Architect Magazine: Past Progressives

Past Progressives, 1958: P/A Award Citation

Thu, 6 Jun 2013 04:22:10 EST

The Warm Mineral Springs Motel near Venice, Fla., captures the optimistic and fantastic quality of Victor Lundy’s early work.

Modesty Trumps Contrivance

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:42:35 EST

For an art center in Mansfield, Ohio, Don Hisaka created an enduring example of design clarity.

Gehry Revisits His Museum

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:32:49 EST

The University of Minnesota’s Weisman Art Museum shows how Frank Gehry’s work has changed as he added to his own design.

The Heart of Our Cities

Fri, 8 Mar 2013 09:22:25 EST

Victor Gruen's 1956 plan for Fort Worth, Texas, while never fully realized, influences that city and many others to this day.

Past Progressives: Tale of the Swan and Dolphin

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:06:59 EST

For Disney World, Michael Graves designed a pair of hotels with playful cartoon imagery.

Past Progressives: The Robert Mueller Municipal Airport

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:22:29 EST

When the city of Austin, Texas, moved its airport, the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport became obsolete. Since then, it has become a New Urbanist community, but its control tower remains a well-loved icon.

Past Progressives: Pavilion on a Pedestal, by Thomas Phifer and Partners

Wed, 5 Dec 2012 05:41:50 EST

With a Hudson Valley retreat, Thomas Phifer and Partners updated the early modern ideal of a pure volume in an arcadian landscape.

Past Progressives: Healthcare and Architecture Research

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 06:34:08 EST

Ben Refuerzo and Stephen Verderber showed how research can lead to better public health facilities—without compromising architectural quality.

Past Progressives: The New Orleans's Main Library, a Look Back at the 1957 P/A Citation

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 02:21:26 EST

Designed by Curtis and Davis, New Orleans’s Main Library shows how a classic modern building can adapt to changing needs.

Hybrid High-rise

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 06:19:34 EST

In his science tower at Yale, the dexterous Philip Johnson mixed functionalism, classicism, and contextualism.

Urban Renewal Becomes Urban Fabric

Tue, 8 Jan 2013 02:17:02 EST

The Back Bay (now Prudential) Center in Boston has all but disappeared behind pedestrian-friendly infill buildings and shopping arcades.

Audacious Yet Deferential

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:37:47 EST

Steven Holl's Kansas City art museum project is at once a sensitive addition and a landmark of its own time.

A Waterfront to Watch

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:37:41 EST

Peter Rose’s urban design for the port of Montreal mixes public access with a working waterfront.

Treading Lightly on the Florida Earth

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:37:36 EST

Architects Thompson and Rose dispersed studios for the arts within a lush subtropical setting.

The Little Tower That Could

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:37:32 EST

In this small tower in downtown San Francisco, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill showed how to make a good mixed-use building on a hard-to-use triangular site.

Public Spaces Prized

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:36:35 EST

A First Award for Machado and Silvetti Associates' reshaping of an urban campus.

A Bridge Too Far

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:09:52 EST

Michael Graves's Fargo-Moorhead project offers one model of what architects can contribute to bridge design.

Pragmatic Arcadia

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 06:07:16 EST

Bay Area imagery meets Modernist rationality in Foothill College, which remains a paragon of campus design.

Lerner Meets Lutyens

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 06:46:52 EST

For the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Ralph Lerner gave Edwin Lutyens's Classicism a Postmodern spin.

Vision Obstructed

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:32:25 EST

Construction was never completed on the "Slow House" by the then-emerging team of Diller and Scofidio.