May '13 - Dec '15
Sound the alarm: the women are missing!Equity By Design (originally named The Missing 32%) is an advocacy group for women architects in the United States. It started, perhaps inevitably, in San Francisco; architects like Dr. Ila Berman, Cathy Simon, Anne M. Torney, EB Min, and others had begun... View full entry
The Chicago Architecture Biennial is being held primarily at the Chicago Cultural Center (78 E. Washington, Chicago), and the displays will be spread out throughout and around the entire building; a cogent spatial experience (one hopes!). But if you'd like to know before you go where the... View full entry
The Chicago Architecture Biennial is almost here, and there are over 100 participants. Want to check them out on Twitter before you go? Or, not going to be able to make it and you're looking for a virtual experience? Below is a list of all participants with official (not personal) Facebook... View full entry
The Chicago Architecture Biennial is almost here, and there are over 100 participants. Want to check them out on Twitter before you go? Or, not going to be able to make it and you're looking for a virtual experience? Below is a list of all participants with Twitter accounts. Most are at... View full entry
In the vein of trivia, networked knowledge, and of course the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Architectstasy presents: a trivia game for architecture geeks! It is a mashup of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon plus the Wikipedia Game: linking one topic to the next by six degrees of separation. For... View full entry
Iwan Baan...
Iwan Baan has been chosen to document Chicago for their first ever Biennial.If you think about it, this is kind of a funny thing to say. Chicago is already articulate about its architectural identity:it has a well-established architectural foundationit has architecture tours (the river... View full entry
Of the 100+ artists and architects converging on Chicago for North America’s first architecture biennial, a few have given TED talks (some of them more than one). Whether you’re looking for a TED distraction or wanting to dive into the biennial mood, here is a compilation of CAB... View full entry
TED: Iwan Baan, Ingenious Homes in Unexpected Places
TED: Bjarke Ingels, 3 Warp-Speed Architecture Tales
TED: Bjarke Ingels, Hedonistic Sustainability
TED: Liz Diller, Tech-Empowered Architecture
TED: Liz Diller, A Giant Bubble For Debate
TED: Frank Gehry, Now What?
TED: Frank Gehry, My Days as a Young Rebel
TED: Theaster Gates, Reviving a Neighborhood With Imagination, Beauty, and Art
There’s a new architecture biennial coming to Chicago.This, friends, is a PRETTY BIG DEAL.How big?104 artists and architects from the Magnificent Mile to Madrid, Tel Aviv to Tokyo, will soon be converging on just a few square miles in the heart of the United States for a three-ring, five-star... View full entry
Architectstasy is a resource for the current, past, and projected built environments of Ann Arbor, SE Michigan, the U.S., and occasionally the world. Jessica A.S. Letaw and invited critics present critical readings of the city's trajectories that are situated within architectural discourse as well as news that is pertinent to residents and citizens.
