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IN A STRIKING BREAK from its typical Manhattan-centric provincialism (even more pronounced, in those days, than it is now), the New York Times gave over an entire two-and-a-half columns in the Style section of the March 10, 1977, edition to some very local news out of Philadelphia. Written, of all people, by Anna Quindlen—still twenty-five years before her Pulitzer—the story details the presumed final luncheon of the New Century Club, once a fixture of high society in the City of Brotherly Love and a force for women’s rights nationwide. The occasion coincided, ironically, with the hundre...

Knowing that Dave Yūst started out by studying aeronautical engineering and architecture design explains much about his painstaking, meticulous p

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has acquired the MIT Press colophon, designed by Muriel Cooper, as part of its permanent collection.

Its appeal is part of the recurrent cycle of the centripetal giving way to the lure of the burbs. Save that, in this...

Dirk Sutro: Can a contemporary design for museum's new west wing coexist within Balboa Park's century-old Spanish Colonial ethos?