Carl Pruscha, an Austrian architect who mainly dedicated his professional career to investigate and work closely in the field of regional architecture in the eastern world, a territory that was being overlooked at a time when the modern movement in architecture and in the rest of the world was booming. Through an overview of his…
Based inside 4 World Trade Center, Silver Art Projects is supporting artists with the fundamentals to succeed in New York. “It’s been nice to be immersed in New York City architecture while I work,” says Lindsey Brittain Collins, a multimedia artist whose kaleidoscopic pieces often center architecture and urban design as agents of social and economic change.…
A proposal to remove a hated highway is caught in a maelstrom of politicking. But Amy Stelly is standing her ground. Amy Stelly is a planner by profession. But her beef with the Claiborne Expressway—the roughly two-mile elevated highway that cuts through the historic neighborhood of Tremé, in New Orleans, essentially splitting its heart—isn’t theoretical, it’s personal. Stelly…
Michael Maltzan and Deborah Weintraub, leaders of the effort to construct L.A.’s newly-opened Sixth Street Viaduct, talk about its lofty goals, significant challenges, and deep lessons. When the City of Los Angeles officially opened the new 6th Street Viaduct on July 9, a crowd of Angelenos swarmed the bridge deck, much the way New Yorkers had celebrated…