There’s an interesting debate in the New York Times about when/if it’s okay to demolish buildings that may have aesthetic or historic significance. The debate was sparked by a controversy over whether or not a government building with numerous structural flaws (at left) in New York state could/should be torn down. Those who argue to…
Google Street View, which in the past created the Google Art Project, now offers the armchair tourist two new areas to explore: the Amazon River and Rain Forest or famous Russian buildings and parks. The unveiling of the Amazon collection coincides with World Forestry Day (March 21) and World Water Day (March 22) 2012 and…
Among the Getty Conservation Institute‘s current projects is the Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative (CMAI), “a comprehensive, long-term, and international program…to advance the practice of conserving twentieth-century heritage, with a focus on modern architecture.” This includes the Eames House (Case Study House No. 8; photo above), but the CMAI website includes an image gallery and related…
Columbia University Professor of Architecture Kenneth Frampton will be giving the 2012 Albert Frey lecture today, March 16, at 6:00 at the Loma Pelona Center. The lecture is entitled “Megaform as Urban Landscape,” and “seeks to trace the emergence of the megaform as a potential critical strategy for dealing with the de facto, space endlessness…
Update to our post from December 2011 on the recent publication by UCSB architectural historian Prof. Volker Welter, Ernst L. Freud, Architect: The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home: A new essay in the online journal Berfrois (“Intellectual Jousting in the Republic of Letters”) elaborates with a personal angle.
This past summer we mentioned that Richard Neutra’s Kronish House could be set for demolition — a move fought by Neutra’s son Dion among others. This week the Beverly Hills City Council voted not only to set new rules for demolishing or altering structures at least 45 years old and designed by a “city-recognized architect,”…