Paul posted a bunch of updates regarding BRACKET, including the fact that the website is now open to membership registration plus, check out previews of BRACKET [on farming] and more.
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Paul posted a bunch of updates regarding BRACKET, including the fact that the website is now open to membership registration plus, check out previews of BRACKET [on farming] and more.

Plus this snapshot of the first, upcoming issue was loaded to the gallery recently


Orhan Ayyüce interviewed Coy Howard.

Guy Horton attended a panel talk on the State of the Industry at the Architecture and Design Museum Los Angeles. He found that Undoubtedly, digitization and the internet have enabled firms to be more agile and responsive to fluctuations in demand. The ability to mobilize a firm quickly and from long distances makes it easier to reach out. While this model liberates them from being geographically fixed, the tactic is still the same: go where the work is. But there has to be available work in the first place.

Read about a house with a staff of 600. Discuss here.

Discussion Threads
mixologist is wondering does hiring come to a halt after Thanksgiving and start only in mid Jan?

Over on Thread Central toasteroven points us to 99% invisible a project of KALW, the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco and the Center for Architecture and Design. Its a short podcast which tries to comprehend the 99% invisible activity that shapes the design of our world.

George85 has questions about Space frames and their potential in architecture ?

There are some great examples/pictures of column designs that start engaging and producing the spaces they inhabit? in the thread started by Hugoistique12.

School Blogs
Dorothy at University of Michigan TCAUP will in an attempt to document her thesis project be posting about her progress over the next couple of months. First up are her thoughts on her site (territory las vegas, nevada to los angeles, california) in relation to infrastructural networks.

Samuel at University of Tennessee posted a short time-lapse film condensing the two day installation process of the prefab home by Clayton Homes, on-site in Norris, Tennessee.

Lian at Harvard GSD shared some photos of two recent food-and-architecture events that she attended: MXT at McGill University School of Architecture, and Three States of Hors d'oeuvres by the GSD's Project on Spatial Sciences.

John Tubles at Cal Poly Pomona / Kyushu University is thinking of designing a "mixed use" crematorium for his thesis. The crematorium would bve below ground and then there would be a "live" program above ground.

Additionally
Announcing the conference - Superstructural Dependencies The conference brings together international practitioners and thinkers to discuss both the growing dependency of urban societies on their technological superstructures as well as the phenomena of massive online virtual environments with their unstable population and continuous reformulation of their own raison d’etre. Via Bruce Sterling