the Archinect Summer '10 Travel Blogs, wherein Archinect has conscripted a few Yale School of Architecture students (class of 2011), awardees of various travel fellowships (George Nelson Scholarship, David M. Schwarz and Takenaka Fellowships), to blog about their experiences.
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Announcing the Archinect Summer '10 Travel Blogs, wherein Archinect has conscripted a few Yale School of Architecture students (class of 2011), awardees of various travel fellowships (George Nelson Scholarship, David M. Schwarz and Takenaka Fellowships), to blog about their experiences.

Übertect is back (after a short break) and this time he has set his sights on Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Alice Tully Hall...

R.I.P. Stephen Kanner.

This year—the Serpentine’s 40th Anniversary—the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is designed by French architect Jean Nouvel. This 2010 Pavilion is the 10th commission in the Gallery’s annual series. It will be the architect’s first completed building in the UK. In his review Hugh Pearman writes, So it's a distillation of café life on the town square, really, nothing more intellectual than that despite his quoting of Baudrillard.

Orhan has two great posts; this ft the newly proposed Izmir Opera House and the other highlights the Conflict Kitchen’s first iteration, Kubideh Kitchen.

Discussion Threads
Spurred by the results of the recent Vanity Fair survey of the best architecture since the 1980s. Over on TC, barry lehrman and holz.box provided some alternate listings for the best green buildings from the last 30 years. They can be found here and here, respectively.

Who would you suggest for an architectural publishing house?

I assume that most everyone will be watching The World Cup Finale this afternoon. Discuss the game and results here.

Did you know one of those Russian spies who were traded back to Russia was allegedly a suburban architect.

School Blogs
Christ at Bartlett inspired by an article on sewer-panning for gold in India in the Christian Science Monitor writes, Now, I can't comment on the legitimacy or bias of the source, but it's such a dense, dynamic social set up; character surveillance, waste economies of geology, people as vehicles for invisible wealth - it's just crying out to be turned into a project.

Jesse at University of Hawaii checks in (after an extended period). He is getting ready to spend a year in Afghanistan working for the US State Department. As he writes So what do I hope to gain from this (besides an exceptional salary)? Unrestricted access to the architectural centers of America at war/nation building while they are living and breathing.

Additionally
Students at The Royal University College of Fine Arts in the Mejan Arc, Advanced Studies in Urbanism program will have the opportunity to investigate whether Goa can show the way for the rest of the country in a transformation from a rural to an urban economy, thereby offering a convincing urban alternative to the mega-cities? Could Goa’s biological and cultural diversity contribute to a resilient urban complex? Would such a hybrid be another way of understanding Urban life? Is the »forest city« a distant cousin to the mega-city’s urban jungle Furthermore, students will explore some of modernism’s lesser-traveled paths, ones in which the tropical climate informed another kind of architecture. We will investigate lifestyle patterns, innovation, food production in a local and global perspective, biomimicry and radical mapping. Go ahead and apply for the program, A Bio-topical-Goa. Hat Tip to Beyond the Beyond.