For the latest edition of the Cutting Room series Paul Petrunia got back in touch with Joseph Kosinski who was first interviewed back in 2004, for Les Jumelles, the Art of Speed film created for Nike as a member of KDLAB.

This time the conversation focused on his transition from architecture to Hollywood director, with films such as 2010's TRON: Legacy or the visually stunning Oblivion. todd was impressed "Props to Joseph /  KD Lab.  WoW".

Plus, Screen/Print #24: published an excerpt of Blank Space's - Fairy Tales — When Architecture Tells A Story​, a collection of fantastical stories written and designed by architects.

News
Dana Goodyear makes connections, between Shigeru Ban’s consistent rejection of the label of "green architect" and a question of "greenwashing" vs. "what you might call goodwashing". 

Eric Chavkin points to "A critical re-appraisal of Ban” by Glen Small one “of his SCI-Arc professors".  Yet, it is the implications regarding how an architect may control their own brand that intrigue Thayer-D "I actually appreciate her finding the inconsistencies in his avoidance of one brand and embrace of another.  After All, if good architects are able to manipulate form and space, why not manipulating their image?".   

Penny Sarchet reported on the role modern technology played in deciding the fate of the extraordinary Shukhov Tower. HotelSphinx was nonplussed "not used to associating happy feelings with modern-day Russian politics, but this is such a win. Props to Moscow".

Legal Troubles (still) Dog Famed Spanish Architect Santiago Calatrava, according to NPR. Darkman thought it was a hack job "Again, another architecture villian! If it were designed by SOM you'd never hear about it. And as for Spain--they loved him before and now they hate him? If you didn't want a Ferrari than don't buy one morons".

NCARB is reconsidering the term "Intern Architect", under the auspices of it’s Future Title Task Force. Donna Sink is pleased "an issue that has become unnecessarily thorny". curtkram however isn’t so sure, "i'd be a bigger supporter of all of this if there were some evidence that changing a title would allow people who work hard to be paid what they're worth, but i can't help but think…"


Firms/Blogs/Work Updates
Olaf Design Ninja_'s recent post referencing "Neo-Naturalism" by Zeynep Celik Alexander from Log 31, led to a discussion regarding "Data Data Data", drawing and "practice, practice, practice". Chris Teeter responding to Quondam explained;

"BIM is not drawing, drawing is an output option.  It's like asking for some form of Beef - steak, burgers, etc... BIM is beef.  Drawing is a steak. Chipboard models are burgers...you get the idea".

The living-utopia object turnOn of the Austrian architectural studioAllesWirdGut is now part of the collection of the MAK in Vienna.

For those looking for work, The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Land & Urban Planner to be a collaborative leader for the Land & Urban Planning studio. Or you can apply to The Faculty of Architecture at University of Manitoba, to be Head of the Department of Architecture beginning July 1, 2015.

Peg Wall in Chelsea, MA by Merge Architects and Meier Road 1 in Sebastopol, CA by Mork Ulnes Architects are just two of the projects that can be found in the latest Ten Top Images on Archinect's "Wood" Pinterest Board.

School/Blogs
If you are in Miami on September 23, jp88 welcomes you to join AIA Miami and the Miami Center for Architecture and Design in celebrating Dean Rodolphe El-Khoury’s arrival to Miami.

Over at her Cal Poly Pomona affiliated blog, Maria Ornelas explains the Origins of her interest in using architecture to design something innovative that can help and improve the lives of the blind.

Archeworks, Chicago’s multidisciplinary design educator and incubator, announced two new public interest design initiatives in the coming year; Green Neighborhood School Campus Design Initiative and Promoting Sustainable Energy Use through Innovative Design.

Matthew Messner completed his "final post", which chronicled earning an M.Arch & MAD-Crit. from the School of Architecture at University of Illinois Chicago.

Discussions/Threads
archanonymous wants to hear from anyone who has "lived in a building designed by any of our modern masters from early modernism/ Bauhaus". Carrera has been lucky "My partner was one of the last great modernist and of course lived in a design of his own; my other partner lived in a Mies townhouse" and Xenakis "lived in 3 different Eichlers".

go do it asked for impressions, post-occupancy, "Carrera's glass impression is spot on. Do the designs work? Is there enough privacy? Is there enough closet and storage space...That kind of stuff". 

won and done williams lives "in one of the Mies townhouses Carrera describes...The amount of glass is amazing and architecturally the main reason for being there" .

Based on experience as a student whose had "hit and misses with faculty" _wander is trying to figure out Why do some architects go into academia?

Specifically, are "Are arch. professors necessarily interested in research, or teaching, or are they doing it because of a slow market/ lack of jobs in the profession?"

jla-x shared "about half of my professors were truly there because they loved to teach. They were passionate about teaching and some of them were also practicing architects” while Janosh helpfully listed some of the "riveting opportunities that come with full time academic positions with benefits: office hours, search committees, tenure reviews, departmental politics, NAAB visits, grade appeal hearings, sexual harassment training, curriculum reviews".

Finally, courvoisier is looking for Radical Retail Precedents. Especially "as an outlet for a larger online venue".

Matthew Friesz guessed "you're talking about brick and mortar retail stores acting as an extension of their online presence...I would just look at retailers who have a strong online presence/brand identity, and how they translate that to any brick and mortar stores they may have" and jw468 suggested "Taschen is a good example, where its few retail locations elevate its image. Rizzoli Publishers as well, with its recently closed New York store. The Vitra campus is worth considering in this context….Other major brands that use this tactic include Normann Copenhagen, Svenskt Tenn, Marimekko, and Ralph Lauren".