The Battle Over Funding Imagination Library Grows.
What is the Imagination Library and why are states across the US removing it from their state budgets?
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Excited for the new Spanish edition of DESIGN OF CHILDHOOD, arriving soon!
Exactly! And this is anecdata but when I bring that up to other parents in the northeast it’s like they have never given it a thought
A fun essay on Charles Moore's Burns House that asks the important question: When will architecture history stop being winky about the sex parties lareviewofbooks.org/article/char...
The walls look SO BAD to me but Team Patina is telling me they look good
This is appalling but also, as someone in the college applications zone, I continue to be shocked at how little *this state may restrict what your college student can learn* comes up in the lists and discussions of "best" colleges
Went to the grand opening of the new Green-Wood Visitor Center and it is glorious! (Yes that is a giant tile floor map)
Why is ICE buying so many warehouses, and what does this have to do with the warehouse's shifting place in the US economy? In Places Journal, I chronicle the long arc of Warehousing's carceral geography and the speculative building boom that ICE is absorbing. placesjournal.org/article/the-...
It's still absurd! But the exhibit is great.
All goes back to Mies and Lilly Reich www.moma.org/audio/playli...
Exactly!
Photo by Jake Michaels for the NYT
The one thing people seem to agree on about New LACMA is the beauty of the gold curtains by Reiko Sudo ... and there is a long history of modern architects learning to accept curtains for the good of humanity
www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/articles/cur...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
TIL there is a Noah Kahan Boat & Tote and I must salute the merch team www.llbean.com/llb/shop/891...
I'm not into his music but Strafford is two towns over from where my extended family lives so I comb all coverage for Upper Valley references.
She also did her add in the manner of Gwyneth's Boyfriend Breakfasts, as if this were just another way to stay healthy and serve (in both meanings of the word)
The greatest city in the world should have the greatest streets in the world — they shouldn't be covered in bags of trash.
Containerization is common sense. The rest of the world figured this out a long time ago!
I can't even join these groups because the second-hand anxiety they produce in me is bad bad bad (also I don't have FB)
My grandma always used to say she wanted to *see* the butter
But they won, right? I thought they just got the final CB8 signoff.
This is actually giving me some insight into how I am using Reddit / how other people use Reddit that is useful! My last specific use was "is the site down for other people" for state park reservations.
Green juices with orange caps in bottles with LACMA branding and a tag that says Erewhon LACMA
It has begun
Right, it is better BUT I think it created a mentality of "asking the computer" that is clearly driving AI use
If they are not asking ChatGPT they are asking Reddit!!! Too many people outsourcing all thinking and self-knowledge!
👏🏾 We've seen this phenomenon happen in Chicago and Philly as well.
Our young people desperately need in-person third spaces. We didn't do "teen takeovers" and "flash mobs" back in the day because we had a myriad number of places that we could go.
I am sure the LA-based critics are going to get into all that!
I just told my husband Hampshire was closing and he said “Never heard of it” ?!?
I loved the way it was installed previously! I think those pieces need some enclosure — even this one I saw last week in NOLA has a wall
All the other critics are in LA this week seeing the new LACMA (New York Times gets to go first as always) so I decided to revisit the questions I asked back in 2015 www.alexandralange.net/blog/374/let...
These still seem like good questions!
It is the 50th anniversary of his singular US playground, Playscapes in Piedmont Park www.hermanmiller.com/stories/why-...
