Nicholas Korody profiled the work, of Greek-born architect Andreas Angelidakis.

Therein Angelidakis explains "I guess the only thing I really 'design' is narratives for objects I find and put together, and this process does not need to be defined as completed by a realized object. You can keep designing even after the object is there, because it’s a mental process". davvid for one was "so glad to see Andreas's work on Archinect!"

Plus, Julia Ingalls provided six answers to the question There are tons of architecture job openings these days. Why aren't you hired yet? flatroof quipped "The ‘there are so many jobs!!!’ articles are back. Must mean another recession is just around the corner". Scott Smith agreed "I'm afraid you're so right.  I feel the same way".

News
The Barack Obama Foundation announced that the Barack Obama Presidential Center will be located on Chicago's South Side, at a site near either Washington Park or Jackson Park. Donna Sink thought "Blair Kamin's gave some excellent advice via an open memo to the President on selecting a design team", while Lightperson felt "Kamin and other critics are so overwrought and politically correct...I’d like to see a Bjarke design just to mess with people".

Julia Ingalls reviewed a recent Sou Fujimoto lecture at UCLA’s Perloff Hall. For which "the overt throughline...was Fujimoto’s concept of the forest"

A post about Bjarke Ingels presentation at the WIRED Business Conference in New York, led to a discussion about the importance and role of the diagram in contemporary architecture, new architecture process. davvid commented "I think the rise of the diagram mirrors the rise of the public's desire...that their buildings are pragmatic and logical" To Thayer-D diagrams are the new “process” and "it's ultimately irrelevant to a public that will never see them" while fineprint of fantasies admires "BIG's process...because it's an atypical abstraction of the typical architectural design process".

From on location at the AIA National Convention in Atlanta, Amelia Taylor-Hochberg reported NCARB is planning to sunset the term "intern". Though to clarify "it can not unilaterally enforce this new titling convention – legal language is still up to the 54 individual licensing boards". For his part natematt wanted to know "is this supposed to apply to actual interns? or just full-time, permanent, entry-level architectural staff?"
 

Firms/Work Updates
For those job seekers out there University of Arkansas Community Design Center is hiring a Project Designer/Architect. Or the Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship is seeking to place Architectural Fellows; at Hudson River Housing, at Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, at Denver Housing Authority and at Capitol Hill Housing - all for  three-year terms.

On a related note, Archinect alerted readers, that you can Save your Archinect job searches for later, get email alerts when matches turn up!

Cedric Reuter recently worked on "a transect imagined".

School/Blogs
Nicole Doan attended One-Night Stand LA. The event helped her articulate her near and longer term professional goals "Sure, I know what I want to do with my life for the next few years: work for two, grad school for one, and then teach after that. However, I ultimately want to continue to challenge the classic view of architecture through experiments similar to what has been done during One-Night Stand and Treatise".

snatraj shared Robert Guertin’s SARUP thesis project Let's Negotiate! The "underlying design for this operation was a product of building code manipulation".

Michael Young recapped the first day of the Integrated Design + Fabrication workshop at Izmir University of Economics Dept. of Architecture. Students started by learning about Grasshopper modeling and moved on to Ladybug analysis.
 

Discussions/Threads
Tunapuppy is "looking for advice on switching disciplines from Architecture to Landscape Architecture. Any Architects out there who have made this switch?"

Larchinect  answered "I dont think having an architecture background will hold you back...compared to architecture I think landscape is relatively simple, though deceptively so. Its a looser medium than architecture" 3tk added "I've worked with a lot of architects doing LA.  It'll depend a lot on the type of work". justavisual who made the switch and has education/degrees in both argued, "We need more people trained in and with practical experience in both fields, and more offices that work on architecture and landscape with one vision and one team".

rob_c  started a thread to discuss form, not school or job decisions. Specifically "do home buyers prefer the segregated boxy spaces of cape cod houses compared to the shifting, folding, transparent, opaque complexity of the möbius house?"

Zbig believed "Many people would enjoy having something whimsical about their house, but they fear market pressures because these elements of design would feel confusing to a visitor or potential buyer" jla-x suggested "most people like (from what Ive seen) an open plan for kitchen, living, and dining area and then a more traditional closed off plan for the other rooms". Similarly toosaturated noted "pretty often, more than half of my work are renovations. Buildings that can be easily adapted and reused are more valuable than those that are not".

Finally, Anob had an Intern question, regarding requirements for emergency night fixtures for commercial spaces? curtkram couldn’t remember for sure but though either section 1205? or 1006.1. BulgarBlogger recommended checking "your local laws to make sure the fixtures are compliant" but then provided some general notes about testing/accessibility, battery backups and minimum foot-candle requirements.