The Craftsman

by Richard Sennett The American Craft Museum changing its name to the Museum of Arts & Design in 2002, British … More

A Bad Type Idea is a Worse Architecture Ideal

Ramses the Great, the Republic of Venice, Napoleon III, John D. Rockefeller Jr, the University of Harvard. The history of … More

Kawaee!! That’s what Japanese schoolgirls shriek when they see something irresistibly cute. They make “funny face”, squirm their eyes … More

While delving through the turbulent history of Brooklyn Bridge Park, I found inspiration in the words of Frederick Law Olmsted, … More

After a reading of Armin Vit’s “Speak Up: Now What?” blogpost (and all its comments), Rick Poynor’s “Easy Writer” text, … More

I’ve been living in New York since the end of August of 2008, and ever since I got here, people … More

The Orange-and-straw Tropicana juice carton left us in the last days of 2008. Another memorable American consumer product icon is … More

A friend reminded me today about the brilliant BBC series Look Around You. Neither of us saw it on TV, … More

If looking at friends of friends’ Facebook photo albums or reading TMI Twitter updates is not enough of a time … More

A magazine art director friend of mine recently posted on his Facebook profile a great article by Gabriel Sherman. Sherman … More

One of my favorite presentations at the Design and Film symposium last Saturday was Stuart Kendall‘s talk on the … More

Hugo Chávez, the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is one of the most charismatic leaders of our time. … More

Abubakar Akintola couldn’t believe his eyes as he opened the COSCO shipping container that had just arrived to the Apapa … More

The Trump World Tower possesses all the virtues and vices of the buildings that made New York the greatest metropolis … More

True change is coming to New York’s streetscape. Not rhetorical speech change, but the kind of change that inspires … More

I can’t really remember when I got my first desktop map of the world. I know that Germany was already … More

The central gallery of the Palace of Versailles is no ordinary room. It was designed, furnished and decorated to become … More

In 1928, Joseph Urban created an architectural vision for William Randolph Hearst’s headquarters in New York. A building that would … More

I overslept again this morning. I showered, dressed, had breakfast, put on scarf, hat, gloves, left home. I walked to … More

A few days before Irma Boom came to Portugal to give a talk I asked a friend — and true Irma … More