“Sustainability” has been variously defined, as was clearly illustrated at the recent United Nations Earth Summit in Johannesburg. When discussed...
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In 1995, “Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design” introduced Paola Antonelli to visitors of New York City‘s Museum of Modern Art....
The scientific study of materials (material science), architecture, and product design—each seeks to understand and manipulate the fundamental character and...
Marcel Wanders, Airborne Snotty Vase, photo by Maarten Van Houten. Take a look at many of the great pioneers in...
Benedikt, Michael. For an Architecture of Reality. New York: Lumen Books (1987). Seeking a vocabulary for material presence. Blaser, Werner....
“Incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial,” Hamilton Burger used to say, on the old Perry Mason show. “Immaterial,” here, meant “of no...
Relatively unknown architect of California modernism, Jack Hillmer, is a dedicated modernist whose predominant influence, Frank Lloyd Wright, tempered Hillmer’s...
Ninth Street Office Building, Santa Monica David Lawrence Gray Architects Probably the most “under the radar” aspect of David Lawrence...
A sampling of recent books by California architects and architecture school faculty: Paul Adamson and Marty Arbunich. Eichler: Modernism Rebuilds...
One of the primary and ongoing strategic needs for the architectural design practice is to market its services. After all,...
As work went down to the wire on the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, architect Susan...
Learning Resource Center, Mission College, Santa Clara Architect: MBT Architecture General Contractor: Lathrop Construction Associates Community colleges have unique...
