Archinect is pleased to announce the PS1 People's Choice Award, an honor bestowed upon the PS1 competition entry that will be selected by public vote as the architectural community's favorite.
News
Archinect is pleased to announce the PS1 People's Choice Award, an honor bestowed upon the PS1 competition entry that will be selected by public vote as the architectural community's favorite.
eric chavkin reviews Art Center Pasadena's MADE UP: DESIGN FICTIONS exhibit.
Orhan Ayyüce offers a rejoinder to Professor Lisa Findley essay A Tale of Two Apartheid Museums, in which she contrasts the only two museums dedicated to a national, South African, narrative of apartheid.
The Department of Energy and the Department of the Interior this week announced that the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 will be held at the National Mall’s West Potomac Park, on the banks of the Potomac River along the path between the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials.
Discussion Threads
Sarah Hamilton over at TC shared a link to a Yahoo news slide-show entitled Three-story house has twist: Indoor slide which features LEVEL Architects, nakameguro house.
tyvek has been worrying about the possibility of a period of high inflation (which people far brighter than me seem to say is coming) and it's effect on his small office.
cecilystt asks for examples of box and egg buildings.
BOTS wants to know if anyone has used the Augmented Reality plugin for Sketchup for client presentations.
School Blogs
Samuel University of Tennessee posts some images showing the progress made on siding and interior of TheNewNorrisHouse.
Shannon at University of Manitoba writes about the efforts involved in using the deconstructed house as a source of fuel to create fire and smoke. The end result is a smoke drawing.
Greg at Knowlton School of Architecture wasn't able to live blog the Toshiko Mori event, due to wifi and power issues. However, he did out up a post summarizing the first half of the day. He writes She discussed the intimacy of residential client relations with a warm sense of humor saying, "It's like you don't want to know where they store their socks in their closet, but you kind of do." She explained that architects have a very distinct power that should not be abused; that we not only create buildings, but we choreograph people's lives.
Emma at Ohio State University also was not able to live blog, but she did write more generally about overarching concepts gathering in her head, resulting from Toshiko Mori's presentation. This includes the view that "an architect's birthright is teaching" and that architecture is not autonomous but a social contract.
Additionally
Adam Greenfield looks beyond the consultant driven boom led by IBM, etc and asks what might lay Beyond the 'smart city' Technologies like high-resolution positioning and algorithmic facial recognition are destroying any promise of anonymity we thought the metropolis offered. It is only by consciously and carefully transforming the urban landscape into a meshwork of open and available resources that we can redress this imbalance. This transformation would neither have to be directed from the top down, nor accomplished all at once. But the greater the number of resources available, the greater the extent to which they are described properly and are capable of being used without further configuration, the better off we’ll all be.
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Congrats on hitting #200 Nam! Every week I look more forward to reading your perspective on the week.
good going nam. i didn't notice until paul mentioned! congratulations indeed.
well thank you both....
but sometimes i do feel as if it is too one sided view. Or maybe it is all of ours? anyways.
Just to put the call out there. Anytime anyone is interested in guest editing the Editor's Picks just get in touch. Or suggestions for improvement? Feedback.
Congrats Nama! You put us all in touch with what's going on in archinect even in weeks when things too busy to actively participate. Thanks.
Agreed. Always a delight, Nam!
great milestone Nam, you've really made the editors picks your own.
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