'Everything Loose Will Land'
Most (only?) daring exhibition of Getty's Pacific Standard Time Presents series also had finest catalog.MORE: Read the review
View ArticleCornfield Arroyo Seco Specific Plan
A zoning blueprint without parking requirements? In Los Angeles? I hope this catches on.
View Article'Never Built Los Angeles'
Curators Greg Goldin, Sam Lubell captured L.A.'s rising nostalgia for the days we dreamed bigger civic dreams.MORE: 'Never Built' buildings, real-life counterparts
View ArticleSteve McQueen at Schaulager
Show on artist-filmmaker in museum by Herzog + de Meuron was best art-architecture combo I saw all year.
View ArticleCitibike
Among other benefits, New York's bike-share system is great for 2-wheeled architecture tours. Too bad L.A.'s is stalled.
View ArticleWomen in Design
Harvard group launched petition to give Denise Scott Brown a Pritzker - and overdue discussion on gender, collaboration.MORE: Pritzker Prize jury won't retroactively honor Denise Scott Brown
View ArticleWorst of 2013:
Tempted of course to say MOCA's "A New Sculpturalism." But losing Goldberg's Prentice and Astrodome vote were bigger blows.MORE: 'A New Sculpturalism' review | Why the Astrodome is worth saving
View Article'Invisible Cities'
Opera based on Calvino novel let audience members roam through Union Station and see its architecture from a new POV.MORE: Scenes | Read the review
View Article4 World Trade Center
Fumihiko Maki's elegant design somehow emerged from the WTC rebuilding process with its charisma intact.
View Article'Her'
Cars and NIMBYs alike have been vanquished in Spike Jonze's mesmerizing L.A. of the near future, replaced by subways, skinny towers.MORE: Scenes from 'Her' | Read the review
View Article'Building Seagram'
Phyllis Lambert's book on the great Mies tower is a rare attempt to blend memoir with rigorous architectural history.
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