Archinect - News2013-05-20T01:28:40-04:00http://archinect.com/news/article/42775035/editor-s-picks-256
Editor's Picks #256 Nam Henderson2012-03-26T12:35:00-04:00>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 Ayyüce</a> 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>, 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>. <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>" <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 Ayyüce2012-03-21T11:21:00-04:00>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’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to cancel a planned stop in the city’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">
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The Senseable City: an interview with Carlo Ratti Archinect2011-12-05T15:06:00-05:00>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—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">
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