Author: Marcus Trimble

Either this book and pen are ridiculously large or Tadao Ando is really, really small.

Benjamin Schwarz reviews Sty ­liane Philippou’s forthcoming Oscar Niemeyer: Curves of Irreverence as a work of rich historical, cultural and aesthetic assessment. “…in authoritatively assessing Niemeyer’s work and its place in architectural and Brazilian cultural history, she has marshaled such diverse subjects as 18th-century colonial Portuguese architecture, bossa nova, the topography and cultural geography of…

Brooke Hodge reviews the new John Lautner exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.   NYT.

Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond have unveiled plans for the world’s largest public art project, the Tees Valley Giants.   The Guardian.

David Rakoff reviews Disney ´s new Innoventions Dream Home. ‘To get to the front door of the Elias family, the inhabitants of the new Dream Home at Disneyland, you must step onto a revolving walkway and glide past Tom Morrow, a Nathan Lane-voiced robot with a face like a machine-age Arcimboldo and a brush cut…

Discerning readers of architectural media will have noticed that ‘Daniel Libeskind’ is often described as a ‘world renowned architect’. Coincidence?   A quick search of Studio Daniel Libeskind reveals over 6800 occurrences of the term within the studio’s website and press releases.