Get offline! And do something fun in Miami Beach, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Munich, London, Cambridge, Santa Monica, Singapore or Boulder.

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Ever pass by a standout building and wonder -- who the hell lives there? Spain's TVE went around visiting apartments in the new housing by architects like FOA and MVRDV, and also older classics, like Casa Milá. (in Espańol -- and it might only transmit for the next week) watch

In the mid 1970s, before becoming a full-time writer, Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk studied architecture. In this autobiographical piece he describes his feelings about architecture and the trade he never took up. Abitare, pdf

The full line-up of the icon minds talks, by the likes of Ronan Bouroullec, Farshid Moussavi, Bruce Sterling and Dunne & Raby, can now be viewed online.
Watch Farshid Moussavi, Charles Jencks and Marjan Colletti discuss the return of ornament; Dunne & Raby and Bruce Sterling talk about design fiction; Joseph Grima and Julien de Smedt on the pressures of running a young and successful architecture practice; and Ronan Bouroullec in conversation with icon's editor Justin McGuirk.
Watch

Fortune magazine has put together a list of mistakes-to-avoid while looking for a new job. These are general, but definitely apply to out-of-work architects. A good read after studying our recently published Archinect's Official Portfolio Guide Part II: The Search for Employment. Read

Germany's idealistic designers have much to teach the modern world
From The Economist

More than a dozen New York designers have teamed up to offer pro bono help to local non-profits. Applications are due at the end of the month, and hopefully DesigNYC will expand into a full-time network of designers doing good. The Architect's Newspaper

Turning a 3-axis CNC router into a plotter:



And turning the world's tallest building into the world's most insane adrenaline rush:

News
As LB says, "Thanks for sticking to this, Javier.". I mean Really!!!
ARCH+ pulls a foul??
Empty Ordos , Found.

Buy some windows from FallingWater.
Listen to Goldberger On Point and AIA President Curt Moody, on being an African American Architect.
This should Prove interesting.

Discussion Threads
Arup talks about Towards zero carbon.
Some professors get in a fist fight.

Bruno Fioretti Marquez Architekten's Schweinfurt library, discussed in Surface and reflection in architecture.



Maybe we can help allstar out???

School Blogs
John Tubles visits Gunkan Jima.
Lian describes GSD as "like a really advanced kindergarten. Or maybe a really rigorous one.".

Micah at Kent State University does some looping and meal mapping.
Mike at UBC shows some Garmenture
Sucks big time, Mark at Hampton universit was flooded out.

Adrian Searle reviews the new gallery by Caruso St John which opens this Saturday with exhibitions featuring early work by David Hockney and the artist Frances Stark. Searle is pleased that the architects chose not to overshadow the art with their building.

He writes; Nottingham Contemporary, which opens on Saturday, happens to be a series of interconnected boxes and a bunker; its entire lower floor is dug into the sandstone cliff on which the building is perched. But it isn't a boring building, and the galleries are well-proportioned, flexible spaces. Their scale feels good. Guardian

Looking for something to do? You're in luck if you find yourself in any of the following cities in the next week... Singapore, Shanghai, New York, Ljubljana, Melbourne, Los Angeles, Cambridge, Boston, London & Ankara.

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Nicolai Ourousoff reviews the exhibit “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future,” which opened at the Museum of the City of New York on Tuesday.
Via the NYT.

New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger joins host Tom Ashbrook to talk about his new book Why We Need Architecture. Listen to Wednesday's On Point.

A giant "digital cloud" that would "float" above London's skyline has been outlined by an international team of architects, artists and engineers. BBC News + full entry...

A small group of polar veterans is trying to preserve the dome (which sheltered scientists and support workers at the South Pole for three decades) that is slated for demolition in the next few months. The group argues the dome is a signature feature of the United States Antarctic program. NYT