Haiti is hit by a magnitude 7 earthquake. Learn more here and help Architecture for Humanity respond. Also Archinect discussed different ways to shelter the people left homeless from the crisis.
News
Haiti is hit by a magnitude 7 earthquake. Learn more here and help Architecture for Humanity respond. Also Archinect discussed different ways to shelter the people left homeless from the crisis.

All Christopher Downey ever wanted to be was an architect -- and his blindness hasn't changed that.

Memory and Human Rights Museum for Pinochet's victims opens in Santiago, Chile. While Gehry drops out of the Museum of Tolerance project on Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem.

Announcing Toward a Just Metropolis: From Crises to Possibilities A conference for planners, designers, activists, policymakers and citizens dedicated to a just future for all human settlements. See you in SF!.

Albert Speer Jr. on Dubai.

Discussion Threads
Member diabase asks for help. Diabase is looking for examples of where purely decorative supergraphic [not actual graphics] components have been used on buildings external to the facade. They may either be purely decorative or incorporate some sun-shading function. Help him here.

Over on Thread Central architechnophilia mentions that his school is looking for a history lecturer for September. Someone with a focus on 20th century architecture, and interested in anglo-Caribbean research. Additionally, liberty bell starts a conversation about what to cover in a Professional Practice course.

School Blogs
Nick Sowers who has been traveling the world for the last year on a Branner Traveling Fellowship, researching the architecture of war and colossal military infrastructures says goodbye. But you can still follow him over at his http://soundscrapers.blogspot.com/.

Utako at the University of Toronto shares the results of his studio which focused on 'form informed form' and 'negative space models'.

Stephanie at Kunstacademiets Arkitektskole busts the "Hopenhagen' Myth.