Two recent In Focus features covering work of successful advertising (and now architecture) photographer Bruno Cals and Catalan photographer Jordi Miralles.
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Two recent In Focus features covering work of successful advertising (and now architecture) photographer Bruno Cals and Catalan photographer Jordi Miralles.

Übertect is back for round 2. Featuring Übertect vs. Jean Nouvel's Copenhagen Concert Hall.

University of Michigans Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning hosted the Future of Urbanism conference on March 19 & 20, 2010 which featured
amongst other speakers our own Bryan Finoki.

"Herzog & de Meuron, OMA, Toyo Ito, and Arup’s Cecil Balmond are among the star names asked to exhibit at the Venice Biennale by curator Kazuyo Sejima."

The National Park Service wants to alter Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi's museum at the Franklin Memorial, adjacent their iconic Ghost House. Public comment is open now, so flood the Parks Service with your complaints.

Would you like to live in a Tesco town?

Alternet points out the insufficiencies of vertical farming.

Discussion Threads
momafresh25 wants to know is zaha's vitra fire station canonical?

kken is looking for book suggestion on urban fabric and more.

Archinect discusses the computer blip that cost the Dow index a 1000 points.

School Blogs
Aaron at Wash U in St Louis presents a Framework for a Heterotopia.
Nick Sowers at Berkely travels to the future with his thesis.

Faysal at AA shares some Flashbacks to Tokyo including a few shots of the Olympic Arena by Kenzo Tange.

Eratta
Adam Greenfield over at Speedbird has posted a digital urbanism call to arms of a sort. Or, maybe of disciplinary intent?
Networked urbanism, read/write urbanism, open-source urbanism…sure, these things are in their infancy. But if the whole domain retains some plasticity, it’s also beginning to be shaped by parties motivated solely by their own interests, and absolutely not by any larger affinity for urban life and its benisons. To be blunt, I don’t want the IBMs and Ciscos and Microsofts of the world defining what networked urbanism can be for me…or, forgive my presumption, what it can be for you, either. Read more and join the discussion?