Recently, on a fact-finding mission for his new book Forms of Spirituality: Modern Architecture and Landscape in New Harmony, Ben Nicholson interviewed Richard Meier concerning his radical 1976 project for the city of New Harmony, Indiana - the Athenaeum. They spoke of collage, movement and the 'tragedy of Utopia'. During their discussion Meier also opined, I think that as far as I am concerned, in terms of my architecture, obviously I would not work for, or take on, a client whose beliefs I felt were counter politically to what I believe. Their full discussion can be found here.
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Recently, on a fact-finding mission for his new book Forms of Spirituality: Modern Architecture and Landscape in New Harmony, Ben Nicholson interviewed Richard Meier concerning his radical 1976 project for the city of New Harmony, Indiana - the Athenaeum. They spoke of collage, movement and the 'tragedy of Utopia'. During their discussion Meier also opined, I think that as far as I am concerned, in terms of my architecture, obviously I would not work for, or take on, a client whose beliefs I felt were counter politically to what I believe. Their full discussion can be found here.

Regarding this news about Eli Broad's new DS+R designed museum, as Orhan says, art + auction + elevator music.

For their latest feature Studio Banana TV interviewed Bjarke Ingels of BIG. The 4 minute piece includes words from Bjarke about his practice, footage of his Copenhagen office and recent projects.

Orhan suggests we all watch BorderLINE Architecture.

Discussion Threads
spacefraud has a good suggestion for a new Archinect t-shirt,"wallpaper sucks".

gondol3 wonders what are the 7 Wonders of contemporary architecture? and what are the 7 Wonders of modern-postmodern-contemporary architecture?

according to a newly released study from job site CareerCast.com, posted to the WSJ re: best jobs, draftsman beats out architect. discuss here.

jakethesnake is putting out the call I'm putting together a symposium dealing with urban design across the the globe. Anyone know of any young urban designers developing interesting projects in Asia, preferably China?

School Blogs
Matthew at University of Illinois Chicago shares some more images of Daniel Starcher's project which featured pink bridges/passages.

Samuel at University of Tennessee continues work on www.thenewnorrishouse.com and list all the upcoming tasks for this semester.

Zhao at University of Tokyo took some pics taken during his 15-day holiday...

Additionally
Over at Places Journal Jim Williamson tells a story "What Passes for Beauty: A Death in Texas", which for those who know a at least a little about both Texas and architecture, is really a sort of myth. An intersection of human beings with place, grounded as much in our imagination as in reality. It is also a coming of age story: the story of his first job and first project.