Orhan Ayyüce takes us on a fictional and literal tour of dingbat apartments, one the most common typologies of vernacular discount modernism in Los Angeles, in his newest feature.
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Orhan Ayyüce takes us on a fictional and literal tour of dingbat apartments, one the most common typologies of vernacular discount modernism in Los Angeles, in his newest feature.

While in our newest ShowCase feature SCI-Arc Faculty Members Ramiro Diaz-Granados (Amorphis), Heather Flood(F-lab), and Eric Kahn & Russell Thomsen (IDEA Office) collaborated to produce a retroactive urn for Kurt Cobain.

R.I./P. Mario L. Schack, noted architect, educator, design critic, dies at 81.

I was delighted to see John Devlin's moving story and beautiful drawings covered by BBC.

They may have promised us jetpacks but instead from Mitchell Joachim’s we get flocks of jetpacks and mass-transit blimps that look like flying monster jellyfish.

Another win for James Corner Field Operations, this time in Qianhai, Shenzhen, China. Is that landscape urbanism i see?

Between this announcement that University of California Berkeley, has chosen them to design the new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) and the recent rumors of Eli Broad's interest in them for his newest musuem project, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) seem to be on a roll.

U Michigan Taubman College named John McMorrough Architecture Program Chair, Associate Architecture Professor. Discuss here.

These two news items seem related; Ego-seums (as in Museums) are In and REX's Museum Plaza Back From Dead?.

Discussion Threads
phivphan gets the Small Projects thread rolling again with some great projects by a clutch of Asian architects including Taira Nishizawa and Kengo Kuma.

jump sums up this weeks discussion at TC; lol. penguins, american political theatre, and words that sound imaginary but are real. so where do i sign up to pre-order philip's book?

kusa starts a thread to help him with his research on The Architecture of Architecture Schools.

C-anad wonders "What if I design a site plan without any GREEN spaces?". Personally, I am ok with it. If it means one less green roof on a student project just for "sustainability's" sake.

School Blogs
Lian at Harvard's GSD summarizes all he has been up to since his last post, which includes a trip to his PhD graduation at McGill along with the announecement that he received a graduation fellowship from McGill that will be funding some research travel in China this August!

John Tubles spent two very art filled days' in Tokyo hitting the musuems and galleries on his way to visit family in LAos Angeles.

Michael at UC Berkeley shares some sketches he made during his trip out West from Virginia.