Director Dean Terry emailed us recently to announce his new film, Subdivided, exploring how suburban design resists the formation of communities. We haven't seen the film yet (premier is January 3 on Dallas PBS television station KERA, 8pm), but the...
We here at Tropolism love our fledgling underground architectural publications. We have ever since we were wee students reading old issues of Oppositions and Pamphlet Architecture issues #12-15. A publicist for the latter publication reminded us today that the call...
Happy opening night crowds hovering around Greg Lynn’s bubble wall for the Slavin House. When a colleague mentioned the title of the “Skin + Bones” exhibition to me a few months ago, I had to repress the impulse to vomit....
On a sunny afternoon in late November, I rolled over to the MAK Center at the Schindler House on Kings Road in order to make sense of GenHome - An exhibition of digerati-leaning architects who are engaged in “Genetic Modifications”...
Nicolai Ourousoff reviews the recently opened Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston in today's New York Times. The new building, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, apparently makes maximum use of its cantilever. Another triumph for innovative design. Let's hope...
We love visiting modern architecture from places outside of our educational canon: Asia, Africa, South America, Canada, New Jersey. You know, the world outside of the USA and Western Europe. What a pleasure it was to receive an email about...
The second entry in our, er, two-part series about new architectural magazines we like this week is PIN-UP, giving us helvetica love from the logo through the back cover Comme des ad. Published in New York, the magazine's inaugural issue...
We've always been concerned that the High Line had made a deal with the devil regarding the Rail Yards portion of the tracks. That's the portion above 30th Street. While the hoopla about a West Side Stadium was in full...
This week is New Architectural Magazine Week at Tropolism. Didn't you hear? First up is a great magazine out of Australia called Specifier. Its publication includes a lot of information on architectural building products, and relates them to projects worldwide....
The Sculpture For Living is a gift that keeps on giving. Not to be upstaged by the questionable architectural value of the building, the open space next to the building (between Carl Fischer and It) decided to one-up the building...
