Redesign, for decades stigmatized by Modernist purists as an inferior architectural specialty reserved for the artistically timid and creatively challenged, has finally become a legitimate part of ...

History’s Critique of Memory For some time, historians and philosophers have attacked as “neurasthenic and disabling” the “surfeit of memory,” in the historian Charles Maier’s words. 1 Memory’s ...

Both contemporary minimal art and the terms of beginning design exercises frame the possibilities of creative endeavor on the specific attributes of a set of physical elements. The “syntactical” and ...

After the House, beyond the Nuclear Family: Berlin’s New Baugruppen Recent examples of joint building ventures, or Baugruppen, in Germany point the way for bottom-up strategies to change urban ...

Perhaps the most telling thing I found is that the definition of a charrette has changed. Most professional architects now equate charrettes with interactive brainstorming sessions. These kinder, ...

The Sensation of the Object The object is surely dead. The sensation of the object is of first importance. — Paul Klee To transform space . . . it is first necessary to eliminate rigid objects, ...

Architects of whatever ethical stripes were not immune to these concerns. The cascade of public sentiment and the lobbying by interested parties precipitated action among legislatures for state ...

Casey Cadwallader (left) with Hunter Schafer (center) preparing for shooting of the Mugler Spring Summer 2021 Part 02 Film. That season’s show took the form of a film that was released entirely ...

Adolf Loos suffered from progressive hearing loss. As a child, his hearing was poor, and by the time he reached his mid-50s, his condition had deteriorated to the point that he became dependent on a ...

Is it still true that theory on the American East Coast retains such preeminence? I realize that it is one of the intentions of the Berlage Institute’s new doctoral program and of the creation of the ...

Dogma, proposal for the transformation of an office block, Brussels, Belgium, 2014. Beyond simply offering refuge, the goal of the house has always been to create the possibility of frictionless ...

Despite over half a century of psycho-sociological research, the formation of identity at both an individual and a group level, along with the artificial stimulation of desire, jointly remain among the ...