Peter Blake, an architect, critic and former editor of Architectural Forum who was known for his lively critiques of Modernism and his friendships with artists, died yesterday at a hospice near his home in Branford, Conn. He was 86.
The cause was complications from a respiratory infection, said his son, Casey Nelson Blake.
One of Mr. Blake’s [...]
New York architect Joel Sanders was the guest speaker at the launch of a new interior design book on 20 November.
Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader, is edited by Massey University interior design lecturer Julieanna Preston and Victoria University architecture lecturer Mark Taylor.
Intimus is an anthology of theoretical writing covering the interdisciplinary nature of interior design. [...]
Zaha Hadid has created spectacular buildings all over the world - but never in Britain. As her first UK work is unveiled, she talks to Jonathan Glancey about the trials of being a woman architect, and why her new designs are inspired by the swamplands of southern Iraq
In the cavernous meeting room [...]
The Miami Art Museum will soon take a major step in creating its new bayfront building — selecting an architect — in unusual fashion: It will do so in public. With public participation.
Call it Starchitect Search.
After months of research, and a lightning June tour that took him and museum trustees to 26 buildings in 13 [...]
A FEW hours after Viktor Melnikov died of cancer at 91 on Feb. 5, his estranged younger daughter and nephew appeared on his doorstep with a retinue of lawyers and bodyguards to try to seize control of his house in the center of this city.
“My father’s body was still warm,†Ekaterina Karinskaya, Mr. Melnikov’s elder [...]
Innovative domestic lighting has entered commercial production using plastic laser-sintering machines. Martina Methner reports.
One of the leading methods so far for rapid prototyping has matured to a technology for batch-sized, optimised production – including end products and spare parts. The technology creates parts directly from CAD data, without the need for moulds.
Based on CAD models [...]
MORE than 40 years after he drowned off a remote beach in the south of France, Le Corbusier remains a transcendent force. Even if some blame him for the modern city’s greatest sins, from the steamrolling of historical neighborhoods to a stultifying emphasis on function, he is indisputably the most influential architect of the past [...]
Sometimes a chair is just a chair. But sometimes it is more: a luxury item, a symbol of authority, a refuge for mind and body, a design landmark. The Eames lounge chair — the spacious black leather and molded rosewood chair, with ottoman, that the designers Charles Eames and his wife, Ray, unveiled on national [...]