Daniel Libeskind
Kurt Andersen talks to architect Daniel Libeskind about urban planning, music, and his vision for the World Trade Center site. Produced by Michele Siegel.
View ArticleSpecial Guest: Frank Gehry
Kurt Andersen and architect Frank Gehry talk about how both literal and conceptual frames shape our creativity.Frank Gehry is one of today's most visionary and pioneering architects. He's drawn notice...
View ArticleDesign for the Real World: Ballpark
Baseball season has just begun. Designer and Cleveland Indians loyalist Michael Bierut is a huge fan of the game and a connoisseur of the ballpark. He looks at what separates the mid-century...
View ArticleInterior Harmony
George Beylerian is a former furniture designer who now heads Material Connexion, a resource center for designers and architects. Beylarian brings us through his house-ful of dissonant objects — and...
View ArticleThe Urban Grid
Kurt Andersen walks the streets of Lower Manhattan with Marilyn Taylor. She is the chairman of the architecture firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill — and heads its urban design and planning practice....
View ArticleCourthouse Design
Federal courthouses have become showpieces of contemporary architecture. But at the municipal level, courts remain mostly humble or strangely designed buildings. Studio 360's Michele Siegel found an...
View ArticleSpecial Guest: Julie Bargmann
Julie Bargmann is a landscape architect specializing in Superfund sites and other toxic places. Her firm has worked on the reuse of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and Ford Motor...
View ArticleSpecial Guest: Niall Kirkwood
Niall Kirkwood teaches Landscape Architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard where he is also the director of the Center for Technology and Environment. His passion for trashed and...
View ArticleNow Playing: Open House New York
It's an annual tradition in London and Toronto, and this weekend will be inaugurated in New York City. Visitors who sign up for Open House New York get to climb into ordinarily inaccessible and...
View ArticleJefferson's Dome
We all know Thomas Jefferson as the author of the Declaration of Independence. But he was also the architect of some of our country’s best political buildings. Architecture critic Karrie Jacobs...
View ArticleCourthouse Design
Many Federal court buildings have become showpieces of contemporary architecture. But at the municipal level, courts remain mostly humble or strangely designed buildings. Studio 360's Michele Siegel...
View ArticleThe Urban Grid
Kurt Andersen walks the streets of Lower Manhattan with Marilyn Taylor. She is the chairman of the architecture firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill — and heads its urban design and planning practice....
View ArticleSpecial Guest: Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Kurt Andersen talks with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown about the creative lives of couples.Architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown are the principals of the Philadelphia-based firm...
View ArticleArcosanti
In 1970 the visionary Italian architect Paolo Soleri and a team of volunteers broke ground on the city of the future. It was called Arcosanti, and it was intended to change how we Americans live. In...
View ArticleSpecial Guest: Nathaniel Kahn
Kurt Andersen and Nathaniel Kahn talk about the physical spaces artists build — to feed their creativity and to hide from the rest of the world.Nathaniel Kahn is a playwright and filmmaker. He grew up...
View ArticleJefferson's Dome
We all know Thomas Jefferson as the author of the Declaration of Independence. But he was also the architect of some of our country’s best political buildings. Architecture critic Karrie Jacobs...
View ArticleOlympic Architecture
Pierre de Coubertin, the father of the modern Olympics, realized architecture could affect the success of the games. He challenged architects to create a sacred space for sport. Matt Holzman of KCRW in...
View ArticleConcert Halls
How do you bring music lovers back to live concerts when they have a multitude of technological choices available to them in the 21st century? One solution is to turn concert halls into architectural...
View ArticleThe Church
Barcelona is filled with historic landmarks, but one of the most popular tourist destinations is a 120 year old construction site — the church of the Sagrada Familia, designed mostly by Antonio Gaudí....
View ArticleTerminal Five
You might know the Jetsons-like curvy concrete and glass structure of TWA’s Terminal 5 at JFK from the movie Catch Me If You Can. When the abandoned terminal was recently declared a landmark building,...
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