Exploring the Nature of Nature
By Andrew Caruso Tom Kundig, spoke at the National Building Museum as part of the Spotlight on Design lecture series. Kundig is the winner of the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design […]
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Bachelor Modern: Mid-Century Style in American Film
By Deborah Sorensen Do you have a mistress? Mistress? Isn’t that an old-fashioned term? It may be old-fashioned, but at least it’s specific! —The Moon is Blue (1953) Not long
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Eero Saarinen: Shaping Community
By Reed Haslach The mid-20th century coincided with the zenith of “high modernism” in architecture, marked by pure, abstract, and often monumental forms, especially in public and institutional buildings. While
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The Art of Drawing Architecture: An Interview with David Macaulay
This exploded view of the St. Paul’s cathedral dome for Building Big (2000) demonstrates how Macaulay’s illustration lifts the exterior off of a building to reveal its construction. Since 1973,
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Lessons in Arcology: An Interview with Paolo Soleri
By Susan Piedmont-Palladino The wide use of the term “green,” referring to sustainable design, is a relatively recent trend, but the idea that environmental concerns should be an integral and