The School of Visual Arts MFA Design Criticism invites you to join them for a two-week intensive to research and write about design. Participants will be introduced to a range of techniques for constructing compelling narratives about images, objects,and spaces. You will experiment with different research methods, writing formats, and complete several projects across media, including a collaboratively produced publication.
United States
Design Writing and Research Summer Intensive
House in Milan / Rangr Studio + Charlet Design
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Architects: Charlet Design, Rangr Studio
- Year: 2012
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Professionals: J.T.McManus Inc., Robert Silman Associates
LeFrak Center at Lakeside / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
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Architects: Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
- Area: 75000 ft²
- Year: 2013
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Manufacturers: The Hudson Company
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Professionals: Robert Silman Associates, Sciame Construction, Stantec, Prospect Park Alliance
Casa Valle Escondido / Bucchieri Architects
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Architects: Bucchieri Architects
- Area: 9500 m²
- Year: 2004
Symposium: Narratives and Design Studies: A Task of Translation
What unites contemporary design? What is the through line that connects designers between continents and across decades? This spring, The MA program in Design Studies at Parsons The New School for Design presents a two-day symposium that will bring together a rare interdisciplinary group of professionals and academics to explore narratives surrounding the field of design, and attempt to answer these questions. The conference, Narratives and Design Studies: A Task of Translation, will be held March 7 – 8.
Exhibition: Beyond the Supersquare
Beyond the Supersquare brings together a select group of contemporary artists whose insightful work addresses the remnants of the Modern Movement in Latin America and the Caribbean. While the exhibition will address how Modernism defined a number of decisive aspects related to contemporary architecture, urbanism, and art in Latin America, this exhibition will also examine the larger political and social underpinnings of these cultural and environmental developments.
Johnson County Justice Annex / el dorado
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Architects: El Dorado
- Area: 48000 ft²
- Year: 2013
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Professionals: The Weitz Company
AD Classics: Woolworth Building / Cass Gilbert
The Woolworth Building, an innovative and elegant early skyscraper completed in 1913, endures today as an iconic form on the New York City skyline. A historicist exterior sheaths a modern steel tower, embodying both the era’s modern spirit of progress and its hesitation to fully break from the past. Cass Gilbert, selected as the architect, believed the designer should “weave into the pattern of our own civilization the beauty that is our inheritance.”[1] An ornate monument to the growing economic dominance of New York City, the building was dubbed the “Cathedral of Commerce.”
David Zwirner Gallery / Selldorf Architects
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Architects: Selldorf Architects
- Area: 30000 ft²
- Year: 2013
University of Oregon Hatfield-Dowlin Complex / ZGF Architects
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Architects: ZGF Architects
- Area: 145000 m²
- Year: 2013
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Manufacturers: FabriTRAK®, Gypsorb
Ranquist Development Group Office / Vladimir Radutny Architects
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Architects: Vladimir Radutny Architects
- Area: 1200 ft²
- Year: 2014
AD Classics: 2 Columbus Circle / Edward Durell Stone & Associates
Located on a small and irregular shaped island at Columbus Circle, one of the busiest intersections in Manhattan, lies 2 Columbus Circle, formerly known as the Gallery of Modern Art. Famously described as a “die-cut Venetian palazzo on lollipops” by Ada Louise Huxtable, the New York Times architecture critic at the time, the 10-story poured concrete structure has been a source of consistent controversy and public response since the 1960s. Designed by Edward Durell Stone, an early proponent of American modern architecture, 2 Columbus Circle represents a turning point in his career. Uncharacteristic of Stone’s prior work, his use of ornament on an otherwise modern structure can be seen as an important precedent of the development of the soon-to-emerge Postmodern movement.
Pico Place / Brooks + Scarpa Architects
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Architects: Brooks + Scarpa Architects
- Area: 38250 ft²
- Year: 2013
NBBJ Unveils $310 Million Renovation for Kentucky's Rupp Arena
NBBJ, together with EOP Architects, has unveiled a massive renovation plan for Lexington’s famous collegiate basketball arena, Rupp Arena. An attempt to upgrade the 38-year-old arena’s facilities and strengthen its connection to the surrounding urban realm, the 23,500-seat stadium will be separated from the adjoining convention center, which is also undergoing renovation, while its enclosed facade is re-clad in glass and site sculpts a vibrant new public square within the heart of the city.
SCAD Museum of Art / Sottile & Sottile and Lord Aeck Sargent, in association with Dawson Architects
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Architects: Dawson Architects, Lord, Aeck & Sargent, Sottile & Sottile
- Area: 82120 ft²
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Manufacturers: Metromont Corporation
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Professionals: Wolverton and Associates, Carson Skanska, Newcomb & Boyd, SCAD Design Group, Lord Aeck & Sargent, +4
The Surf Club / Meier Partners
Architects
Location
9011 Collins Avenue, Surfside, FL 33154, USAProject Year
2016Photographs
dbox for Fort Capital / Richard Meier & PartnersArea
900000.0 m2
Terry Trueblood Lodge / ASK Studio
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Architects: ASK Studio
- Area: 5900 ft²
- Year: 2013
Adjustable Forms / DLR Group
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Architects: DLR Group
- Area: 20145 ft²
- Year: 2013
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Manufacturers: Bradley Corporation USA, ELEVATE, Signify, Artemide, Baltix Sustainable Furniture, +15
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Professionals: Whitney Architects, Ecology Vision