The architect and dean of the Yale School of Architecture speaks to CityLab about her work, her industry, and the cities she loves working in. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: The New Stars of a NYC Subway Station: Very Good Doggos
Artist William Wegman’s famous Weimaraners are now immortalized in mosaics in the New York subway. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Revisiting Architect Paul Rudolph’s Hong Kong Years
A new exhibit highlights the Modernist architect’s little-known designs made while working in Asia. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: When Soviet Industrial Designers Imagined a Better World
Thanks to tireless work by the Moscow Museum of Design, a forgotten institute’s lost work is being introduced to a new generation of designers. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: How Canada Discovered Its Visual Identity
A documentary by Vancouver-based graphic designer Greg Durrell explores the surprisingly rich history behind the nation’s postwar design culture. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: An Ultimate Architectural Road Trip of East Coast Mid-Century Modernism
Architecture writer Sam Lubell and photographer Darran Bradley reveals the hidden gens and greatest hits of postwar design along the Eastern Seaboard. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: How Boston Got Its ‘T’
Designers Peter Chermayeff and Tom Geismar talk about how they gave the MBTA an enduring makeover. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Time for a Canadian Hockey Brawl Over Subway Art
At a Toronto station that fed fans into the city’s hockey arena, a 1985 mural that depicted the Maple Leafs’ biggest rival enraged team owner Howard Ballard. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Long Live the World’s Greatest Local TV News Theme
Philadelphia’s “Move Closer To Your World” has some new fans this week, thanks to a viral video. Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: A Struggling Metro System’s Big, Vague, Self-Destructive Idea
In an effort to boost ridership, Buffalo’s transit authority is offering developers a chance to revamp its stations. What’s wrong with that? Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Making Sense of John Portman
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. The architect and developer John Portman, who died late last December at the age…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: How to Care for Your Portman Hotel
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. Between the late 1960s and early 1980s, few architects or developers could rival John…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: The Last Man Standing in a Doomed Buffalo Housing Complex
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. Any minute now, John Schmidt expects to be removed from his apartment by U.S….
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: ‘Happy Holidays!’ From New York’s Parking Garages
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. Every December, Manhattan fills up with families and tourists looking for unforgettable holiday decorations….
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: When Frank Lloyd Wright Comes to Harlem
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. A wooden panel designed to accompany Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City model declares that…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: In Quebec, Buckminster Fuller’s Domed Dreams Live On
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. Around the world, if you’re talking about geodesic domes, you’re talking about Buckminster Fuller….
Database Proof Substratum: Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Montreal’s Retired Metro Cars Are Staying Busy
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. Whenever a city updates the rolling stock of its subway, a familiar question emerges:…
Database Proof Substratum: Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Los Angeles Gets the Transit Etiquette Superhero It Needs
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. On any given bus or train, Rude Dude is never too far away. For…
Database Proof Substratum: Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: A Complicated Second Life for a Brutalist Icon
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. The hulking concrete building just off the I-95 in New Haven commands the attention…
Database Proof Substratum: Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Building ‘Never Built New York’
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. After the exhibition “Never Built Los Angeles”—an exploration of the city’s most compelling unrealized…
