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The Architectural League of New York Announces Winners of the 2022 Emerging Voices Award

Andreea Cutieru — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 05:30:00 +0000

The Architectural League of New York announced the 2022 Emerging Voices, highlighting eight new practices that show “the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape design, and urbanism.” One of the most prominent accolades in North American architecture, the Emerging Voices program reviews the design and academic accomplishments of individuals and firms based in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, selecting the best work through a juried, invited portfolio competition. This year’s winners showcase a wide range of preoccupations and design approaches that they explore through various mediums, thus illustrating a whole new spectrum of architectural inquiry.

MoMA Launches Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America

Eric Baldwin — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 05:30:00 +0000

The Museum of Modern Art has launched Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, the fourth installment of the Issues in Contemporary Architecture series. Investigating the intersections of architecture, Blackness and anti–Black racism in the American context, the exhibition and accompanying publication examine contemporary architecture in the context of how systemic racism has fostered violent histories of discrimination and injustice in the United States.

Harvard Will Remove Philip Johnson’s Name From Cambridge Home That He Designed as Graduate Student

Matt Hickman — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 04:30:00 +0000

The Harvard Graduate School of Design (Harvard GSD) will no longer refer to a private residence at 9 Ash Street in Cambridge as the “Philip Johnson Thesis House.” Moving forward, the home, designed by and inhabited by Johnson while enrolled at the Harvard GSD in the 1940s, will now be known solely by its physical street address.

This Week in Architecture: A Little Less Conversation

Katherine Allen — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 07:11:00 +0000

Kanye West is, according to Kanye West, a reformed man. After months of making headlines over his bizarre political views, he stated on Wednesday that, “my eyes are now wide open and now realize I’ve been used to spread messages I don’t believe in. I am distancing myself from politics and completely focusing on being creative !!!”

How Hip-Hop Architecture is Making its Own Space

Dante A. Ciampaglia — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 09:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published in Metropolis Magazine as "Hip-Hop Architecture's Philip Johnson Moment".

50 Architects Tell Us What They Are Looking Forward to in 2016

AD Editorial Team — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 12:00:00 +0000

As the first month of 2016 draws to a close, we decided to tap into our network and ask an esteemed group of architects, critics, theorists and educators to tell us what they are looking forward to this year in architecture.