Archinect - News 2013-05-20T01:28:40-04:00 http://archinect.com/news/article/42775035/editor-s-picks-256 Editor's Picks #256 Nam Henderson 2012-03-26T12:35:00-04:00 >2012-03-26T23:24:50-04:00 <img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/cz/cz4lqo8mkj1mop8i.jpg" width="514" height="360" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>Lawrence Cheek explored the trend of open office design, amongst recent commercial/institutional architecture in Seattle. George Showman found fault "This is a weird article because one of the examples is an absolute palace (the Gates Foundation) and the others seem a little miserable...I have worked in an open office for years, but it was small enough that there were many moments of productive silence, and poor enough that I didn't expect more."</p></em><br /><br /><p> <a href="http://archinect.com/people/cover/1812010/orhan-ayy-ce" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Orhan Ayy&uuml;ce</a>&nbsp;cites Reyner Banham, the systems man, in his latest <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/42138898/next-series-faster-pussycat-city" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NEXT SERIES: FASTER PUSSYCAT CITY</a> feature. Quoting from <strong>Bricologues A La Lanterne</strong>, &nbsp;wherein Banham wrote "<em>People who can believe that mass bricolage is a sovereign remedy...should think again, carefully</em>", Orhan provides some critical insight into a current personal interest "<em>cities designed in few charrette hours</em>" tellingly asking "<em>Suburbia is dead, long live the city. Right?...This is the consumer culture's life-stylism as urbanism.</em>"<br><br><strong>News</strong><br> Lawrence Cheek explored the trend of open office design, <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/41973983/open-doors-form-open-minds" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">amongst recent commercial/institutional architecture in Seattle</a>.&nbsp;<strong>George Showman</strong> found fault "<em>This is a weird article because one of the examples is an absolute palace (the Gates Foundation) and the others seem a little miserable...I have worked in an open office for years, but it was small enough that there were many moments of productive silence, and poor enough that I didn't expect more.</em>" &nbsp;<strong>toasteroven </strong>agreed in spirit expla...</p> http://archinect.com/news/article/42147309/bmw-guggenheim-cancel-berlin-lab-project-on-violence-threats BMW, Guggenheim Cancel Berlin Lab Project on Violence Threats Orhan Ayyüce 2012-03-21T11:21:00-04:00 >2012-03-21T12:55:38-04:00 <img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/xv/xvovptu40qylt7zb.jpg" width="514" height="228" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>Threats by left-wing activists in Berlin prompted New York&rsquo;s Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to cancel a planned stop in the city&rsquo;s Kreuzberg district for its mobile laboratory, the BMW Guggenheim Lab.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html> http://archinect.com/news/article/29880497/the-senseable-city-an-interview-with-carlo-ratti The Senseable City: an interview with Carlo Ratti Archinect 2011-12-05T15:06:00-05:00 >2011-12-05T15:06:13-05:00 <img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/ca/ca738cea0ef1d165ef6e44176d6524ec.jpg" width="514" height="343" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>Architect, engineer, and director of the SENSEable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carlo Ratti will focus on (you guessed it) the Senseable City&mdash;merging the digital and the physical realms by understanding how we sense and act on our built environment, and how the latter then responds to us.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>