As leaked in Archinect's forum over last weekend, Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has taken this year's Pritzker Prize.

April Fools. It took me a moment to catch on.

From the Image Gallery


ALEF Corporate Offices, in Mexico City by Art Arquitectos

Discussion Threads
go do it wants to come up with a better term than value engineering!

over at TC, toasteroven posts a link to paintings of 1960s retro-futurism, done for Motorola as part of their consumer products ads series, “Fresh from Motorola... new leader in the lively art of electronics” by artist - Charles Schridde. I particularly liked these: one, two, and three.

There were four threads where necters are looking for product/vendor sourcing, suggestions/information: for laminated glass fins, perforated shutters as used by Herzog and De Meuron at the Funf Hofe in Munich, street lights from the ancoat neighborhood of manchester and finally kitchen faucets without "penis-head".

School Blogs
Andreas at Harvard GSD continues his reporting from studio trip to Beijing. He discusses his studio's tour of several of Beijing's hutong neighborhoods.

Lian at Harvard GSD begins her Live Blog: of the Eclipse of Beauty, vol. II symposia with the line Here we are in Piper for more blah blah blah. This passage seems telling Question from the audience: "As a student, we see that each school has a system, a kind of consensus of what is generally found to be aesthetically pleasing. But I'm curious, as are several academics, why academia on the whole has not been effectual in the classification of taste and beauty?" Douglis: "Hm, I see that Mohsen moved, and so did Scott.".

John Tubles at Cal Poly Pomona / Kyushu University just got back from spring break, is entering the final (10 weeks ) of architecture school and has been participating in "design bootcamps".

Daniel at University of Oregon discusses his current studio dealing with Adaptive Reuse in Downtown Portland. The site is adjacent to Pioneer Square and also adjacent to a hole in the ground, which was the location of a stalled project by studio teachers, TVA Architects.

Matthew at University of Illinois Chicago talks about the candidates for the Professor in Practice position UIC is looking to fill and an upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art the Department of Urban Speculation of which he is a part, put together.