BRACKET [goes soft] and puts out a call for submissions for issue 2. BRACKET invites the submission of critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate physical and virtual soft systems, as they pertain to infrastructure, ecologies, landscapes, environments, and networks. For more read.
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BRACKET [goes soft] and puts out a call for submissions for issue 2. BRACKET invites the submission of critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate physical and virtual soft systems, as they pertain to infrastructure, ecologies, landscapes, environments, and networks. For more read.

Discussion Threads
Elisabeth started a thread to discuss the winning entries of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design's Dingbat 2.0 Competition.

Unicorn Ghost started a thread to discuss thermal bridging and thermal breaks. Some great discussion about detailing, types of insulation, and placement vapor/air barriers.

jk3hl started a thread because she is looking for details or any sort of image that explains a bit more about the joints or connections between modules in various modular structures.

In this thread re: Autodesk's recent court case jmanganelli provides a list of free and cheap alternatives to AutoCad.

School Blogs
David Cuthbert who along with Barry Lehrman is one of the few Archinect school bloggers blogging from the otherside (meaning as teachers) reawakens his Caribbean School of Architecture blog and offers a manifesto of sorts, writing that his blog is a voice from the other side but not just as a teacher, but the other side of Jamaica and the Caribbean beyond sunshine and coconut trees.

John Tubles at Cal Poly Pomona / Kyushu University returns to the land of his birth The Philippines.

Lian at Harvard's GSD tells us what made his summer so rewarding, including teaching Career Discovery and a a month-long trip to China and Japan! He also posts this picture of Tokyo at night, as seen from Tokyo Metropolitan Government observatory.