In her monthly “Letter from Baltimore,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about architecture, culture, and urbanism in a city more often associated with violent crime than with good design. Click here to read her previous posts. For more by Dickinson, visit…
In her monthly “Letter from Baltimore,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about architecture, culture, and urbanism in a city more often associated with violent crime than with good design. Click here to read her previous posts. For more by Dickinson, visit…
In her monthly “Letter from Baltimore,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about architecture, culture, and urbanism in a city more often associated with violent crime than with good design. Click here to read her previous posts. For more by Dickinson, visit…
Upon first encountering the new chair and bench prototypes from the Dutch design duo Tejo Remy and René Veenhuizen, of Atelier Remy & Veenhuizen, you’d be forgiven for not immediately registering the furniture’s material. From a distance, the objects appear…
In her monthly “Letter from Baltimore,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about architecture, culture, and urbanism in a city more often associated with violent crime than with good design. Click here to read her previous posts. For more by Dickinson, visit…
In her monthly “Letter from Baltimore,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about architecture, culture, and urbanism in a city more often associated with violent crime than with good design. Click here to read her previous posts. For more by Dickinson, visit…
In her monthly “Letter from Baltimore,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about architecture, culture, and urbanism in a city more often associated with violent crime than with good design. Click here to read her previous posts. For more by Dickinson, visit…
In her monthly “Letter from Baltimore,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about architecture, culture, and urbanism in a city more often associated with violent crime than with good design. Click here to read her previous posts. For more by Dickinson, visit…
In her monthly “Letter from Baltimore,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about architecture, culture, and urbanism in a city more often associated with violent crime than with good design. Click here to read her previous posts. For more by Dickinson, visit…
In her monthly “Letter from Baltimore,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about architecture, culture, and urbanism in a city more often associated with violent crime than with good design. Click here to read her previous posts. For more by Dickinson, visit…
Photo: Stefano Paltera/courtesy the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Keeping tabs on the Solar Decathlon is a bit like watching a slow-moving golf tournament. Over two weeks, 20 college and university teams from around the world compete to see…
A look at the work spaces of four local design practices
A review of a new anthology from the Web site Mr. Beller's Neighborhood
Project M takes on the Motor City.
Until recently, local design schools shunned community-based projects. Now that's beginning to change.
A new installation provides an intriguing glimpse into the way individuals experience urban space.
Two of the city's artists are employing banal materials for organic experiments.
The economy was on everyone's minds at this year's fair.
New lines from Kohler, Lefroy Brooks, Duravit, Hansgrohe, and other bath-products exhibitors
Colorful, textured, and tongue-in-cheek tiles at the Italian Trade Commission
From seating and lighting to a rainwater collection barrel, cut-out patterns prevail.
New designs from Tom Dixon, Niche Modern, Lindsey Adelman Studio, and more...
The Real Good Chair is remade in copper, modular shelves offer DIY storage design, and a new sleeper sofa provides space-saving guest quarters.
A slide show of this year's COTE winners, with comments from the jury
Ellen Lupton takes us on curated tour of New York thrift stores.
Click here for your definitive guide to New York Design Week.
Mine that Bird may make history on May 16, but the historic track where he will run might not survive until next year.
The co-curators of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam want to arm the masses with a new design tool.
"I hope no one gets arrested," says the Architecture for Humanity founder.
A new exhibition at Storefront maps our obsession with urban utopias.
What would you do with an empty urban lot?
Measuring the impact of the post-industrial economy.
Making the argument for art and architecture during a downturn.
A cartographer and a photographer capture the secret life of power lines.
The largest gathering U.S. history is about to occur in our nation's capital. Can American Cities learn to truly embrace the crowd?
Is vertical farming the way of the future? The Social-Environmental Aesthetics Project wants your thoughts.
By 2026, the population of Americans over 65 will have doubled to 71.5 million. So where are they going to live?
For more than fifty years, Seattle-based Mithun has defined sustainable design. A new book explores the culture of an architecture practice where the earth is first.
Ron Eglash's discovery of fractals in African architecture spurred a rewriting of math curriculum and a fresh take on design.
The jury is in: Behnisch Architekten wins an international design competition for a new law school in Maryland.
What's to be done with all those empty lots during an economic downturn?
Can our industrial landscape be beautiful? Artist Eileen Wold seeks the answer.
The new Sustainable Sites Initiative wants you to think about the soil.
A new book captures our love affair with buildings.
Urban designers from around the globe look to forge a new curriculum for the profession.
When the new administration comes calling, will the design profession be ready?
Learning to sell sustainability through a new visual vernacular.
Field notes from the international symposium on urban design after the age of oil.
If you had five minutes, what would you say to your community?
The Sears Modern Home celebrates its 100th anniversary this year and it raises some questions about the modern prefab movement.
