For a Community of Gamers, The Sims Is a Gateway to the Real World of...
The Sims player Jason Sterling’s video game version of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Seth Peterson Cottage. Sterling, a hairdresser, spends around 20 hours a week playing The Sims. “When I’m working on a...
View ArticleSee the Thesis Projects of Liz Diller, Daniel Libeskind, and Other Cooper...
Stanley Allen’s “The Theater of Production,” from his thesis (1980-81). Professors: John Hejduk, Raimund Abraham, Anthony Candido, Ricardo Scofidio, Robert Slutzky, Bernard Tschumi Courtesy The Irwin...
View ArticleCornell’s Incoming Architecture Dean on the Fanciful Dot Drawings of Bruno...
Courtesy Corraini J. Meejin Yoon is an architect, designer, and educator. She was recently named dean of Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning and will assume that role in...
View ArticleMetropolis’s Best of 2018: Drawing and Representation
Arakawa and Madeline Gins, Study for “Critical Holder,” 1990 Courtesy the Estate of Madeline Gins/ Nicholas Knight / Columbia GSAP As 2018 concludes, we’re revisiting this year’s top stories: from...
View ArticleDrawing Bo Bardi: Barcelona Exhibition Showcases the Architectural and...
© Instituto Lina Bo e P. M. Bardi In 1956, the Italian-born architect and designer Lina Bo Bardi visited Barcelona. At that point, she had lived in Brazil, her chosen country of residence, for 10...
View ArticleThe New Book Single-Handedly Showcases Hand Drawings by 43 Contemporary...
Surface Excavators, 2017, by Bryan Cantley From Single-Handedly: Contemporary Architects Draw by Hand © 2019 Nalina Moses, published by Princeton Architectural Press, used with permission. The...
View ArticleBridging Spatial and Budgetary Limitations, a New House in Portugal...
In designing a new family home in Portugal, local studio Fala Atelier allowed budgetary, spatial, and practical concerns lead the way, with simple materials and linear geometries found throughout....
View ArticleExamining James Wines’s Humanistic Approach to Sustainability
An exhibition in Berlin takes stock of the work of James Wines, focusing on his eclectic mode of green architecture. On view are his drawings of the World Ecology Pavilion designed for Expo ’92 in...
View ArticleQ&A: Konstantinos Dimopoulos on the Virtual Cities of Video Games
An illustration of New Orlean’s city plan adapted from the computer adventure game Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, in the new book Virtual Cities, which released in November. Courtesy Maria...
View ArticleA New Book Explores the Iterative Nature of Milton Glaser’s Designs
Sketch & Finish: The Journey from Here to There, Milton Glaser, Princeton Architectural Press, 168 pages, $20 Princeton Architectural Press In New York City, everywhere you look you encounter the...
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