This is the modern world, brah

In the latest GR, there's a lengthy Q&A with architect/critic/curator Dean Sakamoto about the work of Vladimir Ossipoff, who spearheaded Hawaii's modernist movement. If you've spent time in Hawaii, you've probably seen his work on the IBM building or the home by Kailua Beach, if not Punahou's floating cathedral or the Outrigger Club. I think the article does a lot to dispel the backwards Plantation style that most Hawaiian government buildings have or the cheesy facades of Waikiki, and I was proud when Sakamoto gave the piece a thumbs up. (The complementary shave ice article was well received, too.)

The exhibit on Ossipoff that Sakamoto curated at Honolulu's Academy of Arts has come and gone, but you can catch it at one of its next stops in Frankfort, Germany or Yale University. you can also buy the nice hardbound catalog, which is excerpted in the new Modernism mag, shown above. Whoa, they used our opener image as their cover!