Julia Ingalls almost had a hat-trick, publishing the finale to her Material Witness: exploration, this time on apocalypse & columns and reviving Archinect's UpStarts: (seen last in 2012) with a look at Paul Michael Davis Design out of Seattle, WA. 

Was I the only one who didn’t get the reference "a kind of heroic Calgon" without a little Wikipedia?

News

R.I.P. William Byrd Callaway, one of Bay Area’s most influential landscape architects. He was 71.

Initially drafted as part of the 1994 NAFTA agreement, NCARB has officially established the Tri-National Mutual Recognition Agreement for International Practice of Architecture, which allows for architects to be "mutually recognized" across Mexico, Canada and United States. Evan Chakroff read the fine print

"Fees for completing the Tri-National MRA process will be assessed by the national regulatory authority of the host country and are subject to change" For jla-x the new was simply "lol".

Over at Forbes, Justin Shubow argued Frank Gehry Is Right, "In other words, there is safety in the discipline of tradition".  midlander was impressed "Quite a work of writing to conflate Gehry's '98% of buildings are shit' statement with a call for pattern-books based on Classical norms. What a half-assed, thoughtless and lazy article". Yet Thayer-D believed "To appreciate his thesis, simply look at builder stock of 100 years ago compared to today...I think the idea that we might be mere craftspeople makes our bourgeoisie sensibilities shudder".

Justine Testado posted news about two projects led/by Steven Holl Architects; the expansion of John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. broke ground and a team led won the competition to design the North Wing -- or Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai City.

SeriousQuestion had opinions about both. Regarding the Kennedy Center Expansion Project, "liked the drawings and the renderings, but it does look a little disjointed from the rest of the site​" and the museum project renderings are "beautiful. Reminds...of Kahn".
 

Firms/Blogs/Work Updates
dpr-barcelona put out an open call for projects, ideas, and experiences, be moderated and published on the Adhocracy ATHENS website, as a testimony of collective making of the common.

KieranTimberlake is looking to hire a Building Performance Specialist. The applicant who will reside within KieranTimberlake Research Group, will be expected to work on “project-centered research...identify proactive research and development topics and initiate experiments in the role of principal investigator-developer”

Check out Wall of Concrete, 17 panels designed by Paul Puzzello as the cladding system for a bigger house project, "Cabin(s) in the Woods".
 

School/Blogs
Nicole Doan shared a video - MIchael Rotondi interviewed by Orhan Ayyuce, on the occasion of the Cal Poly Pomona's Neutra Award ceremony.

For those looking for a job in academia, Ball State University seeks an Asst. Professor--Environmental Systems.

Tokyo University Advanced Design Studies program aka T_ADS started a school blog. In the first post we learn "Currently, there are four main platforms: Digital Fabrication Lab (DFL), with research centering on how digital fabrication technology can be applied to architecture; Sustainable Prototyping Lab (SPL), which emphasizes architectural prototypes for sustainable urbanity; Design Think Tank (DTT), which looks at combinatorial hardware design and the software of cities; and Media Initiative Lab (MIL)”.
 

Discussions/Threads
go do it started a thread to discuss Exposed Plywood Wall Finish. anonitect warned "If you use adhesives, anyone who ever wants to remove the plywood will curse your memory" toasteroven suggested one alternative "z-clips". Saint in the City chimed in "Ply selection is important and takes some time...your attachment idea is on point".

sameolddoctor was not a fan, of Zaha Hadid Architects recently released billboard design for a London streetside. Reacting to the haters, Will Galloway linked to a more rational Building Design article and argued "if we are honest, what she is proposing is better urbanisitically". Volunteer seems to agree "The proposal gets more interesting the more you look at it"

Finally, if General Contractor really wants some perspective on whether the firing decision he made was wrong, they might want to think about calling (213) 784-7421 and leaving a message for Archinect's lawyer-correspondent, Brian Newman (of Dykema Gossett PLLC) and it might be answered in the next Archinect Sessions.

Although the general consensus seems to be it is a "grey area" and that an employee moonlighting may put "the employing firm" at risk of legal liability, if an employee of mightyaa is moonlighting for friends and family or charity "doesn't bother...in the slightest". As a moonlighter null pointer found the thread "Superbly interesting".