October was an action-packed month this year, as the architecture world grappled with the loss of noted historian and theorist Charles Jencks, Design Intelligence unveiled its annual list of "most admired" architecture schools, and Architecture practice Wolfgang & Hite reinterpreted the structures of Hudson Yards as "a luxury real estate dildo experience," among many other highs and lows.
↑ Father and son team 3D-print a Lamborghini
A father and son team took $20,000 and a whole lot of YouTube-fueled know-how to create a 3D-printed Lamborghini. The pair used a custom made steel chassis and a Corvette engine to help bring the idea to life.
↑ Charles Jencks, historian of late-modern architecture, dies
An icon of architectural history and theory, Charles Jencks passed away in October, leaving behind a trove of texts, cultural observations, and disciples young and old. Jencks was also one of the minds behind Maggie’s Centres, a collection of cancer care facilities created in honor of his late wife Margaret Keswick Jencks.
↑ 2020 "most admired" architecture schools according to DesignIntelligence
In October, DesignIntelligence unveiled its annual list of “most admired” architecture programs, placing Cornell and Harvard at the top of its undergraduate and graduate rankings for 2020, respectively.
↑ Sex toy architecture? "XXX-HY: A Luxury Real Estate Dildo Experience"
Some say that irony is dead in the current era, can the same be said for metaphors? Architecture practice Wolfgang & Hite went there with their line of “luxury real estate dildos,” a collection of finance-driven implements that channel NYC’s iconic Hudson Yards development. Regarding the sex toys, the architects write, “There’s a lot to love in NYC’s recent building boom, but the city and developers have been jerking each other off for decades, so naturally we wanted to join in the fun… Masturbation is a great metaphor for the latest wave of development in New York City."
↑ First photos of the newly opened LEGO Campus in Billund, Denmark
Architects C.F. Møller completed work in October on the most click-worthy architectural project of the year, a LEGO campus for the toy company decorated, in part, with super-scaled lego blocks.
↑ Archinect Sessions: Live Panel on The Current State of LA's Architecture Student Publications
Archinect Sessions featured a recent live panel discussion focused on the current state of LA’s architecture student publications. The panel was held in conjunction with The Los Angeles Schools, an architecture education-focused exhibition held at the Architecture and Design Museum.
↑ New photos of the Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed MoMA expansion have been released
The Museum of Modern Art in New York City unveiled a super-sized expansion by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Gensler that upends the museum’s approach to curation and gives prime billing to a larger than life museum gift shop.
↑ WeCollapse? WeWork's stock market flame-out raises more concerns for commercial real estate
Surprising no one (and everyone), co-working start-up WeWork collapsed in October following a disastrous and unsuccessful attempt to launch a public offering on the New York Stock Exchange.
RIBA Handed out its annual string of superlatives in October, highlighting the Mikhail Riches and Cathy Hawley-designed Goldsmith Street housing project with the year’s top honors.
↑ Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize set to launch in 2021
The Cultural Landscape Foundation unveiled Canadian landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander as the namesake for its newly launched international landscape architecture prize. The prize is set to be awarded for the first time in 2021.
↑ Yesomi Umolu on The "Unraveling of Our Received Language of Looking and Being in the World"
As the Chicago Architecture Biennial entered its second month, Archinect interviewed CAB curator Yesomi Umolu to discuss the biennial.
↑ Fellow Fellows: Ranitri Weerasuriya, the 2018 Goodman Fellow at GSAPP
The latest installment in our Fellow Fellows series took a look at GSAPP student Ranitri Weerasuriya’s workshop-focused project in Sri Lanka.
Archinect writer Eric Lawler dug into the Storefront for Art and Architecture as part of the month’s Spotlight on New York City; He conducted an in-depth interview with Storefront founder Kyong Park.
Our Studio Snapshot series profiled Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, an Oakland-based practice focused on articulating a new perspective on the concept of “restorative justice.”
↑ The Design Studios Leading Guadalajara’s Thriving Architecture Scene
Archinect writer Karina Zatarain highlighted the rising architectural firms of Guadalajara, a city that is home to iconic Mexican architect Luis Barragan and to the Escuela Tapatía de Arquitectura.
Our Deans List series profiled Vishaan Chakrabarti, the incoming dean of the the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley.
↑ The Gender Pay Gap in Architecture
Archinect writer Eleanor Marshall took a look at the issue of gender pay imbalance in architecture practices. Our latest feature story on the topic highlighted some of the reasons the discrepancy persists.
↑ The Emerging Female Architects of East Africa
Archinect writer Hannah Wood profiled five of the rising female architects building necessary and transformative projects across the nations of the East Africa region.
↑ How SHoP is Re-thinking Skyscraper Design and Transforming New York’s Skyline in the Process
We took an in-depth look at a collection of skyline-altering projects designed by SHoP Architects in New York City, where the intersections between real estate, preservation, and building technology are producing a new class of shape-shifting towers.
↑ The Paris Model: Adapting and Creating Public Space as Cities Get Hotter
Eleanor Marshall took a look at the various climate adaptation strategies taking shape in Paris, where city officials have opened up public fountains to swimming and municipal apps guide residents to cool-down spots.
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