Rolling into September, Latin American art is in the spotlight in some of Los Angeles' big art museums. Wondering where design-inclined folks are gathering around Greater L.A.? Take a gander at Bustler's latest architecture and design event recommendations of current... View full entry
Summer is winding down, schools are back in session, and New York City's Archtober festival is already next month. It's September, alright. Wondering what architecture and design events are going on in the Big Apple right now? Bustler compiled a snappy list of events around... View full entry
This post brought to you by Black in Design The Harvard University Graduate School of Design African American Student Union is excited to announce the second biannual Black in Design conference on October 6-8, 2017. The conference promotes discourse around the agency of the design profession to... View full entry
This post is brought to you by The Architectural League Join friends and colleagues for Alchemy, the 2017 Architectural League Beaux Arts Ball taking place at Building 28 in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard. This year’s theme celebrates the transformation from one state to another, the quicksilver... View full entry
This post is brought to you by 100% Design. As part of this year’s London Design Festival, 100% Design, the largest design trade show in the UK, has teamed up with Picfair, a revolutionary new image library, and Icon, one of the world’s leading architecture and design magazines, to launch a... View full entry
In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles. (Tip: use the handy FOLLOW feature to easily keep up-to-date with all your favorite Archinect profiles!)... View full entry
Today, the Glasgow School of Art unveiled a full-size prototype of a section of the Mackintosh Library bay that is based on the original 1910 design, marking another step forward for the building's restoration after the devastating 2014 fire. Following two years of meticulous research and six... View full entry
L.A.’s forbidden city consists of the many buildings that we inhabit, use and care about but that are illegal to build today. Some of Los Angeles’ most iconic building types, from the bungalow courts and dingbats common in our residential neighborhoods to Broadway’s ornate theaters and office buildings, share this strange fate of being appreciated, but for all practical purposes, banned. — urbanize.la
In this article, Mark Vallianatos describes how most of Los Angeles' buildings, much like New York, would be illegal to build today. He draws a detailed and fascinating history of the evolution of Los Angeles building and zoning codes and how those changes impacted both the shape of the built... View full entry
The Institution of Structural Engineers bestowed their honorable 2017 Gold Medal to Jo da Silva, the Director of Arup's International Development Group and Arup Fellow. Jo da Silva was distinguished for her leadership as a structural and humanitarian engineer, as well as her... View full entry
The Trump administration has awarded contracts to build four border wall prototypes using non-concrete "other materials," U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Thursday.
The contracts came a week after the administration announced four companies that will build prototypes of concrete border walls. In all, the eight prototype walls will cost about $3.6 million.
— The Hill
Adding to the four firms already selected to build border wall prototypes last week, Trump now also contracted another round of companies that will specifically build non-concrete prototypes of his favorite campaign promise. By encouraging 'other materials' border wall designs, Trump hopes to... View full entry
Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2017 Ready or not, the start of the new school year is coming up. Back for Fall 2017 is Archinect's Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back... View full entry
A crisp rectangular box arrives. Grey, with nothing but a neatly embossed white logo in the bottom right corner; sleek and considered. You open it. All the elements of your new watch are carefully aligned, systemised, and ready for assemblage. "There is a certain connection forged with an... View full entry
The LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 are in full swing, and the winning projects for the Middle East and Africa regional competition were recently announced in Nairobi. A total of US$330,000 in prize money was awarded to 11 sustainable-construction projects and ideas that... View full entry
The 2017 Design Biennial Boston is currently taking place, featuring a series of small-scale installations throughout the city. The program was established in 2008 to recognize emerging architects, landscape architects, and designers who have created inspiring and innovative practices in New... View full entry
Robert Cannavino and Mark Santrach were announced today as the 2017 RAMSA Prize recipients. Separate from the $10,000 RAMSA Travel Fellowship, the firm's Partners grant the $5,000 RAMSA Prize to an employee(s), as an opportunity for the firm's staff to engage in their own... View full entry
