! Congrats to Lateral Office. In related news Lateral Office will be hosting a session at the 99th ACSA Annual Conference next March in Montreal, titled; Architecture’s Expanded Territories.
News
Wow! Congrats to Lateral Office. In related news Lateral Office will be hosting a session at the 99th ACSA Annual Conference next March in Montreal, titled; Architecture’s Expanded Territories.

Günter Behnisch passed away this week, at age 88. simoneis who worked for Behnisch in the early 90s posts a touching and personal tribute to him. Discuss his passing here.

Roger Ebert tries his hand at some architectural criticism.

barry lehrman, makes a good point in his comment re: this article on how every city now"wants a Highline".

jargon, etc.5 lists 5 Frustrating Things about the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts.

Check out the new Korean Architecture (in English) website which finally launched. The writers saw a need for in discussing and documenting Korean architecture in the English language and created the site as an international platform.

Discussion Threads
Unicorn Ghost starts a thread to discuss the use of pneumatic and hydraulic systems within architecture. Which leads to holz.box posting this great video which highlights some of some pretty sweet pneumatic/mechanical stuff by Tom Kundig.

TC has a brief discussion regarding passivhaus and its strengths and limits...

School Blogs
Mark at Cooper Union catches us up on the 2010 spring semester.

Lian at Harvard GSD is off to China (for his first time) for a one month trip funded by his alma mater, McGill School of Architecture, with the only condition being that he bring back materials to hold an exhibition upon return.