The 2023 Joyce Awards winners use art to aid communities
Today, the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation has announced the winners of its flagship grant program: the Joyce Awards. Established in 1948, the foundation typically awards $2.625 million in grants per...
View ArticleAmerican cities are 70 percent suburban by area. What can architects do about...
Urban cores have become such a small portion of the built environment that they no longer embody the problems of mainstream urbanism. Today, 70 percent of American cities are suburban The post American...
View ArticlePhiladelphia’s Thomas Paine Plaza will be overhauled with accessibility...
Upgrades to Center City Philadelphia’s public spaces are set to continue as renders showing updated plans for Thomas Paine Plaza have been released. The plaza, which surrounds architect Vincent Kling’s...
View ArticleIIT appoints Maria A. Villalobos Hernandez as director of Master of Landscape...
A milestone appointment took place at the College of Architecture (CoA) at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) this week. On September 25, IIT announced that associate professor Maria A. Villalobos...
View ArticlePaved Paradise is a useful survey on the state of parking
Paved Paradise | Henry Grabar | Penguin Random House | $30 As I write these words, the clock is ticking. Just outside, a parking meter stands guard over my Prius, The post <em>Paved...
View ArticleUtopian Hours will host three days of events that bring together urbanists...
From October 13 to 15, Utopian Hours will return to Lavazza’s headquarters, La Centrale della Nuvola, in Turin, Italy, designed by Cino Zucchi Architetti. It will host three days of The post Utopian...
View ArticleThe Neon Museum’s Duck Duck Shed shows we can still learn from Las Vegas
Las Vegas was an unlikely model for architecture when the provocatively titled Learning from Las Vegas was published in 1972. In the book, authors Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and The post The...
View ArticleStudio Gang to lead Phase 1 transformation of Denver’s Civic Center
In Denver, Colorado, the Civic Center park surrounded by government and municipal buildings has played host to climate protests led by Greta Thunberg; acted as a backdrop for a vigil following The post...
View ArticleUtopian Hours in Turin, Italy, gathered experts who are transforming where we...
Placemaking is tantalizingly open-ended term. Discipline-agnostic, it suggests the creation of destinations where people can gather, meet, and explore. Broadly, modernity in the 20th century...
View ArticleIn Miami, Stratosferica and Future of Cities present the first U.S. edition...
In or near Florida on Saturday, November 18? Consider attending Utopian Hours in Miami, which will be the first version of the city-making festival in the United States. Stratosferica, a The post In...
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