Just in time for the holiday gift giving we have new t-shirts and advanced copies of BRACKET [on farming].
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Just in time for the holiday gift giving we have new t-shirts and advanced copies of BRACKET [on farming].

Orhan gives us an inside peak at USC's school wide final reviews held on the 50 & 51st floors of a downtown Los Angeles building. Meanwhile, we also get hipped to images from University of Kentucky College of Design's Brown-Forman Urban Design Studio final review.

Re: this news about Dai Haifei, 24, a newly graduated architect, who made an egg-style home, I will say it again I would love to see a whole urban district of these.. Or refugee camps maybe. Seems like a pretty cheap and renewable answer to at least temporary low cost housing.


Photo/Beijing Times

Discussion Threads
rockaway wants to move his professional career from doing higher end mixed use projects to a professional career centered around improving the quality of life for people in lower-income, impoverished areas and wants to know some high profile firms/architects doing this type of work.

Two related discussions, the first about suggestions on other fields/professions aside from architecture and the second on white collar professional job security.

Archinecters sound off about where they live.

School Blogs
Roberto at University of Edinburgh begins posting, says hello and Joao at Canterbury School of Architecture also posts his first, calling himself a Fresher.

Nikhil at North Carolina State University got feedback via checklists after his final review?

Lian at Harvard GSD pinned up the following statement as part of her final review presentation When we understand ourselves as actors in the public sphere instead of private citizens or consumers, we are able to lead better lives., which leads to a 'discussion' about private vs public...

Cal Poly Pomona / Kyushu University at John Tubles at took 20 units this quarter and he writes the epitome of the term “archi-torture”. He also reviews the quarter in photos.

Thomas + at Boston Architectural College played around with foam, hot wire and a robotic arm.