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    A Guide to Pyongyang's "Neutered" Modernist Architecture

    … at which the city might serve as a catalogue of the past and not a grim reality of the present clearly could not come soon enough. Anthony Paletta is a writer living in Brooklyn. He writes the “Spaces” column for the Wall Street Journal and has written otherwise for The Wall Street Journal, The …

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    How Dune and Poor Things Rely on Architecture History

    … s Dune, to the ominous Tyrell Corporation in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1983), the megastructures of science fiction undoubtedly reflect the goals and contradictions of the Modernist project. "The attempts to create an interpretive structure that fully traced the dissolution of reality is to me the central task of modernist architecture,” Betsky continues. “That …

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    8 Books to Add to Your Winter Reading List

    … 21st centuries, suggesting that these ephemeral evocations can open our eyes to a more sustainable future in which we can imagine new worlds. Otti Berger: Weaving for Modernist Architecture Edited by Judith Raum, HATJE CANTZ, 352 p.p., $65.00 Otti Berger: Weaving for Modernist Architecture delves into the work of radical 20th century weaver …

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    Celebrating “America’s First Lady of the Loom”

    … herself into the legacy of American design by bringing color and what she called “the magic of the aesthetic realm” to the steel and glass interiors of Modernist architecture.Over her four-decade-long career Liebes collaborated with Frank Lloyd Wright, Frances Elkins, William Pahlmann, and Bonnie Cashin, among other design luminaries. For years her …

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    NewLab Puts Down Roots in Detroit

    … revitalization. The rust belt metropolis is the only U.S. city to carry the coveted title of UNESCO City of Design. It has historically hosted innovations in Modernist architecture and industrial design. The Eameses, Saarinens, and Florence Knoll all converged at nearby Cranbrook Academy before shaping American design of their own accords. Major furniture manufacturers …

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    Inside the Fight to Save Two Saarinen Churches in Columbus, Indiana

    … This constant flow of new challenges and opportunities will no doubt continue, if not accelerate in coming decades. While Columbus may be unique in its wealth of modernist architecture, its resources are not unlimited and plenty more preservation threats loom: The Bartholomew School Corporation is embarking on a decade-long project to potentially renovate every …

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    A Pleasant Surprise at P.S.1

    … but it's not just a joke. Meredith said that the firm is interested in the tension between Modernism and primitivism evident in some early and late strains of Modernist architecture. Here, they've pushed that tension to a quirky extreme. A view of afterparty from the roof of P.S.1 The interior surface

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    Another Modernist Battle in New Orleans

    … example of "disaster capitalism" (as per Naomi Klein). In either case, something important gets lost in the conversation; that is the impending threat to New Orleans's modernist architecture. The Phillis Wheatley Elementary School was built in 1955 by architect Charles R. Colbert. The building is raised in such a way that helped it survive …

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    Preservationists Are Investigating the Historical Significance of SOM's Westinghouse Research Center

    … Preservationists are sensitive to questions of cost and hazard mitigation. Reilly explained via email, “We value the holistic importance of this site—the Westinghouse legacy, the SOM modernist architecture, its landscaped setting, its reflection of the transformative period in the region. Preservation Pittsburgh cannot take a full position yet in terms of the extent of …

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    Biennale Breakdown: A Guide to the National Pavilions

    … here) to form a narrative of the country’s postwar modern architecture. In doing so, it shines a critical eye on the received wisdom and optimism of Modernist ideology, hitherto never been fully explored in the context of Latvia's architectural history, says NRJA. Of course, there is Modernist architecture in Latvia—that much is …