TROPICALISMO

As Le Corbusier was casting in concrete and Philip Johnson was building glass houses, ambitious architects in Puerto Rico were also experimenting with the tenets of International and Modernist styles.

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LONDON OLYMPICS ARCHITECTURE GUIDE

Olympic Stadium - Populous   Olympic Park - EDAW Consortium   London Aquatics Centre - Zaha Hadid Architects   Velodrome - Hopkins Architects
Copper Box - Make Architects   International Broadcast Centre - Allies and Morrison   London Shooting Venue - Magma Architecture   Basketball Arena - Wilkinson Eyre Architects   Water Polo Arena - David Morley Architects
Riverbank Arena - Populous   Olympic Village - 16 Architects and Firms   Additional Olympic Venues   (Published 2012.0725)

INNER LIGHT OF THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL

With nave and aisles bearing vast arrays of vivid, intricate stained glass, sunshine naturally washes warm, beautiful color across the stone arches and columns of the National Cathedral, atop Mount St. Alban in Washington, D.C.

Since the Gothic masonry structure was shaken by the magnitude 5.8 Virginia earthquake on August 23, 2011, this inner light has taken on another dimension.   (Published 2012.0704)

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Paul Goldberger on the Fight to Save Chicago's Prentice Hospital — Vanity Fair, 2012.0814

The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City — New York Times, 2012.0810

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UN Studio Pair Awarded Professorships — BD (registration required), 2012.0809

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Forgotten by Time, but Not Out of Style — Los Angeles Times, 2012.0809

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AIA San Francisco Home Tour — San Francisco Chronicle, 2012.0806

East Side Story — Architect's Newspaper, 2012.0806

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Eames: The Architect and the Painter – Review — Guardian Unlimited, 2012.0802

New Office for Frank Harmon Architect — ArchitectureWeek, 2012.0801

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Home Prices Rose 2.2% in May — For Residential Pros, 2012.0731

Sert's Martin Luther King Junior Elementary School Threatened with Demolition — WAN, 2012.0731

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