Results: 21

Yes We Can: debating the future of American design

David Sokol

14.05.2013

A recent panel discussion at Washington DC’s International Design Festival got to grips with the somewhat provocative question, “What Happened to American Design?”, the implication being it doesn't enjoy the singular, coherent identity of other

Quiet Musings: Michael Govan

David Sokol

12.05.2011

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

Quiet Musings: Brad Cloepfil

David Sokol

25.02.2011

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

Quiet Musings: Andres Lepik

David Sokol

30.11.2010

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

Over Site: how Caracas's new cable-car system is making ...

David Sokol

29.07.2010

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,

A Railroad Runs Through It

David Sokol

28.05.2010

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 the innovative conversion of the former train corridor by James Corner Field Operations

Sarasota Revisited: Architonic explores the architectural ...

David Sokol

15.05.2010

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

'Form follows fear': in conversation with Roberto ...

David Sokol

28.04.2010

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.

The Unlimited Ambition of Limited-Edition Design: in ...

David Sokol

13.04.2010

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

Pedestal Placement: Design PR

David Sokol

18.09.2009

This column features public-relations agents who work with the design industries

Peter Cook: On Lines and Shadows

David Sokol

05.08.2009

Peter Cook is a Washington, DC–based principal of Davis Brody Bond Aedas

Sara Sheth: Weaving Vision and Elbow Grease

David Sokol

14.07.2009

In a post-Milan jaunt we meet Sara Sheth, an in-house designer for the textile manufacturer Maharam

Garth Roberts: On His Own Terms

David Sokol

09.06.2009

Garth Roberts runs his product design studio, garth, from Milan, Berlin, and (sometimes) New York

Chris Redfern: Echoes of Ettore

David Sokol

19.05.2009

In the second of our three-part intermission, we meet long-time Sottsass Associati principal designer Chris Redfern

Unsung America - Bruce Fifield: Fanny-tastic

David Sokol

22.04.2009

“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.”

Maine Journal: Outward Bound

David Sokol

12.03.2009

Some parting thoughts about Maine, and the road trip to come

Maine Journal

David Sokol

11.02.2009

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.

Unsung America: Pop!Tech

David Sokol

28.01.2009

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.

Unsung America - Maine Journal: Like Father, Not Like Son

David Sokol

10.12.2008

David Moser is product development manager of Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers

Maine Journal: Needles in Haystack

David Sokol

03.12.2008

Stuart Kestenbaum is director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

Unsung America: Less Callous in Calais

David Sokol

26.11.2008

The new land port of entry in Calais, Maine, is designed by Robert Siegel Architects