Articles by Fred A. Bernstein

Image ' Lebbeus Woods and Christoph a. Kumpusch A pavilion designed by Woods in collaboration with Christoph a. Kumpusch is under construction in Chengdu, China. Four stories high, it is a riot of angled steel beams housed in polycarbonate sleeves containing LEDs. Photo courtesy Christoph a. Kumpusch The pavilion is part of a giant mixed-use development by Steven Holl, a longtime friend of Woods. “I was never in love with drawing,” says Lebbeus Woods, sipping a cocktail in his apartment in Manhattan’s Financial District. “I drew because I wanted to express ideas.” Downstairs, construction work on Nassau Street has revealed

Diller Scofidio + Renfro will design the first residential tower for Hudson Yards, a megaproject adjacent to the acclaimed New York City park.

With the Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas, David Schwarz brings an earnest take on a historical style to the capital of pastiche. The Smith Center for the Performing Arts by David M. Schwarz Architects  The Smith Center neighbors Frank Gehry's Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. These days, Las Vegas is best known for its themed casinos (Luxor, Paris, New York, New York) and their intentionally cartoonish buildings. Architects tend to be appalled. In that context, it’s easy to dismiss the Smith Center for the Performing Arts as another ersatz vision for Las Vegas. Unlike the

Henry Urbach Photo © Winni Wintermeyer Henry Urbach, a one-time gallery owner who most recently was curator of architecture and design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, will be moving to New Canaan, Connecticut. He has just been named director of the Glass House, the Philip Johnson estate now owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. (He succeeds the interim director, Rena Zurofsky, and founding director, Chisty MacLear.) Fred Bernstein: Did you visit the Glass House while Philip was alive? Henry Urbach: In 2001, when I was running the gallery in New York [Henry Urbach Architecture], I was invited

At New York's Museum of Modern Art, Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream proposes five solutions to the disconnect between the housing Americans need and the housing America offers. Rendering of Studio Gang Architects’ The Garden in the Machine project for Cicero, Illinois. Click on the slide show button to view additional images. Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of MOS Architects present at the Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream Open Studios at P.S.1 in 2011. At 2,500 square feet, The Museum of Modern Art’s Robert and Joyce Menschel Gallery, site of the exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, is about the

Cornell University topped the competition to build a new tech campus with an SOM design that aims to generate more energy than it uses. Click on the slide show button to view additional images. When New York City named Cornell University and The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology winners of its highly touted competition for a new “tech campus,” there were cheers in Ithaca and Haifa. Also celebrating were architects in the New York office of Skidmore Owings and Merrill, whose design for the campus, on the south end of Roosevelt Island, were part of Cornell and Technion’s proposal. Among the

Brothers Dominic Leong and Chris Leong became architects for the only reason that matters: They couldn’t imagine doing anything else.

An aesthetic that mined the past gets a historical consideration of its own at a New York City symposium. Photo ' Alexander Gorlin Architect Alexander Gorlin snapped this photo of Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture dean Mark Wigley (left, foreground) watching New Urbanism impresario Andrés Duany speak at the two-day conference. “Postmodernism” entered the architectural discourse 36 years ago—in an essay by the British polymath Charles Jencks. Lately, Jencks said, he has been enjoying a holiday from the term he introduced. “I was sick and tired of it.” But his vacation has been interrupted by a spate of retrospectives,

Weeks before its grand opening, Safdie gives a behind-the-scenes tour of Alice Walton’s museum of American art.