Topic: Frank Lloyd Wright

Prefab Homes: But What Would Frank Lloyd Wright Say?

The Frank Lloyd Wright School tries its hand at prefab with an instant desert home.READ»

Journalist, PR Consultant, Mom, Wife, Recovering Tech Writer

When you're thinking about your own brand on the Net - think in terms of how one might design and build a beautiful piece of architecture.  Each piece is integral to the other, even those that are decorative serve an important ...READ»

Work/Life: Wright Life Balance

Today is the birth anniversary day of a potential poster boy for work/life balance dysfunction, the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Notoriously driven and notoriously difficult, Wright once said “No house should ever be on a ...READ»

Fire Your Architect: Hometta's House Plans Go Public in June

Affordable, modern architecture is a white whale. Which is where Hometta comes in. The site, which goes live next month, will offer modern house plans designed by 20 up-and-coming contemporary architects. The plans will range ...READ»

If You Like NYC's Guggenheim, You'll Love the "Cocoon" Office

Swiss Life's brand-new headquarters is one huge spiral ramp, which can be reconfigured into offices or meeting spaces as the business changes over time.READ»

Hack the Google and Guggenheim Design It: Shelter Competition

Think you have what it takes to design an electricity, gas, and water-free shelter that blends into the natural environment? Then enter the Design It:Shelter competition. The competition, held by Google Sketchup and the Guggenheim ...READ»

Design It: Shelter Competition Winners Offer Protection from the Elements

Shelters should provide a relationship between architecture and place. That's the premise of the Design it: Shelter competition, which asked designers to submit a 3-D shelter meant for any location in the world. Inspired by Frank ...READ»

Design It: Shelter Competition Winners Offer Protection From the Elements

Shelters should provide a relationship between architecture and place. That's the premise of the Design it: Shelter competition, which asked designers to submit a 3-D shelter meant for any location in the world. Inspired by Frank ...READ»

Ron Arad Rips Off Richard Serra in His First Major Building

The path-breaking furniture designer is about to complete a design museum in IsraelREAD»

Policy Changes Yield Better Buildings in New York

New York's new program for encouraging better public architecture has just born fruit, in a new community center designed by George Ranalli. As the Wall Street Journal's Ada Louise Huxtable writes: ...the Saratoga Avenue ...READ»

Grand Masters

Past Customer Service Champions share their customer service experiences.READ»

Design's Boom-and-Bust Cycle: Ten Years In, Ten to Go

The topic of design has generated a lot of buzz lately--so much, in fact, that some suggest that the renewed interest in all things creative is a passing fad. Not exactly. If we let history be our guide, we'll see that there's a ...READ»

• Ten Things to Demand From Design Thinkers

Barbara Bestor and Jennifer Siegal: Two Quintessentially Californian Architects

Next month, the Southern California Institute of Architecture is honoring two women who are pillars of the Los Angeles architecture community.READ»

Historical Holidays IV

It's not been a bad week-plus for business innovation: On June 3, 1965, the first American space walk occurred. On June 4, 1626, Dutch colonist Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan. On June 6, 1934, the Securities and Exchange ...READ»

Have You Seen the Five Faces of Genius?

Understanding how you think is just as important as what you think about, says Annette Moser-Wellman, founder of the FireMark consultancy. She teaches managers how to identify their creative style.READ»

Iconic Pre-Fab Provider Closes Shop

Michelle Kaufmann Designs, a path-breaking seller of modern, eco-friendly pre-fab homes, is folding due to the anemic housing market and the credit crisis at large. Kaufmann's firm became synonymous with the contemporary ...READ»

Asian Designers Are Schooling American Architects--Here's How

Renowned Asian designers now helm two of the U.S.'s traditionally Eurocentric architecture schools. Here's what they're teaching the new generation of American architects.READ»

Design - Freeman Thomas

"Car designers need to create a story. Every car provides an opportunity to create an adventure."READ»

Barnhart Inc Completes CSU San Bernandino College of Education

Barnhart, Inc. announces the completion of the new $51 million state-of-the-art College of Education. The facility is the largest and most technologically advanced building on the CSUSB campus.READ»

Introducing Guest Blogger Graham Button: Designing Experiences That Are "True from the Center"

While he didn't know it at the time, Graham Button hit a significant career turning point the day that Grey Worldwide won the Frontier Airlines account. In the course of working with the airline, Button, the ad agency's creative ...READ»

The Man Who Loved Chairs

Rolf Fehlbaum, CEO of Vitra, really cares about chairs. His company is a celebration of what to some is the most mundane object in the office -- but to him is a source of passion.READ»

Chicago is the Creative Capital of ohe Universe. Discuss.

Skyscrapers, green roofs, and house music -- a very American metropolis. READ»

Chicago is the Creative Capital of the World. Discuss.

The city's elite talk about why the city is fast.READ»

Genius at Change

Social entrepreneur Bill Strickland offers advice from the front lines of change -- San Francisco's nonprofit Bayview-Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology.READ»

Group Genius

That's what creativity gurus Matt and Gail Taylor seek to unleash with their mind-bending workshops.READ»