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Arts
fromAesthetica Magazine
6 days ago

Aesthetica Magazine - The Endurance of Brutalism

Brutal Scotland exhibition explores post-war modernism, emphasizing how architecture reflects cultural identity and the interplay of decay and resilience.
Arts
fromAesthetica Magazine
6 days ago

Aesthetica Magazine - The Endurance of Brutalism

Brutal Scotland exhibition explores post-war modernism, emphasizing how architecture reflects cultural identity and the interplay of decay and resilience.
Remodel
fromBuzzFeed
1 day ago

People Are Calling Out The Modern Home Design Trends They Secretly Hate, And Yikes

Open-concept kitchen shelving and all-gray designs are criticized for being impractical and uninviting.
Board games
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 day ago

Playtime Cabin / Wiki World + Advanced Architecture Lab

The Playtime Cabin project features treehouses in a metasequoia forest, inspired by children's imagination and promoting diverse living spaces.
Design
fromwww.nytimes.com
3 days ago

The 10 Most Important Chairs

Thonet's company pioneered mass-produced chairs, selling 50 million between 1859 and 1930, influencing modern furniture design and assembly methods.
Photography
fromBerlin Art Link
4 days ago

Review of Peter Hujar and Liz Deschenes | Berlin Art Link

Peter Hujar's photography captures the intensity of impermanence and liveliness in 1970s and 80s New York, complemented by Liz Deschenes' contemporary works.
Washington DC
fromTheCollector
5 days ago

10 Iconic Examples of American Architecture Through History | TheCollector

American architecture reflects the nation's ambitions and ideologies, showcasing a journey from revolutionary classicism to modern American styles.
NYC real estate
fromCurbed
4 days ago

A Mid-Century House in Hillsdale With a Pool and an Artist's Studio

Living outside New York City offers unique properties at lower prices, including a mid-century house and a historic gatehouse.
#bauhaus
Photography
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
1 week ago

New Woman, New Vision. Women Photographers of the Bauhaus - KALTBLUT Magazine

The exhibition at Bauhaus-Archiv celebrates women photographers' contributions from the Bauhaus movement and contemporary artists, showcasing 300 photographs from 17 April to 4 October 2026.
Photography
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
1 week ago

New Woman, New Vision. Women Photographers of the Bauhaus - KALTBLUT Magazine

The exhibition at Bauhaus-Archiv celebrates women photographers' contributions from the Bauhaus movement and contemporary artists, showcasing 300 photographs from 17 April to 4 October 2026.
Renovation
fromwww.housingwire.com
6 hours ago

How the post-war homebuilders built the modern playbook

The modern American homebuilding industry is rooted in post-WWII innovations that transformed construction into a systematic, efficient process.
#eames-house
Film
fromOpen Culture
1 week ago

Watch 35 Short Films by Charles and Ray Eames: "Powers of Ten," the History of the Computer & More

The Eames House survived the Pacific Palisades fire, showcasing California modernism and the design philosophy of Charles and Ray Eames.
Film
fromOpen Culture
1 week ago

Watch 35 Short Films by Charles and Ray Eames: "Powers of Ten," the History of the Computer & More

The Eames House survived the Pacific Palisades fire, showcasing California modernism and the design philosophy of Charles and Ray Eames.
Madrid food
fromArchDaily
6 days ago

Contemporary Ecuadorian Architecture: Connecting Materials, Environment, and Culture

Ecuador's architecture blends tradition and innovation, reflecting diverse landscapes and cultural contexts while addressing social needs and environmental challenges.
#frank-lloyd-wright
fromFast Company
1 week ago
Fashion & style

These Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired ties are based on a legendary building demolished a century ago

Fashion & style
fromFast Company
1 week ago

These Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired ties are based on a legendary building demolished a century ago

Frank Lloyd Wright's designs inspire a new fashion collection targeting Gen Z professionals, featuring ties and accessories from The Tie Bar.
Remodel
fromApartment Therapy
1 day ago

6 "Tacky" Home Trends Interior Designers Secretly Love

Embracing traditionally tacky design trends can lead to chic and stylish outcomes when executed thoughtfully.
#marcel-duchamp
Arts
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
3 days ago

what the readymade still asks: marcel duchamp returns to new york at MoMA and gagosian

Marcel Duchamp's readymades challenge traditional notions of art, emphasizing the role of displacement and designation in transforming ordinary objects into conceptual events.
Arts
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
3 days ago

what the readymade still asks: marcel duchamp returns to new york at MoMA and gagosian

Marcel Duchamp's readymades challenge traditional notions of art, emphasizing the role of displacement and designation in transforming ordinary objects into conceptual events.
#architecture
fromArchDaily
4 days ago
Renovation

EU Mies Awards 2026 Announces Winners in Both Architecture and Emerging Architecture Categories

Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
4 days ago

inside bofill taller de arquitectura's color-coded labyrinths and constructed dreamscapes

Bofill Taller de Arquitectura redefines architecture through interdisciplinary collaboration, emphasizing political urgency and spatial imagination over modernist rigidity.
fromArchDaily
4 days ago
Renovation

EU Mies Awards 2026 Announces Winners in Both Architecture and Emerging Architecture Categories

Renovation
fromwww.archdaily.com
4 days ago

PCG House / Visioarq Arquitectos

The residence in Portugal features formal clarity, functional efficiency, and strong landscape integration with a refined volumetric composition.
Design
fromArchDaily
2 weeks ago

Zaha Hadid's Legacy and Buro Ole Scheeren's Rong Museum: This Week's Review

Architecture operates through legacy, knowledge production, and public engagement, shaping contemporary identities and emphasizing hybrid programs and experiential environments.
Renovation
fromArchDaily
5 days ago

FN House / Anonym

FN House features a bold exterior design while maintaining a humble connection to its Bangkok neighborhood through material choices.
Remodel
fromApartment Therapy
2 days ago

This Designer-Approved Vintage Trend Is Taking Over Front Yards (And Backyards)

Vintage plant stands enhance curb appeal and create visual interest on porches.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
17 hours ago

glazed facade cuts through monolithic brick community center within paris park

The architectural approach emphasizes simplicity, durability, and contextual integration, with brick as the primary material for its structural capacity and long-term performance.
Renovation
Arts
fromwww.nytimes.com
3 days ago

Surrealism, Defined: What to Know About One of Art's Most Misused Terms

Surrealism is a rebellious philosophy of life expressed through literature and art, emerging from discontent with societal norms post-World War I.
Film
fromOpen Culture
2 weeks ago

Watch 434 Avant-Garde and Surreal Short Films Online: Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Luis Bunuel and Many More

Hollywood faces a crisis with declining interest in films, prompting a search for re-enchantment through experimental cinema.
Typography
fromOpen Culture
3 weeks ago

An Introduction to Brutalism: The Iconic Postwar Architectural Style That Combined Utopianism and Concrete

Esperanto was created as a universal second language, while Brutalism aimed to rebuild post-war society with raw concrete architecture.
Graphic design
fromMedium
3 weeks ago

Disruption has a shape. Design history shows us what it is.

AI is causing anxiety in design, echoing past technological disruptions like the printing press and desktop publishing.
Renovation
fromArchDaily
2 days ago

Minamicho House / ROOVICE

The house was renovated and subleased to preserve its identity and history through ROOVICE's Kariage framework.
Writing
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Richard Meier obituary

Richard Meier was a poet and mental health policy advocate who revealed beauty in the ordinary and highlighted issues in NHS care outsourcing.
Arts
fromwww.amny.com
4 days ago

Marcel Duchamp: The mind above the hand | amNewYork

Abstraction in art emerges through radical recalibrations, with Marcel Duchamp exemplifying a shift from representation to conceptual exploration.
fromwww.archdaily.com
2 weeks ago

Curly Cube / People's Architecture Office

Curly Cube is a modular public art installation that transforms public spaces into vibrant hubs for social interaction and engagement, set in a park along Shanghai's Huangpu River.
Design
Photography
fromArchDaily
2 weeks ago

40+ Contemporary Architectural Works Across Ecuador Captured by Francesco Russo and Luca Piffaretti

Photographers document Ecuador's architecture and landscapes, highlighting the country's evolving identity and the interplay between built environments and natural surroundings.
Renovation
fromArchDaily
3 days ago

7 Unbuilt Houses Shaped by Site, Climate, and Constraints

Residential architecture is explored through unbuilt projects that respond to site, climate, and constraints, emphasizing the house as a spatial system.
#lacma
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Designed to disorient': LA art museum unveils enormous concrete gallery, 20 years in the making

The David Geffen Galleries at LACMA represent a $724 million revitalization effort, showcasing a controversial design by architect Peter Zumthor.
Design
fromArchDaily
2 weeks ago

Cultural Centers Beyond the Building: 6 Unbuilt Projects Integrating Landscape

Cultural centers are evolving to reflect diverse architectural explorations and redefine public institutions' roles in various contexts.
fromArtnet News
5 days ago

Painting Has Entered Its Performance Era | Artnet News

Much of Instagram's video content is organized around transformation-the virtual magic of the before-and-after and clips that show cause and effect. A person makes pasta from scratch in 20 seconds via edits that compress time-intensive labor.
Arts
Graphic design
fromMedium
3 weeks ago

For Craft Sake: On the laws and principles behind good design

Craft is experiencing a resurgence in product design, emphasizing fundamental skills amidst the rise of generative AI and industry confusion.
fromArtnet News
5 days ago

7 New Art Books to Step Into Spring | Artnet News

Casa Kahlo offers an unprecedented look into the famed Mexican painter's family home, Casa Roja, which stands just blocks away from Casa Azul in Mexico City. Kahlo would retreat to Casa Roja when Casa Azul got crazy.
Arts
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

Art, sex, nature: why is everything sold to us as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself?

Art should be valued for its own sake, not merely for its utilitarian benefits or health claims.
Design
fromArchDaily
2 weeks ago

14 Major Museum Projects Currently in Progress Around the World

Numerous museum projects are being developed globally, reflecting a shift towards cultural institutions as public spaces for education and civic engagement.
Renovation
fromRemodelista
2 weeks ago

Maison Louis Carre by Alvar Aalto, Revisited by In Common With

Maison Louis Carré is Alvar Aalto's only realized building in France, embodying his total work of art philosophy.
Cars
fromLmnt
1 month ago

Have We Forgotten How to Design?

Waymo's partnership with DoorDash to manually close passenger car doors reveals a fundamental oversight in autonomous vehicle design, despite the availability of proven automated door technology.
Fashion & style
fromApartment Therapy
1 month ago

Designers Are Quietly Quitting These 4 Vintage Trends

Interior designers caution against overused vintage trends like grandmillennial style and generic secondhand pieces that lack intentionality and feel overly themed or predictable.
fromArchitectural Digest
2 years ago

Brutalist Architecture Is Divisive-Here's Everything You Need to Know About the Style to Determine Your Stance

The style is characterized by raw, exposed concrete and bold geometric forms. You've certainly seen it before in many cultural and civic buildings built between the 1950s and '70s. With countless examples spanning countries and continents, the look has both historical significance and remains popular-particularly in residential design-today.
Miscellaneous
Berlin
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Ethiopian Modernism: Mid-Century Architecture of Africa's Capital

Architectus won the 2026 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize for conserving Africa Hall in Addis Ababa, highlighting underappreciated Modernist architecture across Africa and Ethiopia's significant twentieth-century architectural heritage.
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
23 years ago

Modernist Oasis

Hollywood Oasis is a forgotten 1950s modernist subdivision near Griffith Park featuring clean geometric lines, split levels, and distinctive architecture developed by entrepreneur Russ Vincent.
Travel
fromArchitectural Digest
2 months ago

15 Architectural Destinations to Add to Your Must-Visit List in 2026

Malacca and Macau showcase diverse architectural and cultural fusion from Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Malay, and international influences, attracting culinary tourism and major casino-driven economies.
fromThe Architect Elevator
2 months ago

The Mighty Metaphor

The Architect Elevator is a metaphor-in reality, the company leadership may be sitting on the same building floor as you; my car metaphors could fill an entire book; and " Architecture is Selling Options " has become the anchor of many architecture keynotes. So, at least my world of architecture is full of metaphors.
Software development
UX design
fromJuxtapoz
1 month ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - The Chair, Collected

The chair represents a fundamental design challenge that balances human ergonomics with artistic expression, serving as both functional object and cultural symbol.
Design
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month ago

Bentu Just Built Furniture From Cities That No Longer Exist - Yanko Design

Bentu Design transforms urban demolition rubble into furniture through 3D printing, achieving 85% waste utilization while preserving the physical and cultural memory of demolished communities.
fromArtforum
1 month ago

Field Conditions

Like the chambered nautilus, its shell was a logarithmic spiral. A wall of rough sandstone and aquamarine glass cullet twisted up fifty feet to an oil-drill-stem mast from which a floating roof was hung by the stainless-steel struts of World War II biplanes. You slid in with the humid air from the ravine outside to stroll a terraced garden of pools and plants, over which suspended and carpeted pods for living and sleeping drifted like clouds.
Miscellaneous
Berlin music
fromArchitectural Digest
11 years ago

The 34 Best Frank Gehry Buildings That Everyone Should Know

Frank Gehry revolutionized contemporary architecture through sculptural, dynamic designs that transform cities economically and culturally, exemplified by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and its catalyzing 'Bilbao Effect.'
fromArchitectural Digest
1 month ago

This Walter Gropius Wonder Narrowly Escaped Demolition-and Gained a Stained Glass Masterpiece

Gropius, who from 1919 to 1928 directed the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, designed the house in 1921-22 for lawyer Fritz Otte. The property is considered a dramatic evolution of Gropius's earlier seminal Haus Sommerfeld, which was also located in Berlin, but destroyed in World War II. The Bauhaus founder embraced a forward-looking approach with an unadorned, sharp-edged structure that rejected the heaviness of 19th-century historicism.
Berlin
fromLos Angeles Times
15 years ago

Modern notes grace a historic pedigree

Designed by noted residential architect Roland E. Coate, the home was built in 1926 for Annie Wilson, daughter of pioneering Southern California businessman and politician Benjamin Wilson, for whom Mt. Wilson is named. The gently sloping 1-acre-plus property was once part of the vast holdings of George S. Patton, father of the famed U.S. general.
LA real estate
Graphic design
fromFast Company
1 month ago

The architectural sketch is back

The architectural sketch is experiencing a revival in contemporary practice despite decades of digital dominance, as architects recognize the unique value of hand-drawn work in an AI-driven world.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Mid-Century Modernism Goes Rogue in "Chair-ish"

Artists Alex Chitty and Norman Teague deconstruct and reimagine iconic design furniture pieces, transforming them into experimental sculptural objects that challenge conventional notions of functionality and design heritage.
fromwww.kaltblut-magazine.com
2 months ago

Limited Space.

The Limited Space' series is built around the idea of a figure that has outgrown its space. Through exaggerated proportions and sculptural silhouettes, the body appears too large for the environment that continues to constrain it. Architectural elements and imposed barriers function as abstract limits, pressing against the figure and revealing tension through scale, weight, and posture rather than narrative.
Fashion & style
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

Playful and Ironic: The Legacy of Postmodernist Architecture in the United States

Postmodernism began as a critique of modernism's exhausted promises. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, many designers no longer treated modernism as radical or socially redemptive. Urban renewal projects accelerated the demolition of historic neighborhoods, and landmark preservation battles raised urgent questions about what the United States valued and, ultimately, protected. The loss of major civic icons, including New York's Penn Station, sharpened public awareness that progress often arrives through erasure.
Design
Renovation
fromApartment Therapy
1 month ago

All the "Cool" Houses Had This in the '80s - Now I Want It in My Apartment

Glass bricks are experiencing a modern revival as designers recognize their ability to maximize natural light while maintaining privacy in contemporary spaces.
Design
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

When Art Came First: Spatial Experiments That Shaped Architecture in Latin America

Artistic practices in mid-20th-century Latin America pioneered spatial concepts later integrated into architecture, emphasizing collective use and bodily experience.
fromRemodelista
1 month ago

Bauhaus Beauty: A 1930s-Inspired Design for a 700-Square-Foot Pied-a-Terre in Warsaw - Remodelista

We didn't have any specific guidelines; rather, there was complete trust and a lot of fun. Since they're my friends, we understood each other very well. That creative freedom led to a complete transformation of the small apartment, which is in a modernist townhouse from the 1930s.
Renovation
Design
fromLos Angeles Times
13 years ago

Landmark Houses: The Eames House

The Eames House revolutionized residential design by using glass and steel innovatively, prioritizing user needs, practicality, beauty, durability, and cost in ways unseen since the tepee.
Design
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 month ago

Architecture as a Platform: What Makes a Building Evolve?

Architecture increasingly adopts product design principles, prioritizing operational clarity, performance, and scalability over novelty, making buildings accountable for functionality and consistent user experience.
Design
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

A new book catalogues both the grand and inconspicuous icons of British design

A curated 100-image selection showcases everyday design—toys, homeware and electronics—evoking nostalgia and tactile appreciation through analogue slide imagery and format choices.
Design
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

Minimalism had its moment: now designers say this aesthetic is dominating 2026 - Silicon Canals

Interior design is shifting from minimalist, sparse aesthetics to a colorful, textured maximalist revival emphasizing personality and lived-in warmth.
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