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The Walking House A new house on legs promises to evade high waters...and irritating neighbors...
Snapshot This week's video: Frank Lloyd Wright's appearance on "What's My Line."...
Flood-Damaged Farnsworth House Reopens for Tours (to benefit restoration) Sometimes adversity (and post-flood tour fees) can yield benefits. Removal of waterlogged wardrobe opens up clear vistas....
Repose of the soul Four nights in a Frank Lloyd Wright house....
Critical Meltdown: Ouroussoff Recommends Demolition for Cloepfil's Just-Completed Museum of Arts and Design It's time to demolish Ouroussoff: The not-bad MAD doesn't meet his own stated criteria for a tear-down list....
Submerged Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House is flooded....
Here be dragons How not to visit a Frank Lloyd Wright house....
Closing the shop Dateline: Spring Green, Wisconsin, home of American Players Theatre and Frank Lloyd Wright....
Nel mezzo del cammin A visit to a Frank Lloyd Wright house in New Hampshire....
Punch List for the Clark's Ando: Window Shades and Concrete Ando-level concrete craftsmanship was "a challenge for the people who were doing this." Some fixes may follow....
BlogBack: Berkeley Architecture Professor on Ando at the Clark Dana Buntrock remarks on Japanese architecture's "appreciation for the wall" but expresses misgivings about the Clark's concrete realization....
NY Times Dismantles Its Piano Who needs those horizontal rods anyway? Desperate Times calls for desperate measures, after a third climbing attempt yesterday....
BlogBack: Michael Conforti on Tadao Ando Director of the Clark declares that he and the architect have a "warm relationship" and "great respect for one another."...
Clash of Perfectionists: Ando and Conforti at the Clark The client-architect relationship is always a complex dance. Hopefully, enough goodwill remains for the main event---the Clark's expansion....
Rotating Skyscrapers Architect David Fisher unveils his exciting new plans for a rotating skyscraper...
Fixed seating vs. flexible space A proposed theater renovation in London tries for both....
Martin Filler Strikes Again: Report from Whitney Downtown's Press Luncheon Guest blogger Filler calls Piano's Whitney design, "among the architect's strongest outings of late." But can they raise the dough?...
How about a movable performing arts center? The 2012 Olympic stadium may be a portable construction, ready for reuse. Oh, the possibilities!...
Calatrava Trauma: Bird Man Gets His Wings Clipped in Manhattan The Calatrava Aviary catches recessionary bird flu: demise of the $30-million condos; cost trims at Ground Zero PATH terminal....
BlogBack: Arts Writer Brett Campbell Defends Brad Cloepfil An architect constrained by his assignment---a re-clad, rather than a re-do....
Nouvel News: MoMA Monster Gets Drubbed (and defended) While I sipped sake in Osaka, the French architect was getting a taste of New York-fermented vitriol....
By The Cross...Or The Sword A statue at Mission Dolores church in San Francisco hints at the contradiction at the heart of colonialism...
MAD's Striptease: Cloepfil Shows New York What He's Got Gauzy black protective veils are gradually dropping away, revealing that reworking existing structures is a waste of time and money....
Rating the New Museums: The Best (and Worst) of 2007---Part II Forget the Razzies. Here are the Marties....
Rating the New Museums: The Best (and Worst) of 2007---Part I Forget the Pritzkers. Here are the Fillers (no $100,000 award, however)....