Midtown Blogger/Manhattan Valley Follies: Metropolis Magazine

Sunday, June 7, 2015

Archive »Architecture

	A Gift to Toronto The Aga Khan Museum and Ismaili Centre hold out hope for an unlikely and uninteresting neighborhood. Christopher Hume
	Place for Protest Paris’s historic center for dissent, Place de la République, gets an expansion and an update. Veronique Vienne
	Paper-Thin Walls AECOM specially engineers fiberglass to achieve Smiljan Radić’s vision for the Serpentine Pavilion. Shannon Sharpe
	Artistic Statement The curator and artistic director of the Fondation Louis Vuitton on Frank Gehry's genius and how the new museum is "very different from anything else" Catherine Shaw
	Too Much, Too Late? An expansive exhibition at MoMA reflects on Latin America’s Modernist legacy. Does it do the region justice? Susana Torre
	Sacred Structure The poetic form of the Bahá’i Temple of South America is a triumph of engineering and material innovation. Guy Horton
	A Special Tribute to Michael Graves: 1934–2015 Cherished friends, colleagues, and collaborators remember the multifaceted personality and contemplate the architect's legacy. Samuel Medina
	The Rise of the Robot Operator After two decades of experience in robotics-based fabrication, Andreas Froech, founder of Machineous Consultants, wants more control over his work and is reclaiming his role in the design process. Guy Horton