06.22.10:
Alice T. Friedman
Modern Architecture for the "American Century"
On Places, an excerpt from Alice Friedman's
American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture, on Eero Saarinen's iconic projects for General Motors and TWA, and the rise and fall — and rise — of the architect's reputation.
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03.15.10:
Robert Taylor
Words and Pictures
On Places, architect Robert Taylor reviews Fumihiko Maki's collected essays and Shigeru Ban's latest monograph.
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03.06.10:
Nancy Levinson
Critical Beats
On Places, Nancy Levinson argues that the fundamental dilemma of architecture criticism is the rise of the global beat — dateline: placeless.
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03.01.10:
Ian Baldwin
Reading Rudolph
On Places, architect Ian Baldwin reviews
Paul Rudolph: Writings on Architecture, and makes a compelling case for looking anew at several important but neglected projects.
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02.24.10:
Robert Bruegmann
The Architect as Urbanist: Part 1
On Places, architectural historian Robert Bruegmann argues that the later and lesser known work of Paul Rudolph — best known for his architecture building at Yale — deserves renewed attention.
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02.04.10:
Timothy Mennel
Working for the People
Completing his doctorate in geography, Timothy Mennel produced not a typical dissertation but
Everything Must Go: A Novel of Robert Moses's New York. On Places, read an excerpt, in which Moses and Frank Lloyd Wright take a drive through Harlem and the Bronx.
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11.11.09:
Gavin Browning
it is what it is
Gavin Browning reviews
it is what is is, the 1,000-page monograph of the work of the New York-based multidisciplinary design firm 2x4.
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