No other 20th-century architect is loved and hated more than Le Corbusier.
The Swiss-born French designer, who died in 1965 at age 77, envisioned utopian cities with high-rise towers surrounded by vast parks. He conceived elegant Modernist villas as “machines for living.” His leather and tubular steel furniture, still in production, is sleek, sexy and [...]
Aiming for an iconic new building that will grab international attention, the Cleveland Institute of Art has hired MVRDV, a highly regarded Dutch architecture firm known for edgy, humorous and provocative buildings, to design a major expansion of its campus on upper Euclid Avenue.
The project, which could cost $40 million and take three to [...]
Architect Rodolfo Machado likes what he sees of the University of Wisconsin’s Chazen Museum of Art.
What he sees in his architectural dreams will determine the shape of the museum’s new expansion.
That structure will double the size of the state’s second-largest art museum. And it may turn what was considered a crown jewel building on the [...]
What: Works by six young, London-based architectural firms: Adjaye/Associates, Caruso St. John Architects, FAT (Fashion Architecture Taste), NÃall McLaughlin Architects, muf and Sergison Bates architects.
When: Through June 3. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays; noon-5 p.m. Sundays
Admission: $10; $7 for senior citizens; $6 for children and students; free for museum members and Pitt and [...]
In the 1980s, postmodernism reigned supreme in the worlds of art and architecture.
Postmodernist architecture, of course, was a reaction to the minimalist modern architecture of the 1950s and ’60s. But, whereas the Michael Graveses and Robert Venturis of the world were busily designing whimsically overwrought buildings as a reaction to the excessively boring buildings that [...]
The Tampa Museum of Art will host a public forum with architect Stanley Saitowitz to give citizens a chance to share ideas about what should be considered when designing a new art museum.
The forum will be on Jan. 31 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the current museum location, 600 N. Ashley Drive.
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Noted Oakland architect Horace Gilford had a flare for design, whether working on schools, city buildings, shopping malls or unique single-family homes.
But what people remember most was his willingness to reach out and mentor young black colleagues, offering support, guidance and a forum for them to showcase their work.
Gilford died Jan. 4 of complications from [...]
This may be the year when environmentally focused architecture gets serious, driven by global climate change. Even smog-swaddled China is jumping on the eco-bandwagon.
Several U.S. cities — including San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Austin — now require use of guidelines developed by the U.S. Green Building Council for public projects. (Called LEED, the guidelines encourage [...]
“Gritty Brits: New London Architecture” presents the work of six young firms and opens Friday at Carnegie Museum of Art’s Heinz Architectural Center with a talk by African-born London architect David Adjaye. Heinz curator Raymund Ryan organized the exhibit, which comes with a 120-page catalog and runs through June 3.
The six firms — Adjaye/Associates, [...]
Noted Oakland architect Horace Gilford had a flare for design, whether working on schools, city buildings, shopping malls or unique single-family homes. But what people remember most was his willingness to reach out and mentor young black colleagues, offering support, guidance and a forum for them to showcase their work.
Gilford died Jan. 4 of complications [...]
The architect selected to design the new Tampa Museum of Art might have the job, but still lacks something else: a state license.
State law makes it a first-degree misdemeanor to offer architectural services without a Florida license.
“You just can’t do that in Florida,” said Les Smith, an investigator for the state’s Department of Business and [...]
Dr. Arthur T. Porter, Director General and CEO of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), announced today that Moshe Safdie, a McGill University graduate and world-renowned architect, has accepted to design the master plan for the Glen Campus of the MUHC, a 43-acre former brownfield site destined to revitalize several neighbourhoods. Mr. Safdie will join [...]