Departments
Notes from Metropolis
Affordable housing.
The Metropolis Observed
Putting the Mc in McMansion; dining in Public; Laurie Olin’s
undercover mission; California gets house proud; pro bono architecture;
a sagehen is born; you know, for kids; fun with public utilities;
Roanoke’s missing Link; the Ground Zero of Berlin; Ed Bacon feels
the LOVE.
In Production: All Work and All Play
By Paul Makovsky
Stephen Burks’s Workstation for E + Y.
Object Lesson: Mirror Image
By Paul Goldberger
Car design has abandoned brand identity in favor of old-fashioned
copying.
Letter from Lower Manhattan: The Libeskind and Childs Tango
By Karrie Jacobs
Ten years from now will the new WTC site look like New York or the world
of pristine architectural renderings?
Portfolio: New Territory
Sarah Trigg’s paintings map new territories.
Perspective: Slouching Towards Modernism
By Andrés Duany
Rem Koolhaas calls his new IIT student center “junk space.” It
might be Modernism’s saving grace.
Enterprise: Nike’s Revenge
By Bill Donahue
Can Adbusters beat Nike at its own game?
Productsphere: Clean Living
By Paul Makovsky
New ideas for the kitchen and bath.
In Review
Peter Hall on Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake’s
Refabricating Architecture; Christopher Hawthorne on Tall
Buildings; new and notable books on architecture, culture, and
design; a review of Web design and resources.
Up & Coming
Upcoming events and conferences.
Reference Page
More information on people, places, and products covered in this issue
of Metropolis.
Ben Katchor
The Deep Tub.
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Features
Kitchen Think
By Jonathan Ringen
A look at the past and the future of our favorite room in the
house—the kitchen.
A City on the Hill
By Tess Taylor
How was it that an obscure fourteenth-century Italian monastery came to
inspire Le Corbusier’s “machines for modern living”?
Sticking to the Plan
By Eric Demby
The ’92 Olympics remade Barcelona. Now Forum 2004 promises further
acts of urban genius. But the city’s original master planner
foresaw it all—in 1859.
Disney Goes Pop
By Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
The authors of Learning from Las Vegas—early proponents of
the bold and the garish—take a look at King Mickey’s latest
resort.
Dinner Plans
By Alec Applebaum
Jeffrey Beers’s meticulous approach to restaurant design is driven
by a sharp eye for the bottom line.
Ride On!
By Kristi Cameron
Giant’s designers set out to create the ultimate comfort bike. In
the process they may have produced cycling’s first universal design.
Habitat for Mobility
By Karen E. Steen
Arts foundation STROOM lets artists play architect by building bicycle
guardhouses in The Hague.
3 at the Drawing Board
By Lyle Rexer
When three architects planned their own office, it was more like therapy
than design—hardly surprising when you consider who their client
was.
Personal Space
By Kristi Cameron
A young firm brimming with bold ideas meets a client with her own very
specific ideas.
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