In a few days, a new exhibit, called the Aluminaire House™ Exhibit, will open in a parking lot of the Palm Springs Art Museum. It will form a new part of their permanent collection. Now, museum goers won’t be able to go inside of the… Read More
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Building on rooftops in New York City is really tough
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is a pretty wealthy guy and so it is fairly safe to assume that he could choose to live almost anywhere. For some people the ideal might be a low-rise house with a backyard in the suburbs. But since 2018,… Read More
If man had developed a third arm, where might this arm be best attached?
Roman Mars of 99% Invisible recently published an excellent episode called The Mind of an Architect. It has to do with a set of research studies completed in the late 1950s by an organization at the University of California, Berkeley known as the Institute of… Read More
For Sale: Breuer House II
Breuer House II is currently on the market in New Canaan, Connecticut for $5.85 million. The house has 4 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms, and 2 half bathrooms. It is 4,777 square feet and sits on 3.11 acres of land. Originally built in 1951, the house… Read More
A labor of love
We’ve taught generations of architects to speak out as artists, but we haven’t taught them how to listen. This is a line from a recent New York Times op-ed that has been making the rounds online today called: How to Rebuild Architecture. The premise of… Read More