There are two upcoming Bracket book launch events in NYC & LA, both to be held on Dec 10. For more.

Read about how, confronting a shortage of home-grown architects, the Canadian government is making it easier for foreign-trained designers to work there. Discuss here.

Watch William H. Whyte's Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

Discussion Threads
tman would like to know about artists that have done public infrastructural works (lights, trash recepticles, benches, piers, etc.).

Marlin is stuck in the Bay Area and is looking for San Francisco's equivalent to Reyner Banham's Four Ecologies, so he can get to understand the city better. Any suggestions?

jplourde suggests that Verisimilitude is a defining characteristic of contemporary architecture and talks about hegemony.

Image Gallery


Holland's National Automobile Museum, by Michael Graves & Associates

School Blogs
Anthony at Columbia University GSAPP writes about a discussion with one of his professors re: rationalization: We concluded that it's not good in a learning institution to try to use emotions to verbalize a project because it doesn't help the student to rationalize ideas.

John Tubles at Cal Poly Pomona / Kyushu University shares some amazing pictures from his research in Manila, into low-cost housing and cemeteries as slums.

Lian at GSD interviews one of her classmates Caroline Shannon, who was a member of the Campus Catalyst team which won the World Architecture Festival's, AECOM-sponsored Urban SOS competition called “Transformations. They talked about the teams award winning project and the work of MASS whose motto is “We Build Social Value Through Design”.

Plus, three new Archinect school bloggers put up there first posts: Matthew at University of Illinois Chicago, Andreas in GSD's Urban Design program and Emma at Ohio State University.