Now, decades after the original hardcover edition sold out, the MIT Press is publishing a facsimile edition of the original large-format Cooper-designed edition of Learning from Las Vegas, complete with translucent glassine wrap. This edition also features a spirited preface by Denise Scott Brown, looking back on the creation of the book and explaining her and Robert Venturi’s reservations about the original design. — MIT Press
45 years after its first publication, the groundbreaking book, Learning from Las Vegas, is still read, purchased and studied by architecture and urban planning students, thinkers and practitioners around the world. Last year Archinect spoke with Denise Scott Brown about the Learning from Las... View full entry
This post is brought to you by Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Since its founding in 1972 as an independent school of architecture, SCI-Arc has developed a series of idiosyncrasies that have anecdotally permeated the broader architecture community. Prominent among these... View full entry
Want to brush up on the emerging talent from British architecture? Archinect readers now have a chance to win a copy of the latest volume of “New Architects: Britain's Best Emerging Practices”, thanks to Merrell Publishers. Cover of “New Architects 3”Since The Architecture Foundation began... View full entry
This week is an overall celebration and exploration of the everyday. From food to feet, this weeks exhibitions and workshops look at the way in which we relate to the familiar things around us. The RIBA and UCL bring events which look at the development of areas, whether that is the... View full entry
Last week we mentioned the Canadian National Holocaust Monument celebrating its grand opening in Ottawa. The stock of available imagery has been very limited for the last years and consisted of mostly the same aerial rendering in a few variations. Now we've received new photographs that give a... View full entry
Beginning in July 2017, the graduate Urban Design Studio began to pursue a service project (..) to assist with the design of new housing and public spaces in a flood-prone, impoverished informal settlement in central San Juan. The studio planned to visit the site and engage the community in a participatory design process beginning on Sept. 26, 2017. But then hurricane Irma hit, followed by hurricane Maria on September 20—an event that will change the island forever. — Andrews University
Graduate architecture students from Christian University Andrews will participate in disaster relief efforts in Puerto Rico as part of their studio class. Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on September 20th, 2017. Since then, most of the island has been left without electricity and cellphone... View full entry
Mandaworks and MASSlab's “Where the world meets Finland’” recently won first prize in an open competition for the design of the new Aviapolis Urban Blocks in Vantaa, Finland. Organized by the City of Vantaa, the competition sought the best masterplan... View full entry
Australia's answer to the U.K's Serpentine Pavilion, MPavilion, opened over the weekend for its fourth iteration, unveiling the completed design by acclaimed architects Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of international firm OMA. Photo Credit: Timothy Burgess.Photo Credit: John Gollings.The... View full entry
The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a new regulation restricting unauthorized drone operations over 10 Department of Interior sites, including the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore. [...]
The announcement says the action comes at "the request of U.S. national security and law enforcement agencies."
— NPR
These new FAA restrictions will be effective as of October 5 so make sure to keep your drones at least 400 feet away from these ten National Landmarks: Statue of Liberty National Monument, New York, NYBoston National Historical Park (U.S.S. Constitution), Boston, MAIndependence National Historical... View full entry
The most important rule was that entries be non-political. They were to express no opinion whatsoever about the rightness or wrongness of the Vietnam War itself. — Salon
As the article points out, May Lin's design of a series of slabs were conceived by Lin as dominos falling—a reference to the "domino theory," prominent from the 50s to the 80s, that posited that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries... View full entry
Musk's talk — which took place Friday afternoon local Adelaide time — served to update the architecture the billionaire entrepreneur revealed at last year's IAC, in Guadalajara, Mexico. That previous presentation introduced a huge, reusable rocket-spaceship combo called the Interplanetary Transport System (ITS), which Musk envisioned helping to establish a million-person city on Mars within the next 50 to 100 years. — Space.com
SpaceX, aerospace manufacturer and space transport service provider, plans to launch its first Mars cargo missions in 2022 and the first crews in 2024. These first flights are meant to initiate the construction of a permanent, sustainable city on Mars. View full entry
New York City's Archtober is now in full swing! From October 1-31, the citywide festival celebrates the significance of architecture and design in everyday life. For the seventh year in a row, Archinect & Bustler are proud to present Archtober's... View full entry
Happy October! Wondering where design-inclined folks are gathering around Greater Los Angeles? This week, revisit the old Bauhaus question: “How do we want to live?”, hear from some of the design industry's leading ladies, learn about Downtown L.A.'s ... View full entry
That an architect and an artist as different as Cai and Gehry have had any ongoing creative dialogue at all is remarkable; that the most complete expression of that dialogue is a weekend home hidden in the New Jersey countryside is even more so. And yet Gehry’s house for Cai, designed in collaboration with his former student Trattie Davies, is a kind of brick and mortar reflection of Cai’s character: by turns boisterous and understated, flamboyant but ultimately serene. — NYT
M.H. Miller visited Morristown, NJ to spend a day with Cai Guo-Qiang at his Frank Gehry-designed country home. View full entry
The move would raise fascinating questions about the need to replicate habits that are tied to the layout of the current chamber – voting by trooping through “aye” and “no” lobbies, for example. Archaic linguistic protocols might seem doubly peculiar when expressed in a more modern setting. People’s behaviour is shaped by their environment and it is unlikely that parliamentary culture could be unaffected by transplant to a space unlike the unique one in which it has been nurtured. — The Guardian
The Palace of Westminster has been in a state of advanced disrepair for many years now. Though a plan for the building's massive £3.5bn refurbishment headed by BDP was announced last year, the government has avoided taking the decision to proceed. The main reason for the delay in action on... View full entry