Resdesign the dollar bill and win an iPad · 19 August, 02:30 PM by Archlog
The Dollar ReDe$ign Project offers just this opportunity, but hurry, deadline is September 30. Print a few extra for yourself before sending your winning entry to the Mint.
Grimaldis to be forced out? · 11 August, 04:01 PM by Archlog
The Wall Street Journal reports that Brooklyn’s most famous pizzeria (well, OK, one of its most famous, don’t want to start a pizza war here) faces eviction for falling behind on rent and taxes. (And without much sympathy from WSJ readers, check out the comments there!)
The "Artless Drawings" of Neil Denari · 5 June, 12:15 PM by Archlog
The curious title of an exhibition of the drawings of Neil Denari, which opens at the ACE Gallery in L.A. on Sunday (June 8) at 5514 Wilshire Blvd. The drawings are from the period 1982-1996, were made, gasp, before the era of computer-aided-drafting, but already anticipate the vocabulary of computer renderings we now know so well. Denari’s work is the subject of the monograph Gyroscopic Horizons.
Jon Stewart on the BEA and the "death of publishing." · 1 June, 10:24 AM by Archlog
In New York, Stewart quips that “Garrison Keillor wrote in a Times op-ed yesterday that the publishing industry is dead.” And I thought, ‘Thank God, I don’t have to get up early tomorrow morning.’” Amen to that.
Richard Meier's model museum · 10 May, 09:10 AM by Archlog
Thanks to RF for this link on Daily Dose about Richard Meier’s model museum in Long Island City, where the famed modernist is stockpiling all the models created by his practice in the last 40+ years. Open on Fridays by appointment only, looks like a definite field trip in the near future!
Giuseppe Lignano's Chelsea studio featured in Wall St. Journal · 10 May, 08:12 AM by Archlog
If you wonder how one of the principals of LO/TEK turned his “drab” London Terrace apartment into something functional and chic, the Wall Street Journal’s new New York Section will show you how. In spite of this bit of architectural voyeurism worthy of the New York Times Home section, the WSJ’s take on New York is often smart and well-done, and features the perceptive and often hilarious insights of Ralph Gardner, whose writing about New York (from jonesing free samples at Kiehl’s to this too-true piece about the annoying TV screens in the back of taxis) is closer to the life many of us experience on a daily basis here in NYC than most “today in the city” musings you might read.
Architectural crits for $5?! · 24 March, 03:52 PM by Archlog
Thanks to RF for this link to a new site, fiverr.com, where people advertise goods and services for $5. Including, why not, architectural crits. Makes me worry I wasted 3 years and $150,000 if I could’ve had critiques on my schedule and in the privacy of my own home for only a fiver! Inflation seems to have killed the nickel bag, though: I searched on “pot,” and turned up only a dozen or so recipes for mashed potatoes. I’ll give you mine for free: boil several medium-sized potatoes (usually n+1 if n is the number of people you’re serving), smash with a potato masher or fork, whisk in olive oil, soy milk (or whole cream if you’re not vegan), butter or margarine, and lots of fresh or roasted garlic if you like. Top with chives or other fresh herbs. There, saved you $5!
Ai Weiwei exhibit at Arcadia University in Philadelphia · 24 March, 03:05 PM by Archlog
Why is this show at Arcadia University of Chinese conceptual artist, architect, photographer, and curator Ai Weiwei, his first outside New York, not more in the news? Arcadia hosted Obama’s fiery health care speech that many think turned the tide on the reform bill signed yesterday, so it’s hard to imagine they would step back from trumpeting the show in the face of the fierce criticism Ai attracts, especially from Chinese authorities. It is, to quote Joe Biden, a big Effing deal, to host a show of the man the Guardian calls China’s most famous living artist, and “the Chinese Andy Warhol.” Although China shut down his blogs, you can follow Ai on twitter.
A glowing review of Architecture from the Outside In · 24 March, 02:54 PM by Archlog
ArchNewsNow has a glowing review of the new collection of Bob Gutman’s essays, Architecture from the Outside In, a reference to Gutman’s position as one of the most gifted observers of the profession, even if as an “outsider” (Gutman was a sociologist by training, not an architect).
Steven Holl on Raimund Abraham · 5 March, 03:58 PM by Archlog
Steven Holl sent this appreciation of Raimund Abraham, on hearing of his death in L.A. on Wednesday:
I sit here in New York in shock of Raimund Abraham’s death…after the email arrived from Eric Moss…a call from Leb Woods….I call Mark Mack and tell him, he is struck silent with shock…he had planned to attend the lecture but….I think back to 1976 at the Architecture Association where I first encountered Raimund. It was a lecture moderated by Alvin Boyarsky. I think Elia and Rem were in the audience as was all of their studio,Unit 9, which included the then unknown Zaha. Raimund had a big fedora on his head,he was smoking a cigar (in those days you could smoke in a lecture) After the presentation, he got into a nasty argument…if I recall correctly it was with Peter Eisenman—-I thought he was an egotistical fool—until I saw his mesmerizing drawings. The poetry of architecture was alive in his drawings. Much later at Cooper Union in New York, I encountered him in reviews with students sitting on the edges of their chairs. It was always very tense with John Hejduk and Raimund at Cooper. There was no sense of humor. It was all emotional dedication to architecture. John Hedjuk was the Pope, Raimund the Bishop…Cooper was a monastery. In those days New York architecture culture was poisoned by Robert Stern and Philip Johnson…they were so very fickle, changing styles with any commercial wind. The AT&T building by Philip Johnson was completed on Madison Avenue. Then Philip changed his style again to build the “lipstick “building at 885 Third Ave. Philip could be very funny in public speaking….sort of making me sick. I would go down to Cooper Union to survive. Cooper Union was like no other place on earth…it had an intensity that you could taste and smell…the serious dedication to Architecture was obsessive with John and Raimund….With their passionate teaching and argumentative presence they forged a unique moment in the history of architectural education. It was hard to love Raimund…he was so very severe. …but when you encountered him,you knew you were in the presence of someone vary rare…you were in the presence of a soul …with conviction. He certainly will be missed.
—- Steven Holl 3/4/10
(Reproduced here with permission of S. Holl.)
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