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GREAT HOUSES OF HAVANA

Great Houses of Havana celebrates one hundred years of creativity, design, and style that made the city "the Paris of the Caribbean." For four ...

SMALL, GRITTY AND GREEN. THE PROMISE OF AMERICA'S SMALLER INDUSTRIAL CITIES IN A LOW- CARBON WORLD*

America's once-vibrant small-to-midsize cities--Syracuse, Worcester, Akron, Flint, Rockford, and others--increasingly resemble urban wastelands. Gutted by deindustrialization, outsourcing, and middle-class flight, disproportionately devastated by metro ...

LOOS: THE LOOSHAUS

When it was completed in 1911, the Goldman & Salatsch Building in Vienna, commonly known as the Looshaus, incited controversy for its austerity and ...

HARPER: CHARLEY HARPER. AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE

Charley Harper was an American original. For more than six decades he painted colorful and graphic illustrations of nature, animals, insects and people alike, ...

INVENTION OF THE PAST. INTERIOR DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE OF STUDIO PEREGALLI

The Milan-based interior design and architectural firm Studio Peregalli presents for the first time their breathtaking environments that capture the classic elegance of the ...

GENIUS OF PLACE : THE LIFE OF FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED

Frederick Law Olmsted is arguably the most important historical figure that the average American knows the least about. Best remembered for his landscape architecture, ...

MENUS FOR CHEZ PANISSE. THE ART AND LETTERPRESS OF PATRICIA CURTAN

Chez Panisse, a small restaurant in Berkeley, California, opened its doors in the summer of 1971. For forty years, the restaurant and its founder, ...

FREUD: ERNST L. FREUD, ARCHITECT. THE CASE OF THE MODERN BOURGEOIS HOME

Ernst L. Freud (1892-1970) was a son of Sigmund Freud and the father of painter Lucian Freud and the late Sir Clement Freud, politician ...

ARCHITECTURES OF BELONGING. INHABITING WORLDS IN RURAL WEST AFRICA

What is a house? What is dwelling? How can a house be a body? What does "being modern" mean in rural Africa? How are ...

GA JAPAN Nº 112. PLOT, SANAA, STUDIO TALK

MIKAN: SAVE THE DANCHI. MASS ESTATES- A PROJECT OF THE FUTURE. ARCHITEKTUR: POSITIONEN

In the decades following World War II, large residential developments like the Japanese "Danchi" became enormously popular, providing modern, affordable living space for rapidly ...

SOM JOURNAL Nº 7

SOM journal 7 is the most recent issue in a continuing series that presents the work of SOM in the context of a critical ...

ARCHITECTURE. A WOMAN'S PROFESSION

In the western world, the number of women studying architecture now roughly equals that of men. As women increasingly come to the fore as ...

DESIGN WITH THE OTHER 90%: CITIES

Half the world's population now resides in cities, which are expanding at an unprecedented rate. Close to one billion people live in crowded, unhealthy, ...

HUTTERREIMANN+ CEJKA: SPECIFIC LANDSCAPE

ART+ COM. MEDIA SPACES AND INSTALLATIONS

After more than two decades of digital communication the detailed review takes place beyond the screen: 'ART+COM - Media Spaces and Installations' explores the ...

SADAR+ VUGA: A REVIEW

Sadar + Vuga is a Slovenian architectural office whose first building, the headquarters of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce in Ljubljana, built in 1999, ...

TOWARD A NEW INTERIOR. AN ANTHOLOGY OF INTERIOR DESIGN THEORY

Interior design, as a relatively young discipline within the academic world of design, has historically been interpreted as an extension of other fine arts. ...

OAK. ONE TREE, THREE YEARS, FIFTY PAINTINGS

It was an exercise to learn how to see, to understand just one thing in its greatest detail. Stephen Taylor came across the 250-year-old ...

AFTER TASTE. EXPANDED PRACTICE IN INTERIOR DESIGN

What is taste? This well-curated collection documents new theories and emerging critical practices in the field of interior design. It investigates taste, a concept ...