The unveiling of the winning proposals for Calgary's National Music Centre at the King Eddy, is followed by a discussion on the changing styles and methods of Diller Scofidio + Renfro architectural renderings.
Los Angeles-based architect and Archinect reader Jan Lepicovsky recently visited Athen's new Tschumi-designed Acropolis Museum, and wasn't entirely happy with what he saw.
From old WW II barracks to luxury apartments, the evolution of college dormitory.
While some countries give tours of their "socialist" housing schemes, others are still debating their legacy.
A new thread is started listing movies wherein the lead or supporting roles portray an architect. Also, the appearance of Zaha Hadid's Wolfsburg Science Center in a recent film is discussed here.
Some recent rammed earth construction by Studio EM design, can be viewed in the gallery.
I would start this discussion by distinguishing between certification and a strong interdisciplinary dialogue.
Finally some good news, or is it just "green shoots"???
Andrés Duany discusses the decline of the man-cave, while in Florida, New Urbanism has re-emerged as New Ruralism.
Discussion Threads
toasteroven is looking for research on links and possible connections between hyperlocal journalism and community/architecture.
Continue to follow the story of gwaschemasch. Find more here and here.
And finally, students from Parsons The New School for Design do some great work designing and constructing 39751 InfoWash for the residents of DeLisle Mississippi.
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An update on the Michael Jackson monument design competition, Michael Jantzen explains how it's all about the concept & OMA showcases the Interlace
Archinector LB get's some press and Quilian and partner in crime dkoa have some news.
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Winners are announced for LIVE FOREVER The Michael Jackson Monument Competition
10 Hills Place by Amanda Levete is well received.
Teton Valley Community School in Victor, Idaho and architecture firm Section Eight [design] receive the top award of the 2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom.
Discussions
Did you know Designer brand name matters....
Man this is like my childhood dream come true
Some people feel that laying lead to paper does, indeed, feel like foreplay.
School Blogs
Jacob alerts us to Post- a journal of architecture in the Great Lakes region. It focuses on the buildings, people and writings that have formed our received environment and is informed by a faith that said environment is sufficiently rich that it warrants consideration.
Brendan shares some work he did while with the Global Architecture program in Buenos Aires (BsAs).
Jesse's post about another proposed super tower in the Middle East becomes a critique of the ManTowNHuman manifesto.
Brad Pitt for Mayor? The Atlantic explores the varied cast of characters, from New Urbanism historicist's like Andre Duany to local only projects like the folks at BuildNow,who are helping to rebuild New Orleans not from the top down, or even purely the bottom up. A middle way pointing the way forward, perhaps? Via the guys at M.ammoth.
Given his style of understated Modernism with a classical twist I don't find this surprising. However, on this point I agree with Bryan Boyer.
Good list of resources on LA's landscape/park/greenspace design history
I like how MoMA’s curator of architecture and design, Barry Bergdoll, is using the MoMa as a design initiator...
Pompidou Metz we are looking at you.
Helsinkisummarizes, "So, this would mean in translation: rigorous system of formal experimenting and testing brings forth a richness of forms and spatial configurations not possible to achieve through classic, modernist, or other function/hierarchy oriented systems of design."??
Michael at AA learns "DRL makes much more sense when seen from the perspective of an ant,"
News Watch Michael Speaks talking at the recent 2009 Future of Design conference about the conversation that this project generated on Archinect. Speaks also talks about the impact of the economic downturn on the profession as well as the expanded opportunities available to design professionals afforded by a new, good enough, quick and dirty approach to design.
Great new Upstarts feature from Katya on MAPT, explores non-datascapes and the mediation of architecture. Why are you studying architecture?
Youtube, U2 and media-architecture, a review from Orhan.
Rough draft first seen here. R.I.P. Lawrence Halprin
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Did you know that Yelp was co-founded by an architect that once worked for Norman Foster? Did you know that this same ex-architect also helped define the RSS standards? Well, now you know! Learn more about how David Galbraith in the newest Working out of the Box feature.
Gabby Uvidia is the winner of Archinect's "Why are you studying Architecture?" contest. Here answer; Architecture is more than a passion is a life style, so the question should really be, why would you NOT want to be an architect?
Claude Levi-Strauss died at 100.
Madrid's getting some new towers...
Via Orhan. Ornette Coleman on sound and improvisation. pt.1 & pt.2
Discussion Threads NoNameNum3 is doing some research into Rem, s/m/l/xl, liberal dutch culture and how Rem's soft-core film career may have influenced his architectural practice.
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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.
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.
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Javier kept us up to date on all the latest University of California news related to budgets, protests here and here. You can also help him add to the list of notable U of C alumni in the design and arts fields.
Sevin Yildiz interviews Teddy Cruz on "Power" and "Powerlessness". Discussion touched on “bi-national” urban planning, architects absence from the politics and economic of development, “second hand urbanism, and vernacular not as a noun but as a verb.
As LB said congrats to Alexander Walter, of Archinect's back-of-house, who has gotten engaged. Congratulations, Alexander and your love!
Also, the climate change discussion continues with a response to Amanda in the Guardian. Then she responded. Perhaps she should read this?
Watch someone base jump off the Burj Dubai
Is this the next generation of architects in training?
Orhan Pamuk on buildings, cities and architecture.
As Steven opines the magic of Archinect. Plus some beautiful posters.
Un(natural) preservation?
Design to make you barf.
Discussion Threads
jobbyjobsays ...this thread is weird, deception of abilities, boasting, bizarre lingo, gender-baiting, jingoism, Do you dudebrodios work for Salon?
We discuss REX hiring?
Additionally, read about the top 10 job interview mistakes and discuss (with tongue firmly in cheek) wax seals on job applications.
Barry Lehrman is looking for potential panelist who teach sustainable design to join my proposal for GB10.
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Orhan points us to Rem Koolhaas's keynote lecture from the Ecological Urbanism Conference held at Harvard University on 3 April, 2009. In it Rem explores two strands of thinking in sustainability: advancement vs. apocalypse.
Also did you know that the conference has made many of the conference sessions as lectures available as podcasts? Listen here.
Rafael Viñoly Architects shares some beautiful images of their new Carrasco International Airport in Montevideo, Uruguay.
I did a double take with this one, a link to Gawker on Archinect?
Discussion Threads
Not sure this is a smoking gun but even scientists are human right?
Archinect and spam here and here.
School Blogs
Stephanie explores the importance of urban lighting in Copenhagen.
Candace shares some things she finds to be more interesting than architecture, sometimes.
Check out Nick Sowers latest report from a MOUT (Military Operations on Urban Terrain) in Guam. MOUT is interesting as a mode of architectural simulation like a model of a war-zone. The geographer in me wants to attack the important issues of neo-colonialism and the consequences of building mock-cities of countries we are at war or might be at war with in the near future. But the architect, in the spirit of Bunker Recycling Services, is just fascinated by the potential uses of former military bases.
First from a recent Features/Showcase, I enjoy how the facade paneling on Leong Leong Architecture's recent project for 3.1 Phillip Lim progressively flattens towards the sky.
For example
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Malcom Well dies.
I concur with superinteresting!, a sad day for nature and architecture.
Is the Modernist glass box still the default corporate architecture of today?
From javierest plenty of evidence now too that Jonathan Glancey w/ @AmandaBaillieu http://is.gd/5aXWr has gone off the rails re: global "climate change orthodoxy"...
As there are only 4 minaret's currently, so I suppose the Swiss Ban was a ban against future architecture? We discuss here.
Columbia University and NY state's development corporation get called out for mere sophistry.
Bryan Boyer points us to a possible Practice innovation, Flickr site visits? Archinect discusses Bootcamp, Flickr, secure FTP sites, the usefullnes of Flickr's note feature and liability issues.
Discussion Threads
Now that is a discussion topic. oe starts Gripe Central a thread where we can rant and bitch about things! Eh?
Archinect discussedthis news post about DWR.
Holz asks a good question about architectural atrophy.
Via puddlespoor people in Kentucky get fleeced! Are Middlesbro and Clinton are a glimpse into the future of post-privatized America?
Also via Barry here some awesome images of work by Contemporary Japanese Sculptors...
School Blogs
Faysal at AA shares a recent line from Mark Cousins something along the lines of "if you hear a discussion start by the words architecture is... just leave".
Nick Sowers catches us up with his thesis status post travels and shares some advice from one of his professors who said think of your thesis less as a project to do and Nick suggests that it is more of something that is continuous with your other work, a set of strategies.
Michael at AA updates us on the Phase 1 and 2 students work which includes agents flocking, aggregating, negotiating superbodies.
Archinect announcedSwitzerland We Have a Problem, an open call for ideas to help Switzerland navigate its recent difficulties with minarets. We look forward to your proposals.
Meanwhile one Swiss businessman appalled by his fellow countrymen's decision to ban minarets has already responded architecturally. He extended a chimney above his company's building into a minaret in protest.
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Archinect released new T-Shirts, "The Love Movements" series.
From Hawthorne reviews the new CityComplex Center in Las Vega That architectural sensibility -- ambitious but not really adventurous, chasing bigness if not big ideas -- can be chalked up in part to Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut and Kuhn, the New York firm that developed CityCenter’s master plan, and Gensler, which served as executive architect and helped assemble the well-known but fairly conservative team of architects.
Green roofs are multi-functional.
MIT's Media Lab gets a new building by Fumihiko Maki.
Richard Wright wins the Turner Prize.
Discussion Threads j'aime has a nice roundup of IDEO related videos and links here.
Now that's one really disillusioned Bartlett student.
Farshidajandro: splitzville!
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Faysal at AA on a lecture by Thom Mayne.
John Tubles learns about an obscure japanese vernacular achitecture called mikan goyas which literally means orange house...
First a new feature by Carly Erin O'Neil highlighting the House of Sweden by Wingardh Architects. The House of Sweden is the flagship of Swedish public diplomacy in the United States.
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Following up last weeks great piece on the new Las Vegas City Center project Christopher Hawthorn summarizes the last decade of architecture. "But the notion that architects had suddenly acquired more power than ever before, as opposed to more visibility, opportunity or cachet, turned out to be hollow."
Diller Scofidio & Renfro, propose a different kind of temporary Bubble for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC.
The last word? There is just No Negotiating With Nature.
A leak?
Perhaps predictably I like the "Thread It" proposal the best.
Discussion Threads
An inspiring post from WonderK over at Thread Central.
"My suggestions for you to explore energy modeling programs are not to imply that you should take up a totally different set of interests, or become someone you're not; these suggestions are borne out of a very real concern that unless architects start to respond to this situation, we are going to be left out of the process, because there are plenty of people waiting to capitalize on the "greening" of the building industry, in every which way possible.".
Liberty Bell is trying to get the threads talking. more about architecture.
I recently recieved one of these emails too.
Happy 102nd birthday , Oscar Niemeyer!!!
School Blogs
Micah at Kent State talks Dreamscapes. While Nick Sowers aka soundscrapers, announces his first published piece entitled; Military Estates: exact edges" in the current issue of on site #22. Mark at Cooper Union shares some photos and his verdict on the new Morphosis building "For a building all about control the architecture seems like a clear response to the subject matter of the engineer.".
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Dig this project within the Mumbai Race Course by Serie Architects.
The Llano Del Rio working group’s “Map of An Other LA” is now available free.
For more on the project read Arthur Magazine and Indy Media.
Editor's Picks #138 Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah
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From this article on the campus of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis in Basel. Loved this graph “I made them move the border crossing,” he said pointing toward France. “It interfered with our plans. I put 100,000,000 Swiss francs on the table and said: ‘Move it over there. Tear down these silos and cranes.’ ” I dig this image
Also, Orhan posts a video from the University of Michigan Taubman College Future of Design 2009 conference. In it the round-table discusses whether or not Landscape-urbanism is dead. And if so is it now all hail landscape infrastructure?
But the Final word? I think ultimately it's all landscape architecture. I do too. Yeah
Watch here.
Discussion Threads Holz.box starts a new thread dedicated to ski jumps.
I don't know the answer do any of you?
Some great eye-candy here.
What is your pic for the Best Building(S) of the Decade???
School Blogs
The production of snow crystals also embodies an architecture.
Find out more in Nick Sower's recent post.
Mike at UBC tells us about a slightly more ambitious project called "A Residence without Address"
Errata
Excellent blog Faslanyc has a post up comparing Bjarke Ingels to Del tha Funky Homosapien.
Tweet your 2010 predictions to @archinect #archinect2010
We'll post the most interesting insights after the holidays!
I agree with TK re: GIS data, we need a freedom of gis data act!
A unique solution to call for prayers in Marseille?
Architecture was one of the hardest hit professions in '09. Discuss
Perhaps look into landscape architecture as a new career?
Gehry and David Lynch partner for Lodz Film Center.
Discussion Threads Rationalistshares words to live by, So, work on what you can, accept what you can't, and constantly re-evaluate what falls in which category.
School Blogs
Jesse is leaving University of Hawaii for a year and going to Afghanistan. Be safe and good luck!
Mark at Hampton University reviews the year and writes about a visit to Puerto Rico where he discovered an abondoned jewel, Mosquito Pier. Its a mile out into the Caribbean sea.
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The Rockefeller Foundation announces that Cooper-Hewitt is getting $600,000 to continue 'Design for the Other 90%'. The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum also named Bill Moggridge as its new director.
A bunch of young architects in Boston are singing the beauty of a generation of concrete buildings.
The Independent notes that "The beauty of the new Salvation Army Citadel in Chelmsford lies in its striking simplicity – and in its sense of place."
The EPA releases a new interactive map that lays out the locations of facilities across the US that have violated environmental laws, been caught by the EPA, and subjected to enforcement actions.
Discussion Threads
The news that Acclaimed DAAP building leaks; University of Cincinnati sues contractors, generated some great comments and a surprisingly thoughtful discussion.
Are you looking for resources on community design organizations in LA. What about a 3D model of LA?
Over on the Google Maps Tour Guide Central thread Barry Lehrmanshares a "literal" map of parks and gardens in NYC for his upcoming tour with his 2nd year MLA studio in April.
School Blogs Fondue and Fond of Youmakes a good point regarding the relationship between Zaha, "digital zaha", Patrik Schumacher and the DRL.
And from the Archinect image gallery....
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Via Bruce Sterling check out the organization Friends of the Pleistocene which is a research and communication design organization...dedicated to exploring the conjuncture between landscape and contemporary human activity at sites shaped by the geologic epoch of the Pleistoceneread more.
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Haiti is hit by a magnitude 7 earthquake. Learn more here and help Architecture for Humanity respond. Also Archinect discussed different ways to shelter the people left homeless from the crisis.
All Christopher Downey ever wanted to be was an architect -- and his blindness hasn't changed that.
Memory and Human Rights Museum for Pinochet's victims opens in Santiago, Chile. While Gehry drops out of the Museum of Tolerance project on Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem.
Announcing Toward a Just Metropolis: From Crises to Possibilities A conference for planners, designers, activists, policymakers and citizens dedicated to a just future for all human settlements. See you in SF!.
Discussion Threads
Member diabase asks for help. Diabase is looking for examples of where purely decorative supergraphic [not actual graphics] components have been used on buildings external to the facade. They may either be purely decorative or incorporate some sun-shading function. Help him here.
Over on Thread Central architechnophiliamentions that his school is looking for a history lecturer for September. Someone with a focus on 20th century architecture, and interested in anglo-Caribbean research. Additionally, liberty bellstarts a conversation about what to cover in a Professional Practice course.
School Blogs
Nick Sowers who has been traveling the world for the last year on a Branner Traveling Fellowship, researching the architecture of war and colossal military infrastructures says goodbye. But you can still follow him over at his http://soundscrapers.blogspot.com/.
Utako at the University of Toronto shares the results of his studio which focused on 'form informed form' and 'negative space models'.
Stephanie at Kunstacademiets Arkitektskole busts the "Hopenhagen' Myth.
The Canoes Landscape project by Julio Barreno Arquitecto is one of my favorite Showcase projects in awhile. Love the location and this image...
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“Urban Umbrella,” developed by Young-Hwan Choi wins the urbanSHED competition.
SO-IL wins annual PS1 Young Architects competition.
Portland will be getting an 18 story green curtain wall courtesy of SERA Architects.
Unsurprisingly this was designed by an in-house creator.
D.J. Huppatz revisits designer Russel Wright's designer house and landscape project, Manitoga, a dynamic interaction between culture and nature.
Emily Pilloton on the new Triple bottom line: Planet People and Profit.
Discussion Threads SDRposts some great photos of Rural Studio project in this thread on Samuel Mockbee.
We discuss architects and long hair.
School Blogs
Jesse at University of Hawaii announcesI believe cultural empathy is the first cultural value I seek to adhere to.
Candace from University of Illinois reports in from Barcelona
Nick Sowers statementI argue that the lifecycle of a building, from its construction to its eventual ruin or destruction, is also the design research, and there is no such thing as a design object., generates a great little discussion.
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Lebbeus Woods in a recent post responds to charges that architecture sometimes "aesthetizes violence". He writes I do not believe this is the case. Architects are by nature pragmatists who want to deal with real conditions—even the most idealistic ground their designs in the actual. So, why it would be surprising that they want to deal with the effects of violence that has already occurred? Perhaps many do—but they are afraid. Read more here.
Archinect published a synopsis of our recent call for entries to design a minaret as event rather than object.
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The Venice architecture biennale exhibition director Kazuyo Sejima announced this year's theme, "people meet in architecture".
MovingCities visited the Shanghai 2010 expo-site and shared snapshots and impressions from the German, Swiss, French, Polish, Romanian, Luxembourg, Danish, Dutch, Russian, British, Austrian, Norway, Australia, China and Spain pavilions.
Design Observer's Sarah Williams Goldhagen does a write-up on Moshe Safdie and his recently completed (after 30 year's) project - the Mamilla Alrov Center in Jerusalem.
Discussion Threads Discuss Archinect, Attitude and the Future.
Great discussion as to whether it is possible to create a universally sacred architecture.
School Blogs
Kevin at Pratt sliced his finger while working on his first studio assignment which was to extract a 5-15 second clip of a kung-fu flick, and analyze the bodily relationships and they spaces they create, to develop a landscape. and he also reviews last semesters projects one of which a professor called intriguingly recreational.
Lian at GSD defended his Ph.D. during the winter break!
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In a town in Upper Bavaria they do it differently. There as Orhan points us to Even the minaret is admired as a valuable addition to the cityscape.Read and Related
Philip Johnson's Glass House released tour tickets for the 2010 season.
The L.A. Bike Working Group proposed a backbone bikeway network for Central Los Angeles.
John W Chorley elementary school by Paul Rudolph may be demo'd.
Discussion Threads
Over on TC Holz.boxshared some great images including this one;
Some suggestions on how to trick out a slideshow presentation with multi-media.
Archinect as support group?
Member tagalong is looking for some good leads on custom concrete furniture fabricators.
School Blogs
Max's post on toilets lead Holz to share some photos of great toilet design.
Faysal alerts us to the livestream of Peter Eisenman speaking at the AA on Lateness and the Crisis of Modernity. Eisenman spoke about the "disease" of Parametric Processing. He also provided an update on his project in Galicia Spain and showed some construction images.
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Political blogger Matthew Yglesias opines on why "architecture photography still works much better in a magazine." than online.
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Orhan Ayyüce in a new feature writes “Two for one” can be beautiful, artistic and above all, a good investment, like the twin residential towers pictured below. More here.
We get an update on [bracket]. The first issue, [on farming] is scheduled to be available this April. It is being designed by the awesome team at Thumb (previously featured on Archinect) and published by Actar. Also the format will now be that of an almanac.
On this post about how New Jobless Era Will Transform Americaautofell(a)8 's comment FTW.
Contest organizers announced the names of nine design teams selected to advance to the next round of the competition “Framing a Modern Masterpiece | The City * The Arch * The River” to invigorate the park and city areas surrounding the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, MO.
Discussion Threads
Barry Lehrman asks for some professional advice regarding educators who have set up design practices and what one needs to keep in mind if they want to start one themselves.
abracadabra, faia posts a new episode, #39 "Interview with a Lawyer".
School Blogs evanc asks for help identifying some photos of an old Superstudio project. Gresham provides the knowledge; they are from a project entitled "Italia Vostra: Restoration of Historical Centres".
Mark at Cooper Union shares some images from his fall studio.
Jacob at U of F is taking a studio that requires the use of Grasshoper and reflects I am a product of a system of pedagogy that places its trust on the process of thinking and working through a problem with the physical and sensorial act of making. As a result, I am suspicious of a trajectory in which one is tethered to a computer. This is not to suggest that the computer has no role in the sequence though. This is to suggest that the computer should not displace traditional modes of process (ie. hand drawings and physical models)., he also argues that More important to me is the integration of the digital realm in the actual deployment.
Dorothy at University Michigan TCAUP reviews a recent lecture: Mark Dorrian on "Clouds of Architecture" and wonders Is architecture increasingly about creating clouds? Or is the built environment already just a conglomeration of clouds creating specific internal atmospheres?
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Archinect debutsIn Focus a new series of features dedicated to profiling the photographers who help make the work of architects look that much better. The first one is a profile of Luc Roymans.
Although I fully agree with Susan S. Szenasy's point about image versus experience, I have been waiting for the first images from this project, ever since it was announced. Isn't this just beautiful?
Georgia Tech professor and co-author of "Retrofitting Suburbia" gave a talk at TEDxAtlanta.
The Architect's Newspaper ponders whether or not the Vancover Olympic Games are the most sustainable ever?
Learn about Sinan, the personal architect for the 16th Century Ottoman emperor Suleiman the Magnificent, who literally linked East and West.
And just when you thought we were out of the woods, we read that in the USA an Increasing number of municipalities are considering to file Chapter 9.
Richard Hamilton: The father of pop art finally gets his moment in the sun. According to this article, just this year alone there are 10 or 12 exhibitions of his work opening around the globe.
Meanwhile Archinect gives us some rules for the road.
Diabase points out this nifty project that was recently completed a bank that was founded by architects for architects in Pamplona, Spain.
Glad that the film Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio will have a PBS premier over the summer. Wasn't sure I was going to get to see it other wise.
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Jesse at University of Hawaii writes about Wall Street, Slaves, Genetic Algorithms, & Cystic Blobs.
Nick at U of C Berkely postsThesis is an atmosphere and gives us a view into what that atmosphere
And Lian at GSD visited Louis Kahn's Exeter Library and shares some photos.
In Dubai sharks are in danger.
A post on the tagging of Piano's Art Institute addition evolves into a discussion of the ethics and aesthetics of graffiti, tagging and art.
Dutch firm MVRDV unveiled images of the new headquarters of Schweizer Fernsehen in Zurich.
From Liebchen we get a NYT roundup featuring everything from Nicolai Ourousoff on Michael Maltzan's newest project to an article on wind turbine manufacturing.
Discussion Threads .._. .._ _._. _._ responds to jk3hl's request for images/suggestions of sweet decorations and exhibits you see in trendy clothing stores these days (Urban Outfitters, Forever XXI, etc. ) that could be made by hand from everyday objects? with some great images on this thread.
The Design Activism conference in DC: Structures for Inclusion 10 will be in DC on March 27. For more info. Emily Kemperalerts us to some legislation being hatched out in Washington as we speak called HOME STAR which leads into a discussion of the potential for green home renovations and of the role architects can play.
School Blogs
Nick Sower argues that to design or augment large-scale natural processes, one must analyze the political muscle it would to take to implement these projects in addition to dreaming up fanciful solutions. For part 2: of Glacier/Island/Storm Nick goes on to propose a Super/Typhoon/Wall, which harvests the power from the OTEC generators which would be housed in a mothball fleet ships. Read more here.
Lian at GSD reports from a conversation between Bernard Tschumi, Dean Mostafavi, and K. Michael Hays. Tschumi's message, in a nutshell, was to point out and problematize the current emphasis on the envelope.
While Jacob at University of Florida relates how he managed to make the visiting critic, Gregg Pasquarelli (SHoP), a bit angry with him.
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As a result of the ongoing foreclosure crisis the Federal Housing Administration has become the owner of an increasing quantity of property around the country. In this memo Center for American Progress's Andrew Jakabovic proposes that FHA seize the opportunity to retrofit them as green rental housing.
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Archinect publishes a new In Focus with Liao Yusheng a NYC-raised photographer & food lover who is currently working out of Taipei. I particularly like this image
R.I.P.Harold W. Kemp, UF SOA Professor Emeritus (1921-2010).
From libraries, to media centers to a civic catch-all?
Trouble in Grandma's House -Ole Scheeren to leave OMA.
Discussion Threads
Archinect confirms that Yes, we've begun moderating comments across the site, for the specific purpose of stopping the recent surge in spam..
We discuss Harry Weese's Metropolitan_Correctional_Center in Chicago.
Erik Schonsettannounces the passing of Raimund Abraham, longtime professor at Cooper Union and Beta shares a quote from Raimund on the fake sacredness of the reconstruction efforts at Ground Zero.
Archinect discusses politics in the workplace and whether or not name and ethnicity play a role in finding or getting a job or client. standaman wantsto hear what you think about the mass marketing of better design, or as Hometta calls it, the "sweet spot between custom, architect-designed houses and mass market builder housing."
School Blogs
Micah reports in from Kent State University's Florence Program
In light of the passing of Raimund Abraham, longtime professor at Cooper Union, Danny at Cooper Union reflects and remembers.
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Nick Sowers Archinect school blogger posts a Soundscraper manifesto over at archi-ninja, Sound in space is more than a poetic notion – it is an atmosphere which all of us inhabit, which can have unwanted health effects if unregulated. Sound is political. Sound is also a layer of construction in our cities. As the artist James Turrell, like the architect Louis Kahn before him, considers light to be the ultimate building material, what is to be said of sound? I wonder if the end-game is to design a building with sound as the only material. A ‘Blur Building’ of noise. I call it a Soundscraper.
Sasha Cisarvisited VitraHaus by Herzog & De Meuron and shares some photos.
A millionaire wants to build a "green house" in Berkeley and is meeting resistance from the neighbors.
A. Quincy Jones beloved Century City barn is getting a makeover.
MovingCities published an interview with structural engineer Rory McGowan (ARUP Beijing).
Discussion Threads Stolniikasks for help with an assignment on D.I.R.T. Studio's Julie Bargmann. Someone suggests starting with this awesome interview that our own Heather Ring did back in 2006. Which I had not seen before.
: )gives us an update on the UBC vs UO thread after two semesters there and explains why UO was a better choice them.
Barry Lehrman's looking for contemporary manifestos.
plate36 is going to Tokyo and wants some suggestions on locations where they can check out concepts of public space by contemporary Japanese architects in the city.
School Blogs
Nick blows some speakers.
James at Wentworth goes to Chicago.
Brieana at University of Michigan gives a tour of TCAUP studios at 4:30 am during Spring Break.
News Marvin finally releases Episode 12 of Archinect Travels: American West
and as Orhan Ayyüce says over on the Archinect Travels threadbeautifully done. the whole series is a gem. the last episode was worth the wait.. Go watch it here.
Also, two new features went up. With the first Orhan has served up his latest interview, this time with Ole Bouman, director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute. In the second, guest contributor Sergio López-Piñeiro addresses the architectural thesis and how it can be broken down into different practice models using well known firms as case studies.
Der Scutt architect to "the Donald" died.
Boston.com's The Big Picture series featured several recent photos from Shanghai as construction nears completion for the Expo 2010.
There are no surprises in the fact that some of the biggest names (and the usual suspects) in architecture are among the shortlisted firms for the planned expansion for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art according to the leaked list. See for yourself.
Technically, it is a 3-D Printer Creates Entire Buildings of Solid Rock from Powdered Rock Bound with a Magnesium Glue as 18x32 notes.
Discussion Threads
Over on Thread Central architphil started a great discussion amongst TCs teachers regarding BS, research and rigor. Jump responded seems like your job has to be to teach them to be rigorous and keep their opinions to themselves...it is a hard haul especially for architecture students but my advisor for phd really beat me over the head with what kinds of statements can be made and not made and wouldn't take any rubbish - which was great. i didn't get it for a while but finally figured it out. until students can substantiate their ideas students should be hit over the head with their muddy thinking. it will make them better designers and thinkers whatever they end up doing later on... Go read the rest here.
School Blogs
Chris_Hildrey announces his return to Bartlett where he will be joining the Advanced Architectural Research programme.
Micah at Kent State is having a crisis of authenticity and motivation and his stay in Florence isn't helping. Also he is reading Architecture Depends by Jeremy Till.
Eratta
Two seemingly unrelated posts, both however in their own way explore the end result of the recent real estate boom/bust on architecture and housing.
Kazys Varnelis in his postToday we collect nothing writes Could it be that the real estate bubble finally unloaded the house? Is it possible that this recession isn't just a recession but a fundamental restructuring, a restructuring of architecture that will undo the dumb box? By this I don't mean that the house will simply become smarter, more sentient, more technological but rather that in turning architecture into a virtual product in the financial realm, the bubble allowed it to become a virtual product in the physical realm?
And the boys at Mammoth in their reposting of their contribution to MONU 12 entitled the Shelter Category dissect the contemporary HGTV vernacular of equity-urbanism wherein the house is conceived of as wealth-generator. they conclude that HGTV and other shelter category media ultimately present a direct challenge to the relevance of architecture. Though the very title of this media category — “shelter” — would seem to reinforce the importance of shelter as the central function of the home, the media content consistently undermines that understanding. If homes now exist to generate wealth, not to provide shelter, then architecture, whose most fundamental disciplinary territory has always been the provision of shelter, faces an identity crisis.
May I suggest starting with the book Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments by David Gissen for more on atmospheric subnatures.
mguhanasjr is looking for technical data of a US Military device (although only spatial and structural). for his project which reuses one of the many 'stricken' navy ships at Philadelphia's Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility.
We discusss the recently announced plans for shrinking Detroit.
School Blogs
Nick Sowers reports in from BLDGBLOG/Atlas Obscura's "Expedition to the Geoglyphs of nowhere" to California City, California. For which Nick built a few prosthetics for listening to the desert and he shares his continued interest in the the notion of an audio horizon - the moment where distant sounds can barely be heard, and then disappear. The horizon ultimately defines our concept of landscape; it delineates the inhabitable surface of the earth. But horizon is always thought of as an optical phenomenon. What, then, of our sense of sound, which has arguably more to do with notions of defensibility and territory?
Max at IIT reflects on materiality after a Kengo Kuma lecture and shares a great quote from his old project manager "simplicity: complexity resolved".
Lucas at RISD posts some nice shots from a site visit to LA. Did you know there is a Private Turrell Skyscape at the Lautner House?
Jacob at UF shares his thoughts on the search for new faculty members. Looking at the first 2 of 8 finalists, Lee-Su Huang and then at Claudio Vekstein.
Eratta
Jason A. King, of Landscape+Urbanism has a post looking at the upswing in the use of paired terms ending with the term 'urbanism' to describe a range of theoretical positions related to all things urban.
News
In Focus (Archinect's series dedicated to profiling the photographers who help make the work of architects look that much better) features two new interviews. One, with Barcelona-based photographer Eugeni Pons and the other with Portuguese photographer Miguel Coelho.
Guest contributor Seth Embry penned a new Op-Ed criticizing NY Times' architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff and his article "A Plan to Spur Growth Away From Haiti’s Capital".
SANAA won the 2010 Pritzker Prize. So Paul, compiled an exhaustive compilation of all SANAA related Archinect news stories. Also, make sure not to miss the two post-Pritzker interviews with SANAA one by the Chicago Tribune's Blair Kamin and the other with Patricia Zohnfor the Huffington Post.
Explore Urban Africa through the photos of David Adjaye.
The SFGate's John King reports on IwamotoScott Architecture's transitioning from virtual to real projects. I thought this is a slick light..
A judge has sided with architecture in the latest battle to save the Richard Neutra-designed Gettysburg Cyclorama and Visitor Center, for now.
Discussion Threads jwo is looking for examples of architectural mythology that is used as the framework for solving the architectural problem. The more poetic the framework is, the better.
We discuss unpaid internships again... However, before you join in the discussion read this NYT article on how the growth of unpaid internships may be illegal.
CMRHM wants Archinecters to share their top ten christian churches; the building, image and website. Some nice ones have already been posted.
orchid is looking for sites where a contemporary building is standing next to old historic buildings in somewhere between New York city and Boston. Share your suggestions here.
School Blogs
Lian at GSD reviews the Return of Nature event at GSD, "The Nature of Information" which featured Liz Diller and Antoine Picon. While Andrew also at GSD, has an interesting counterpoint entitled Architects and Nature.
Nick Sowers announces he (or the object he is holding in the included picture) is a sonic reducer
News
In Focus Archinect's series profiling the photographers who help make the work of architects look that much better talks to Brazilian-Portuguese photographer Leonardo Finotti. We feature some great examples of his work including shots of work by Oscar Niemeyer, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Eduardo Souto de Moura and Roberto Burle Marx among others.
Lebbeus Woods pays tribute to his former colleague and friend, Raimund Abraham. The closing is particularly moving “Architecture is not a profession,” he would say, “it is a discipline.” He knew that in the crisis of creative work, it is discipline alone—an adherence to hard-won personal principles—that guides the architect through uncertainties and doubts to a decisive conclusion.
Kengo Kuma speaks on China, essences, teaching, designing museums, sustainability and more.
Adam Marcus interviews architects Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi in the latest volume of Museo.
Javier Arbona points out a great resource. A recent issue of Harvard's publication ReVista features interviews with many of the architectural stars of the new Argentine New Wave.
Discussion Threads SmSedgeasks for suggestions on how to beat thieves in the studio and Archinect discusses the Architectural Record Houses 2010.
azcueasks about Albuquerque Architecture - What to see? and marlinshares a google maps itinerary for an Architecture Road Trip through Northern New Mexico.
Unicorn Slaughterwondersdo you think as an architect you could design a house made 100% out of plastic?
School Blogs
As a ex-Gator alum I must agree with Jacob + Philip and say I love the University's of Florida's school of architecture building.
Meredith at McGill university posts for the first time and announces the arrival of spring.
Stephanie at Kunstacademiets Arkitektskole reports in from her user-centered design workshop Body and Object whose target age is 60+.
Christ at Bartlett made some stainless steel business cards.
Eratta
The gents over at Brute Force Collaborative recently visited Oahu and in this post offer a great rundown of some of the better as well as lesser know architectural sites. Also, check out this great guide they did to mostly free architecture of Seattle.
News
Vakko Fashion Center & Power Media Center the latest REX-designed project is our latest ShowCasefeature. For the project REX utilized the remaining structure from an unfinished Istanbul hotel on-site, and reused the plans from REX's design for the California Institute of Technology’s Annenberg Center in Pasadena.
Because of this NYT article we all shared our thoughts on Real vs Anonymous identities online.
Two good news stories for architects. First, the Acting Architect of the Capitol Stephen Ayers got a glowing endorsement from lawmakers at his confirmation hearing Thursday. Plus, an architect was appointed to the post of Director of University of Michigan's Museum of Art.
This year the Coachella music festival will feature, a 150-foot crane made from futuristic materials and designed by LA architects Behn Samareh and Ando Pndlian, on the polo polo fields.
Discussion Threads
Over on TCtoasteroven collates/collects a bunch of past Archinect discussions and schoolblog posts etc that deal with issues of farming and urban agriculture. They were intended for this thread on Distinctly 'American' issues regarding food production.
dallasarchitectasksCan someone please explain to me the purpose of the juries in a Masters program for Architecture?.
School Blogs
Meredith and Aaron who are co-bloggers covering their graduate studies at Washington University put up their first post summarizing their (Fall 09) semester and what their up to in their current studio entitled A Wonderful World being co-taught by Wiel Arets and WUSTL faculty member Robert McCarter.
Anthony who was at Columbia University GSAPP for their AAP Open House for accepted students posts a picture of a model of the new Millstein Hall opening Fall 2011.
Ryan and his fellow Structures III students are working on their final model at Cornell University. They are doing some really sculptural work. Take a look at this for instance.
Eratta
Dan Hill at City of Sound publishes 14 super-short pieces of design fiction, of a sort, each pertaining to describe a particular Australian city of the future. Read all of them here. Dan relates that he chose the short story format because he is more interested in exploring different ways of conjuring up how such a city might feel, or function, of what its social and cultural fabric might be, rather than how it might look.
News
We welcomed Übertect to Archinect. Übertect is a comic strip by London-based artist Alison Moffett, whom you may remember was featured here on Archinect back in January.
Qulian alerts us to the fact that the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram is now available free online for public viewing and academic study thanks to the efforts of the University of Westminster.
What do you know about the phenomenon of underground architectural booksellers and their trade in illegally copied architecture books, DVD's in Beijing China? Find out more here.
Ball-Nogues latest installation has descended on UCLA, where 268 custom-fabricated chairs have been lashed together to form a cascade from a second floor window into the courtyard.
It is just fantastic!
Discussion Threads Emily Kemperhighlights the good work of the DOE and the research they are doing on energy efficiency in buildings lately?
The finalists were announced this week for a new dance and music center on the Spuiplein in The Hague, The Netherlands and Steven Ward thought that Bustler featured some of the best competition coverage i've seen in a while. Join in the conversation.
We discuss a recent Design Observer piece on Paper architecture emerging urbanisms.
----0----wonders about the effects of being colorblind on a person's ability to succeed in architecture.
Carl Douglas (agfa8x) asksWhat are the Hard Problems in architecture? which leads mespellrong to wonderwhat people would treat a s recognized sub-areas of architecture.
School Blogs
Following up on Utako's post about University of Toronto's unofficial the wall of shame wherein pictures of students who are caught sleeping in class are highlighted. George at GSAAP posts a link to a new Tumblr blog devoted to those sleeping at GSAPP; http://gsappsleep.tumblr.com/
Micah at Kent State University is working on his studio's proposed project for Florence, a new Mediatheque located within the walls of the Fortezza da Basso.
Susan Surface returns to Yale University and thus to blogging. However, she has this to say I do not want to live in a world designed by people who don't know how to LIVE. I do not want to live in a world built up by people who work 80 hours a week and subsist on coffee and ambition. Do we really want to live in buildings designed by people who don't think it's important to enjoy life?...I want to live in a world that is designed by people who love other people and who love life and living. I love life and design accordingly...This is an ASSET to my architecture career, not a distraction.
Sarahrelates a great story about Rem Koolhaas from her Georgia Tech days, in this post by Mike on plans to build the GaTech COA’s reputation up over the next few years in the academic and professional community.
News
We detected a pulse. [bracket] is coming alive!
In this post on CalTrans and the City of Los Angeles plans to cap the 101 trench in downtown LA with a beautiful urban park alexander walter makes a great point.
While in this article on current dogfighting over proposed renovations to architect Stanley Tigerman's Anti-Cruelty Society building in Chicago Orhan makes also makes a whole lot of sense.
Prague-based architecture firm, Chalupa Architekti, recently won a design competition for the new Czech Embassy in DC. Best firm name I have seen in awhile right?
I had a friend who is a "Woofer". Learn more here.
Discussion Threads
BIArch challenges us to rethink architecture with some very relevant, and very important, questions:
Via this thread wherein AdrianYim was trying to find this SANAA project in which they turn an old diminishing village in japan into art galleries? The proposal was modifying the existing village houses and turning them into galleries I learned about the Echigo-Tsumari Art triennialheld in 2003 for a "grand" two-month exhibition in "communities, rice fields, vacant houses, and closed schools across a 760 square kilometer (187,800 acre) region
What is the future of green consulting? Is the gold rush already over? architerp wants to architerp.
Image Gallery
BIG PINK is a full-scale installation created for the entry to the Creative Cities Summit in Lexington Kentucky.
School Blogs
Jpeel at U of F announces Architrave 17 and also that Levent Kara will be leaving U of F for University of South Florida.
There was a freak snow storm at McGill University and summer has officially started for Meredith.
While, Hannah at RISD talks about her trip to FES, MOROCCO.
First a Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms out there...
News
Two recent In Focus features covering work of successful advertising (and now architecture) photographer Bruno Cals and Catalan photographer Jordi Miralles.
Übertect is back for round 2. Featuring Übertect vs. Jean Nouvel's Copenhagen Concert Hall.
University of Michigans Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning hosted the Future of Urbanism conference on March 19 & 20, 2010 which featured
amongst other speakers our own Bryan Finoki.
"Herzog & de Meuron, OMA, Toyo Ito, and Arup’s Cecil Balmond are among the star names asked to exhibit at the Venice Biennale by curator Kazuyo Sejima."
Alternet points out the insufficiencies of vertical farming.
Discussion Threads momafresh25 wants to knowis zaha's vitra fire station canonical?
kken is looking for book suggestion on urban fabric and more.
Archinect discusses the computer blip that cost the Dow index a 1000 points.
School Blogs
Aaron at Wash U in St Louis presents a Framework for a Heterotopia.
Nick Sowers at Berkely travels to the future with his thesis.
Faysal at AA shares some Flashbacks to Tokyo including a few shots of the Olympic Arena by Kenzo Tange.
Eratta
Adam Greenfield over at Speedbird has posted a digital urbanism call to arms of a sort. Or, maybe of disciplinary intent? Networked urbanism, read/write urbanism, open-source urbanism…sure, these things are in their infancy. But if the whole domain retains some plasticity, it’s also beginning to be shaped by parties motivated solely by their own interests, and absolutely not by any larger affinity for urban life and its benisons. To be blunt, I don’t want the IBMs and Ciscos and Microsofts of the world defining what networked urbanism can be for me…or, forgive my presumption, what it can be for you, either. Read more and join the discussion?
News
Rem Koolhaas has developed a daring plan to run Europe on a grid of shared renewable energy.
Frank Gehry argues that climate change and sustainable design are ultimately “political” issues. Over at Metropolis Magazine Susan S. Szenasy responds.
USA Today reviews plans to develop green space over freeways in Dallas, Los Angeles, Cincinnati & St. Louis.
Christopher Hawthorne of Los Angeles Times reports from Medellín, on Colombia's architectural renaissance.
Discussion Threads ElGrecuswants to know whether Neil Denari and/or Diller Scofidio can lay claim to be the originator of the fluid, curved line, interconnected floor plate look that was so popular in the '90s and even now?
Urbanistwonderswhat is an architecture of decline? What forms should cities of the more leisured (and downwardly mobile) take?.
School Blogs
Last week Harvard GSD school blogger Lian Chang represented Archinect on a private tour of Richard Meier's Model Museum in New York, led by Meier himself. Read report here.
John Tubles at Cal Poly Pomona / Kyushu University reports in from Shanghai World Expo 2010 Day 01 and he thinksthe german pavillion is the best one amongst the nations pavillions...
Sally at University of Technology, Sydney who is in her fifth and final year joins the school blog party.
Meredith at McGill writes about Malcolm Wells, and notes that yesterday, May 14th, was "Underground America Day", which is a time to honor the 6,000 or so North Americans who make their homes not only on the Earth but in it, for those of you who don't know.
Two pieces of good news for architects, here and here.
Find out what Michael Graves's has been up to.
Pedestrians paint a tree with their feet.
Christopher Hawthorne reviews Gehry's Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, and The National's (AE) Natasha Edwards reviews Shigeru Ban's Pompidou Metz.
Discussion Threads
Paul Petrunia is trying to find information on a 1960's nomadic tent project by Renzo Piano (co-architect of the original Paris Pompidou) which Archinect member French suggested may have influenced Shigeru Ban's Pompidou Metz.
We discuss Rem Koolhaas and OMA's analytic design method.
LtB is interestedin getting a discussion going to see what other people think about the dialogue between AR and the built environment.
Anthony at Columbia university went to the End-of-Year Exhibit at GSAPP and they really SHOW THEIR WORK.
Nick Sowers shares the writings of a landscape preservationist from the future. The work discusses the picturesque landscape of the American military pastoral.
Jacob at University of Pennsylvania says goodbye...
Eratta
Fashion and style blogger Garance Dore is in Asian and Shanghai for the first time and she takes us on a nighttime visual tour of some local skyscrapers.
News
For Archinects latestIn Focus feature we talked to Turkish photographer team GRIDUO.
I understand their reasons but i hope they aren't thinking of getting rid of the Breuer Building.
Architoshuncovers what may be the code name for either the first native version of AutoCAD for Mac in more than 18 years or the specific beta phase name. We think possibly the former.
Christian de Portzamparc might get the chance to build something in LA for Eli Broad.
I really liked the (pictured) Bridge School, in Xiashi, China.
A derelict Detroit house becomes a design lab for five young firms.
Discussion Threads
Thanks to this thread I came across these photos of Antoine Predock skiing on the roof of his Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts.
loremipsum wants tips on suggestions for great architecture to see in the Ozarks.
Another discussion regarding which is the best video card to buy.
School Blogs
Thomas at Boston Architectural College discusses the book The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States by Mark Dyreson and Robert Thumpbour.
John Tubles from Cal Poly Pomona / Kyushu is back in Japan after visiting the Shangai Expo and he gives us the list of classes he will be taking his 2nd and last semester in Kyushu University.
Jacob at U of F asks the question; What I say "electronic architecture", what do you think of?.
Nick Sowers posts reports from a forensic engineer and ornithologist from the future. The writings discuss how How is ruination measured and tracked? and chiroptology.
Chris at Bartlett reports in from the RIBA Forgotten Spaces Exhibition at the National Thatre on London's Southbank. His entry was shortlisted.
Additionally Viktor Ramos, who is a documenting his travels around the world to 10 of the most densely populated cities in the world for the 2009 SOM Prize, as part of an SOM Fellowship recently visited Favela Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro. He later wrote Favela Rocinha is just massive (though not for how many people it houses). The way it grows over the hills and wipes out all traces of the land except for the slope is awesome (ie, inspiring awe, not necessarily good). This is megastructure, though not nearly as clean and rational as envisioned by the megastructuralists.
Editor's Picks Archive
Editor's Picks #111
A generational divide? Seems a bit tame? Discuss.
The building survived Norwegian controversy, with over 300 local articles.
I know it's green but seems excessive, no?
Further updates from Nomadzilla in Iran.
Dichroic-glass-making tribespeople?
a house for a meat grinder collector
House 127 by H Arquitectes
Editor's Picks #112
Geek-out on steel
Living in a Koenig.
Anyone got a digital copy of this book they want to share, since it seems as if it won't ever be officially published?
Can architects design one but not the other?
"As opposed to the non-livable existing city"?
What about oracle? Architects branching out.
WYLD Windows
Editor's Picks #113
"They" always say business and family don't mix.
Some word leaks about Archinect Travels.
Meta much?
Well so much for a paradigm shift in Olympic stadium design, I guess?
Ghostboxes and other ephemera of the last goldrush here.
The new missle gap?
House 78 by H Arquitectes
Editor's Picks #114
Would this be more Favela Chic or Gothic High Tech? I have my own suspicions.
May I suggest you forget about architecture for once and just drink alot of wine and enjoy the scenery?
Continuing the "discussion" from last week.
Guess I was snakebit awhile back.
Illustrates need to emphasize link between one's experience of a building/object and it's connection with it's landscape/context/site, no?
To quote archaalto, the very nature [and the requirement] of the project is ethereal, fleeting and temporary. the concrete does muddle the concept somewhat, but making a structure disappear is a distillation of the serpentine's essence. very intriguing interpretation of a powerful visual effect with minimal means.
Editor's Picks #115
Watch Visual Acoustics and enjoy the work of Julius Shulman, 1910-2009...
Euphorically???
I really enjoyed this piece.
Not sorrow?
Big Willie Tower.
School-blogger jk3hl shares some wonderful pics from Stockholm & Helsinki!
Dan, Thurston & Kim talk. I say Death Valley, 69.
Editor's Picks #116
Jonathan Glancey reviews the shortlist for the 2009 Stirling prize and it leaves him feeling cold.
Like toasteroven wonders, what happens if you want to sell the house??
A good and legitimate debate.
Was the design concept commerce beacon, post aerial attack,??
Nashville might need some representation here.
Poor architects. Also.
Going to Istanbul. Suggestions here and here.
The Book Wall
Editor's Picks #117
The unveiling of the winning proposals for Calgary's National Music Centre at the King Eddy, is followed by a discussion on the changing styles and methods of Diller Scofidio + Renfro architectural renderings.
Los Angeles-based architect and Archinect reader Jan Lepicovsky recently visited Athen's new Tschumi-designed Acropolis Museum, and wasn't entirely happy with what he saw.
More bad news!!!
From old WW II barracks to luxury apartments, the evolution of college dormitory.
While some countries give tours of their "socialist" housing schemes, others are still debating their legacy.
Sub-highway, informal, urbanism???
Professional, personal or ecological? Or other?
Best use (on Archinect to date) of a Zippy cartoon.
Editor's Picks #118
First Archinect went back to the Future, but at least wasn't under four feet of water in a Tribeca basement.
Also, Bernard Tschumi: responds to a recent Op-Ed.
Instead of Lady Gaga, how about electro boy?
Costs of business rise, even in a recession?
Who cares?
In the school blogs we hear from JDawson in India, jk3hl in Copenhagen and Evan on the Continent.
Ray Kappe here and here.
Is this an infrastructural landscape?
Good for Alsop.
Editor's Picks #119
Rehashing old arguments over theoretical approaches and real world practice.
Nick's post Fuzzy Blob Tourism, leads to a discussion about "producing imaginary buildings with sound".
A new thread is started listing movies wherein the lead or supporting roles portray an architect. Also, the appearance of Zaha Hadid's Wolfsburg Science Center in a recent film is discussed here.
Some recent rammed earth construction by Studio EM design, can be viewed in the gallery.
I would start this discussion by distinguishing between certification and a strong interdisciplinary dialogue.
Would you rather have a road through a building or a covered street?
Editor's Picks #120
Finally some good news, or is it just "green shoots"???
Andrés Duany discusses the decline of the man-cave, while in Florida, New Urbanism has re-emerged as New Ruralism.
Scratch that idea.
Cyborg architecture. How about cyborg urbanism?
Our own architechnophilia recently interviewed renowned architect and designer Michael Graves.
I agree no comments please.
John takes us on a photographic tour of Cal Poly Pomona.
Editor's Picks #121
News
Javier has a hat-trick this week. With some great essays from Miller McCune on the ecological politics of California, a roundup on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the conversion of a KFC to a marijuana dispensary.
Are they building their own prison?
Will it ever just, end?
Diagramming death?
Discussion Threads
toasteroven is looking for research on links and possible connections between hyperlocal journalism and community/architecture.
Continue to follow the story of gwaschemasch. Find more here and here.
The requisite 2009 lecture series thread.
School Blogs
Nicole has fun with letters and get's published!
Max wonders, Is Tokyo even a real city? Too clean? Too formal? No life?
And finally, students from Parsons The New School for Design do some great work designing and constructing 39751 InfoWash for the residents of DeLisle Mississippi.
Editor's Picks #122
News
An update on the Michael Jackson monument design competition, Michael Jantzen explains how it's all about the concept & OMA showcases the Interlace
No vacancy / no homes?
Artistic project or urban planning tool?
Laminated lumber can sure look purtty.
Discussion Threads
TC discusses wisdom teeth.
Archinecters get heated discussing PC compatibility and multithreading.
School Blogs
Candace and her studio designed and built a pavillion in Berlin
New bloggers from Pratt Institute and Cornell say hello.
Kirk at AA directs our attention to the PhD Programmes in Architecture Open Collaboration Google Map project. Browse or add a new entry.
Editor's Picks #123
Archinector LB get's some press and Quilian and partner in crime dkoa have some news.
News
Winners are announced for LIVE FOREVER The Michael Jackson Monument Competition
10 Hills Place by Amanda Levete is well received.
Teton Valley Community School in Victor, Idaho and architecture firm Section Eight [design] receive the top award of the 2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom.
Discussion Threads
Shout out to my hometown, aka South Brooklyn architects?
A reminder of a political yet poignant anniversary.
The sort of thread Archinect does so well.
Spaceinvading is back.
School Blogs
What l8rpeace said.
Danny got to explore archives for some original sketches of John Hejduk over the summer.
Editor's Picks #124
News
Just in case you didn't see this yet, Wallpaper interviewed our BGH Paul Petrunia
Orhan call it like he sees it re: fear factor detailing.
Ray Kappe could care less.
With his newly opened train station Calatrava has eliminated the facade, there are only large openings.
Did you know,
it’s now “physically possible that every American could stand — all at the same time — under the total canopy of self-storage roofing"
Discover what a colorist for a park does?
Discussions
Did you know Designer brand name matters....
Man this is like my childhood dream come true
Some people feel that laying lead to paper does, indeed, feel like foreplay.
School Blogs
Jacob alerts us to Post- a journal of architecture in the Great Lakes region. It focuses on the buildings, people and writings that have formed our received environment and is informed by a faith that said environment is sufficiently rich that it warrants consideration.
Brendan shares some work he did while with the Global Architecture program in Buenos Aires (BsAs).
Jesse's post about another proposed super tower in the Middle East becomes a critique of the ManTowNHuman manifesto.
Also
Announcing the Evil studio blog
Did you see John Baldessari sing Sol LeWitt via Strangeharvest.
Editor's Picks #125
News
Archinect Senior Editor Bryan Finoki starts blogging for Volume.
A great new UpStarts feature on Ball-Nogues Studio
From this post announcing the Curry Stone Design Prize winners, this is an awesome photo.
Discussion
In a discussion on minorities in architecture I think Steven Ward and Orhan Ayyüce hit the nail right on the proverbial head
Did you know dingbats was an actual architectural term? Maybe I should finally read Reyner Banham in Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
Do you know what voxelation means?
School Blogs
I thought CYOA was an acronym for something else.
I always liked Times New Roman myself.
Two posts here and here discuss Informality at the AA.
And Andrew shares a great collection of quotes out of context from around Harvard GSD.
Editor's Picks #126
News
Help Architecture for Humanity respond to Typhoon Ketsana-Ondoy, which has affected the Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia.
Congrats to Archinect member Curt Clay who announces IDOM, a book featuring student work from his 2009 Religious Structures class.
Urban farming continues it's inexorable march into the popular conciousness.
What an awesome 12 year old, and mom!
Why does Boston's Greenway suck?
Discussion Threads
Some great examples of Hill-Related Architecture featured here.
A first for South America!
Information-architecture is here.
Phuyake shares an awesome cloud pic.
School Blogs
John Tubles showcases the alleyways of Kurogi town.
Thom Mayne F**k and quizzes "FIELD CONDITION??", at a recent GSD lecture talked about here and here.
Guest Editors Picks #127
Thanks to subtect for agreeing to do the Editor's Picks this week. With my sister in the hospital I needed a break.
News
What, again, were those boundaries between Architecture, Sculpture, and Decoration?
Koolhaas completes the circle from film to architecture and back.
Mayne renews his sh*t-disturber creds and responds to flooding with a houseboat.
Policy of preemption inverts itself.
First good mustard, then a green holy grail.
Green light for oligarchitecture.
Discussions
Great architectural details nearly obscured by a couple guys sharing their gentle fingers with each other.
Bricks vs. Bits here.
Come on peeps, help a brother out
...and some good suggestions for a visit, but make sure you come back.
School Blogs
U of T and officeDA get to work.
Nice work with Etruscan tombs.
Best Random find from the Links section:
Editor's Picks #128
News
Orhan has a great profile of Mike Davis
Javier picks out a good quote.
Well that explains it. Seems related
Green shoot( s)? but still please Testify!!
Discussion Threads
Mine was a 1987 Nissan Maxima Power Wagon.
Thanks Emilio. For Context
Sneak Peak of latest Zaha masterpiece. Via
Do you know the meaning?
Regarding Paul's question here
Watch this
Found here
Anyone catch the energy bomb of an exec order obama dropped today?
School Blogs
Via Samuel
Also, Scott and his fellow students come up with an ingenious solution for deadlines, they outsourced/rented a plotter.
Elsewhere
Sandblasted to perfection
Editor's Picks #129
Brad Pitt for Mayor? The Atlantic explores the varied cast of characters, from New Urbanism historicist's like Andre Duany to local only projects like the folks at BuildNow,who are helping to rebuild New Orleans not from the top down, or even purely the bottom up. A middle way pointing the way forward, perhaps? Via the guys at M.ammoth.
Given his style of understated Modernism with a classical twist I don't find this surprising. However, on this point I agree with Bryan Boyer.
Anyone else notice the newly revamped Architectural Record frontpage?
Dam straight it is!!!
Bryan Finoki explores The Ruin Machine.
Now that is a staircase!! Via
Good list of resources on LA's landscape/park/greenspace design history
I like how MoMA’s curator of architecture and design, Barry Bergdoll, is using the MoMa as a design initiator...
Pompidou Metz we are looking at you.
A photo-trip of some major Boston landmarks
Helsinki summarizes, "So, this would mean in translation: rigorous system of formal experimenting and testing brings forth a richness of forms and spatial configurations not possible to achieve through classic, modernist, or other function/hierarchy oriented systems of design."??
Michael at AA learns "DRL makes much more sense when seen from the perspective of an ant,"
Editor's Picks #130
News
Watch Michael Speaks talking at the recent 2009 Future of Design conference about the conversation that this project generated on Archinect. Speaks also talks about the impact of the economic downturn on the profession as well as the expanded opportunities available to design professionals afforded by a new, good enough, quick and dirty approach to design.
Great new Upstarts feature from Katya on MAPT, explores non-datascapes and the mediation of architecture.
Why are you studying architecture?
Youtube, U2 and media-architecture, a review from Orhan.
Rough draft first seen here.
R.I.P. Lawrence Halprin
Olympics appear once and twice.
Philippe Rahm on sustainability
The inside job
b3tadinesutures, FTW...I mean I couldn't agree more.
Discussion Threads
On social networking and architecture.
Materials research.
More green shoots, at least in DC?
Archinect discusses the ASU shooting.
School blogs
Mark suggests that Crocs are a symptom/symbol our the modern adolescent adult and that they are also the free plan of footwear.
So how did the week long charrette announced here, go?
Barry discusses the illusion of academic freedom vs practice.
Editor's Picks #131
News
Did you know that Yelp was co-founded by an architect that once worked for Norman Foster? Did you know that this same ex-architect also helped define the RSS standards? Well, now you know! Learn more about how David Galbraith in the newest Working out of the Box feature.
Gabby Uvidia is the winner of Archinect's "Why are you studying Architecture?" contest. Here answer; Architecture is more than a passion is a life style, so the question should really be, why would you NOT want to be an architect?
Claude Levi-Strauss died at 100.
Madrid's getting some new towers...
Are we the new thought police? Perhaps more important is the question where is the proof for her claims?
Bernard Colenbrander and Robert Somol on the state of architectural criticism.
Via Orhan. Ornette Coleman on sound and improvisation. pt.1 & pt.2
Discussion Threads
NoNameNum3 is doing some research into Rem, s/m/l/xl, liberal dutch culture and how Rem's soft-core film career may have influenced his architectural practice.
Did witty find the lost phone?
School Blogs
Via Nordlans
Nick gives an update UC Berkeley's attempts to generate new funds via a new PDF (Professional Degree Fee).
MAx at Tokyo Institute of Technology takes us on a night time bicycle-ride around Tokyo.
Cardboard people via Fabian at Newschool.
Editor's Picks #132
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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.
Editor's Picks #133
News
Javier kept us up to date on all the latest University of California news related to budgets, protests here and here. You can also help him add to the list of notable U of C alumni in the design and arts fields.
Sevin Yildiz interviews Teddy Cruz on "Power" and "Powerlessness". Discussion touched on “bi-national” urban planning, architects absence from the politics and economic of development, “second hand urbanism, and vernacular not as a noun but as a verb.
As LB said congrats to Alexander Walter, of Archinect's back-of-house, who has gotten engaged. Congratulations, Alexander and your love!
Also, the climate change discussion continues with a response to Amanda in the Guardian. Then she responded. Perhaps she should read this?
Watch someone base jump off the Burj Dubai
Is this the next generation of architects in training?
Orhan Pamuk on buildings, cities and architecture.
As Steven opines the magic of Archinect. Plus some beautiful posters.
Un(natural) preservation?
Design to make you barf.
Zumthor books for sale in archmart.
Discussion Threads
jobbyjobsays ...this thread is weird, deception of abilities, boasting, bizarre lingo, gender-baiting, jingoism, Do you dudebrodios work for Salon?
We discuss REX hiring?
Additionally, read about the top 10 job interview mistakes and discuss (with tongue firmly in cheek) wax seals on job applications.
Barry Lehrman is looking for potential panelist who teach sustainable design to join my proposal for GB10.
School Blogs
Via Max at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Plus, kinetic sculptures and light sensing robots at the DRL.
Editor's Picks #134
News
Orhan points us to Rem Koolhaas's keynote lecture from the Ecological Urbanism Conference held at Harvard University on 3 April, 2009. In it Rem explores two strands of thinking in sustainability: advancement vs. apocalypse.
Also did you know that the conference has made many of the conference sessions as lectures available as podcasts? Listen here.
Rafael Viñoly Architects shares some beautiful images of their new Carrasco International Airport in Montevideo, Uruguay.
I did a double take with this one, a link to Gawker on Archinect?
Discussion Threads
Not sure this is a smoking gun but even scientists are human right?
Archinect and spam here and here.
You mean like a yurt?
Announcing archlandscapes.com
School Blogs
Stephanie explores the importance of urban lighting in Copenhagen.
Candace shares some things she finds to be more interesting than architecture, sometimes.
Check out Nick Sowers latest report from a MOUT (Military Operations on Urban Terrain) in Guam. MOUT is interesting as a mode of architectural simulation like a model of a war-zone. The geographer in me wants to attack the important issues of neo-colonialism and the consequences of building mock-cities of countries we are at war or might be at war with in the near future. But the architect, in the spirit of Bunker Recycling Services, is just fascinated by the potential uses of former military bases.
Editor's Picks #135
First from a recent Features/Showcase, I enjoy how the facade paneling on Leong Leong Architecture's recent project for 3.1 Phillip Lim progressively flattens towards the sky.
For example
News
Malcom Well dies.
I concur with superinteresting!, a sad day for nature and architecture.
Is the Modernist glass box still the default corporate architecture of today?
From javierest
plenty of evidence now too that Jonathan Glancey w/ @AmandaBaillieu http://is.gd/5aXWr has gone off the rails re: global "climate change orthodoxy"...
As there are only 4 minaret's currently, so I suppose the Swiss Ban was a ban against future architecture? We discuss here.
Columbia University and NY state's development corporation get called out for mere sophistry.
Bryan Boyer points us to a possible Practice innovation, Flickr site visits? Archinect discusses Bootcamp, Flickr, secure FTP sites, the usefullnes of Flickr's note feature and liability issues.
Discussion Threads
Now that is a discussion topic.
oe starts Gripe Central a thread where we can rant and bitch about things! Eh?
Archinect discussed this news post about DWR.
Holz asks a good question about architectural atrophy.
Via puddles poor people in Kentucky get fleeced! Are Middlesbro and Clinton are a glimpse into the future of post-privatized America?
Also via Barry here some awesome images of work by Contemporary Japanese Sculptors...
School Blogs
Faysal at AA shares a recent line from Mark Cousins something along the lines of "if you hear a discussion start by the words architecture is... just leave".
Nick Sowers catches us up with his thesis status post travels and shares some advice from one of his professors who said think of your thesis less as a project to do and Nick suggests that it is more of something that is continuous with your other work, a set of strategies.
Michael at AA updates us on the Phase 1 and 2 students work which includes agents flocking, aggregating, negotiating superbodies.
Editor's Picks #136
Archinect announced Switzerland We Have a Problem, an open call for ideas to help Switzerland navigate its recent difficulties with minarets. We look forward to your proposals.
Meanwhile one Swiss businessman appalled by his fellow countrymen's decision to ban minarets has already responded architecturally. He extended a chimney above his company's building into a minaret in protest.
Via Daily Dish
News
Archinect released new T-Shirts, "The Love Movements" series.
From Hawthorne reviews the new CityComplex Center in Las Vega
That architectural sensibility -- ambitious but not really adventurous, chasing bigness if not big ideas -- can be chalked up in part to Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut and Kuhn, the New York firm that developed CityCenter’s master plan, and Gensler, which served as executive architect and helped assemble the well-known but fairly conservative team of architects.
Green roofs are multi-functional.
MIT's Media Lab gets a new building by Fumihiko Maki.
Richard Wright wins the Turner Prize.
Discussion Threads
j'aime has a nice roundup of IDEO related videos and links here.
Now that's one really disillusioned Bartlett student.
Farshidajandro: splitzville!
School Blogs
Faysal at AA on a lecture by Thom Mayne.
John Tubles learns about an obscure japanese vernacular achitecture called mikan goyas which literally means orange house...
Editor's Picks #137
First a new feature by Carly Erin O'Neil highlighting the House of Sweden by Wingardh Architects. The House of Sweden is the flagship of Swedish public diplomacy in the United States.
News
Following up last weeks great piece on the new Las Vegas City Center project Christopher Hawthorn summarizes the last decade of architecture. "But the notion that architects had suddenly acquired more power than ever before, as opposed to more visibility, opportunity or cachet, turned out to be hollow."
Diller Scofidio & Renfro, propose a different kind of temporary Bubble for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC.
The last word? There is just No Negotiating With Nature.
A leak?
Perhaps predictably I like the "Thread It" proposal the best.
Discussion Threads
An inspiring post from WonderK over at Thread Central.
"My suggestions for you to explore energy modeling programs are not to imply that you should take up a totally different set of interests, or become someone you're not; these suggestions are borne out of a very real concern that unless architects start to respond to this situation, we are going to be left out of the process, because there are plenty of people waiting to capitalize on the "greening" of the building industry, in every which way possible.".
Liberty Bell is trying to get the threads talking. more about architecture.
I recently recieved one of these emails too.
Happy 102nd birthday , Oscar Niemeyer!!!
School Blogs
Micah at Kent State talks Dreamscapes. While Nick Sowers aka soundscrapers, announces his first published piece entitled; Military Estates: exact edges" in the current issue of on site #22. Mark at Cooper Union shares some photos and his verdict on the new Morphosis building "For a building all about control the architecture seems like a clear response to the subject matter of the engineer.".
Errata
Dig this project within the Mumbai Race Course by Serie Architects.
The Llano Del Rio working group’s “Map of An Other LA” is now available free.
For more on the project read Arthur Magazine and Indy Media.
Editor's Picks #138 Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah
News
From this article on the campus of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis in Basel. Loved this graph
“I made them move the border crossing,” he said pointing toward France. “It interfered with our plans. I put 100,000,000 Swiss francs on the table and said: ‘Move it over there. Tear down these silos and cranes.’ ”
I dig this image
Also, Orhan posts a video from the University of Michigan Taubman College Future of Design 2009 conference. In it the round-table discusses whether or not Landscape-urbanism is dead. And if so is it now all hail landscape infrastructure?
But the Final word?
I think ultimately it's all landscape architecture. I do too. Yeah
Watch here.
Discussion Threads
Holz.box starts a new thread dedicated to ski jumps.
I don't know the answer do any of you?
Some great eye-candy here.
What is your pic for the Best Building(S) of the Decade???
mguhanasjr asks Architecture For Humanity: Is it perfect? Is anything?.
Archinect travel tips, Must See(s) in Lima, Peru?
School Blogs
The production of snow crystals also embodies an architecture.
Find out more in Nick Sower's recent post.
Mike at UBC tells us about a slightly more ambitious project called "A Residence without Address"
Errata
Excellent blog Faslanyc has a post up comparing Bjarke Ingels to Del tha Funky Homosapien.
Editor's Picks #139: Happy 2010 all!
Tweet your 2010 predictions to @archinect #archinect2010
We'll post the most interesting insights after the holidays!
I agree with TK re: GIS data, we need a freedom of gis data act!
A unique solution to call for prayers in Marseille?
Architecture was one of the hardest hit professions in '09. Discuss
Perhaps look into landscape architecture as a new career?
Gehry and David Lynch partner for Lodz Film Center.
Discussion Threads
Rationalist shares words to live by,
So, work on what you can, accept what you can't, and constantly re-evaluate what falls in which category.
Archinect 2010 Predictions.
'China Travel sugestions?
School Blogs
Jesse is leaving University of Hawaii for a year and going to Afghanistan. Be safe and good luck!
Mark at Hampton University reviews the year and writes about a visit to Puerto Rico where he discovered an abondoned jewel, Mosquito Pier. Its a mile out into the Caribbean sea.
Errata
Via bldgblog a long piece about the Burj Dubai's upcoming public opening, future cities, and more.
The gents over at Jargonetcetera invent a new term Chrono-architecture.
Editor's Picks #140
News
The Rockefeller Foundation announces that Cooper-Hewitt is getting $600,000 to continue 'Design for the Other 90%'. The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum also named Bill Moggridge as its new director.
A bunch of young architects in Boston are singing the beauty of a generation of concrete buildings.
The Independent notes that "The beauty of the new Salvation Army Citadel in Chelmsford lies in its striking simplicity – and in its sense of place."
The EPA releases a new interactive map that lays out the locations of facilities across the US that have violated environmental laws, been caught by the EPA, and subjected to enforcement actions.
Discussion Threads
The news that Acclaimed DAAP building leaks; University of Cincinnati sues contractors, generated some great comments and a surprisingly thoughtful discussion.
Are you looking for resources on community design organizations in LA. What about a 3D model of LA?
Over on the Google Maps Tour Guide Central thread Barry Lehrman shares a "literal" map of parks and gardens in NYC for his upcoming tour with his 2nd year MLA studio in April.
Archinecters debate the usefulness of insidearch.org.
But I like using Times New Roman.
School Blogs
Fondue and Fond of You makes a good point regarding the relationship between Zaha, "digital zaha", Patrik Schumacher and the DRL.
And from the Archinect image gallery....
Errata
Via Bruce Sterling check out the organization Friends of the Pleistocene which is
a research and communication design organization...dedicated to exploring the conjuncture between landscape and contemporary human activity at sites shaped by the geologic epoch of the Pleistocene read more.
Editor's Picks #141
News
Haiti is hit by a magnitude 7 earthquake. Learn more here and help Architecture for Humanity respond. Also Archinect discussed different ways to shelter the people left homeless from the crisis.
All Christopher Downey ever wanted to be was an architect -- and his blindness hasn't changed that.
Memory and Human Rights Museum for Pinochet's victims opens in Santiago, Chile. While Gehry drops out of the Museum of Tolerance project on Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem.
Announcing Toward a Just Metropolis: From Crises to Possibilities A conference for planners, designers, activists, policymakers and citizens dedicated to a just future for all human settlements. See you in SF!.
Albert Speer Jr. on Dubai.
Discussion Threads
Member diabase asks for help. Diabase is looking for examples of where purely decorative supergraphic [not actual graphics] components have been used on buildings external to the facade. They may either be purely decorative or incorporate some sun-shading function. Help him here.
Over on Thread Central architechnophilia mentions that his school is looking for a history lecturer for September. Someone with a focus on 20th century architecture, and interested in anglo-Caribbean research. Additionally, liberty bell starts a conversation about what to cover in a Professional Practice course.
School Blogs
Nick Sowers who has been traveling the world for the last year on a Branner Traveling Fellowship, researching the architecture of war and colossal military infrastructures says goodbye. But you can still follow him over at his http://soundscrapers.blogspot.com/.
Utako at the University of Toronto shares the results of his studio which focused on 'form informed form' and 'negative space models'.
Stephanie at Kunstacademiets Arkitektskole busts the "Hopenhagen' Myth.
Editor's Picks #142
The Canoes Landscape project by Julio Barreno Arquitecto is one of my favorite Showcase projects in awhile. Love the location and this image...
News
“Urban Umbrella,” developed by Young-Hwan Choi wins the urbanSHED competition.
SO-IL wins annual PS1 Young Architects competition.
Portland will be getting an 18 story green curtain wall courtesy of SERA Architects.
Unsurprisingly this was designed by an in-house creator.
D.J. Huppatz revisits designer Russel Wright's designer house and landscape project, Manitoga, a dynamic interaction between culture and nature.
Emily Pilloton on the new Triple bottom line: Planet People and Profit.
Discussion Threads
SDR posts some great photos of Rural Studio project in this thread on Samuel Mockbee.
We discuss architects and long hair.
School Blogs
Jesse at University of Hawaii announces I believe cultural empathy is the first cultural value I seek to adhere to.
Candace from University of Illinois reports in from Barcelona
Nick Sowers statement I argue that the lifecycle of a building, from its construction to its eventual ruin or destruction, is also the design research, and there is no such thing as a design object., generates a great little discussion.
Errata
Lebbeus Woods in a recent post responds to charges that architecture sometimes "aesthetizes violence". He writes I do not believe this is the case. Architects are by nature pragmatists who want to deal with real conditions—even the most idealistic ground their designs in the actual. So, why it would be surprising that they want to deal with the effects of violence that has already occurred? Perhaps many do—but they are afraid. Read more here.
Editor's Picks #143
Archinect published a synopsis of our recent call for entries to design a minaret as event rather than object.
News
The Venice architecture biennale exhibition director Kazuyo Sejima announced this year's theme, "people meet in architecture".
MovingCities visited the Shanghai 2010 expo-site and shared snapshots and impressions from the German, Swiss, French, Polish, Romanian, Luxembourg, Danish, Dutch, Russian, British, Austrian, Norway, Australia, China and Spain pavilions.
Design Observer's Sarah Williams Goldhagen does a write-up on Moshe Safdie and his recently completed (after 30 year's) project - the Mamilla Alrov Center in Jerusalem.
Discussion Threads
Discuss Archinect, Attitude and the Future.
Great discussion as to whether it is possible to create a universally sacred architecture.
Also, Archinect discussed the passing of two greats, Howard Zinn and J.D. Salinger.
School Blogs
Kevin at Pratt sliced his finger while working on his first studio assignment which was to extract a 5-15 second clip of a kung-fu flick, and analyze the bodily relationships and they spaces they create, to develop a landscape. and he also reviews last semesters projects one of which a professor called intriguingly recreational.
Lian at GSD defended his Ph.D. during the winter break!
Editor's Picks #144
News
In a town in Upper Bavaria they do it differently. There as Orhan points us to Even the minaret is admired as a valuable addition to the cityscape. Read and Related
R.I.P. Eduardo Catalano 1917-2010
Philip Johnson's Glass House released tour tickets for the 2010 season.
The L.A. Bike Working Group proposed a backbone bikeway network for Central Los Angeles.
John W Chorley elementary school by Paul Rudolph may be demo'd.
Discussion Threads
Over on TC Holz.box shared some great images including this one;
Some suggestions on how to trick out a slideshow presentation with multi-media.
Archinect as support group?
Member tagalong is looking for some good leads on custom concrete furniture fabricators.
School Blogs
Max's post on toilets lead Holz to share some photos of great toilet design.
Faysal alerts us to the livestream of Peter Eisenman speaking at the AA on Lateness and the Crisis of Modernity. Eisenman spoke about the "disease" of Parametric Processing. He also provided an update on his project in Galicia Spain and showed some construction images.
Errata
Political blogger Matthew Yglesias opines on why "architecture photography still works much better in a magazine." than online.
Editor's Picks #145
News
Orhan Ayyüce in a new feature writes “Two for one” can be beautiful, artistic and above all, a good investment, like the twin residential towers pictured below. More here.
We get an update on [bracket]. The first issue, [on farming] is scheduled to be available this April. It is being designed by the awesome team at Thumb (previously featured on Archinect) and published by Actar. Also the format will now be that of an almanac.
On this post about how New Jobless Era Will Transform America autofell(a)8 's comment FTW.
Contest organizers announced the names of nine design teams selected to advance to the next round of the competition “Framing a Modern Masterpiece | The City * The Arch * The River” to invigorate the park and city areas surrounding the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, MO.
Discussion Threads
Barry Lehrman asks for some professional advice regarding educators who have set up design practices and what one needs to keep in mind if they want to start one themselves.
abracadabra, faia posts a new episode, #39 "Interview with a Lawyer".
School Blogs
evanc asks for help identifying some photos of an old Superstudio project. Gresham provides the knowledge; they are from a project entitled "Italia Vostra: Restoration of Historical Centres".
Mark at Cooper Union shares some images from his fall studio.
Jacob at U of F is taking a studio that requires the use of Grasshoper and reflects
I am a product of a system of pedagogy that places its trust on the process of thinking and working through a problem with the physical and sensorial act of making. As a result, I am suspicious of a trajectory in which one is tethered to a computer. This is not to suggest that the computer has no role in the sequence though. This is to suggest that the computer should not displace traditional modes of process (ie. hand drawings and physical models)., he also argues that More important to me is the integration of the digital realm in the actual deployment.
Dorothy at University Michigan TCAUP reviews a recent lecture: Mark Dorrian on "Clouds of Architecture" and wonders Is architecture increasingly about creating clouds? Or is the built environment already just a conglomeration of clouds creating specific internal atmospheres?
Editor's Picks #146
News
Archinect debuts In Focus a new series of features dedicated to profiling the photographers who help make the work of architects look that much better. The first one is a profile of Luc Roymans.
Although I fully agree with Susan S. Szenasy's point about image versus experience, I have been waiting for the first images from this project, ever since it was announced.
Isn't this just beautiful?
Georgia Tech professor and co-author of "Retrofitting Suburbia" gave a talk at TEDxAtlanta.
The Architect's Newspaper ponders whether or not the Vancover Olympic Games are the most sustainable ever?
Learn about Sinan, the personal architect for the 16th Century Ottoman emperor Suleiman the Magnificent, who literally linked East and West.
And just when you thought we were out of the woods, we read that in the USA an Increasing number of municipalities are considering to file Chapter 9.
Richard Hamilton: The father of pop art finally gets his moment in the sun. According to this article, just this year alone there are 10 or 12 exhibitions of his work opening around the globe.
Discussion Threads
An interesting discussion on the Future of Technology In Landscape Architecture? Sentient Landscapes?
While some worry Archinect is being overrun by trolls.
Other's say Archinect is the best ever and I love it so!
Personally threads like this one where Barry Lehrman wonders where the retirements are are the reason i like Archinect; useful, thoughtful discussion on topics of interest to many.
Meanwhile Archinect gives us some rules for the road.
Diabase points out this nifty project that was recently completed a bank that was founded by architects for architects in Pamplona, Spain.
Glad that the film Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio will have a PBS premier over the summer. Wasn't sure I was going to get to see it other wise.
School Blogs
Jesse at University of Hawaii writes about Wall Street, Slaves, Genetic Algorithms, & Cystic Blobs.
Nick at U of C Berkely posts Thesis is an atmosphere and gives us a view into what that atmosphere
And Lian at GSD visited Louis Kahn's Exeter Library and shares some photos.
Editor's Picks #147
News
Dominican authorities approved plans for container cities for Haiti housing relief.
Christopher Hawthorne and Nicolai Ouroussoff on the new design for London US embassy.
In Dubai sharks are in danger.
A post on the tagging of Piano's Art Institute addition evolves into a discussion of the ethics and aesthetics of graffiti, tagging and art.
Dutch firm MVRDV unveiled images of the new headquarters of Schweizer Fernsehen in Zurich.
From Liebchen we get a NYT roundup featuring everything from Nicolai Ourousoff on Michael Maltzan's newest project to an article on wind turbine manufacturing.
Discussion Threads
.._. .._ _._. _._ responds to jk3hl's request for images/suggestions of sweet decorations and exhibits you see in trendy clothing stores these days (Urban Outfitters, Forever XXI, etc. ) that could be made by hand from everyday objects? with some great images on this thread.
The Design Activism conference in DC: Structures for Inclusion 10 will be in DC on March 27. For more info.
Emily Kemper alerts us to some legislation being hatched out in Washington as we speak called HOME STAR which leads into a discussion of the potential for green home renovations and of the role architects can play.
School Blogs
Nick Sower argues that to design or augment large-scale natural processes, one must analyze the political muscle it would to take to implement these projects in addition to dreaming up fanciful solutions. For part 2: of Glacier/Island/Storm Nick goes on to propose a Super/Typhoon/Wall, which harvests the power from the OTEC generators which would be housed in a mothball fleet ships. Read more here.
Lian at GSD reports from a conversation between Bernard Tschumi, Dean Mostafavi, and K. Michael Hays. Tschumi's message, in a nutshell, was to point out and problematize the current emphasis on the envelope.
While Jacob at University of Florida relates how he managed to make the visiting critic, Gregg Pasquarelli (SHoP), a bit angry with him.
Errata
As a result of the ongoing foreclosure crisis the Federal Housing Administration has become the owner of an increasing quantity of property around the country. In this memo Center for American Progress's Andrew Jakabovic proposes that FHA seize the opportunity to retrofit them as green rental housing.
Editor's Picks #148
News
Archinect publishes a new In Focus with Liao Yusheng a NYC-raised photographer & food lover who is currently working out of Taipei.
I particularly like this image
R.I.P.Harold W. Kemp, UF SOA Professor Emeritus (1921-2010).
From libraries, to media centers to a civic catch-all?
Trouble in Grandma's House -Ole Scheeren to leave OMA.
Discussion Threads
Archinect confirms that Yes, we've begun moderating comments across the site, for the specific purpose of stopping the recent surge in spam..
We discuss Harry Weese's Metropolitan_Correctional_Center in Chicago.
Erik Schonsett announces the passing of Raimund Abraham, longtime professor at Cooper Union and Beta shares a quote from Raimund on the fake sacredness of the reconstruction efforts at Ground Zero.
Archinect discusses politics in the workplace and whether or not name and ethnicity play a role in finding or getting a job or client.
standaman wantsto hear what you think about the mass marketing of better design, or as Hometta calls it, the "sweet spot between custom, architect-designed houses and mass market builder housing."
School Blogs
Micah reports in from Kent State University's Florence Program
In light of the passing of Raimund Abraham, longtime professor at Cooper Union, Danny at Cooper Union reflects and remembers.
Errata
Nick Sowers Archinect school blogger posts a Soundscraper manifesto over at archi-ninja, Sound in space is more than a poetic notion – it is an atmosphere which all of us inhabit, which can have unwanted health effects if unregulated. Sound is political. Sound is also a layer of construction in our cities. As the artist James Turrell, like the architect Louis Kahn before him, considers light to be the ultimate building material, what is to be said of sound? I wonder if the end-game is to design a building with sound as the only material. A ‘Blur Building’ of noise. I call it a Soundscraper.
Editor Picks #149
News
Archinect's Aaron Plewke interviewed Swiss architect Philippe Rahm.
R.I.P. Chicago architect Bruce Graham.
Sasha Cisar visited VitraHaus by Herzog & De Meuron and shares some photos.
A millionaire wants to build a "green house" in Berkeley and is meeting resistance from the neighbors.
A. Quincy Jones beloved Century City barn is getting a makeover.
MovingCities published an interview with structural engineer Rory McGowan (ARUP Beijing).
Discussion Threads
Stolniik asks for help with an assignment on D.I.R.T. Studio's Julie Bargmann. Someone suggests starting with this awesome interview that our own Heather Ring did back in 2006. Which I had not seen before.
Over at Green Thread Central toasteroven clues us in to a 100% recycled plywood substitute http://www.eco-sheet.com/home.
: ) gives us an update on the UBC vs UO thread after two semesters there and explains why UO was a better choice them.
Barry Lehrman's looking for contemporary manifestos.
plate36 is going to Tokyo and wants some suggestions on locations where they can check out concepts of public space by contemporary Japanese architects in the city.
School Blogs
Nick blows some speakers.
James at Wentworth goes to Chicago.
Brieana at University of Michigan gives a tour of TCAUP studios at 4:30 am during Spring Break.
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Marvin finally releases Episode 12 of Archinect Travels: American West
and as Orhan Ayyüce says over on the Archinect Travels thread beautifully done. the whole series is a gem. the last episode was worth the wait.. Go watch it here.
Also, two new features went up. With the first Orhan has served up his latest interview, this time with Ole Bouman, director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute. In the second, guest contributor Sergio López-Piñeiro addresses the architectural thesis and how it can be broken down into different practice models using well known firms as case studies.
Der Scutt architect to "the Donald" died.
Boston.com's The Big Picture series featured several recent photos from Shanghai as construction nears completion for the Expo 2010.
There are no surprises in the fact that some of the biggest names (and the usual suspects) in architecture are among the shortlisted firms for the planned expansion for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art according to the leaked list. See for yourself.
Technically, it is a 3-D Printer Creates Entire Buildings of Solid Rock from Powdered Rock Bound with a Magnesium Glue as 18x32 notes.
Discussion Threads
Over on Thread Central architphil started a great discussion amongst TCs teachers regarding BS, research and rigor. Jump responded seems like your job has to be to teach them to be rigorous and keep their opinions to themselves...it is a hard haul especially for architecture students but my advisor for phd really beat me over the head with what kinds of statements can be made and not made and wouldn't take any rubbish - which was great. i didn't get it for a while but finally figured it out. until students can substantiate their ideas students should be hit over the head with their muddy thinking. it will make them better designers and thinkers whatever they end up doing later on... Go read the rest here.
RealLifeLEED asks for some suggestions for Adroid apps for architects.
School Blogs
Chris_Hildrey announces his return to Bartlett where he will be joining the Advanced Architectural Research programme.
Micah at Kent State is having a crisis of authenticity and motivation and his stay in Florence isn't helping. Also he is reading Architecture Depends by Jeremy Till.
Eratta
Two seemingly unrelated posts, both however in their own way explore the end result of the recent real estate boom/bust on architecture and housing.
Kazys Varnelis in his post Today we collect nothing writes Could it be that the real estate bubble finally unloaded the house? Is it possible that this recession isn't just a recession but a fundamental restructuring, a restructuring of architecture that will undo the dumb box? By this I don't mean that the house will simply become smarter, more sentient, more technological but rather that in turning architecture into a virtual product in the financial realm, the bubble allowed it to become a virtual product in the physical realm?
And the boys at Mammoth in their reposting of their contribution to MONU 12 entitled the Shelter Category dissect the contemporary HGTV vernacular of equity-urbanism wherein the house is conceived of as wealth-generator. they conclude that HGTV and other shelter category media ultimately present a direct challenge to the relevance of architecture. Though the very title of this media category — “shelter” — would seem to reinforce the importance of shelter as the central function of the home, the media content consistently undermines that understanding. If homes now exist to generate wealth, not to provide shelter, then architecture, whose most fundamental disciplinary territory has always been the provision of shelter, faces an identity crisis.
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Jean Nouvel, unveiled his design for the National Museum of Qatar. Plus, he was picked to design the 10th Serpentine pavilion.
I particularly liked this "aerial view" of the proposed complex.
Christopher Hawthorne on the recently deceased architect Raimund Abraham's design for the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York.
Frank Gehry sets aside his curvilinear style for Frank Gehry his proposed concept for the new Eisenhower memorial.
Go sign the petition to help preserve Hejduk's Kreuzberg housing block.
Ayn Rand move over: In Pune, India, shantytown residents and architects use 'design by consensus'.
Discussion Threads
b3tadine[sutures] reminds us of the MANIFESTO OF FUTURISM.
May I suggest starting with the book Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments by David Gissen for more on atmospheric subnatures.
mguhanasjr is looking for technical data of a US Military device (although only spatial and structural). for his project which reuses one of the many 'stricken' navy ships at Philadelphia's Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility.
We discusss the recently announced plans for shrinking Detroit.
alddorossi[/url has a [url=http://www.archinect.com/forum/threads.php?id=97052_0_42_0_C]question that involves Christopher Hawthorne and the movie Parents.
School Blogs
Nick Sowers reports in from BLDGBLOG/Atlas Obscura's "Expedition to the Geoglyphs of nowhere" to California City, California. For which Nick built a few prosthetics for listening to the desert and he shares his continued interest in the the notion of an audio horizon - the moment where distant sounds can barely be heard, and then disappear. The horizon ultimately defines our concept of landscape; it delineates the inhabitable surface of the earth. But horizon is always thought of as an optical phenomenon. What, then, of our sense of sound, which has arguably more to do with notions of defensibility and territory?
Max at IIT reflects on materiality after a Kengo Kuma lecture and shares a great quote from his old project manager "simplicity: complexity resolved".
Lucas at RISD posts some nice shots from a site visit to LA. Did you know there is a Private Turrell Skyscape at the Lautner House?
Jacob at UF shares his thoughts on the search for new faculty members. Looking at the first 2 of 8 finalists, Lee-Su Huang and then at Claudio Vekstein.
Eratta
Jason A. King, of Landscape+Urbanism has a post looking at the upswing in the use of paired terms ending with the term 'urbanism' to describe a range of theoretical positions related to all things urban.
Editor Picks #152
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In Focus (Archinect's series dedicated to profiling the photographers who help make the work of architects look that much better) features two new interviews. One, with Barcelona-based photographer Eugeni Pons and the other with Portuguese photographer Miguel Coelho.
Guest contributor Seth Embry penned a new Op-Ed criticizing NY Times' architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff and his article "A Plan to Spur Growth Away From Haiti’s Capital".
SANAA won the 2010 Pritzker Prize. So Paul, compiled an exhaustive compilation of all SANAA related Archinect news stories. Also, make sure not to miss the two post-Pritzker interviews with SANAA one by the Chicago Tribune's Blair Kamin and the other with Patricia Zohnfor the Huffington Post.
Explore Urban Africa through the photos of David Adjaye.
The SFGate's John King reports on IwamotoScott Architecture's transitioning from virtual to real projects. I thought this is a slick light..
A judge has sided with architecture in the latest battle to save the Richard Neutra-designed Gettysburg Cyclorama and Visitor Center, for now.
Discussion Threads
jwo is looking for examples of architectural mythology that is used as the framework for solving the architectural problem. The more poetic the framework is, the better.
We discuss unpaid internships again... However, before you join in the discussion read this NYT article on how the growth of unpaid internships may be illegal.
CMRHM wants Archinecters to share their top ten christian churches; the building, image and website. Some nice ones have already been posted.
orchid is looking for sites where a contemporary building is standing next to old historic buildings in somewhere between New York city and Boston. Share your suggestions here.
School Blogs
Lian at GSD reviews the Return of Nature event at GSD, "The Nature of Information" which featured Liz Diller and Antoine Picon. While Andrew also at GSD, has an interesting counterpoint entitled Architects and Nature.
Nick Sowers announces he (or the object he is holding in the included picture) is a sonic reducer
Editor's Picks #153
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In Focus Archinect's series profiling the photographers who help make the work of architects look that much better talks to Brazilian-Portuguese photographer Leonardo Finotti. We feature some great examples of his work including shots of work by Oscar Niemeyer, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Eduardo Souto de Moura and Roberto Burle Marx among others.
Lebbeus Woods pays tribute to his former colleague and friend, Raimund Abraham. The closing is particularly moving “Architecture is not a profession,” he would say, “it is a discipline.” He knew that in the crisis of creative work, it is discipline alone—an adherence to hard-won personal principles—that guides the architect through uncertainties and doubts to a decisive conclusion.
Kengo Kuma speaks on China, essences, teaching, designing museums, sustainability and more.
May I second Paul's suggestion here...
Adam Marcus interviews architects Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi in the latest volume of Museo.
Javier Arbona points out a great resource. A recent issue of Harvard's publication ReVista features interviews with many of the architectural stars of the new Argentine New Wave.
Discussion Threads
SmSedge asks for suggestions on how to beat thieves in the studio and Archinect discusses the Architectural Record Houses 2010.
azcue asks about Albuquerque Architecture - What to see? and marlin shares a google maps itinerary for an Architecture Road Trip through Northern New Mexico.
Unicorn Slaughter wonders do you think as an architect you could design a house made 100% out of plastic?
School Blogs
As a ex-Gator alum I must agree with Jacob + Philip and say I love the University's of Florida's school of architecture building.
Meredith at McGill university posts for the first time and announces the arrival of spring.
Stephanie at Kunstacademiets Arkitektskole reports in from her user-centered design workshop Body and Object whose target age is 60+.
Nick prints concrete.
Christ at Bartlett made some stainless steel business cards.
Eratta
The gents over at Brute Force Collaborative recently visited Oahu and in this post offer a great rundown of some of the better as well as lesser know architectural sites. Also, check out this great guide they did to mostly free architecture of Seattle.
Editor's Picks #154
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Vakko Fashion Center & Power Media Center the latest REX-designed project is our latest ShowCase feature. For the project REX utilized the remaining structure from an unfinished Istanbul hotel on-site, and reused the plans from REX's design for the California Institute of Technology’s Annenberg Center in Pasadena.
Because of this NYT article we all shared our thoughts on Real vs Anonymous identities online.
Two good news stories for architects. First, the Acting Architect of the Capitol Stephen Ayers got a glowing endorsement from lawmakers at his confirmation hearing Thursday. Plus, an architect was appointed to the post of Director of University of Michigan's Museum of Art.
This year the Coachella music festival will feature, a 150-foot crane made from futuristic materials and designed by LA architects Behn Samareh and Ando Pndlian, on the polo polo fields.
Discussion Threads
Over on TC toasteroven collates/collects a bunch of past Archinect discussions and schoolblog posts etc that deal with issues of farming and urban agriculture. They were intended for this thread on Distinctly 'American' issues regarding food production.
Spam or helpful information? You decide.
awkeytect says he prefers nocturnal studios as he doesn't trust his ideas during the day.
dallasarchitect asks Can someone please explain to me the purpose of the juries in a Masters program for Architecture?.
School Blogs
Meredith and Aaron who are co-bloggers covering their graduate studies at Washington University put up their first post summarizing their (Fall 09) semester and what their up to in their current studio entitled A Wonderful World being co-taught by Wiel Arets and WUSTL faculty member Robert McCarter.
Anthony who was at Columbia University GSAPP for their AAP Open House for accepted students posts a picture of a model of the new Millstein Hall opening Fall 2011.
Ryan and his fellow Structures III students are working on their final model at Cornell University. They are doing some really sculptural work. Take a look at this for instance.
Eratta
Dan Hill at City of Sound publishes 14 super-short pieces of design fiction, of a sort, each pertaining to describe a particular Australian city of the future. Read all of them here. Dan relates that he chose the short story format because he is more interested in exploring different ways of conjuring up how such a city might feel, or function, of what its social and cultural fabric might be, rather than how it might look.
Editor's Picks #156
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We welcomed Übertect to Archinect. Übertect is a comic strip by London-based artist Alison Moffett, whom you may remember was featured here on Archinect back in January.
Qulian alerts us to the fact that the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram is now available free online for public viewing and academic study thanks to the efforts of the University of Westminster.
What do you know about the phenomenon of underground architectural booksellers and their trade in illegally copied architecture books, DVD's in Beijing China? Find out more here.
Ball-Nogues latest installation has descended on UCLA, where 268 custom-fabricated chairs have been lashed together to form a cascade from a second floor window into the courtyard.
It is just fantastic!
Discussion Threads
Emily Kemper highlights the good work of the DOE and the research they are doing on energy efficiency in buildings lately?
The finalists were announced this week for a new dance and music center on the Spuiplein in The Hague, The Netherlands and Steven Ward thought that Bustler featured some of the best competition coverage i've seen in a while. Join in the conversation.
We discuss a recent Design Observer piece on Paper architecture emerging urbanisms.
----0---- wonders about the effects of being colorblind on a person's ability to succeed in architecture.
Carl Douglas (agfa8x)
asks What are the Hard Problems in architecture? which leads mespellrong to wonder what people would treat a s recognized sub-areas of architecture.
School Blogs
Following up on Utako's post about University of Toronto's unofficial the wall of shame wherein pictures of students who are caught sleeping in class are highlighted. George at GSAAP posts a link to a new Tumblr blog devoted to those sleeping at GSAPP; http://gsappsleep.tumblr.com/
Micah at Kent State University is working on his studio's proposed project for Florence, a new Mediatheque located within the walls of the Fortezza da Basso.
Susan Surface returns to Yale University and thus to blogging. However, she has this to say I do not want to live in a world designed by people who don't know how to LIVE. I do not want to live in a world built up by people who work 80 hours a week and subsist on coffee and ambition. Do we really want to live in buildings designed by people who don't think it's important to enjoy life?...I want to live in a world that is designed by people who love other people and who love life and living. I love life and design accordingly...This is an ASSET to my architecture career, not a distraction.
Sarah relates a great story about Rem Koolhaas from her Georgia Tech days, in this post by Mike on plans to build the GaTech COA’s reputation up over the next few years in the academic and professional community.
Editor's Picks #157
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We detected a pulse. [bracket] is coming alive!
In this post on CalTrans and the City of Los Angeles plans to cap the 101 trench in downtown LA with a beautiful urban park alexander walter makes a great point.
While in this article on current dogfighting over proposed renovations to architect Stanley Tigerman's Anti-Cruelty Society building in Chicago Orhan makes also makes a whole lot of sense.
Prague-based architecture firm, Chalupa Architekti, recently won a design competition for the new Czech Embassy in DC. Best firm name I have seen in awhile right?
I had a friend who is a "Woofer". Learn more here.
Discussion Threads
BIArch challenges us to rethink architecture with some very relevant, and very important, questions:
Via this thread wherein AdrianYim was trying to find this SANAA project in which they turn an old diminishing village in japan into art galleries? The proposal was modifying the existing village houses and turning them into galleries I learned about the Echigo-Tsumari Art triennial held in 2003 for a "grand" two-month exhibition in "communities, rice fields, vacant houses, and closed schools across a 760 square kilometer (187,800 acre) region
We discuss the golf ecological disaster and the new AZ Immigration Law/SB 1070.
What is the future of green consulting? Is the gold rush already over? architerp wants to architerp.
Image Gallery
BIG PINK is a full-scale installation created for the entry to the Creative Cities Summit in Lexington Kentucky.
School Blogs
Jpeel at U of F announces Architrave 17 and also that Levent Kara will be leaving U of F for University of South Florida.
There was a freak snow storm at McGill University and summer has officially started for Meredith.
While, Hannah at RISD talks about her trip to FES, MOROCCO.
Editor's Picks #158
First a Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms out there...
News
Two recent In Focus features covering work of successful advertising (and now architecture) photographer Bruno Cals and Catalan photographer Jordi Miralles.
Übertect is back for round 2. Featuring Übertect vs. Jean Nouvel's Copenhagen Concert Hall.
University of Michigans Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning hosted the Future of Urbanism conference on March 19 & 20, 2010 which featured
amongst other speakers our own Bryan Finoki.
"Herzog & de Meuron, OMA, Toyo Ito, and Arup’s Cecil Balmond are among the star names asked to exhibit at the Venice Biennale by curator Kazuyo Sejima."
The National Park Service wants to alter Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi's museum at the Franklin Memorial, adjacent their iconic Ghost House. Public comment is open now, so flood the Parks Service with your complaints.
Would you like to live in a Tesco town?
Alternet points out the insufficiencies of vertical farming.
Discussion Threads
momafresh25 wants to know is zaha's vitra fire station canonical?
kken is looking for book suggestion on urban fabric and more.
Archinect discusses the computer blip that cost the Dow index a 1000 points.
School Blogs
Aaron at Wash U in St Louis presents a Framework for a Heterotopia.
Nick Sowers at Berkely travels to the future with his thesis.
Faysal at AA shares some Flashbacks to Tokyo including a few shots of the Olympic Arena by Kenzo Tange.
Eratta
Adam Greenfield over at Speedbird has posted a digital urbanism call to arms of a sort. Or, maybe of disciplinary intent?
Networked urbanism, read/write urbanism, open-source urbanism…sure, these things are in their infancy. But if the whole domain retains some plasticity, it’s also beginning to be shaped by parties motivated solely by their own interests, and absolutely not by any larger affinity for urban life and its benisons. To be blunt, I don’t want the IBMs and Ciscos and Microsofts of the world defining what networked urbanism can be for me…or, forgive my presumption, what it can be for you, either. Read more and join the discussion?
Editor's Picks #159
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Rem Koolhaas has developed a daring plan to run Europe on a grid of shared renewable energy.
Frank Gehry argues that climate change and sustainable design are ultimately “political” issues. Over at Metropolis Magazine Susan S. Szenasy responds.
Eva Franch, Catalan architect, researcher, teacher and founder of OOAA [office of architectural affairs], has been selected to replace Joseph Grima to direct New York's Storefront for Art and Architecture.
USA Today reviews plans to develop green space over freeways in Dallas, Los Angeles, Cincinnati & St. Louis.
Christopher Hawthorne of Los Angeles Times reports from Medellín, on Colombia's architectural renaissance.
Discussion Threads
ElGrecus wants to know whether Neil Denari and/or Diller Scofidio can lay claim to be the originator of the fluid, curved line, interconnected floor plate look that was so popular in the '90s and even now?
Urbanist wonders what is an architecture of decline? What forms should cities of the more leisured (and downwardly mobile) take?.
School Blogs
Last week Harvard GSD school blogger Lian Chang represented Archinect on a private tour of Richard Meier's Model Museum in New York, led by Meier himself. Read report here.
John Tubles at Cal Poly Pomona / Kyushu University reports in from Shanghai World Expo 2010 Day 01 and he thinks the german pavillion is the best one amongst the nations pavillions...
Sally at University of Technology, Sydney who is in her fifth and final year joins the school blog party.
Meredith at McGill writes about Malcolm Wells, and notes that yesterday, May 14th, was "Underground America Day", which is a time to honor the 6,000 or so North Americans who make their homes not only on the Earth but in it, for those of you who don't know.
Editor's Picks #160
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Übertect interviews himself...
Two pieces of good news for architects, here and here.
Find out what Michael Graves's has been up to.
Pedestrians paint a tree with their feet.
Christopher Hawthorne reviews Gehry's Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, and The National's (AE) Natasha Edwards reviews Shigeru Ban's Pompidou Metz.
Discussion Threads
Paul Petrunia is trying to find information on a 1960's nomadic tent project by Renzo Piano (co-architect of the original Paris Pompidou) which Archinect member French suggested may have influenced Shigeru Ban's Pompidou Metz.
We discuss Rem Koolhaas and OMA's analytic design method.
LtB is interested in getting a discussion going to see what other people think about the dialogue between AR and the built environment.
School Blogs
Now that's some cantilever, by OMA!
Anthony at Columbia university went to the End-of-Year Exhibit at GSAPP and they really SHOW THEIR WORK.
Nick Sowers shares the writings of a landscape preservationist from the future. The work discusses the picturesque landscape of the American military pastoral.
Jacob at University of Pennsylvania says goodbye...
Eratta
Fashion and style blogger Garance Dore is in Asian and Shanghai for the first time and she takes us on a nighttime visual tour of some local skyscrapers.
Image Garance Doré
Editor's Picks #161
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For Archinects latest In Focus feature we talked to Turkish photographer team GRIDUO.
I understand their reasons but i hope they aren't thinking of getting rid of the Breuer Building.
Architosh uncovers what may be the code name for either the first native version of AutoCAD for Mac in more than 18 years or the specific beta phase name. We think possibly the former.
Christian de Portzamparc might get the chance to build something in LA for Eli Broad.
I really liked the (pictured) Bridge School, in Xiashi, China.
A derelict Detroit house becomes a design lab for five young firms.
Discussion Threads
Thanks to this thread I came across these photos of Antoine Predock skiing on the roof of his Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts.
loremipsum wants tips on suggestions for great architecture to see in the Ozarks.
We discuss the ending of Lost.
le bossman starts a thread to document Small Town Cutting Edge Firms.
Another discussion regarding which is the best video card to buy.
School Blogs
Thomas at Boston Architectural College discusses the book The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States by Mark Dyreson and Robert Thumpbour.
John Tubles from Cal Poly Pomona / Kyushu is back in Japan after visiting the Shangai Expo and he gives us the list of classes he will be taking his 2nd and last semester in Kyushu University.
Jacob at U of F asks the question; What I say "electronic architecture", what do you think of?.
Nick Sowers posts reports from a forensic engineer and ornithologist from the future. The writings discuss how How is ruination measured and tracked? and chiroptology.
Chris at Bartlett reports in from the RIBA Forgotten Spaces Exhibition at the National Thatre on London's Southbank. His entry was shortlisted.
Additionally
Viktor Ramos, who is a documenting his travels around the world to 10 of the most densely populated cities in the world for the 2009 SOM Prize, as part of an SOM Fellowship recently visited Favela Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro. He later wrote Favela Rocinha is just massive (though not for how many people it houses). The way it grows over the hills and wipes out all traces of the land except for the slope is awesome (ie, inspiring awe, not necessarily good). This is megastructure, though not nearly as clean and rational as envisioned by the megastructuralists.
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