Architecture

The Moment is Now

Lisa Guest | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Success, Emotions, Trauma, General Motors, Jewish, Choices, Architecture, Healing, Reticence, Now, Michael Moore, Artistic Output, Fashion, Spirituality, Living News
Lisa Guest

My life has been one sacrifice after another. It would have been simpler to lower my ideals, to set my sights on something easier, more mainstream. I couldn't do that.

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The Insanity of Ayn Rand: The Fountain-Brain-Dead.

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 07.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bad Movies, Patricia Neal, Novels, Ayn Rand, Turner Classic Movies, Jack Warner, The Fountainhead, Frank Lloyd Wright, Objectivism, Atlas Shrugged, Gary Cooper, Architecture, Star Trek, Movies, Entertainment News
Tallulah Morehead

This movie is pro-selfishness and egoism (which is just egotism misspelled), and anti-altruism. It preaches, at length and in a superior tone, that Altruism is Bad. And it means it.

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Bush Home Town to Get the Greenest City Block in America

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Architecture, Sustainable Design, Green, Award Winning, Development, Urban, George W. Bush, Dallas, Green News
Cameron Sinclair

It's enough to make a San Franciscans choke on their morning bowl of organic hand-rolled granola but Dallas is developing the greenest city block in America through a competition called Re:Vision Dallas.

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Travels with Frank Gehry

Barbara Isenberg | Posted 06.25.2009 | Style

Read More: Creativity, Getty Center, Architecture, Guggenheim Bilbao, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry, Style News
Barbara Isenberg

As a child Gehry would create little cities, bridges and buildings out of wood scraps with his grandmother on the kitchen floor.

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Tour the New Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Lifson | Posted 06.22.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Art Institute of Chicago, Architecture, Chicago Architecture, Renzo Piano, Millennium Park, Modern Wing Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago News
Edward Lifson

With a stunning addition by architect Renzo Piano -- filled with natural light and beautifully detailed-- the Art Institute of Chicago becomes the sec...

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Rainwater Toilets and Slag: Touring Berkeley's Greenest Building

Anneli Rufus | Posted 06.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy-Efficient, Architecture, Green, David Brower Center, Recycled Materials, Green News
Anneli Rufus

This week I got a private sneak-preview tour of downtown Berkeley's David Brower Center, a bold new 50,000-square-foot experiment in "green from the ground up" architecture that will open to the public on Sunday.

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"Excess" Versus "Relevance" Is an Irrelevant Debate

Frances Anderton | Posted 05.10.2009 | Style

Read More: Cameron Sinclair, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas Beijing, Architecture of Excess, Bauhaus, Frank Gehry, Architecture, Starchitects, Style News
Frances Anderton

By setting up an "excess" vs "relevance" dichotomy, Cameron Sinclair has created an irrelevant conflict that ignores the full scope of architecture and its role as built manifestation of all our human tendencies.

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The Architect's Dilemma: The Architecture of Excess vs. an Architecture of Relevance

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.10.2009 | Style

Read More: Zaha Hadid, Relevance, Economy, Architecture, Excess, Design, Recession, Ali, Style News
Cameron Sinclair

There has been a split forming in the profession for quite sometime. While some pushed the boundaries of how to build, a new younger group of professionals began to question why we build and who to build for.

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HuffPost Reviews: Neil Young - Fork In The Road / Simon & Garfunkel - Live 1969

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Graduate, Pegi Young, The Weepies, Paul Simon, Gas Guzzler, Larry Knechtel, Blues-Rock, Rosetta Stone, Iraq, Obama, Neil Young, Rock, Matthew Sweet, Battery Powered Car, Bush, Lincvolt, Fuel Efficiency, Living With War, Middle East, Joe Osborn, After the Gold Rush, Legacy Sttudios, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Simon & Garfunkel, Anthony Crawford, The Everly Brothers, Mother Nature, Retro, Chad Cromwell, The Raiders, Architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright, Fred Carter Jr., New York City, Bio-Fuel, Niko Bolas, RAK Studios, Mike Nichols, Jazz, Kings of Convenience, Wall Street, Grunge, San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Irwin, Entertainment News, Youtube, Rick Rosas, Afghanastan, Hal Blaine, Starbucks, Itunes, Lincoln Continental, Art Garfunkel, Al Saracevic, Harvest, Brazilian, Trans, Bach, BartóK, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Many will appreciate Fork In The Road's altruism, and it would be refreshing if Neil Young disciples dedicated whole projects like this to the causes of their hearts.

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Mosques, Moolah, and the Importance of Tradition

Victoria Lautman | Posted 05.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Islam, Richard Driehaus, Classicism, Driehaus Prize, Mosques, Architecture, Muslim-Tradition, Pritzker Prize, Mies Van Der Rohe, Prince Charles, Saudi Arabia, Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil, Muslim Architecture, Islamic Architecture, Chicago News
Victoria Lautman

El-Wakil is considered one of the most prominent proponents of contemporary Islamic architecture, making him a stimulating choice for the Driehaus Prize, which has thus far gone only to Western architects.

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Sliding-Roof Greenhouse Finds Own Natural Light

dornob | Posted 04.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Architecture, Design, Sliding Roof Greenhouse, Farming, Greenhouse, Green Technology, Green News

The moving part of this remarkable sliding building is a whopping 50 tons and nearly 100 feet long. Gliding on rails, this enclosing exterior element ...

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How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air

TEDTalks | Posted 04.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Science, Environment, Technology, Architecture, Green News
TEDTalks

2009-03-20-tedtalks.jpgKamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots in a home or office building, can result in measurably cleaner indoor air.

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A Preview of the Bigger, Better (Alas, More Expensive) Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Lifson | Posted 04.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Architecture, Art Institute of Chicago, Art, Chicago Architecture, Modern Wing, Renzo Piano, Art Institute Modern Wing, Art Institute Admission Costs, Chicago News
Edward Lifson

When the Modern Wing opens it will drastically change our perceptions the area. Combined with Millennium Park, we now have a stronger than ever cultural presence in that part of downtown.

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Green Walls: 15 Buildings With Vertical Vegetation

WebEcoist | Posted 04.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Architecture, Design, Green Design, Green Walls, Green Technology, Green Roofs, Green News

Vertical gardens bring lush, verdant life to even the coldest and barest of surfaces, both indoors and out. These 'living walls' increase interior hum...

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Bucky Done Gone: The dome home in decay.

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 04.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Restoration, Visionaries, R Buckminster Fuller, Green Jobs, Bucky Fuller, Architecture, Sustainability, Illinois, Preservation, Green News
Cameron Sinclair

I'm currently on a 10 year anniversary tour to talk about the role of design and architecture and its' impact on society. Tomorrow I speak at Universi...

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New York's New Alice Tully Hall: A Harmonic Renovation

Alex Pasternack | Posted 03.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Architecture, Music, New York Philharmonic, Alice Tully Hall, Music Hall, Home News
Alex Pasternack

So instantly classic is the building that concertgoers of the future could be forgiven for forgetting that it ever looked any different.

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Architecture Advice: $.05

Dave Pinter | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Architecture, Peanuts Comic Strip, Economy, Business News
Dave Pinter

John Morefield decided to set up a booth at a local Seattle market and offer cheap advice on home remodeling -- and hope the contacts would turn into design jobs.

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Architects Create American-Style Suburbs Overseas

AP | DAISY NGUYEN | Posted 01.26.2009 | World

Read More: Architecture, American Architecture, American Suburbs, Foreign Suburbs, World News

LOS ANGELES — Architect Andy Feola keeps running into Southern California colleagues in some of the world's most exotic locations _ from the Egy...

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Bridge Project Spans Gap Between Business and Green

Green Inc. | Libby Tucker | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Construction, President Obama, Vancouver, Green News, Portland, Washington, National Infrastructure, Economy, Bridges, Mexico, Oregon, Columbia River Crossing Project, Traffic, Green Infrastructure, President-Elect Barack Obama, Development, Columbia River, Transportation, Greenhouse Gas, Automobiles, Emissions Reduction, Pollution, Climate Change, Architecture, Infrastructure Investment, Barack Obama, Columbia River Crossing Coalition, Government Policy, Candada, Portland Oregon, Green News

President-elect Barack Obama's recent promise to make "the single largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the fede...

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An Obama Village Fantasy

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Self-Sufficiency, Libraries, Economy, Architecture, Design, Environment, Pedestrian Solutions, Construction, Village, Residences, Schools, Business, Human Settlements, New Settlements, Green News
Stephen C. Rose

Just an initial effort to think about human settlements as they might develop during coming years. An Obama Village would have a population of plus o...

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Hotel Made From Recycled Wine Barrels

Treehugger.com | Posted 01.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Architecture, Food, Wine, Green Hotel, Recycled Hotel, Hotel Made From Recycled Wine Barrels, Wine Hotel, Green News

When it comes to hotels in recycled structures we have seen them all at TreeHugger. First there was the Jumbo Hostel, a hotel lodged in an ageing Boei...

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Massively Efficient Path to Save the Economy

A. Siegel | Posted 01.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy, Ed Mazria, Energy Efficiency, Architecture 2030, Economy, Green, Architecture, Jobs, Construction, Building, Stimulus, Business News
A. Siegel

Here is a path for desperately required short-term stimulus that also will help in meeting our desperate need to change our course: Stimulate the economy. Save money. Help stop Global Warming. Works for me.

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Obama's Urban Policy Office: Role For Architects?

Chicago Tribune | Blair Kamin | Posted 12.14.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Obama Urban Policy Office, Valerie Jarrett, President Obama, Architecture, Obama Administration, Obama Transition, Obama Urban Policy, Architects Obama Administration, Richard Daley, Barack Obama, Chicago News

With a variety of news outlets reporting that Barack Obama will form an Office of Urban Policy to coordinate the new administration's efforts on citie...

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Urban Design After The Age Of Oil

WorldChanging | WorldChanging TeamNovember 9, 2008 8:36 PM | Posted 12.11.2008 | Home

Read More: Post-Oil Age, Environment, Oil, Architecture, Post-Oil, Urban Design, Urban Design After the Age of Oil, Oil Age, Green Design, Home News

A number of great journalists were covering last weekend's Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design After the Age of Oil symposium in Philadelphia. The Unive...

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Now is a Good Time to Visit (and Rescue!) the Most Stunningly Beautiful Modernist House in Illinois

Edward Lifson | Posted 11.15.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Mies Van Der Rohe, Architecture, Farnsworth House Cleanup, Chicago Architecture, Farnsworth House Flooded, Farnsworth House Tours, Landmarks Illinois, Farnsworth Flooding, Farnsworth House, Saving Farnsworth House, Farnsworth, Chicago News
Edward Lifson

Structure is the essence of architecture, good architecture is based on nature, and here it is beautifully abstracted. Autumn is a good time to see-- and save-- the Farnsworth House.

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