Archinect published a synopsis of our recent call for entries to design a minaret as event rather than object.
Archinect published a synopsis of our recent call for entries to design a minaret as event rather than object.

News
The Venice architecture biennale exhibition director Kazuyo Sejima announced this year's theme, "people meet in architecture".

MovingCities visited the Shanghai 2010 expo-site and shared snapshots and impressions from the German, Swiss, French, Polish, Romanian, Luxembourg, Danish, Dutch, Russian, British, Austrian, Norway, Australia, China and Spain pavilions.

Design Observer's Sarah Williams Goldhagen does a write-up on Moshe Safdie and his recently completed (after 30 year's) project - the Mamilla Alrov Center in Jerusalem.

Discussion Threads
Discuss Archinect, Attitude and the Future.
Great discussion as to whether it is possible to create a universally sacred architecture.

Also, Archinect discussed the passing of two greats, Howard Zinn and J.D. Salinger.

School Blogs
Kevin at Pratt sliced his finger while working on his first studio assignment which was to extract a 5-15 second clip of a kung-fu flick, and analyze the bodily relationships and they spaces they create, to develop a landscape. and he also reviews last semesters projects one of which a professor called intriguingly recreational.

Lian at GSD defended his Ph.D. during the winter break!