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Berkeley's Loss: Toyo Ito Wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize If Berkeley Art Museum had come up with $200 million, we'd have a building in U.S. by this distinguished architect....
NY Public Library Responds to Architecture Critics' Letter Regarding Norman Foster's Design Conciliatory attitude expressed regarding transparency and responsiveness to feedback. We'll see if it actually happens....
Goshen Commotion: Paul Rudolph's Government Center May Not be Saved After All It's not over till the fat contract is signed. Political wrangling over fate of the flood-damaged building continues....
20 Architecture Critics Call on NY Public Library to Reconsider Norman Foster Renovation Plan Library's trustees should "reconsider their plans for the 42nd Street building." Don't mess with Ada Louise Huxtable, even posthumously!...
What Would Ada Louise Say? NY Public Library Explains Why Building Won't Collapse After Blowing Its Stacks Reply (reported in Huxtable's own newspaper) to her engineering critique comes too late for her to fight back. Silman's assurances....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Estate Attorney Discusses Her Getty Surprise What was she thinking in depriving NYC of her archives? Robert Shapiro offers some hints....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Posthumous Commentary? Her Entire Estate to the Getty Why did inveterate New Yorker make a last-minute arrangement to sell and bequeath everything to an LA institution?...
The House Detective: Very Small Japanese Houses Neo-modern mini-houses reflect local conditions and a global trend......
Ada Louise Huxtable, Doyenne of Architecture Criticism, Dies at 91 Invariably erudite, lucid and witty, she wrote with the verve, feistiness and factual command of someone one-third her age....
Callithumpian Cage Contemplates Catastrophe Preempting The Rapture with the help of John Cage, the Callithumpian Consort and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's fantastic new...
City Review Process: First Look (with video) at Cornell's Tech Campus and Thom Mayne's Academic Building Exciting $2-billion, 12-acre project with problematic academic mission: "Not tech for tech's sake; tech in support of commerce."...
News Flash: Police Guard Phoenix's Wright House; "Stand Still" Agreement Forestalls a Knock-Down Mayor's senior adviser vows Phoenix's Frank Lloyd Wright house, spotlighted by Michael Kimmelman, will never be demolished. Today's negotiated agreeement....
Hugh Hardy's Lincoln Center Theater: NY Times' Kimmelman Finally Reviews Architecture! My recent experience at sleek, functional Tow. Times' public editor spotlights Kimmelman's eccentric performance as architecture critic. (MoMA Monster next?)...
Lookback From 2005: an aesthete pays a visit to Arlington National Cemetery....
Another Light Box? Tod Williams' and Billie Tsien's Next Museum Project (and worries for those completed) Architects' fears about financial fragility of new Barnes and possible demolition of former Folk Art Museum. Hood Museum's expansion planned....
MeTube: The Long, Winding Road to the New Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia Join me on the trek past forbidding, stark walls to dwarfing entrance alcove. Far cry from the intimacy in Merion....
Goshen's Rudolph Building Gets Reprieve (plus my video from the legislative debate) Report on my visits to Orange County Government Center and Yale's restored Rudolph building for architecture studies. Legislators' contentious impasse....
Hidden Gem The Frost Amphitheatre on the Stanford Campus can accommodate 6,000 people and has hosted legendary concerts by the Grateful Dead....
Goshen Commotion: "Very Much Worth Saving" (WSJ) on this Fateful Day UPDATED Wall Street Journal damns with faint praise the endangered Paul Rudolph but suggests it shouldn't be destroyed. Vote comes today....
Endangered Buildings Follow-Ups: Helsinki's Guggenheim & Goshen's Government Center Does negative City Board vote sink Helsinki Guggenheim? Armstrong's statement. Plus: Paul Goldberger champions Paul Rudolph building in Vanity Fair....
Berkeley's Loss: Toyo Ito Wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize If Berkeley Art Museum had come up with $200 million, we'd have a building in U.S. by this distinguished architect....
NY Public Library Responds to Architecture Critics' Letter Regarding Norman Foster's Design Conciliatory attitude expressed regarding transparency and responsiveness to feedback. We'll see if it actually happens....
Goshen Commotion: Paul Rudolph's Government Center May Not be Saved After All It's not over till the fat contract is signed. Political wrangling over fate of the flood-damaged building continues....
20 Architecture Critics Call on NY Public Library to Reconsider Norman Foster Renovation Plan Library's trustees should "reconsider their plans for the 42nd Street building." Don't mess with Ada Louise Huxtable, even posthumously!...
What Would Ada Louise Say? NY Public Library Explains Why Building Won't Collapse After Blowing Its Stacks Reply (reported in Huxtable's own newspaper) to her engineering critique comes too late for her to fight back. Silman's assurances....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Estate Attorney Discusses Her Getty Surprise What was she thinking in depriving NYC of her archives? Robert Shapiro offers some hints....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Posthumous Commentary? Her Entire Estate to the Getty Why did inveterate New Yorker make a last-minute arrangement to sell and bequeath everything to an LA institution?...
The House Detective: Very Small Japanese Houses Neo-modern mini-houses reflect local conditions and a global trend......
Ada Louise Huxtable, Doyenne of Architecture Criticism, Dies at 91 Invariably erudite, lucid and witty, she wrote with the verve, feistiness and factual command of someone one-third her age....
Callithumpian Cage Contemplates Catastrophe Preempting The Rapture with the help of John Cage, the Callithumpian Consort and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's fantastic new...
City Review Process: First Look (with video) at Cornell's Tech Campus and Thom Mayne's Academic Building Exciting $2-billion, 12-acre project with problematic academic mission: "Not tech for tech's sake; tech in support of commerce."...
News Flash: Police Guard Phoenix's Wright House; "Stand Still" Agreement Forestalls a Knock-Down Mayor's senior adviser vows Phoenix's Frank Lloyd Wright house, spotlighted by Michael Kimmelman, will never be demolished. Today's negotiated agreeement....
Hugh Hardy's Lincoln Center Theater: NY Times' Kimmelman Finally Reviews Architecture! My recent experience at sleek, functional Tow. Times' public editor spotlights Kimmelman's eccentric performance as architecture critic. (MoMA Monster next?)...
Lookback From 2005: an aesthete pays a visit to Arlington National Cemetery....
Another Light Box? Tod Williams' and Billie Tsien's Next Museum Project (and worries for those completed) Architects' fears about financial fragility of new Barnes and possible demolition of former Folk Art Museum. Hood Museum's expansion planned....
MeTube: The Long, Winding Road to the New Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia Join me on the trek past forbidding, stark walls to dwarfing entrance alcove. Far cry from the intimacy in Merion....
Goshen's Rudolph Building Gets Reprieve (plus my video from the legislative debate) Report on my visits to Orange County Government Center and Yale's restored Rudolph building for architecture studies. Legislators' contentious impasse....
Hidden Gem The Frost Amphitheatre on the Stanford Campus can accommodate 6,000 people and has hosted legendary concerts by the Grateful Dead....
Goshen Commotion: "Very Much Worth Saving" (WSJ) on this Fateful Day UPDATED Wall Street Journal damns with faint praise the endangered Paul Rudolph but suggests it shouldn't be destroyed. Vote comes today....
Endangered Buildings Follow-Ups: Helsinki's Guggenheim & Goshen's Government Center Does negative City Board vote sink Helsinki Guggenheim? Armstrong's statement. Plus: Paul Goldberger champions Paul Rudolph building in Vanity Fair....
Berkeley's Loss: Toyo Ito Wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize If Berkeley Art Museum had come up with $200 million, we'd have a building in U.S. by this distinguished architect....
NY Public Library Responds to Architecture Critics' Letter Regarding Norman Foster's Design Conciliatory attitude expressed regarding transparency and responsiveness to feedback. We'll see if it actually happens....
Goshen Commotion: Paul Rudolph's Government Center May Not be Saved After All It's not over till the fat contract is signed. Political wrangling over fate of the flood-damaged building continues....
20 Architecture Critics Call on NY Public Library to Reconsider Norman Foster Renovation Plan Library's trustees should "reconsider their plans for the 42nd Street building." Don't mess with Ada Louise Huxtable, even posthumously!...
What Would Ada Louise Say? NY Public Library Explains Why Building Won't Collapse After Blowing Its Stacks Reply (reported in Huxtable's own newspaper) to her engineering critique comes too late for her to fight back. Silman's assurances....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Estate Attorney Discusses Her Getty Surprise What was she thinking in depriving NYC of her archives? Robert Shapiro offers some hints....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Posthumous Commentary? Her Entire Estate to the Getty Why did inveterate New Yorker make a last-minute arrangement to sell and bequeath everything to an LA institution?...
The House Detective: Very Small Japanese Houses Neo-modern mini-houses reflect local conditions and a global trend......
Ada Louise Huxtable, Doyenne of Architecture Criticism, Dies at 91 Invariably erudite, lucid and witty, she wrote with the verve, feistiness and factual command of someone one-third her age....
Callithumpian Cage Contemplates Catastrophe Preempting The Rapture with the help of John Cage, the Callithumpian Consort and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's fantastic new...
City Review Process: First Look (with video) at Cornell's Tech Campus and Thom Mayne's Academic Building Exciting $2-billion, 12-acre project with problematic academic mission: "Not tech for tech's sake; tech in support of commerce."...
News Flash: Police Guard Phoenix's Wright House; "Stand Still" Agreement Forestalls a Knock-Down Mayor's senior adviser vows Phoenix's Frank Lloyd Wright house, spotlighted by Michael Kimmelman, will never be demolished. Today's negotiated agreeement....
Hugh Hardy's Lincoln Center Theater: NY Times' Kimmelman Finally Reviews Architecture! My recent experience at sleek, functional Tow. Times' public editor spotlights Kimmelman's eccentric performance as architecture critic. (MoMA Monster next?)...
Lookback From 2005: an aesthete pays a visit to Arlington National Cemetery....
Another Light Box? Tod Williams' and Billie Tsien's Next Museum Project (and worries for those completed) Architects' fears about financial fragility of new Barnes and possible demolition of former Folk Art Museum. Hood Museum's expansion planned....
MeTube: The Long, Winding Road to the New Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia Join me on the trek past forbidding, stark walls to dwarfing entrance alcove. Far cry from the intimacy in Merion....
Goshen's Rudolph Building Gets Reprieve (plus my video from the legislative debate) Report on my visits to Orange County Government Center and Yale's restored Rudolph building for architecture studies. Legislators' contentious impasse....
Hidden Gem The Frost Amphitheatre on the Stanford Campus can accommodate 6,000 people and has hosted legendary concerts by the Grateful Dead....
Goshen Commotion: "Very Much Worth Saving" (WSJ) on this Fateful Day UPDATED Wall Street Journal damns with faint praise the endangered Paul Rudolph but suggests it shouldn't be destroyed. Vote comes today....
Endangered Buildings Follow-Ups: Helsinki's Guggenheim & Goshen's Government Center Does negative City Board vote sink Helsinki Guggenheim? Armstrong's statement. Plus: Paul Goldberger champions Paul Rudolph building in Vanity Fair....
Berkeley's Loss: Toyo Ito Wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize If Berkeley Art Museum had come up with $200 million, we'd have a building in U.S. by this distinguished architect....
NY Public Library Responds to Architecture Critics' Letter Regarding Norman Foster's Design Conciliatory attitude expressed regarding transparency and responsiveness to feedback. We'll see if it actually happens....
Goshen Commotion: Paul Rudolph's Government Center May Not be Saved After All It's not over till the fat contract is signed. Political wrangling over fate of the flood-damaged building continues....
20 Architecture Critics Call on NY Public Library to Reconsider Norman Foster Renovation Plan Library's trustees should "reconsider their plans for the 42nd Street building." Don't mess with Ada Louise Huxtable, even posthumously!...
What Would Ada Louise Say? NY Public Library Explains Why Building Won't Collapse After Blowing Its Stacks Reply (reported in Huxtable's own newspaper) to her engineering critique comes too late for her to fight back. Silman's assurances....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Estate Attorney Discusses Her Getty Surprise What was she thinking in depriving NYC of her archives? Robert Shapiro offers some hints....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Posthumous Commentary? Her Entire Estate to the Getty Why did inveterate New Yorker make a last-minute arrangement to sell and bequeath everything to an LA institution?...
The House Detective: Very Small Japanese Houses Neo-modern mini-houses reflect local conditions and a global trend......
Ada Louise Huxtable, Doyenne of Architecture Criticism, Dies at 91 Invariably erudite, lucid and witty, she wrote with the verve, feistiness and factual command of someone one-third her age....
Callithumpian Cage Contemplates Catastrophe Preempting The Rapture with the help of John Cage, the Callithumpian Consort and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's fantastic new...
City Review Process: First Look (with video) at Cornell's Tech Campus and Thom Mayne's Academic Building Exciting $2-billion, 12-acre project with problematic academic mission: "Not tech for tech's sake; tech in support of commerce."...
News Flash: Police Guard Phoenix's Wright House; "Stand Still" Agreement Forestalls a Knock-Down Mayor's senior adviser vows Phoenix's Frank Lloyd Wright house, spotlighted by Michael Kimmelman, will never be demolished. Today's negotiated agreeement....
Hugh Hardy's Lincoln Center Theater: NY Times' Kimmelman Finally Reviews Architecture! My recent experience at sleek, functional Tow. Times' public editor spotlights Kimmelman's eccentric performance as architecture critic. (MoMA Monster next?)...
Lookback From 2005: an aesthete pays a visit to Arlington National Cemetery....
Another Light Box? Tod Williams' and Billie Tsien's Next Museum Project (and worries for those completed) Architects' fears about financial fragility of new Barnes and possible demolition of former Folk Art Museum. Hood Museum's expansion planned....
MeTube: The Long, Winding Road to the New Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia Join me on the trek past forbidding, stark walls to dwarfing entrance alcove. Far cry from the intimacy in Merion....
Goshen's Rudolph Building Gets Reprieve (plus my video from the legislative debate) Report on my visits to Orange County Government Center and Yale's restored Rudolph building for architecture studies. Legislators' contentious impasse....
Hidden Gem The Frost Amphitheatre on the Stanford Campus can accommodate 6,000 people and has hosted legendary concerts by the Grateful Dead....
Goshen Commotion: "Very Much Worth Saving" (WSJ) on this Fateful Day UPDATED Wall Street Journal damns with faint praise the endangered Paul Rudolph but suggests it shouldn't be destroyed. Vote comes today....
Endangered Buildings Follow-Ups: Helsinki's Guggenheim & Goshen's Government Center Does negative City Board vote sink Helsinki Guggenheim? Armstrong's statement. Plus: Paul Goldberger champions Paul Rudolph building in Vanity Fair....
Berkeley's Loss: Toyo Ito Wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize If Berkeley Art Museum had come up with $200 million, we'd have a building in U.S. by this distinguished architect....
NY Public Library Responds to Architecture Critics' Letter Regarding Norman Foster's Design Conciliatory attitude expressed regarding transparency and responsiveness to feedback. We'll see if it actually happens....
Goshen Commotion: Paul Rudolph's Government Center May Not be Saved After All It's not over till the fat contract is signed. Political wrangling over fate of the flood-damaged building continues....
20 Architecture Critics Call on NY Public Library to Reconsider Norman Foster Renovation Plan Library's trustees should "reconsider their plans for the 42nd Street building." Don't mess with Ada Louise Huxtable, even posthumously!...
What Would Ada Louise Say? NY Public Library Explains Why Building Won't Collapse After Blowing Its Stacks Reply (reported in Huxtable's own newspaper) to her engineering critique comes too late for her to fight back. Silman's assurances....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Estate Attorney Discusses Her Getty Surprise What was she thinking in depriving NYC of her archives? Robert Shapiro offers some hints....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Posthumous Commentary? Her Entire Estate to the Getty Why did inveterate New Yorker make a last-minute arrangement to sell and bequeath everything to an LA institution?...
The House Detective: Very Small Japanese Houses Neo-modern mini-houses reflect local conditions and a global trend......
Ada Louise Huxtable, Doyenne of Architecture Criticism, Dies at 91 Invariably erudite, lucid and witty, she wrote with the verve, feistiness and factual command of someone one-third her age....
Callithumpian Cage Contemplates Catastrophe Preempting The Rapture with the help of John Cage, the Callithumpian Consort and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's fantastic new...
City Review Process: First Look (with video) at Cornell's Tech Campus and Thom Mayne's Academic Building Exciting $2-billion, 12-acre project with problematic academic mission: "Not tech for tech's sake; tech in support of commerce."...
News Flash: Police Guard Phoenix's Wright House; "Stand Still" Agreement Forestalls a Knock-Down Mayor's senior adviser vows Phoenix's Frank Lloyd Wright house, spotlighted by Michael Kimmelman, will never be demolished. Today's negotiated agreeement....
Hugh Hardy's Lincoln Center Theater: NY Times' Kimmelman Finally Reviews Architecture! My recent experience at sleek, functional Tow. Times' public editor spotlights Kimmelman's eccentric performance as architecture critic. (MoMA Monster next?)...
Lookback From 2005: an aesthete pays a visit to Arlington National Cemetery....
Another Light Box? Tod Williams' and Billie Tsien's Next Museum Project (and worries for those completed) Architects' fears about financial fragility of new Barnes and possible demolition of former Folk Art Museum. Hood Museum's expansion planned....
MeTube: The Long, Winding Road to the New Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia Join me on the trek past forbidding, stark walls to dwarfing entrance alcove. Far cry from the intimacy in Merion....
Goshen's Rudolph Building Gets Reprieve (plus my video from the legislative debate) Report on my visits to Orange County Government Center and Yale's restored Rudolph building for architecture studies. Legislators' contentious impasse....
Hidden Gem The Frost Amphitheatre on the Stanford Campus can accommodate 6,000 people and has hosted legendary concerts by the Grateful Dead....
Goshen Commotion: "Very Much Worth Saving" (WSJ) on this Fateful Day UPDATED Wall Street Journal damns with faint praise the endangered Paul Rudolph but suggests it shouldn't be destroyed. Vote comes today....
Endangered Buildings Follow-Ups: Helsinki's Guggenheim & Goshen's Government Center Does negative City Board vote sink Helsinki Guggenheim? Armstrong's statement. Plus: Paul Goldberger champions Paul Rudolph building in Vanity Fair....
Berkeley's Loss: Toyo Ito Wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize If Berkeley Art Museum had come up with $200 million, we'd have a building in U.S. by this distinguished architect....
NY Public Library Responds to Architecture Critics' Letter Regarding Norman Foster's Design Conciliatory attitude expressed regarding transparency and responsiveness to feedback. We'll see if it actually happens....
Goshen Commotion: Paul Rudolph's Government Center May Not be Saved After All It's not over till the fat contract is signed. Political wrangling over fate of the flood-damaged building continues....
20 Architecture Critics Call on NY Public Library to Reconsider Norman Foster Renovation Plan Library's trustees should "reconsider their plans for the 42nd Street building." Don't mess with Ada Louise Huxtable, even posthumously!...
What Would Ada Louise Say? NY Public Library Explains Why Building Won't Collapse After Blowing Its Stacks Reply (reported in Huxtable's own newspaper) to her engineering critique comes too late for her to fight back. Silman's assurances....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Estate Attorney Discusses Her Getty Surprise What was she thinking in depriving NYC of her archives? Robert Shapiro offers some hints....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Posthumous Commentary? Her Entire Estate to the Getty Why did inveterate New Yorker make a last-minute arrangement to sell and bequeath everything to an LA institution?...
The House Detective: Very Small Japanese Houses Neo-modern mini-houses reflect local conditions and a global trend......
Ada Louise Huxtable, Doyenne of Architecture Criticism, Dies at 91 Invariably erudite, lucid and witty, she wrote with the verve, feistiness and factual command of someone one-third her age....
Callithumpian Cage Contemplates Catastrophe Preempting The Rapture with the help of John Cage, the Callithumpian Consort and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's fantastic new...
City Review Process: First Look (with video) at Cornell's Tech Campus and Thom Mayne's Academic Building Exciting $2-billion, 12-acre project with problematic academic mission: "Not tech for tech's sake; tech in support of commerce."...
News Flash: Police Guard Phoenix's Wright House; "Stand Still" Agreement Forestalls a Knock-Down Mayor's senior adviser vows Phoenix's Frank Lloyd Wright house, spotlighted by Michael Kimmelman, will never be demolished. Today's negotiated agreeement....
Hugh Hardy's Lincoln Center Theater: NY Times' Kimmelman Finally Reviews Architecture! My recent experience at sleek, functional Tow. Times' public editor spotlights Kimmelman's eccentric performance as architecture critic. (MoMA Monster next?)...
Lookback From 2005: an aesthete pays a visit to Arlington National Cemetery....
Another Light Box? Tod Williams' and Billie Tsien's Next Museum Project (and worries for those completed) Architects' fears about financial fragility of new Barnes and possible demolition of former Folk Art Museum. Hood Museum's expansion planned....
MeTube: The Long, Winding Road to the New Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia Join me on the trek past forbidding, stark walls to dwarfing entrance alcove. Far cry from the intimacy in Merion....
Goshen's Rudolph Building Gets Reprieve (plus my video from the legislative debate) Report on my visits to Orange County Government Center and Yale's restored Rudolph building for architecture studies. Legislators' contentious impasse....
Hidden Gem The Frost Amphitheatre on the Stanford Campus can accommodate 6,000 people and has hosted legendary concerts by the Grateful Dead....
Goshen Commotion: "Very Much Worth Saving" (WSJ) on this Fateful Day UPDATED Wall Street Journal damns with faint praise the endangered Paul Rudolph but suggests it shouldn't be destroyed. Vote comes today....
Endangered Buildings Follow-Ups: Helsinki's Guggenheim & Goshen's Government Center Does negative City Board vote sink Helsinki Guggenheim? Armstrong's statement. Plus: Paul Goldberger champions Paul Rudolph building in Vanity Fair....
Berkeley's Loss: Toyo Ito Wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize If Berkeley Art Museum had come up with $200 million, we'd have a building in U.S. by this distinguished architect....
NY Public Library Responds to Architecture Critics' Letter Regarding Norman Foster's Design Conciliatory attitude expressed regarding transparency and responsiveness to feedback. We'll see if it actually happens....
Goshen Commotion: Paul Rudolph's Government Center May Not be Saved After All It's not over till the fat contract is signed. Political wrangling over fate of the flood-damaged building continues....
20 Architecture Critics Call on NY Public Library to Reconsider Norman Foster Renovation Plan Library's trustees should "reconsider their plans for the 42nd Street building." Don't mess with Ada Louise Huxtable, even posthumously!...
What Would Ada Louise Say? NY Public Library Explains Why Building Won't Collapse After Blowing Its Stacks Reply (reported in Huxtable's own newspaper) to her engineering critique comes too late for her to fight back. Silman's assurances....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Estate Attorney Discusses Her Getty Surprise What was she thinking in depriving NYC of her archives? Robert Shapiro offers some hints....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Posthumous Commentary? Her Entire Estate to the Getty Why did inveterate New Yorker make a last-minute arrangement to sell and bequeath everything to an LA institution?...
The House Detective: Very Small Japanese Houses Neo-modern mini-houses reflect local conditions and a global trend......
Ada Louise Huxtable, Doyenne of Architecture Criticism, Dies at 91 Invariably erudite, lucid and witty, she wrote with the verve, feistiness and factual command of someone one-third her age....
Callithumpian Cage Contemplates Catastrophe Preempting The Rapture with the help of John Cage, the Callithumpian Consort and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's fantastic new...
City Review Process: First Look (with video) at Cornell's Tech Campus and Thom Mayne's Academic Building Exciting $2-billion, 12-acre project with problematic academic mission: "Not tech for tech's sake; tech in support of commerce."...
News Flash: Police Guard Phoenix's Wright House; "Stand Still" Agreement Forestalls a Knock-Down Mayor's senior adviser vows Phoenix's Frank Lloyd Wright house, spotlighted by Michael Kimmelman, will never be demolished. Today's negotiated agreeement....
Hugh Hardy's Lincoln Center Theater: NY Times' Kimmelman Finally Reviews Architecture! My recent experience at sleek, functional Tow. Times' public editor spotlights Kimmelman's eccentric performance as architecture critic. (MoMA Monster next?)...
Lookback From 2005: an aesthete pays a visit to Arlington National Cemetery....
Another Light Box? Tod Williams' and Billie Tsien's Next Museum Project (and worries for those completed) Architects' fears about financial fragility of new Barnes and possible demolition of former Folk Art Museum. Hood Museum's expansion planned....
MeTube: The Long, Winding Road to the New Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia Join me on the trek past forbidding, stark walls to dwarfing entrance alcove. Far cry from the intimacy in Merion....
Goshen's Rudolph Building Gets Reprieve (plus my video from the legislative debate) Report on my visits to Orange County Government Center and Yale's restored Rudolph building for architecture studies. Legislators' contentious impasse....
Hidden Gem The Frost Amphitheatre on the Stanford Campus can accommodate 6,000 people and has hosted legendary concerts by the Grateful Dead....
Goshen Commotion: "Very Much Worth Saving" (WSJ) on this Fateful Day UPDATED Wall Street Journal damns with faint praise the endangered Paul Rudolph but suggests it shouldn't be destroyed. Vote comes today....
Endangered Buildings Follow-Ups: Helsinki's Guggenheim & Goshen's Government Center Does negative City Board vote sink Helsinki Guggenheim? Armstrong's statement. Plus: Paul Goldberger champions Paul Rudolph building in Vanity Fair....
Berkeley's Loss: Toyo Ito Wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize If Berkeley Art Museum had come up with $200 million, we'd have a building in U.S. by this distinguished architect....
NY Public Library Responds to Architecture Critics' Letter Regarding Norman Foster's Design Conciliatory attitude expressed regarding transparency and responsiveness to feedback. We'll see if it actually happens....
Goshen Commotion: Paul Rudolph's Government Center May Not be Saved After All It's not over till the fat contract is signed. Political wrangling over fate of the flood-damaged building continues....
20 Architecture Critics Call on NY Public Library to Reconsider Norman Foster Renovation Plan Library's trustees should "reconsider their plans for the 42nd Street building." Don't mess with Ada Louise Huxtable, even posthumously!...
What Would Ada Louise Say? NY Public Library Explains Why Building Won't Collapse After Blowing Its Stacks Reply (reported in Huxtable's own newspaper) to her engineering critique comes too late for her to fight back. Silman's assurances....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Estate Attorney Discusses Her Getty Surprise What was she thinking in depriving NYC of her archives? Robert Shapiro offers some hints....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Posthumous Commentary? Her Entire Estate to the Getty Why did inveterate New Yorker make a last-minute arrangement to sell and bequeath everything to an LA institution?...
The House Detective: Very Small Japanese Houses Neo-modern mini-houses reflect local conditions and a global trend......
Ada Louise Huxtable, Doyenne of Architecture Criticism, Dies at 91 Invariably erudite, lucid and witty, she wrote with the verve, feistiness and factual command of someone one-third her age....
Callithumpian Cage Contemplates Catastrophe Preempting The Rapture with the help of John Cage, the Callithumpian Consort and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's fantastic new...
City Review Process: First Look (with video) at Cornell's Tech Campus and Thom Mayne's Academic Building Exciting $2-billion, 12-acre project with problematic academic mission: "Not tech for tech's sake; tech in support of commerce."...
News Flash: Police Guard Phoenix's Wright House; "Stand Still" Agreement Forestalls a Knock-Down Mayor's senior adviser vows Phoenix's Frank Lloyd Wright house, spotlighted by Michael Kimmelman, will never be demolished. Today's negotiated agreeement....
Hugh Hardy's Lincoln Center Theater: NY Times' Kimmelman Finally Reviews Architecture! My recent experience at sleek, functional Tow. Times' public editor spotlights Kimmelman's eccentric performance as architecture critic. (MoMA Monster next?)...
Lookback From 2005: an aesthete pays a visit to Arlington National Cemetery....
Another Light Box? Tod Williams' and Billie Tsien's Next Museum Project (and worries for those completed) Architects' fears about financial fragility of new Barnes and possible demolition of former Folk Art Museum. Hood Museum's expansion planned....
MeTube: The Long, Winding Road to the New Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia Join me on the trek past forbidding, stark walls to dwarfing entrance alcove. Far cry from the intimacy in Merion....
Goshen's Rudolph Building Gets Reprieve (plus my video from the legislative debate) Report on my visits to Orange County Government Center and Yale's restored Rudolph building for architecture studies. Legislators' contentious impasse....
Hidden Gem The Frost Amphitheatre on the Stanford Campus can accommodate 6,000 people and has hosted legendary concerts by the Grateful Dead....
Goshen Commotion: "Very Much Worth Saving" (WSJ) on this Fateful Day UPDATED Wall Street Journal damns with faint praise the endangered Paul Rudolph but suggests it shouldn't be destroyed. Vote comes today....
Endangered Buildings Follow-Ups: Helsinki's Guggenheim & Goshen's Government Center Does negative City Board vote sink Helsinki Guggenheim? Armstrong's statement. Plus: Paul Goldberger champions Paul Rudolph building in Vanity Fair....
Berkeley's Loss: Toyo Ito Wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize If Berkeley Art Museum had come up with $200 million, we'd have a building in U.S. by this distinguished architect....
NY Public Library Responds to Architecture Critics' Letter Regarding Norman Foster's Design Conciliatory attitude expressed regarding transparency and responsiveness to feedback. We'll see if it actually happens....
Goshen Commotion: Paul Rudolph's Government Center May Not be Saved After All It's not over till the fat contract is signed. Political wrangling over fate of the flood-damaged building continues....
20 Architecture Critics Call on NY Public Library to Reconsider Norman Foster Renovation Plan Library's trustees should "reconsider their plans for the 42nd Street building." Don't mess with Ada Louise Huxtable, even posthumously!...
What Would Ada Louise Say? NY Public Library Explains Why Building Won't Collapse After Blowing Its Stacks Reply (reported in Huxtable's own newspaper) to her engineering critique comes too late for her to fight back. Silman's assurances....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Estate Attorney Discusses Her Getty Surprise What was she thinking in depriving NYC of her archives? Robert Shapiro offers some hints....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Posthumous Commentary? Her Entire Estate to the Getty Why did inveterate New Yorker make a last-minute arrangement to sell and bequeath everything to an LA institution?...
The House Detective: Very Small Japanese Houses Neo-modern mini-houses reflect local conditions and a global trend......
Ada Louise Huxtable, Doyenne of Architecture Criticism, Dies at 91 Invariably erudite, lucid and witty, she wrote with the verve, feistiness and factual command of someone one-third her age....
Callithumpian Cage Contemplates Catastrophe Preempting The Rapture with the help of John Cage, the Callithumpian Consort and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's fantastic new...
City Review Process: First Look (with video) at Cornell's Tech Campus and Thom Mayne's Academic Building Exciting $2-billion, 12-acre project with problematic academic mission: "Not tech for tech's sake; tech in support of commerce."...
News Flash: Police Guard Phoenix's Wright House; "Stand Still" Agreement Forestalls a Knock-Down Mayor's senior adviser vows Phoenix's Frank Lloyd Wright house, spotlighted by Michael Kimmelman, will never be demolished. Today's negotiated agreeement....
Hugh Hardy's Lincoln Center Theater: NY Times' Kimmelman Finally Reviews Architecture! My recent experience at sleek, functional Tow. Times' public editor spotlights Kimmelman's eccentric performance as architecture critic. (MoMA Monster next?)...
Lookback From 2005: an aesthete pays a visit to Arlington National Cemetery....
Another Light Box? Tod Williams' and Billie Tsien's Next Museum Project (and worries for those completed) Architects' fears about financial fragility of new Barnes and possible demolition of former Folk Art Museum. Hood Museum's expansion planned....
MeTube: The Long, Winding Road to the New Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia Join me on the trek past forbidding, stark walls to dwarfing entrance alcove. Far cry from the intimacy in Merion....
Goshen's Rudolph Building Gets Reprieve (plus my video from the legislative debate) Report on my visits to Orange County Government Center and Yale's restored Rudolph building for architecture studies. Legislators' contentious impasse....
Hidden Gem The Frost Amphitheatre on the Stanford Campus can accommodate 6,000 people and has hosted legendary concerts by the Grateful Dead....
Goshen Commotion: "Very Much Worth Saving" (WSJ) on this Fateful Day UPDATED Wall Street Journal damns with faint praise the endangered Paul Rudolph but suggests it shouldn't be destroyed. Vote comes today....
Endangered Buildings Follow-Ups: Helsinki's Guggenheim & Goshen's Government Center Does negative City Board vote sink Helsinki Guggenheim? Armstrong's statement. Plus: Paul Goldberger champions Paul Rudolph building in Vanity Fair....
Berkeley's Loss: Toyo Ito Wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize If Berkeley Art Museum had come up with $200 million, we'd have a building in U.S. by this distinguished architect....
NY Public Library Responds to Architecture Critics' Letter Regarding Norman Foster's Design Conciliatory attitude expressed regarding transparency and responsiveness to feedback. We'll see if it actually happens....
Goshen Commotion: Paul Rudolph's Government Center May Not be Saved After All It's not over till the fat contract is signed. Political wrangling over fate of the flood-damaged building continues....
20 Architecture Critics Call on NY Public Library to Reconsider Norman Foster Renovation Plan Library's trustees should "reconsider their plans for the 42nd Street building." Don't mess with Ada Louise Huxtable, even posthumously!...
What Would Ada Louise Say? NY Public Library Explains Why Building Won't Collapse After Blowing Its Stacks Reply (reported in Huxtable's own newspaper) to her engineering critique comes too late for her to fight back. Silman's assurances....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Estate Attorney Discusses Her Getty Surprise What was she thinking in depriving NYC of her archives? Robert Shapiro offers some hints....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Posthumous Commentary? Her Entire Estate to the Getty Why did inveterate New Yorker make a last-minute arrangement to sell and bequeath everything to an LA institution?...
The House Detective: Very Small Japanese Houses Neo-modern mini-houses reflect local conditions and a global trend......
Ada Louise Huxtable, Doyenne of Architecture Criticism, Dies at 91 Invariably erudite, lucid and witty, she wrote with the verve, feistiness and factual command of someone one-third her age....
Callithumpian Cage Contemplates Catastrophe Preempting The Rapture with the help of John Cage, the Callithumpian Consort and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's fantastic new...
City Review Process: First Look (with video) at Cornell's Tech Campus and Thom Mayne's Academic Building Exciting $2-billion, 12-acre project with problematic academic mission: "Not tech for tech's sake; tech in support of commerce."...
News Flash: Police Guard Phoenix's Wright House; "Stand Still" Agreement Forestalls a Knock-Down Mayor's senior adviser vows Phoenix's Frank Lloyd Wright house, spotlighted by Michael Kimmelman, will never be demolished. Today's negotiated agreeement....
Hugh Hardy's Lincoln Center Theater: NY Times' Kimmelman Finally Reviews Architecture! My recent experience at sleek, functional Tow. Times' public editor spotlights Kimmelman's eccentric performance as architecture critic. (MoMA Monster next?)...
Lookback From 2005: an aesthete pays a visit to Arlington National Cemetery....
Another Light Box? Tod Williams' and Billie Tsien's Next Museum Project (and worries for those completed) Architects' fears about financial fragility of new Barnes and possible demolition of former Folk Art Museum. Hood Museum's expansion planned....
MeTube: The Long, Winding Road to the New Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia Join me on the trek past forbidding, stark walls to dwarfing entrance alcove. Far cry from the intimacy in Merion....
Goshen's Rudolph Building Gets Reprieve (plus my video from the legislative debate) Report on my visits to Orange County Government Center and Yale's restored Rudolph building for architecture studies. Legislators' contentious impasse....
Hidden Gem The Frost Amphitheatre on the Stanford Campus can accommodate 6,000 people and has hosted legendary concerts by the Grateful Dead....
Goshen Commotion: "Very Much Worth Saving" (WSJ) on this Fateful Day UPDATED Wall Street Journal damns with faint praise the endangered Paul Rudolph but suggests it shouldn't be destroyed. Vote comes today....
Endangered Buildings Follow-Ups: Helsinki's Guggenheim & Goshen's Government Center Does negative City Board vote sink Helsinki Guggenheim? Armstrong's statement. Plus: Paul Goldberger champions Paul Rudolph building in Vanity Fair....
Berkeley's Loss: Toyo Ito Wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize If Berkeley Art Museum had come up with $200 million, we'd have a building in U.S. by this distinguished architect....
NY Public Library Responds to Architecture Critics' Letter Regarding Norman Foster's Design Conciliatory attitude expressed regarding transparency and responsiveness to feedback. We'll see if it actually happens....
Goshen Commotion: Paul Rudolph's Government Center May Not be Saved After All It's not over till the fat contract is signed. Political wrangling over fate of the flood-damaged building continues....
20 Architecture Critics Call on NY Public Library to Reconsider Norman Foster Renovation Plan Library's trustees should "reconsider their plans for the 42nd Street building." Don't mess with Ada Louise Huxtable, even posthumously!...
What Would Ada Louise Say? NY Public Library Explains Why Building Won't Collapse After Blowing Its Stacks Reply (reported in Huxtable's own newspaper) to her engineering critique comes too late for her to fight back. Silman's assurances....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Estate Attorney Discusses Her Getty Surprise What was she thinking in depriving NYC of her archives? Robert Shapiro offers some hints....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Posthumous Commentary? Her Entire Estate to the Getty Why did inveterate New Yorker make a last-minute arrangement to sell and bequeath everything to an LA institution?...
The House Detective: Very Small Japanese Houses Neo-modern mini-houses reflect local conditions and a global trend......
Ada Louise Huxtable, Doyenne of Architecture Criticism, Dies at 91 Invariably erudite, lucid and witty, she wrote with the verve, feistiness and factual command of someone one-third her age....
Callithumpian Cage Contemplates Catastrophe Preempting The Rapture with the help of John Cage, the Callithumpian Consort and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's fantastic new...
City Review Process: First Look (with video) at Cornell's Tech Campus and Thom Mayne's Academic Building Exciting $2-billion, 12-acre project with problematic academic mission: "Not tech for tech's sake; tech in support of commerce."...
News Flash: Police Guard Phoenix's Wright House; "Stand Still" Agreement Forestalls a Knock-Down Mayor's senior adviser vows Phoenix's Frank Lloyd Wright house, spotlighted by Michael Kimmelman, will never be demolished. Today's negotiated agreeement....
Hugh Hardy's Lincoln Center Theater: NY Times' Kimmelman Finally Reviews Architecture! My recent experience at sleek, functional Tow. Times' public editor spotlights Kimmelman's eccentric performance as architecture critic. (MoMA Monster next?)...
Lookback From 2005: an aesthete pays a visit to Arlington National Cemetery....
Another Light Box? Tod Williams' and Billie Tsien's Next Museum Project (and worries for those completed) Architects' fears about financial fragility of new Barnes and possible demolition of former Folk Art Museum. Hood Museum's expansion planned....
MeTube: The Long, Winding Road to the New Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia Join me on the trek past forbidding, stark walls to dwarfing entrance alcove. Far cry from the intimacy in Merion....
Goshen's Rudolph Building Gets Reprieve (plus my video from the legislative debate) Report on my visits to Orange County Government Center and Yale's restored Rudolph building for architecture studies. Legislators' contentious impasse....
Hidden Gem The Frost Amphitheatre on the Stanford Campus can accommodate 6,000 people and has hosted legendary concerts by the Grateful Dead....
Goshen Commotion: "Very Much Worth Saving" (WSJ) on this Fateful Day UPDATED Wall Street Journal damns with faint praise the endangered Paul Rudolph but suggests it shouldn't be destroyed. Vote comes today....
Endangered Buildings Follow-Ups: Helsinki's Guggenheim & Goshen's Government Center Does negative City Board vote sink Helsinki Guggenheim? Armstrong's statement. Plus: Paul Goldberger champions Paul Rudolph building in Vanity Fair....
Berkeley's Loss: Toyo Ito Wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize If Berkeley Art Museum had come up with $200 million, we'd have a building in U.S. by this distinguished architect....
NY Public Library Responds to Architecture Critics' Letter Regarding Norman Foster's Design Conciliatory attitude expressed regarding transparency and responsiveness to feedback. We'll see if it actually happens....
Goshen Commotion: Paul Rudolph's Government Center May Not be Saved After All It's not over till the fat contract is signed. Political wrangling over fate of the flood-damaged building continues....
20 Architecture Critics Call on NY Public Library to Reconsider Norman Foster Renovation Plan Library's trustees should "reconsider their plans for the 42nd Street building." Don't mess with Ada Louise Huxtable, even posthumously!...
What Would Ada Louise Say? NY Public Library Explains Why Building Won't Collapse After Blowing Its Stacks Reply (reported in Huxtable's own newspaper) to her engineering critique comes too late for her to fight back. Silman's assurances....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Estate Attorney Discusses Her Getty Surprise What was she thinking in depriving NYC of her archives? Robert Shapiro offers some hints....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Posthumous Commentary? Her Entire Estate to the Getty Why did inveterate New Yorker make a last-minute arrangement to sell and bequeath everything to an LA institution?...
The House Detective: Very Small Japanese Houses Neo-modern mini-houses reflect local conditions and a global trend......
Ada Louise Huxtable, Doyenne of Architecture Criticism, Dies at 91 Invariably erudite, lucid and witty, she wrote with the verve, feistiness and factual command of someone one-third her age....
Callithumpian Cage Contemplates Catastrophe Preempting The Rapture with the help of John Cage, the Callithumpian Consort and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's fantastic new...
City Review Process: First Look (with video) at Cornell's Tech Campus and Thom Mayne's Academic Building Exciting $2-billion, 12-acre project with problematic academic mission: "Not tech for tech's sake; tech in support of commerce."...
News Flash: Police Guard Phoenix's Wright House; "Stand Still" Agreement Forestalls a Knock-Down Mayor's senior adviser vows Phoenix's Frank Lloyd Wright house, spotlighted by Michael Kimmelman, will never be demolished. Today's negotiated agreeement....
Hugh Hardy's Lincoln Center Theater: NY Times' Kimmelman Finally Reviews Architecture! My recent experience at sleek, functional Tow. Times' public editor spotlights Kimmelman's eccentric performance as architecture critic. (MoMA Monster next?)...
Lookback From 2005: an aesthete pays a visit to Arlington National Cemetery....
Another Light Box? Tod Williams' and Billie Tsien's Next Museum Project (and worries for those completed) Architects' fears about financial fragility of new Barnes and possible demolition of former Folk Art Museum. Hood Museum's expansion planned....
MeTube: The Long, Winding Road to the New Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia Join me on the trek past forbidding, stark walls to dwarfing entrance alcove. Far cry from the intimacy in Merion....
Goshen's Rudolph Building Gets Reprieve (plus my video from the legislative debate) Report on my visits to Orange County Government Center and Yale's restored Rudolph building for architecture studies. Legislators' contentious impasse....
Hidden Gem The Frost Amphitheatre on the Stanford Campus can accommodate 6,000 people and has hosted legendary concerts by the Grateful Dead....
Goshen Commotion: "Very Much Worth Saving" (WSJ) on this Fateful Day UPDATED Wall Street Journal damns with faint praise the endangered Paul Rudolph but suggests it shouldn't be destroyed. Vote comes today....
Endangered Buildings Follow-Ups: Helsinki's Guggenheim & Goshen's Government Center Does negative City Board vote sink Helsinki Guggenheim? Armstrong's statement. Plus: Paul Goldberger champions Paul Rudolph building in Vanity Fair....
Berkeley's Loss: Toyo Ito Wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize If Berkeley Art Museum had come up with $200 million, we'd have a building in U.S. by this distinguished architect....
NY Public Library Responds to Architecture Critics' Letter Regarding Norman Foster's Design Conciliatory attitude expressed regarding transparency and responsiveness to feedback. We'll see if it actually happens....
Goshen Commotion: Paul Rudolph's Government Center May Not be Saved After All It's not over till the fat contract is signed. Political wrangling over fate of the flood-damaged building continues....
20 Architecture Critics Call on NY Public Library to Reconsider Norman Foster Renovation Plan Library's trustees should "reconsider their plans for the 42nd Street building." Don't mess with Ada Louise Huxtable, even posthumously!...
What Would Ada Louise Say? NY Public Library Explains Why Building Won't Collapse After Blowing Its Stacks Reply (reported in Huxtable's own newspaper) to her engineering critique comes too late for her to fight back. Silman's assurances....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Estate Attorney Discusses Her Getty Surprise What was she thinking in depriving NYC of her archives? Robert Shapiro offers some hints....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Posthumous Commentary? Her Entire Estate to the Getty Why did inveterate New Yorker make a last-minute arrangement to sell and bequeath everything to an LA institution?...
The House Detective: Very Small Japanese Houses Neo-modern mini-houses reflect local conditions and a global trend......
Ada Louise Huxtable, Doyenne of Architecture Criticism, Dies at 91 Invariably erudite, lucid and witty, she wrote with the verve, feistiness and factual command of someone one-third her age....
Callithumpian Cage Contemplates Catastrophe Preempting The Rapture with the help of John Cage, the Callithumpian Consort and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's fantastic new...
City Review Process: First Look (with video) at Cornell's Tech Campus and Thom Mayne's Academic Building Exciting $2-billion, 12-acre project with problematic academic mission: "Not tech for tech's sake; tech in support of commerce."...
News Flash: Police Guard Phoenix's Wright House; "Stand Still" Agreement Forestalls a Knock-Down Mayor's senior adviser vows Phoenix's Frank Lloyd Wright house, spotlighted by Michael Kimmelman, will never be demolished. Today's negotiated agreeement....
Hugh Hardy's Lincoln Center Theater: NY Times' Kimmelman Finally Reviews Architecture! My recent experience at sleek, functional Tow. Times' public editor spotlights Kimmelman's eccentric performance as architecture critic. (MoMA Monster next?)...
Lookback From 2005: an aesthete pays a visit to Arlington National Cemetery....
Another Light Box? Tod Williams' and Billie Tsien's Next Museum Project (and worries for those completed) Architects' fears about financial fragility of new Barnes and possible demolition of former Folk Art Museum. Hood Museum's expansion planned....
MeTube: The Long, Winding Road to the New Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia Join me on the trek past forbidding, stark walls to dwarfing entrance alcove. Far cry from the intimacy in Merion....
Goshen's Rudolph Building Gets Reprieve (plus my video from the legislative debate) Report on my visits to Orange County Government Center and Yale's restored Rudolph building for architecture studies. Legislators' contentious impasse....
Hidden Gem The Frost Amphitheatre on the Stanford Campus can accommodate 6,000 people and has hosted legendary concerts by the Grateful Dead....
Goshen Commotion: "Very Much Worth Saving" (WSJ) on this Fateful Day UPDATED Wall Street Journal damns with faint praise the endangered Paul Rudolph but suggests it shouldn't be destroyed. Vote comes today....
Endangered Buildings Follow-Ups: Helsinki's Guggenheim & Goshen's Government Center Does negative City Board vote sink Helsinki Guggenheim? Armstrong's statement. Plus: Paul Goldberger champions Paul Rudolph building in Vanity Fair....
Berkeley's Loss: Toyo Ito Wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize If Berkeley Art Museum had come up with $200 million, we'd have a building in U.S. by this distinguished architect....
NY Public Library Responds to Architecture Critics' Letter Regarding Norman Foster's Design Conciliatory attitude expressed regarding transparency and responsiveness to feedback. We'll see if it actually happens....
Goshen Commotion: Paul Rudolph's Government Center May Not be Saved After All It's not over till the fat contract is signed. Political wrangling over fate of the flood-damaged building continues....
20 Architecture Critics Call on NY Public Library to Reconsider Norman Foster Renovation Plan Library's trustees should "reconsider their plans for the 42nd Street building." Don't mess with Ada Louise Huxtable, even posthumously!...
What Would Ada Louise Say? NY Public Library Explains Why Building Won't Collapse After Blowing Its Stacks Reply (reported in Huxtable's own newspaper) to her engineering critique comes too late for her to fight back. Silman's assurances....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Estate Attorney Discusses Her Getty Surprise What was she thinking in depriving NYC of her archives? Robert Shapiro offers some hints....
Ada Louise Huxtable's Posthumous Commentary? Her Entire Estate to the Getty Why did inveterate New Yorker make a last-minute arrangement to sell and bequeath everything to an LA institution?...
The House Detective: Very Small Japanese Houses Neo-modern mini-houses reflect local conditions and a global trend......
Ada Louise Huxtable, Doyenne of Architecture Criticism, Dies at 91 Invariably erudite, lucid and witty, she wrote with the verve, feistiness and factual command of someone one-third her age....
Callithumpian Cage Contemplates Catastrophe Preempting The Rapture with the help of John Cage, the Callithumpian Consort and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's fantastic new...
City Review Process: First Look (with video) at Cornell's Tech Campus and Thom Mayne's Academic Building Exciting $2-billion, 12-acre project with problematic academic mission: "Not tech for tech's sake; tech in support of commerce."...
News Flash: Police Guard Phoenix's Wright House; "Stand Still" Agreement Forestalls a Knock-Down Mayor's senior adviser vows Phoenix's Frank Lloyd Wright house, spotlighted by Michael Kimmelman, will never be demolished. Today's negotiated agreeement....
Hugh Hardy's Lincoln Center Theater: NY Times' Kimmelman Finally Reviews Architecture! My recent experience at sleek, functional Tow. Times' public editor spotlights Kimmelman's eccentric performance as architecture critic. (MoMA Monster next?)...
Lookback From 2005: an aesthete pays a visit to Arlington National Cemetery....
Another Light Box? Tod Williams' and Billie Tsien's Next Museum Project (and worries for those completed) Architects' fears about financial fragility of new Barnes and possible demolition of former Folk Art Museum. Hood Museum's expansion planned....
MeTube: The Long, Winding Road to the New Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia Join me on the trek past forbidding, stark walls to dwarfing entrance alcove. Far cry from the intimacy in Merion....
Goshen's Rudolph Building Gets Reprieve (plus my video from the legislative debate) Report on my visits to Orange County Government Center and Yale's restored Rudolph building for architecture studies. Legislators' contentious impasse....
Hidden Gem The Frost Amphitheatre on the Stanford Campus can accommodate 6,000 people and has hosted legendary concerts by the Grateful Dead....
Goshen Commotion: "Very Much Worth Saving" (WSJ) on this Fateful Day UPDATED Wall Street Journal damns with faint praise the endangered Paul Rudolph but suggests it shouldn't be destroyed. Vote comes today....
Endangered Buildings Follow-Ups: Helsinki's Guggenheim & Goshen's Government Center Does negative City Board vote sink Helsinki Guggenheim? Armstrong's statement. Plus: Paul Goldberger champions Paul Rudolph building in Vanity Fair....
