Apartment Therapy - San Francisco (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
O at Home recently asked 25 decorators, landscape architects, and artists to share titles that inspire them. Of course, the bulk of them are design-related, but there are a few titles that we didn'
architecture.mnp (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
http://www.archpaper.com/e-board_rev.asp?News_ID=2462 Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown changed the way we think about Vegas, but the city they loved and wrote about so compellingly has changed almost beyond recognition, and will keep on doing so. Its latest metamorphosis is a startling one: high-rise density oriented toward pedestrians. Is this urbanism drag, or can CityCenter successfully bring...
Global Intellect (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
T-Dream is Alessi’s collection of tees featuring graphics designed by eight world-renowned designers produced to benefit the children's rights organization Amici dei Bambini. Designers include Robert Venturi (pictured left) Martí Guixé, Michael Graves, Philippe Starck and Aldo Rossi (pictured right). The designs themselves, all represented in dream bubbles, range from the fanciful like Rossi’s Leaning...
Milwaukee Streets (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008
Before I started this blog, I made a few posts about Milwaukee on my St. Louis blog . I'm reposting them here where they're more relevant. This one went up on April 1, 2006 . Milwaukee has a nice collection of 1950s-1960s era Modernist churches, which make for a nice around-the-town tour as they're scattered across the inner suburbs and newer areas of the old city. Click on any of the photos to view...
Harvard University Press Publicity (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
We see from Princeton Alumni Weekly that three HUP authors are mentioned in connection with their project to seek out the "most influential" Princeton alumni of all time. So congrats to John Rawls (six-time HUP author who likely needs no...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007
The Philadelphia Historical Commission gave final approval yesterday for a plan to demolish nearly half of the historic home of former Mayor Richardson Dilworth and erect a 16-story luxury condominium tower on the house site east of Washington Square. Dilworth house, built in 1957, is listed as a significant structure in the Society Hill Historic District. Dilworth's decision to build the house in...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 21/10/2007
In 1950, a Princeton University student named Robert Venturi devoted his master's thesis to imagining a new chapel for his alma mater, Episcopal Academy.
