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Home » Authors » Alexander Gorlin, FAIA

Alexander Gorlin, FAIA

Alexander Gorlin, FAIA, has his own practice in New York.

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Countryside-the future

Rem to the Rescue: Review of 'Countryside, The Future'

Alexander Gorlin, FAIA
February 24, 2020
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The exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, on view until August 14, raises more questions than it answers.
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Waterfront Toronto

Winners Announced for Toronto Park Competitions

Victoria Newhouse Alexander Gorlin, FAIA
October 10, 2018
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Claude Cormier et Associés, wHY Architecture, and Brook McIlroy have been selected for projects at York Street Park and Rees Street Park, both along the city's waterfront.


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Housing as Intervention: Architecture Towards Social Equity

Housing as Intervention: Architecture Towards Social Equity

By Karen Kubey
Alexander Gorlin, FAIA
October 10, 2018
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This compendium of 16 essays, edited by housing specialist Karen Kubey, explores strategies architects are using to address the global housing crisis.


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West Riverfront Park

Michael Van Valkenburgh and David Adjaye Win International Landscape Competition for Detroit’s West Riverfront Park

Victoria Newhouse Alexander Gorlin, FAIA
April 10, 2018
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The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy named the pair winners of a $50-million competition to redesign a 22-acre park along the Detroit River.


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In Situ:

Monographs in Disguise

Alexander Gorlin, FAIA
December 1, 2015
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At a time when bookstores are a nostalgic throwback to the past, and Rizzoli, known so well for its architectural monographs, has just published Kim Kardashian West: Selfish, these six serious tomes present a brave face to the future.


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Amnesia at Chartres

Alexander Gorlin, FAIA
February 15, 2015
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The controversial restoration of the interiors of a sacrosanct cathedral elicits a call to action. Among modern architects, Chartres Cathedral, largely built in the first half of the 13th century, holds a special place. Philip Johnson famously said, “I would rather sleep in Chartres Cathedral, with the nearest toilet two blocks away, than in a Harvard house with back-to-back bathrooms.” (He first visited Chartres at age 13 with his mother, but the comparison came after he attended Harvard.) Much later, Johnson remarked, “I don't see how anybody can go into the nave of Chartres Cathedral and not burst into tears.”
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Long Island Modernism: 1930–1980

Alexander Gorlin, FAIA
April 16, 2013
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By Caroline Rob Zaleski. W.W. Norton, 2012, 336 pages, $80. This fascinating book is as much a social history as a documentation of architects working on Long Island during the period of “high Modernism,” when ideology was considered as important as space and form. Organized in chapters devoted to individual architects, rather than in a coherent thematic order, the book includes a surprising number of well-known architects who built on Long Island, such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Antonin Raymond, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, Paul Rudolph, and Marcel Breuer. Disappointing, although not entirely unexpected, is the almost total
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Polishing Stirling

Alexander Gorlin, FAIA
December 16, 2010
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Within Louis Kahn’s burnished steel jewel box, the Yale Center for British Art at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, is a remarkable exhibition of the recently forgotten British architect Sir James Stirling.


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Does size matter when it comes to design offices and quality?

Alexander Gorlin, FAIA
April 16, 2007
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Today, it’s different for architects such as Gehry, whose late work has been compared to sculpture and who has been called the Michelangelo of his age. Such comparisons imply that he alone is the final arbiter of each curve and arc. His late work recalls James Stirling’s calling Ronchamp “a masterpiece of a unique and most personal order.” As opposed to Mies’s right-angled vocabulary of construction, which created a school of followers, Gehry’s work even now is untouchable in its hermetic formulas, however open and approachable it is for the public. After the enormous success of the Guggenheim in Bilbao,
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Does size matter when it comes to design offices and quality?

Alexander Gorlin, FAIA
April 16, 2007
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Once upon a time, Le Corbusier sat in his single-room office alone, pencil in hand, solemnly pondering an architectural problem, “face to face with himself, the wrestling of Jacob and the Angel within the human soul,” as he explained in volume eight of Oeuvres Complètes. About one project he wrote, “This took a long time to develop, the design worked upon and caressed in days of perfect calm.” His famous dictum was “creation is a patient search.” Each new edition of the Oeuvres Complètes was eagerly anticipated, and although it would come out only every few years with a limited
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