Matthew Lynch described the Industry Outlook for 2011. Meanwhile, Orhan Ayyüce re-visited the Episcopal Church of Pacific Palisades by Moore Ruble Yudell's.
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Matthew Lynch described the Industry Outlook for 2011. Meanwhile, Orhan Ayyüce re-visited the Episcopal Church of Pacific Palisades by Moore Ruble Yudell's.

We found out PennDesign Professor Detlef Mertins has passed away.
Read an old interview Geoff Manaugh did with Detlef back in 2006, wherein Professor Mertins said I see schools as an infrastructure that enables both faculty and students to pursue their own agendas - where students can, in fact, develop their own agendas and establish a relationship or orientation to the world of architecture.

These five groups of architects do not constitute a movement. They do not have a polemic, a style or a grand theory. But they share a mood, of getting back to the basic pleasures of building. They are opposed to the computerised, corporate, compartmentalised ways big buildings are built now. The preceding passage seemed a fitting conclusion to Rowan Moore's of the UKs most exciting young architects.

According to Nicolai this is some digitally filmic architecture, which effectively blurs the boundaries among architecture, film and viewer.

Discussion Threads
Uxbridge wants to discuss about Envy in architecture

We discussed Witold Rybczynski's article in Slate on How the Great Recession has changed architecture—for the better.. Weigh in here.

toasteroven starts a thread to discuss Sam Jacobs of FAT Architecture's recent Obituary for Minimalism originally published in the Obituaries issue of the New City Reader.

School Blogs
Samuel at University of Tennessee posts a picture of the siding work in progress at the www.thenewnorrishouse.com.

Roberto at University of Edinburgh lets us know that for this semester his design unit will be The Language of Stone with Dr Dagmar Motycka Weston.

Marc Syp at Knowlton School of Architecture recently produced a video for NBBJ's Qingdao Campus Masterplan competition entry.

Anthony at Columbia University GSAPP) posts a collection of animations done by 1st Semester AD&R GSAPP students for viewing.

Additionally
Check out Lauren Beukes' Ghost Girl. Which Bruce Sterling described thusly *Whaddya know. Look at that. South African prose-narrative architecture-fiction.*It’s in a fantasy publication, and it’s got a Gothic ghost in it, but basically, it’s all about architecture and urban planning.