JFK’s historic TWA terminal to be converted into a hotel and conference center
Andre Balazs, to convert JFK’s historic TWA terminal into a hotel and conference center "The Eero Saarinen-designed terminal will be transformed into a hotel and conference center, along with food and beverage offerings, retail space, a spa and fitness center,...
The Controversy Regarding the Restoration of Eileen Gray’s E.1027
‘A house is NOT a machine to live in,’ Eileen Gray The Wall Street Journal recently detailed the complex history of E-1027, the house which Eileen Gray designed in Southern France. The article discusses how one of the 20th century's most important historic...
Billboard in Lima Harvests Drinking Water Out of Thin Air
Billboard in Lima, Peru Harvests Drinking Water Out of Thin Air "According to the UN, about 60% of the world’s population will be living in cities within the next 8 years – a human migration that adds more and more strain on cities’ sanitation and resources. One of...
Women in Architecture: Lina Bo Bardi
Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) ‘The artist’s freedom has always been “individual”, but true freedom can only be collective. A freedom aware of social responsibilities, which can knock down the frontiers of aesthetics…’ Lina Bo Bardi The coming together of skill and...
Women in Architecture: Julia Morgan
Julia Morgan (1872-1957) In 1904, Julia Morgan became the first woman licensed architect in California. She was a successful and prolific architect during the first half of the twentieth century. She was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and...
Women In Architecture: Marion Manley
This weeks featured architect is Marion Manley (1893-1984). Manley, Miami's first female architect, became a registered architect in Florida in 1918, less than a year after her graduation at the University of Illinois. She also successfully maintained an...
Women in Architecture
In the following weeks, we will take a look at some of the most influential women in architecture. Looking back on architectural history, you could be forgiven for thinking that women architects were an invention of the 1950’s, but this could not be further from the...
Christian Community Center in Ranchito, Dominican Republic
"Porque nada hay imposible para Dios" "Nothing is impossible with God" Last week we went back to the Dominican Republic for another Mission Trip. We visited friends, and distributed water filters to the small communities of Soto, the Rails, and Ranchito. However,...
We need women designing buildings
Denise Scott Brown in Las Vegas around 1966. She co-wrote the seminal book "Learning from Las Vegas." (CNN) -- An online campaign has started to right a 22-year-old wrong committed against legendary architect Denise Scott Brown. She and Robert Venturi, her...
Reasons why Denise Scott Brown should get a Pritzker
One of the top architecture stories of the moment is that of Denise Scott Brown and whether she should be awarded a Priztker Prize in recognition of her contributions to the work that she and her architect husband, Robert Venturi, jointly conceived in the early1960s -...