Minnesota Street Project: Ecosystem for the Arts
“If we don’t do something soon, there won’t be an arts community in San Francisco at all. It’ll become a city of millionaires and homeless people.”
– Andy Rappaport, co-founder
by Rebecca Firestone with Mark English AIA
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Cannabis Developers Threaten Affordable Housing
“How would buildings full of plants and a few caretakers help to create a lively urban context? People not plants!”
– Mark English, AIA
by Rebecca Firestone with Mark English AIA
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AIA Small Firm Exchange: Team-Building in Louisville
“There’s a growing awareness at national level that small-firm architects are more than just residential. We’re valuable to the profession.”
– Chyanne Husar, architect, 2018 SFx Chair
by Rebecca Firestone with Mark English AIA
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Why is Art Better than Tech?
Could art help people to act as “disruptive innovators” and “agents of change” in a different kind of way? Gary Hutton: “Any fool with enough money can buy a Ferrari.”
(Photo: Matthew Millman)
by Rebecca Firestone with Mark English AIA
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Gary Hutton: Becoming an Art Collector
“Start by educating yourself. Art should make you think, shake you up, see the world differently. Building the next great widget is a laudable task… But art speaks to the soul rather than the pocketbook.”
(Photo: Matthew Millman)
by Rebecca Firestone with Mark English AIA
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Carlo Scarpa: A Tactile Experience
A visit to a former Olivetti showroom in Venice, now a museum, yields new insights into Scarpa’s unique genius.
Image: Mark English Architects
by Rebecca Firestone with Mark English AIA
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Alan Tse: Adaptive Modernism
“My first valuable opportunity for a signature 11-story high-rise condominium building was shattered by all 7 Planning Commissioners… 672 hours later, I transformed from a egotistic architectural designer into a humble-minded individual getting a career-long lesson.”
(Image courtesy Alan Tse)
by Rebecca Firestone with Mark English AIA
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Archaeology of the Perverse: Damien Hirst at Punta della Dogana
Is “Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable” really the most expensive artistic flop in living memory, or are these art critics missing the real point?
Image: Mark English Architects
by Rebecca Firestone with Mark English AIA
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Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: MDC
A correspondent from Mars visits the Monterey Design Conference. Who are these strange creatures called “architects”? Architects possess a unique language and culture all their own – a purpose and a place in the world.
Images: Mark English Architects and Sou Fujimoto
by Rebecca Firestone with Mark English AIA
