Archinect's latest In Focus features the work of American photographer Kevin Bauman of amongst other things the 100 Abandoned Houses project.
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Archinect's latest In Focus features the work of American photographer Kevin Bauman of amongst other things the 100 Abandoned Houses project.

And our latest ShowCase project is Briefcase House a house within a house, by Jimenez Lai.



Anyone want to report in from USC's recent discussion, Taking the Long View: Design and the Nonprofit, featuring Cameron Sinclair and Lily Jencks?

MONU - magazine on urbanism has announced its new call for submissions for #14 on the topic of Editing Urbanism.

We have added to the Lecture Posters 2010 collection. Some of my favorites include those by, Barcelona Institute of Architecture, OTIS College of Art and Design, Princeton University, Academie van Bouwkunst, UC Berkeley, Princeton University and Cal Poly Pomona.

Since 2004, when DesignIntelligence began ranking undergrad and grad programs separately, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design has been number 1. So it is interesting that University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning nudged Harvard out of No. 1 this year.

Discussion Threads
harold want to know if anyone knows of any buildings or urban plans specifically designed to stimulate and contribute to racial and ethnic integration?

jk3hl is looking for examples of vertically oriented museums.

vado retro writes The day our concerns shifted from championing architectural ideas to a focus on the drudgery of waterproofing, was a dark day indeed. Over on this thread.

ichweiB wants to know more about Target Value Design.

School Blogs
Min wook,Choi at Inha University - D lab, alerts us to the fact that Yusuke Obuchi / Prof. The University of Tokyo will be lecturing and leading an upcoming workshop at Inha University, entitled Critical Mass which will explore the conflict between local and global orders exist in the city of Seoul and develop design proposals as projective urban strategies.

Lian at Harvard's GSD informs us that Preston Scott Cohen makes his provocations with a smile, because he enjoys the game of playing Scott.

After leaving Malta Antonio at Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole visited Roma, Milano and Venezia. with stops at the MAXXI and the Venezia Biennale.

Additionally
Places Journal, published, two excerpts from BRACKET [on farming] Issue #1 which is available now for pre-order from Amazon. In the first Mason White reviews the history of 20th-century design histories and practices and suggests a lineage of urbanism as productive, from post-Victorian efforts in hygiene, Buckminster Fuller’s hopes for a total inventory or the contemporary modern, industrial strength landscape of the River Rouge Complex. In the second Charles Waldheim explores the history of urban form as shaped by an agrarian suburbanized regionalism exemplified by three projects: Frank Lloyd Wright's "Broadacre City" (1934–35), Ludwig Hilberseimer's "New Regional Pattern" (1945–49), and Andrea Branzi's "Agronica" (1993–94), and its further development, "Territory for the New Economy" (1999).