Bruna Mori took a look at Fallen Fruit’s recuration of the permanent collection and garden structures Let Them Eat LACMA, closing Fallen Fruit’s EATLACMA, a yearlong investigation of food, the natural growth cycle, and the social role of art.
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Bruna Mori took a look at Fallen Fruit’s recuration of the permanent collection and garden structures Let Them Eat LACMA, closing Fallen Fruit’s EATLACMA, a yearlong investigation of food, the natural growth cycle, and the social role of art.

Winners of the 2010 Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced.
I still like the Bridge School, Xiashi, Fujian, China



Aaron, told us to check out BI BLOG, a new form of collaborative design blogging. Eschewing the singular author, each thematic exchange presents, in tandem, two unique points of view on a single architectural topic.

Studio Banana TV interviewed Ole Bouman, director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI), Holland.

Need a job? The rumors are true, this January and for six months, the Van Alen Institute is opening a new project space dedicated to thinking, speaking, discussing, reading, touching and selling architecture publications. The space is currently being designed by an architectural firm known for its boldness. The task will vary from organizing the curatorial program of events, selecting inventory of publications, attending the book store and more. Learn more.

Discussion Threads
Orhan Ayyüce is asking for help locating examples of architectural nicknames given by popular media and real estate industry for local residential projects: ie "Salad Spinner house".

Nasim Adab wonders, What kind of urban elements, services and spaces do you think are the illustration of a healthy and democrat society?.

jakob knulp announced the launch of LUMHOR an online magazine that aims to develop critical discourse and creative thinking about architecture and urbanism in Cambodia.

Outed, wants to talk about new business models.

School Blogs
Andreas at Harvard GSD visited the Museum of Fine Arts' (MFA) new Arts of Americas wing which opened last weekend.

Lian at Harvard's GSD lists When a medical student friend tells me that she'll be working 80 hours a week for her residency, I accidentally offend her by responding "oh, that's not so bad." , as number 7 in her list of Ten signs that the GSD has ruined me. She also posted some snippets from last week’s discussion between Reinhold Martin and Jeff Kipnis. I particularly like how Kipnis concluded his presentation, by asking “So are we going to be better off trying to understand the neurophysiology of how we perceive things, or are better off seeing that we’re the magicians?”.

Matthew at University of Illinois Chicago provided a definition of Eisenmania.