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Jules Pelta Feldman on the art of Charles Simonds

IF YOU HAVE EVER taken the stairs at what used to be the Whitney Museum of American Art—Marcel Breuer’s Brutalist masterpiece on New York’s Upper East Side—you have almost certainly encountered the work of Charles Simonds, though you may not have realized it. One of only two pieces in the Whitney’s collection that did not head downtown when the institution moved to the Meatpacking District in 2015 (the other being Nicole Eisenman’s Exploding Whitney Mural, 1995), Simonds’s permanen...

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AN has collected and received letters from the architecture community pleading for the preservation of Louis Kahn's buildings at IIM Ahmedabad.

The board of governors for the Indian Institute of Management, in Ahmedabad, India has canceled the proposal to demolish Louis Kahn’s buildings on campus.

Louis Kahn’s complex at IIM Ahmedabad is again facing threats of demolition and reconstruction prompting outcry from the architectural community.

Every two years, the prestigious Governor General’s Medals in Architecture recognize and celebrate outstanding design in recently built projects by Canadian architects. The competition, established by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts, continues a tradition initiated by the Massey Medals in 1950. Here are this year’s […]

A seven-month-long investigation led to nearly two dozen arrests and the seizure of several pounds of drugs, firearms, ammunition, drug money and more, authorities in Central Jersey announced.

Somerset County prosecutors say 10 people have been charged with drug distribution in the culmination of a seven-month investigation.

Modern Architecture (Fifth Edition) By Kenneth Frampton (Thames & Hudson, 2020) Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld: Essays in Honor of Kenneth Frampton Edited by Karla Cavarra Britton and Robert McCarter (Thames & Hudson, 2020) For several generations of architects worldwide, the figure of architectural critic and historian Kenneth Frampton looms large. According to architecture professor […]