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Bruce Mau Makes the Case That We’re All Designers

Review: "MAU," a film by Benji and Jono Bergmann

June 29, 2022

"MAU," a documentary by Benji and Jono Bergmann, delves into the famed designer's difficult past and grand plans to better humanity.

Salone del Mobile Triumphantly Returns for its 60th Edition

Design influences range from the street to the heights of luxury

Andrew Ayers

June 10, 2022

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After numerous pandemic-related delays, Milan's mythic Salone del Mobile is back in full force with designs inspired by everything from street furniture to luxury spaces.

"American Framing" Returns to Wood Framing’s Geographic and Cultural Origin

Back from the Venice Biennale, the show is a mediation on the most common way we build

Zach Mortice

May 17, 2022

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The exhibition, first displayed at the Venice Architecture Biennale, is a simple and soulful mediation that resonates powerfully from its new venue in Chicago.

The Art of the Oblique: The Drawings of Claude Parent

“Claude Parent Oblique Narratives No. 1" is on view at Gallery a83 until July 3

Joseph Giovannini

May 10, 2022

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A new exhibition in New York showcases influential yet little-known drawings by the late Parisian artist and architect.

Frank Gehry: Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings, Volume 1, 1954–1978, by Jean- Louis Cohen.

Frank Gehry Gets the Star Treatment in Two New Books by Jean-Louis Cohen

Review: 'Frank Gehry: Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings, Volume 1,' and 'Frank Gehry: The Masterpieces'

Victoria Newhouse

May 10, 2022

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The noted historian and critic delves into the long career of Frank Gehry in two books, one a comprehensive presentation of his drawings, the other a synoptic monograph of built work.

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Chicago Exhibition Interrogates Design Justice and the Legacy of Racism

Review: “You Are A(nti) Racist,” Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College

Michele Y. Washington

April 13, 2022

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At Columbia College's Glass Curtain Gallery, the DAP Collective asks viewers to question their assumptions about racial justice and the built environment.

Review of 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a House'

By Stella Betts and David Leven with essays by Thomas de Monchaux

Nader Tehrani

April 7, 2022

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For 2007 Design Vanguard firm LevenBetts, the house remains a fundamental site for advancing modern architectural theory and practice.

A Hidden History of Los Angeles's Famed Stahl House

Review: 'The Stahl House: Case Study House #22: The Making of a Modernist Icon,' by Bruce Stahl and Shari Stahl Gronwald with Kim Cross

Sarah Amelar

April 6, 2022

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A new book reveals the untold stories and little-known characters behind one of the most recognizable mid-century modern homes in the world.

In New Exhibit, Architecture Bridges the U.S.-China Divide

Review: "Building in China: A Century of Dialogues on Modern Architecture,” at the University of Pennsylvania’s Fisher Fine Arts Library, Philadelphia

Clifford A. Pearson

March 24, 2022

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Beginning with a group of 23 Chinese architects who studied at Penn in the 1920s, the show looks back at a century of mutual influences.

A Flawed MoMA Exhibition Erases the Social Context of South Asian Modernism

Review: “The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947 – 1985” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York

Ranjani Srinivasan

March 4, 2022

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“The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947 – 1985,” on view at the Museum of Modern Art, ignores the failings of modernist design and planning.