Design-Art: Coding and Recoding Design

While no one today would dare define good design, there are, as I suggested in my recent series Signs of Design, some quite specific objects...

Signs of Design III

Undesign: from Wal-Mart to the 99 Cent StoreWhile there is not likely to be any controversy in referring to the objects of my previous two c...

Signs of Design II

Design for All: Value-Added LifestylesIn 1999, the retail chain Target began a partnership with architect and designer Michael Graves in an ...

Signs of Design

Twenty-first century design seems impossible to define, not least because the word “design” covers such a wide variety of objects and practi...

The Kalita Humphreys Theater, Dallas

On a sloping site overlooking Turtle Creek, a couple of miles from downtown Dallas, stands one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s final projects, the K...

Dallas, Texas: Architecture and Urbanism

It’s a good Cold War story that has taken on mythological proportions: In the 1980s, brutal Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu aired the so...

A Portrait of the Architect as Artist: Frank Gehry in New York

America’s most famous architect, with a career stretching back forty years, only recently completed his first freestanding building in Ameri...