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Just a reminder, the deadline from Bracket 2 on Soft Systems is December 10th! To Submit, please visit http://www.brkt.org/.

Ann Lok Lui a 5th year student at Cornell poses some very questions about the validity of the DI Ranking system in her piece The Mathematics of the Ideal Education; Debunking the DesignIntelligence Best Architecture & Design Schools Rankings. Discuss here.

In response to a recent report by the Index of Economic Freedom on the 30 most dynamic cities in the post-recession world, which lists Istanbul as #1, Shenzhen as #2 and Lima as #3 Orhan Ayyüce wonders about a reversal of fortunes.

Denise Scott Brown recently published an article, "Questions of Style" in Artforum. In the piece on shelves now, she discusses her and Robert Venturi's fourth renovation of modernism. She writes "Our approach to style is broad and deep. It's nonjudgmental at first, to make subsequent judgment more sensitive.

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Light Frames, an installation by Los Angeles architect Gail Peter Borden

Discussion Threads
mdler wants to know if those in school have an accurate picture of the state of the architectural profession. are professors and schools being about the huge numbers of unemployed/underemployed etc...

holz.box started an aggregate thread, to collect all previously started threads about starting a firm.

in this thread on canonically white buildings started by alucidwake, 207moak shared this delightful anecdote I remember a quote from an architect installing an exhibit at Maison LaRoche (was it Hejduk?) He was surprised to see red dust from the cay tile core coming out of the hole he was drilling in the wall as he expected it to be white all the way through and said "I made Corbu's building bleed."

Gotan in preparation for a trip early next year, wants to know about great modern architecture in Hokkaido region.

mixologist is looking for Short Bridge Precedents.

School Blogs
Lian posted some photos of places she has been recently including: the Boston conservatory, Harvard's Loeb Theater, Boston Symphony Hall, Gehry's InterActiveCorp Headquarters, Preston Scott Cohen's canopy at the Goldman Sachs building, the High Line, Alice Tully Hall and the New Museum. She also presented a delightful photographic narrative of a semester at GSD.

Matthew at University of Illinois Chicago has to write a projective history based on a found document for his Theory class with Robert Somol. In his case the found document is a "Found" Casino Map.

Stephanie at Kunstacademiets Arkitektskole talks about delusions.

Additionally
Urea garden(s) and ruminant cargo(s) brilliant.