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Theodor Seuss Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, was a prolific architectural thinker. His experimenta l drawings show speculative domestic architectures: houses and pueblo-like villages with oddly sloped roofs, multiple off-set levels and wild color schemes, always looking as if they were on the verge of falling over. They were something like a cross between an…

“As a child, I was a James Bond film, Space: 1999 geek,” Napa Valley-based designer Richard Von Saal tells Architizer. Captivated by the glamour and “complex geometry of futuristic modernism,” of these movies, he developed a certain cinematic flair in his own interior design and fabrication practice, making it only fitting that the Napa Valley…

Many major cultural institutions have been looking to expand their reach in recent times, with satel lite branches opening or under construction across the world: The Guggenheim Foundation leads the way as ever, with new divisions taking shape in both Abu Dhabi and, eventually, Helsinki. The Louvre is traversing borders for the first time, setting up…

For All-Star weekend, the NBA released an AMO-style interactive map of the history of New York City basketball. The colorful map shows a long history as diverse as the city itself, from prep stars such as Queens’ Bob Cousy and Brooklyn’s Lance Stephenson to the storied histories of the Knicks and Nets. Full interactive map…

For many vacationers, the resort town of Palm Springs is just that: a place to lie by the pool, view the mountains, and enjoy the sun. Every February, however, this small desert city about 100 miles from Los Angeles sees a massive influx of designers, collectors, architects, and anyone else who loves its influential buildings.…

It’s almost as if Ken Shuttleworth has taken inspiration from my very own pseudonym… The founder of Make Architects — a former right-hand man of Sir Norman Foster — thrust his inner “Angry Architect” into the limelight, deriding his peers as “arrogant and egotistical,” and accusing them of “taking all the credit” for the work…

Deep in the remote hills of rural Chile, there lies a brilliantly bizarre settlement with a unique h istory: Ciudad Abierta, or ‘Open City,’ is an ode to experimental design, formed by a group of students and teachers working at the intersection of poetry and architectural exploration. Journalist Vincenzo Latronico recently visited this surreal landscape, and…

Last week, Copenhagen became the most recent city to experience the damaging effects of a wave of an ti-Semitism that has proliferated across Europe starting last month. Two people were killed and five police officers were injured as a result of an attack that left Denmark in complete shock; one of those killed was a Jewish…

Shopping centers have long been a source of conflict and contradiction for architects. Successful ma lls are celebratory cathedrals of consumerism that, for all their vitality, can suck the lifeblood out of the surrounding cityscape and transform high streets into ghost towns. The functional motivation of malls is at once glamorous and gluttonous, often necessitating aesthetics…