Articles by Sarah Amelar

Newsmaker: Eva Franch I Gilabert

May 16, 2010

Photo courtesy Eva Franch i Gilabert Eva Franch i Gilabert Following a four-month international search, the Storefront for Art and Architecture has named Eva Franch i Gilabert its new director. The announcement came on May 10, after the organization’s board vetted more than 70 contenders, according to Storefront’s Web site, acknowledging the “overwhelm[ing] breadth and depth of candidates who applied from around the world.” A Catalan architect, researcher, and teacher, Franch i Gilabert, 31, is founder of the solo practice OOAA (office of architectural affairs). During the past two years, she directed the Masters Thesis studio at Rice University, where

A+D Museum Finally Lands a Permanent Home

Sarah Amelar

April 22, 2010

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Since its start, in 2001, A+D Architecture and Design Museum has been a vagabond, migrating from one donated (i.e.: rent-free) space to another, staying for as long as three years and, once, unexpectedly, a single night. But the museum will finally wrap up that nomadic journey, on April 27, with the opening of its first permanent home, at 6032 Wilshire Boulevard, in Los Angeles. Image courtesy A+D Architecture and Design Museum A+D Architecture and Design Museum A+D was the brainchild of Stephen Kanner, FAIA, and Joe Addo, AIA, inspired by a design museum in Finland and their volunteer experience, under

Lorcan O'Herlihy Paints the Town Blue

Sarah Amelar

April 8, 2010

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Few municipal transit fleets have cruised through popular culture like the Big Blue Bus (BBB) of Santa Monica, California. “The blue bus is callin’ us. . . . ,” insisted Jim Morrison in the Doors song “The End.” A later model, starring in the 1994 movie Speed, careened through city streets, at risk of detonating a bomb if it slowed down. Image © Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects and Bruce Mau Design Click on the slide show icon to see additional photos. While the busses—colorful descendents of Santa Monica’s original blue livery jitney, from 1928—have been highly visible, the bus stops haven’t

In Memoriam: Raimund Johann Abraham (1933-2010)

Sarah Amelar

March 9, 2010

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Photo courtesy SCI-Arc Raimund J. Abraham Raimund J. Abraham, an Austrian-born architect and educator, remembered as an unflinchingly independent thinker, died in a traffic crash on March 4th. The early-morning collision between the car he was driving and a city bus came after the dinner following a lecture he’d given at SCI-Arc, where he was currently visiting faculty. He was 76 years old. Known for his bladelike Austrian Cultural Forum building [RECORD, August 2002], in New York, and his forceful, deeply textured, often visionary hand-drawings, Abraham was most of all a passionate and influential teacher. Closely allied with John Hejduk’s

High School #9

Coop Himmelb(l)au's eclectic design for High School #9 in Los Angeles is ambitious. But does it succeed?

Sarah Amelar

January 19, 2010

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High School #9 commandeers your attention, even as you’re zooming along the Hollywood Freeway in central Los Angeles.

Les Bains des Docks

Le Havre, France

Sarah Amelar

August 19, 2009

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With Les Bains des Docks, a serene oasis on Le Havre's gritty waterfront, Ateliers Jean Nouvel reinvents the public pool.

Ateliers Jean Nouvel Les Bains des Docks Project Portfolio

Sarah Amelar

August 19, 2009

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Project Specs Les Bains des Docks Le Havre, France Ateliers Jean Nouvel << Return to article the People Architect Atelier Jean Nouvel Partner in charge: Mirco Tardio Project architect design: Julie Fernandez Project architect construction: Felix Medina Engineer(s): Sero Le Havre Consultant(s) Lighting: AIK Yann Kersalé exterior Acoustical: Avel Other: Alain Bony artist the Products Glazing Glass: Pilkington Interior finishes Floor and wall tile: Trend Plumbing Fountain: Futura Play Water Slide: Spot Adhesives: Cegecol

Julius Shulman: Remembering the Illustrious Photographer

Sarah Amelar

July 28, 2009

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Through the lens of Julius Shulman—that’s how many of us have experienced the iconic mid-century Modernist houses of Southern California. Most famous for his portrayal of Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House #22, in 1960, and Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann House, in 1947, Shulman’s prodigious body of work is quintessential: luminous and memorably composed images, highly evocative of time and place. “He had an incredible eye,” recalls photographer Juergen Nogai, who worked closely with Shulman in recent years, “a vision for telling a story, sometimes in a single photo.”

Paul Rudolph Hall and Jeffery H. Loria Center for the History of Art Project Portfolio

Sarah Amelar

February 19, 2009

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Gwathmey Siegel and Associates Architects Gwathmey Siegel Associates sparks controversy with an addition to Paul Rudolph's Yale Art and Architecture Building. Though Paul Rudolph’s newly renovated Art and Architecture Building at Yale has emerged as an object of admiration, if not adoration, it generated controversy—as rough-edged as its bush-hammered concrete shell—from the moment it opened. Anticipated as a great heroic masterwork by the university’s gifted and legendary chairman of architecture, the Art and Architecture (or A&A) Building was greeted from its completion, in 1963, with a decisive mix of acclaim and disdain. While The New York Times architecture critic, Ada

Paul Rudolph Hall and Jeffery H. Loria Center for the History of Art

Gwathmey Siegel Associates sparks controversy with an addition to Paul Rudolph's Yale Art and Architecture Building.

Sarah Amelar

February 19, 2009

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Though Paul Rudolph’s newly renovated Art and Architecture Building at Yale has emerged as an object of admiration, if not adoration, it generated controversy—as rough-edged as its bush-hammered concrete shell—from the moment it opened.