Justine Testado featured the 'Spaceships' series of Hamburg-based Lars Stieger. RaúlGHO commented "Tal vez, el arquitecto diseño el detalle esperando que así se descubra, como una nave espacial de serie de televisión."

Plus, Matthew Allen reviewed the exhibit ‘architecture, architectural & Architecture’, recently closed, at the A+D Museum in Los Angeles. One verdict

"This last feature was the common denominator of the projects in the exhibition: everything seemed to point to a world of rich meaning beyond surface appearances, but to offer no obvious way to enter into it. Everything—or each triptych—contained a hidden microcosm."

News

R.I.P. This past August, saw the passing of both Detroit-based Latvian-American architect, Gunnar Birkerts and Chicago architect, John Macsai.

Alexander Morley wasn’t particularly impressed with the newly released renderings of Moynihan Station Via office of Governor Cuomo. He argued "These renderings show a hodgepodge of unseemly parts...An improvement to be sure, but a sad reminder of the general state upon which our profession has found itself."

Episode #107 of Archinect Sessions featured Inga Saffron, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer. ubu loca was a fan "Thank you for doing this interview! Inga Saffron is among the very best architecture critics. One of the very few who get that the job is not about selling real estate!"

Over at City Observatory, Joe Cortright makes the case for why adding luxury housing trickles down, to make housing more affordable, for all. More interestinglyinterestingly, L.A. county will offer residents up to $75,000 to build a "granny flat" for a homeless family in their backyard.

Somewhat cynically, fictional\_/Christopher worried "this too will get commodified and streamlined into a business for getting an extra rentable space out of your home after the first homeless person with serious mental health issues does something violent."

The three Curators of the US Pavilion for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale were announced. Responding to some of the critics, Orhan Ayyüce couldn’t "understand the disdain for political content or pigeon holing it. Discussion of it brings a lot of issues to the table and I welcome them...The techtonics of buildings covered endlessly. I rather like to see the less traveled territories in architecture".

Bulgaria 533 in Mexico City by Dellekamp Arquitectos and Project Floor Area Ratio Game in Ulsan, South Korea by On Architecture INC, are just two of the projects to be found on the latest Ten Top Images on Archinect's "Stairs" Pinterest Board.

Firms/Work Updates

Pitman Tozer Architects has been awarded planning permission (subject to agreement of Section 106 and GLA approval) by the London Borough of Newham for Plaistow Hub, a 20,036 sq m development with 182 new homes across two sites bisected by Plaistow Road in central Plaistow.

Somewhat, recently, Miles Jaffe worked on a Solo Exhibition. While Elif Ongut worked on Volume64.

For those looking for work, Gehry Partners is seeking Senior Project Architects (with 15+ Years Experience) to work in their Los Angeles office. Or, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is seeking to fill a position of Principal Architect in the (Engineering Department’s) Design Division.

After almost a year’s absence, Sean Joyner dropped by to ponder What is it about music and architecture that leaves us all so fascinated? A la Bergson, he focuses on the idea of duration.

School/Blogs

On Tuesday, September 12 at 6:30 pm, the Syracuse University School of Architecture will present 'Obsessions', a lecture at Van Alen Institute by Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu of Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, Shanghai.

Those looking for a job in academia, may want to consider applying to one of two Senior Lecturer positions (in Architectural Technologies or Computational Design and Advanced Manufacturing) at  The University of Sydney.

Discussions/Threads

David Curtis had a suggestion/threat/promise for anyone listening at Archinect HQ, "Eliminate the anonymous posters or I am out of here."

Not a new topic on the forum, the discussion was spirited. randomised pointed out "It's always been possible to be anonymous here, I believe even from the start, but you don't have to...Forced disclosure of identities will turn this place into a much smaller, quieter and tamer Archinect, mimicking Facebook." For his part Erik Evens advised "I make a point never to take a stand on an online forum that I would be unwilling to take with people sitting around my dinner table, pseudonym or not."

Later tintt contrasted the Nect to IRL, "If we are going to address the asshole nature of architects, let's do it across the board starting in firms, this forum is hardly worse than real life."

Volunteer wanted to discuss a recent Wall Street Journal article on home sales being down in July. Some made reference to the ills / privileges facing millennials, by way of an explanation. Quentin Pegram
 offered up some on the ground reporting of the market in Atlanta "Market is still hot here". won and done williams was confused "Not sure why this turned to millienials. I believe the article said sales were down because of low supply."

Finally, mariosk needed help avoiding overtime. geezertect agreed "Sneaky and Miles are right.  Employers will always take advantage if they can, particularly in this business.  The fact that others in the office aren't getting exploited like this should tell you something." shellarchitect added "This used to happen often to me.  I found the easiest way to deal with it is to simply ask when it needs to be done" while Medusa shared "have learned that it is up to you, the employee, to set boundaries with your superiors and colleagues."

Additionally

Originally published in April of this year, ‘Anthropocene City | Houston as Hyperobject’ by Roy Scranton, gained new signifigance in light of Hurricane Harvey (and Irma’s, looming) arrival. The piece explores "speculative metaphysics...speculative realism" and dark ecology, as seen in the work of Timothy Morton, Graham Harman, Quintin Meillassoux, Jane Bennett and others.