Nick Cecchi penned a review of ‘Lina Bo Bardi: Together’ on view at the Graham Foundation through July 25th. He found the

"narrow focus wisely limits Together to investigating the conditions and experiences that helped shape Bo Bardi’s mature approach to architecture...Bo Bardi’s work and life resist reduction and compartmentalization into terms easily digested. To experience and understand Together is to experience the sum of conflicting experiences, opinions, and buildings Bo Bardi brought into this world".

midlander commented "that drawing of chairs is beautiful! I love her work. It's rugged and big without being standoffish. Knew nothing about her background - interesting".

Plus, Nicholas Korody published Getting Lost in the Ozone, the third installment of the recurring feature Architecture of the Anthropocene.
 

News
This week at the AIA National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, NCARB aims to settle the debate over the title “Intern Architect” with an address by CEO Michael Armstrong on May 14 at 2pm. ken koense is optimistic "We need more architects, so if this helps to solve that, then I'm all for the change" though Non Sequitur was less sanguine "giving out titles along with diplomas will not remove the need for washroom elevations and other grunt work. In the future, it won't be the lonely intern drafting said elevations but the lonely architect".

For her part Donna Sink believes "we should allow anyone *with an accredited degree in architecture* to call themselves an architect. Not a registered architect, not able to seal drawings, but the word architect itself implies a certain collection of knowledge about human engagement in the built world".

There is now a hopeful (if improbable) plan from Richard W. Cameron—principal designer at Atelier & Co—to rebuild the historic Penn Station. Lightperson pointed out "instead of arguing for a direct remake, why use it to advocate for something new and different? Perhaps Curbed and the Internet machine isn't smart or savvy enough to make this connection, but I liked the SHoP proposal, which was actually serious and looked like more relevant and 2015 solution".

Justine Testado highlighted the trend of architecture students using sites like "Tumblr to post snapshots of their peers seizing the chance to catch up on some ZZZs". chigurh wasn’t impressed "that shit is totally unnecessary, here is a novel idea:  proper time management".

The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe announced that the Philharmonic Hall of Szczecin won the 2015 Mies van der Rohe Award. archinet shared "I saw this building in real life by accident. Worth visiting for sure. The town it is located in is a run down industrial town. The building is magical."

Firms/Work Updates
Selim Senin recently worked on "Calgary Working Cloud".

For those looking for work, SoulCycle is looking for a Junior Designer. Or Rafael Viñoly Architects wants to hire a Digital Fabricator and Architectural Model Maker, for full-time, in-house employment ONLY.

Olaf Design Ninja_  released the latest edition of his archifictional interviews with "a man full of random thoughts and legendary type of architectural experiences". fineprint of fantasies chimed in "I've owned DR for 18 years now, but I never read much of it. Now I see some potential fruitfulness as to it relating to".

School/Blogs
Multiple students affiliated with the University of Houston have started blogs including;

Mathew Duran  posted An Architectural Review of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, specifically Cullinan Hall and Brown Pavilion by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. 

Also read ykevin98 regarding The Rothko Chapel, where "the relationships between the tryptic wall panels and the axial form presents a structural metaphor" and SSanchez129 about the multiple buildings designed by Phillip Johnson at the University of St. Thomas.

Stefann Plishka affiliated with Georgia Institute of Technology, put up a post titled 'World Fair'-ness of Black Market Architecture, for which he interviewed Andrew Llewellyn "about the Fair’s impact on New Orleans and how black market architecture fits in so well with the city’s sordid reputation".

Discussions/Threads
jasonmou is looking for the source of a Peter eisenman quote.

"Earth ́s surface is no longer a site for erecting buildings, but a reflecting surface of vertical operations"

More importantly geezertect  wanted to know "what the hell it means?" boy in a well suggested "that doesn't sound like an eisenmannerism...but if it is it probably would come from some text post-Santiago where he's looking back on how different projects work the ground". However jasonmou confirmed "I came across the quote in an old thesis paper, about the same subject im writing about now...When I read the quote my immediate thought was it would be from his partnership with Derrida".

Meanwhile, yoel371 is "trying to identify the most innovative firms that are leading the architecture community". Carrera opined "It's SHoP Architects, based on control of process" while mfvoll argued the criteria should be "the firms who are mixing different types of design, blurring the traditional lines of architecture" such as Nendo or Snohetta. davvid added The Living, The Very Many, Mos and So-IL to the mix.