Glass curtain walls, Docomomo, and office-related architecture porn

"On a winter day, its vast atriums shudder with the sound of wind buffeting the sawtooth skylights. The only things moving along the miles of corridors are shadows."

— The Office as Architectural Touchstone by David W. Dunlap, in Sunday’s NYT.

The suburban corporate campus is outgrown but often beautiful. The photos in the online slideshow — Glass and Grass — also stray toward the softcore; the scale of the suburban corporate campus (as designed by Eero Saarinen, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Edward Durell Stone, etc.) lends itself easily to a poor-man’s Andreas Gursky type of shot.

And then there is “Docomomo, an international advocacy organization (the acronym stands for the ‘documentation and conservation’ of the ‘modern movement’).”