EDITOR'S NOTE: We are taking a (long-ish) Thanksgiving Day holiday break to meditate on all the great people and good things we are so very thankful for. We'll be back Tuesday, December 3 (with lots of catching up to do!).
● ANN feature: INSIGHT: Conners Ladner: Designing Landscapes to Adapt to Hurricane Season: By focusing on cultivating native ecosystems, landscape architects can help to build landscapes that are both more resilient and more authentic to place.
● Glancey pens a most eloquent tribute to Ted Cullinan, "a warm and generous man - he was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, but the real Cullinan gold is to be found in a sequence of buildings that, quite simply, belong," and "were rarely less than emotionally literate."
● Eyefuls of the world's tallest atrium in Hadid's (stunning) 45-story Leeza Soho skyscraper (China's The People's Daily newspaper calls it Beijing's new calling card - check comments).
● Mason parses the uncertain future of the Hurley Building in Boston: Rudolph "was the coordinating architect on the entire" government complex, but the Hurley is credited to Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott, leaving advocates "worried that this fact could doom it."
● Curtis + Rogers Design Studio & team win the competition for the "climate-adaptive redesign of Miami's José Martí Park," a pilot project in the part of the Van Alen Institute/City of Miami's "Keeping Current: A Sea Level Rise Challenge for Greater Miami" initiative.
● Fab presentations of the 21 winners of the AJ Architecture Awards 2019.
● ICYMI: ANN feature: Mathias Agbo, Jr.: Lesson Plan #6: Teacher, Don't Teach Them Nonsense: Reforming Architecture's Broken Education: A curriculum overhaul alone cannot fix the problem; rather, the practice of architecture must first reform itself for any pedagogical reforms to make sense.
Deadlines:
● Call for entries: Urban Confluence Silicon Valley International Open Ideas Competition to "create a new, distinctive, world-class public landmark in downtown San Jose - 3 finalist teams will each be given a $150,000 stipend to refine their ideas AND the project will be realized."
● Call for entries: L.A. Lights the Way streetlight design competition - "the winning design and its variations will light the streets and sidewalks of Los Angeles" (overseen by Christopher Hawthorne).
● Call for entries: Lucca Biennale | Paper | Art | Design X Edition 2020 - Outdoor & Indoor.
Weekend diversions:
● Miranda explores the Chicago Architecture Biennial that examines "the real-life consequences of urban inequity - it is at its best when it peels back layers, showing the ways in which invisible architectures have shaped our physical ones."
● Wainwright x 2: He explores the inaugural Sharjah Architecture Triennial "extravaganza" in the UAE, where "post-colonial legacies, climate justice, and water equity are just some of the testy topics," but "the question is whether such themes translate into good exhibitions, or feel more like a series of Ph.D. proposals stuck on the wall" (and workers' housing conditions are "mysteriously absent from the show").
● He tours Ford's River Rouge factory in Detroit to fully appreciate "Cars: Accelerating the Modern World" at London's V&A that "aims to examine their broader social and historical context, shining a full beam on the astonishing impact cars have had on everything from the formation of labor unions to toasters" (check out the Humble Oil ad!!!).
● Murcutt's MPavilion in Melbourne, that "sits at the 'junction of the rational and the poetic,' was inspired by the architect's memory of sheltering from the hot Mexican sun under the wing of a small airplane."
● Also Down Under, Chrofi's 15,500-square-foot "structurally implausible" pavilion, the second installment of the Murray Art Museum Albury's annual experimental architecture project, will shield in Albury's QEII Square from the hot summer sun.
Page-turners:
● Moore says Corinna Dean's photographs in "Slacklands 2" capture "the unintended poetry in rural Britain's forgotten architecture" - the photos are "haunting, surprising, and make it the arresting book it is."
● Pownall presents "five female trailblazers who changed the field of design," chosen by Charlotte and Clementine Fiell from their book, "Women in Design: From Aino Aalto to Eva Zeisel," that highlights what made them "revolutionary."
● Stamp x 2: Serraino's "Ezra Stoller: A Photographic History of Modern American Architecture" showcases "the evolution of Stoller's work, as well as the evolution of the architects he collaborated with."
● She cheers "Beautified China," in which photographer and architect Kris Provoost "examines the works of Hadid, Holl, Heatherwick, and Kuma, all luminaries who have changed China's skyline in their own way - highlighting the striking details that set these buildings apart."
● An excerpt from Schuerman's "Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents" that "documents the early history of the anti-gentrification and back-to-the-city movements. If policy leaders had taken some of the suggestions back then to heart, urban areas would be much better equipped to prevent the wholesale disruption we are seeing in superstar cities today."
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ANN feature: INSIGHT: Conners Ladner: Designing Landscapes to Adapt to Hurricane Season: By focusing on cultivating native ecosystems, landscape architects can help to build landscapes that are both more resilient and more authentic to place.- ArchNewsNow.com |
Obituary by Jonathan Glancey: Ted Cullinan (1931-2019): He was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 2008, but the real Cullinan gold is to be found in a sequence of buildings that, quite simply, belong: A warm and generous man, [he] proved to be an architect who could weave and forge ideas from very different approaches, styles and methods into convincing and even unprecedented buildings that, however rigorous or inventive, were rarely less than emotionally literate...[in] their subtle plans and sections, their appearance and sensibility, can be found traces of Schindler, Smithson, Aalto, Lasdun and Le Corbusier along with those of the ingenious planning, romantic elevations...- The Architects' Journal (UK) |
Zaha Hadid Architects completes Leeza Soho skyscraper with world's tallest atrium: 45-storey tower...adjacent to the business district's rail station, and straddles an underground subway service tunnel...position over this tunnel led ZHA to divide the building in two halves, which resulted in the formation of a giant atrium at its centre...runs the full height of the building...As it rises, the void twists by 45 degrees to appear as though the two sides of the tower are moving together "in a dynamic pas de deux"...creates convex openings either side of the tower...- Dezeen |
Amelia Mason: Landmark Or Eyesore? The Future Of Boston’s Hurley Building Is Uncertain: ...an imposing concrete structure near Government Center...at once stark and monumental...As word of the Hurley’s precarious fate spread...advocates picked up the cause...hope that changing attitudes toward brutalist architecture could preserve [it]...a revived interest in brutalism...means the Hurley has a fighting chance...Though Paul Rudolph was the coordinating architect on the entire Government Service Center project...Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott is credited with the design of the Hurley...Advocates...worried that this fact could doom [it]...vowed to keep the pressure up. -- Chris Grimley/Over,Under- WBUR Boston Public Radio/NPR |
City of Miami and Van Alen Institute Announce that Curtis + Rogers Design Studio Will Lead Climate-Adaptive Redesign of Miami’s José Martí Park: ...Miami Forever Bond, the $400M, voter-approved program...to make Miami more resilient to the impacts of climate change...part of "Keeping Current: A Sea Level Rise Challenge for Greater Miami"...projects developed by [VAI]...Situated on the Miami River...[the park] is a beloved space...in...a primarily low income neighborhood...It experiences significant flooding during seasonal high tides, heavy rainstorms, and storm surge events, a challenge faced by many other similar sites...- Van Alen Institute |
AJ Architecture Awards 2019: Who were the big winners? 21 awards were given out...The juries visited all 125 of the shortlisted buildings... -- Design of the Year: Carmody Groarke; Architect of the Year: Mikail Riches; Edotpr's Choice: Graeme Nicholls Architects; 2019 Manser Medal: Matthew Barnett Howland/Dido Milne/Oliver Wilton; Marks Barfield Architects; Morris + Company; etc.- The Architects' Journal (UK) |
Call for entries: Urban Confluence Silicon Valley International Open Ideas Competition: create a new, distinctive, world-class public landmark in downtown San Jose; 3 finalist teams will each be given a $150,000 stipend to refine their ideas AND the project will be realized; deadline: April 3, 2020- San Jose Light Tower Corporation (California) |
Call for entries: L.A. Lights the Way streetlight design competition: The winning design and its variations will light the streets and sidewalks of Los Angeles; overseen by Christopher Hawthorne; open to Professionals (international); Professional Students (L.A. County undergraduate and graduate programs); Students (L.A. city high schools); cash prizes; registration deadline: January 10, 2020 (submissions due: March 6, 2020)- City of Los Angeles |
Call for entries: Lucca Biennale | Paper | Art | Design X Edition 2020 - Outdoor deadline: December 14, 2019; Indoor deadline: January 31, 2020- Lucca Biennale (Italy) |
Carolina A. Miranda: Cities around the world are erupting in protest - Chicago Architecture Biennial examines why: ...explores the real-life consequences of urban inequity - such as the explosive protests in Chile and Hong Kong: ...story of how unseen economic theories conceived in Chicago gave literal shape to Santiago’s urban plan, and therefore its architecture..."And Other Such Stories"...If the previous biennial...was an introspective turn...this year’s...looks at the bigger, often invisible systems...that give cities their shape...highlighting how cities themselves might shape that protest...biennial is at its best when it peels back layers, showing the ways in which invisible architectures have shaped our physical ones. -- Yesomi Umolu; Sepake Angiama; Paulo Tavares- Los Angeles Times |
Oliver Wainwright: Desert ski slopes and outdoor aircon: Can an architecture triennial in the UAE really teach us how to go green? Post-colonial legacies, climate justice and water equity are just some of the testy topics...in the inaugural Sharjah Architecture Triennial...extravaganza...has very little to do with buildings...under the momentous title "Rights of Future Generations"...This aversion to buildings is shared by many recent architecture biennials and triennials...but the question is whether such themes translate into good exhibitions, or feel more like a series of PhD proposals stuck on the wall...workers’ housing conditions formed part of the...initial research, but that is mysteriously absent from the show. thru February 8, 2020- Guardian (UK) |
Oliver Wainwright: Highway to hell: the rise and fall of the car: Transforming everything from cities to the climate, the car is perhaps the most important designed object of the 20th century. Our critic travels to the Detroit plant where it all began: ...Ford’s River Rouge factory...changed...the world as we know it...“The history of the car is a history of unintended consequences"..."Cars: Accelerating the Modern World" [V&A, London]...aims to examine their broader social and historical context, shining a full beam on the astonishing impact cars have had on everything from the formation of labour unions to toasters...Detroit is the best place to see all this first-hand. thru April 19, 2020 -- Brendan Cormier- Guardian (UK) |
The rational and the poetic’: Murcutt’s MPavilion opens: Pritzker Prize laureate Glenn Murcutt’s first public project in central Melbourne was inspired by the architect’s memory of sheltering from the hot Mexican sun under the wing of a small aeroplane. thru March 22, 2020- ArchitectureAU (Australia) |
Chrofi’s ‘structurally implausible’ MAMA pavilion underway: ...the second installment of the Murray Art Museum Albury’s annual experimental architecture project...in Albury’s QEII Square...1,440-square-metre installation will be made from a grid of steel poles covered in netting...will form a large shade structure over the square, which will shield the space from the hot summer sun.
November 29 thru March 29, 2020- ArchitectureAU (Australia) |
Rowan Moore: "Slacklands 2" by Corinna Dean - beauty of our forgotten architecture: Dean’s photographs capture unintended poetry in rural Britain’s abandoned water towers, brickworks and wartime defences: Something good happens when the anxiety to impress is removed, and an architect or builder can just get on with solving a practical problem with a degree of grace. So it is with most of the structures...Most...come into the category of things that wouldn’t normally be allowed...[It] has some eccentricities...the photographs - haunting, surprising...make [it] into the arresting book it is.- Observer (New York City) |
Augusta Pownall: Five female trailblazers who changed the field of design: Charlotte and Clementine Fiell's book, "Women in Design: From Aino Aalto to Eva Zeisel," highlights what made figures like Apple icon designer Susan Kare and architect Zaha Hadid revolutionary. The authors pick five...who transformed design...[book] aims to redress the balance of current scholarship about the history of design...these female designers "were often working with the odds completely stacked against them" in male-dominated industries. -- Florence Knoll Bassett; Margaret Calvert; Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky- Dezeen |
Elizabeth Stamp: A History of Modern American Architecture: A new book surveys the stunning work of Ezra Stoller, the most prominent photographer of 20th-century American architecture: In "Ezra Stoller: A Photographic History of Modern American Architecture"...Pierluigi Serraino dives into the photographer’s vast archive...a robust survey of American architecture from 1938 to 1989...Esto offered full access...allowed him to showcase the evolution of Stoller’s work, as well as the evolution of the architects he collaborated with. -- Frank Lloyd Wright; Eero Saarinen; Mies van der Rohe; Marcel Breuer; Carl Koch; Ulrich Franzen; Minoru Yamasaki; I.M. Pei; etc.- Architectural Digest |
Elizabeth Stamp: A Closer Look at the Beautified Architectural Revolution Within China: "Beautified China" examines the striking works of Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Thomas Heatherwick, and Kengo Kuma, all luminaries who have changed China's skyline in their own way: ...photographer and architect Kris Provoost celebrates daring designs across the country, highlighting the striking details that set these buildings apart....[he] approached each building with an architect’s eye...- Architectural Digest |
How Ronald Reagan Halted the Early Anti-Gentrification Movement: An excerpt from "Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents" by Matthew L. Schuerman, documents the early history of the anti-gentrification and back-to-the-city movements: Even though they have been largely forgotten, the struggles with gentrification during the 1970s...has much to teach us...because it has been forgotten. If policy leaders had taken some of the suggestions back then to heart, urban areas would be much better equipped to prevent the wholesale disruption we are seeing in superstar cities today.- CityLab (formerly The Atlantic Cities) |
ANN feature: Mathias Agbo, Jr.: Lesson Plan #6: Teacher, Don't Teach Them Nonsense: Reforming Architecture's Broken Education: A curriculum overhaul alone cannot fix the problem; rather, the practice of architecture must first reform itself for any pedagogical reforms to make sense.- ArchNewsNow.com |
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