America's Top Architecture Schools 2020 - 2019-10-01
WEBOct 1, 2019 · America's Top Architecture Schools 2020. A student is deep in thought at Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Frances Loeb Library. According to DesignIntelligence, the school is the most admired graduate architecture program. Two years ago, after 19 years of conducting this ranking survey, DesignIntelligence (DI) moved from using the word ...
Top 300 U.S. Architecture Firms of 2023 | Architectural Record
WEBJun 9, 2023 · For the fourth consecutive year, Gensler, Perkins&Will, and HDR remained fixed at the highest positions on Architectural Record’s annual ranking of the Top 300 American architecture firms by revenue. For the 2023 ranking (based on 2022 data provided by participating firms), Gensler reported $1.78 billion in architecture revenue—a notable leap from the $1.37 billion brought in by the first ...
Like a Prayer: On David Adjaye’s Abrahamic Family House
WEBJun 13, 2023 · In order to make sense of the Abrahamic Family House, a lavish religious complex designed by David Adjaye on Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island, one might begin a few hundred yards away, in a darkened gallery at the Jean Nouvel–designed Louvre Abu Dhabi. There, bathed in warm light, sit a Yemeni Hebrew Torah, a two-volume Parisian Gothic Bible, and a decorated Quran from Damascus—the three ...
Rainier Square by NBBJ | 2021-05-01 | Architectural Record
WEBMay 1, 2021 · Humility is not a word often associated with skyscrapers, but scale need not override context in architecture. When the site is a downtown Seattle block anchored on one corner by Minoru Yamasaki’s Rainier Tower—a beloved local icon with a white, flared concave base supporting 41 stories—context is everything. NBBJ Architects has gingerly inserted its new 1.3 million-square-foot Rainier ...
Best Lighting Products of 2021 | 2021-12-01 - Architectural Record
WEBDec 1, 2021 · This Luxxbox acoustic PET light fixture may reduce ambient noise by as much as 40% in open spaces such as offices, lobbies, and classrooms. It’s available in two formats: Portrait (23" high x 19" wide) and Landscape (15" high x 26" wide) and 13 colorways, with optional Bluetooth technology. luxxbox.com.
RIBA Names 16 Winners of Its 2021 International Awards for …
WEBOn Thursday, July 22, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) revealed the 16 buildings it deems among the world’s most significant and inspirational outside of the UK (where the best works are eligible for the Stirling Prize), awarding them this year’s prestigious International Awards for Excellence.
What Philip Johnson's Glass House Says About the Architect
WEBFeb 28, 2018 · Johnson’s first major completed work, the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut (1949), provides an opportunity to go beyond the usual architectural analysis to a psychological one, as Adele Tutter does in Dream House: An Intimate Portrait of the Philip Johnson Glass House (2016), ideas on which I am tempted to expand.. As an art historian and architect, Johnson naturally was quick to ...
A Second Look at Edith Farnsworth and Her Mies van der …
WEBJul 15, 2020 · During a visit to the latest exhibition at Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, visitors are more likely to encounter a deer (as this writer did) than a single Mies-designed Brno Chair. Edith Farnsworth, photo courtesy Northwestern Memorial Hospital Archives That’s because the year-long, multi-part exhibition called Edith Farnsworth Reconsidered unfolds across nearly 60 ...
Smith + Gill Architecture Expands the Steppenwolf Theater …
WEBNov 4, 2021 · Since its founding in 1974 by a group of high school students aspiring to be actors, Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater has evolved from a scrappy incubator of local talent to an internationally acclaimed cultural powerhouse. Along the way, several of its productions have moved to Broadway, where they have won 12 Tony Awards, and the company has been awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Top 25 U.S. Architecture Firms of 2020 | 2020-08-31 | Architectural …
WEBAug 31, 2020 · Two Houston-based companies entered the Top 25 this year: PBK, a 15-location practice focusing on education, health care, and sports, and PGAL, a 300-person office that saw architectural revenue grow by 87 percent—some $94 million. The firm’s percentage of revenue from architecture also increased, from 70 …