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Quiet Musings: Michael Govan
A series of new architecture commissions and exhibitions suggests that museums might no longer be in the business of pageantry. In this third, and final, part of a series examining the notion of the post-spectacle museum, Architonic meets Michael Govan, director and CEO of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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A Railroad Runs Through It
When Manhattan's High Line – a disused section of freight railtrack turned magical stretch of urban park – opened in 2009, New Yorkers took to the sky. But Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s innovative conversion of the former train corridor was always about more than just elevated promenading. To coincide with this year's ICFF, Architonic discusses the High Line's role as architectural catalyst for its environs with some of the key figures who've helped to shape its transformation.
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Pedestal Placement: Design PR
An architect has just completed a building that, after three years’ labor, she still finds fascinating; a product designer wants to discuss the materials research that went into a long-span table, and not just have it featured in a shopping round-up.
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Chris Redfern: Echoes of Ettore
Chris Redfern shouldn’t worry himself about youth. The British-born designer is only 36. For one-third of his life he has worked with Ettore Sottsass. And since Sottsass’ death in December 2007, Redfern has deftly led the studio in closing one chapter and starting a new one.
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Unsung America: Pop!Tech
Pop!Tech is a yearly conference held in Camden, Maine. Andrew Zolli will tell you, though, that it’s really a community of innovators whose ongoing dialogue just happens to culminate in the annual retreat.
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Quiet Musings: Brad Cloepfil
A series of new architecture commissions and exhibitions suggests that museums are no longer in the business of pageantry. In this second part of a series examining post-spectacle museums, architect Brad Cloepfil talks about the phenomenon of 'collecting' cultural architecture, and how his own museum designs aim both for spectacle and counterpoint with it.
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Sarasota Revisited: Architonic explores the architectural legacy of Florida's Modernist gem of a city
The 'Sarasota School of Architecture' was coined as an historical term by architect Gene Leedy in the 1980s to describe the unique mid-century, European-Modernism-meets-Florida architecture of the city. Here, we examine how the physical legacy of progressive architectural practice in Sarasota has (and sometimes hasn't) been preserved and reinterpreted.
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Peter Cook: On Lines and Shadows
I am riffing off the term “unsung” with architect Peter Cook. “I feel very appreciated professionally and personally,” responds this principal at the New York–based firm Davis Brody Bond Aedas.
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Unsung America - Bruce Fifield: Fanny-tastic
“The first two minutes of a person’s interaction with a chair are incredibly important to how a person judges that chair and compares it to other products on the marketplace.”
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Unsung America - Maine Journal: Like Father, Not Like Son
As a teenager, I remember flipping through the back pages of The New York Times Magazine and stumbling across advertisements for Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers.
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Quiet Musings: Andres Lepik
A series of new architecture commissions and exhibitions suggests that museums might no longer be in the business of pageantry. In this first part of a short series examining post-spectacle museums, Museum of Modern Art contemporary architecture curator Andres Lepik discusses his new show 'Small Scale, Big Change', and how its earnest perspective aligns with his department’s vision.
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'Form follows fear': in conversation with Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt
Architonic talks to Miami-based artists Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt about the relation between art and architecture, and how public space has become more contested than ever.
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Sara Sheth: Weaving Vision and Elbow Grease
If you ever receive an invitation to explore the inner workings of Maharam’s New York headquarters, accept quickly. This all-white office space is clearly the domain of a laudable neatnik.
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Maine Journal: Outward Bound
Where are the local architects? Sourcing furniture through Addo Novo, perhaps.
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Maine Journal: Needles in Haystack
Driving along Maine’s intestinal coastline, words and phrases like “bottom line” and “hardscrabble” appear in street and farm names. Appropriate: The local climate can be challenging, and its craggy land able to drive an Anne Proulx character to madness.
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Over Site: how Caracas's new cable-car system is making the city's favelas more visible
Once so disenfranchised that they didn't even appear on maps of the city, Caracas's favelas are, thanks to projects such as the technically and politically remarkable MetroCable transport system in San Agustín, acquiring a social legitimacy. Here, we talk to architect Alfredo Brillembourg, co-founder of the multidisciplinary practice Urban Think Tank, about the development of the cable-car system and how it works to fill in those cartographic blanks.
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The Unlimited Ambition of Limited-Edition Design: in conversation with Ambra Medda and Craig Robins
Love it or hate it, limited-edition design has proved over the last few years that it's more than just a passing trend. No one event has done more to encourage the growth of this particular market than Design Miami. With its European edition, Design Miami Basel, fast approaching, Architonic caught up with director Ambra Medda and co-founder Craig Robins to survey the 'design-art' landscape and do some future-gazing.
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Garth Roberts: On His Own Terms
There is a roughly 50-50 chance of meeting up with Garth Roberts in Milan. Like so many product designers nowadays Roberts darts from client meeting to seminar to fellowship with seeming disregard for international borders.
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Maine Journal
No design tour of Maine is complete without a stop in Portland. This tiny city is the largest in the state. Somehow, that’s emblematic: Despite all its efforts to be cosmopolitan, muscular coastline and forests are always nearby.
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Unsung America: Less Callous in Calais
In searching for an American design, one may as well start at a bookend. The sun rises over Calais, Maine, the easternmost city in the United States. But it has set here, too.
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