Alexandra Lange
Architecture & design critic

Wednesday Links: 4.16.14

Courtesy Renzo Piano Building Workshop/Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Mid-century modern houses as an endangered species in Architectural Record. Sad how little has changed since I wrote on the same topic for Metropolis in 2003.

A Star Wars creature? The IBM Pavilion at the 1964 World’s Fair? What does Renzo Piano and Zoltan Pali’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ planned film museum most resemble, besides a mistake?

You may never get to fly first class, but you’ll still enjoy David Owen’s New Yorker feature on James Park Associates and the aesthetics and mechanics of jet comfort.

When Melbourne learned from Las Vegas. Great article on the legacy of postmodernism Down Under. I thought as much when I visited last spring.