dissects Michael Maltzan's new commission in SFSU but points out urban studies is still on the chop block.
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Javier Arbona dissects Michael Maltzan's new commission in SFSU but points out urban studies is still on the chop block.

From the recent crop of competition news I want to highlight the Urbanite Project: Open City Challenge, a project of Urbanite which has a deadline for entries of June 3. Urbanite is a yearlong Exhibition Development Seminar at Maryland Institute College of Art, D center Baltimore, the Maryland Transit Administration, and the Baltimore City Department of Transportation. For the Open City Challenge self-organized teams are invited to compete for $10,000 in prize money and the chance to implement their solution to the quality-of-life issues brought about by the construction of the Red Line.

Discussion Threads
BOTS directs our attention to the recent EXECUTIVE SUMMARY for a proposed LAS VEGAS NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER.

ichweiB is Sick of Archinect Discussions about how bad the Architecture profession is. Do you agree or disagree. Voice your opinion here.

Sounds like wood+zapata is closed? But partners are still doing good work?

School Blogs
Jemuel at Prat Institute puts up some first year first semester drawings: both inverted and non-inverted, including this one.

Lian at Harvard GSD reflects on a recent presentation/lecture by Vito Acconci. She wonders Is this the same guy who masturbated under the floor of an art gallery and heckled visitors for some ten hours straight? The arc of the lecture was surreal. It was amazing to see how continuously Acconci reinvented himself, becoming a different artist in response to the project before it and reflecting the questions and preoccupations of his time.. Watch the lecture for yourself.

Now that's a eye-catching title: Rome and the Mnemonic City. Bo at Kansas State University is inspired by a recent reading of Timeless Cities by David Mayernik in which Mayernik describes the city as a giant mnemonic device. The post includes the word mnemotectonics.

Additionally
David Gissen proposes three exhibition ideas for some ambitious curator of architecture and design to mount; “Hilberseimer’s City”, “Peter Eisenman (1967-),” and “Building Books” which would be an enormous survey from the 15th century to the present and look at the importance of books to architecture.