Joshua Foer of the Sukkah City Competition on the Sukkah City Competition, public space and radical gestures are discussed.
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Heather Ring interviews Joshua Foer of the Sukkah City Competition on the Sukkah City Competition, public space and radical gestures are discussed.

Guy Horton reviews Architecture and Beauty: A Troubled Relationship” a recent panel discussion at SCI-ARC moderated by Yael Reisner’s and featuring Hernan Diaz Alonso, Frank Gehry, Greg Lynn, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss and Peter Cook.

Don't miss the latest Working out of the Box featuring Margarita Mileva and her M2 rubber band necklaces.

Also, in our latest In Focus feature Archinect talked to Portuguese photographer Nelson Garrido.

John Jourden suggests Log 20 is Required Reading... The issue takes a look at the expanding ideas of curating architecture at a moment when its traditions and trajectories can no longer go unexamined. The proliferation of museum architecture departments and architecture biennials since the 1980s and the broadened use of the term curating to encompass artistic, architectural, and academic practices have today influenced the very idea of cultural production: Everyone is a curator and everything is curated. What does this mean for the architecture curator and for architecture? More Log 20 here.

While over at Domus Web Carson Chan examines exhibiting architecture: and writes that curators should show, don’t tell. Therein he writes Fundamentally, the curator mediates between and makes available the exhibited objects and ideas and their relevance to an audience. The exhibition context provides one of the few venues where cultural artifacts are given a voice, and where the public is encouraged to collectively ascribe meaning and significance to the products of human culture. Particularly for architecture, the curator’s role is even more crucial.

Movingcities.org publishes an interview of Zhang Lei Atelier ZhangLei, wherein Zhang Lei states I would never create a fancy image without comprehending the construction behind the image. To make an interesting image is not a challenge; our students can do that. The question is: why do you make it? What is the logic? I would not draw a ship, give it to manufacturer and say: just make it.

Discussion Threads
Archinect discussed the Sukkah City competition here.

Nalina is looking for examples of American contemporary regionalism.

cosmoe32 is trying to do a quick comparative visual study of contemporary Russian architecture. Anyone know of some sites/blogs that might have such a survey?.

MixmasterFestus wonders whether he should Maintain Legacy LEED AP, or opt into the new credentialing system? Thoughts, or suggestions welcome.

Additionally
Announcing Once upon a Place – haunted houses & imaginary cities an international conference devoted to an emerging theme, as an associated event of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2010 and matching its official opening and exhibitions. The event is dedicated to architects, historians, researchers, essayists, artists and authors, aiming at the reunion of a critical and creative international group for the cultural studies in architecture. What kinds of stories do spaces and buildings “tell” us? What insights on architectural knowledge and experience can literary forms convey? Are designs, buildings and cities somehow a fabrication on the world? Does form follows fiction? Can fiction foresee architecture and urban futures? The conference will tackle the reciprocal influences between architecture and fiction, whether they emerge under literary forms or other means related to visual narratives and popular culture. More here. Via Bruce Sterling