Our research studio prof Jason Payne invited us to the final review of his studio at “crosstown rival” SCI-Arc last week, and as the discussion turned out to be pretty interesting I thought I’d relate some of it here. — UCLA Blogger (Scott)
Thursday April 21 Van Alen Books Launch Party, New York, NY Lecture by Ogrydziak Prillinger, Bellevue, Washington Friday April 22 Interpretations: Exhibition Practice, New York, NY PIDGIN Magazine #10 Launch, New York, NY Kim Beom, Los Angeles, CA Saturday April 23 Triangle... View full entry
Most buildings in New York will undergo renovation over the next twenty years. A number will also get demolished. As well, many building enclosures will soon need replacement, particularly post-WW2 curtain wall buildings. Gut renovations of office spaces take place on a regular basis. There is great opportunity to re-imagine and reduce energy consumption in all these buildings. — huffingtonpost.com
Our friend Jacob Slevin talks to Ed Mazria, sustainable architecture activist and founder of Architecture 2030, about changes he envisions for NYC and beyond. View full entry
MONU is one of the leading independent architecture magazines published today, bringing together challenging themes with interesting architecture writers and theorists. It is excellent and deserves to be read by anyone interested in urban issues. — MONU
MONU - magazine on urbanism has published its 14th issue featuring among others contributions by Rem Koolhaas/OMA and Adolfo Natalini/ Superstudio on the topic of Editing Urbanism (Rotterdam, April 19, 2011) MONU's 14th issue features contributions by UNION3, Felix Madrazo, Alexander Sverdlov... View full entry
... a new exhibit is having fun imagining what [Paris] will look like in the year 2100: 2º C warmer, due to climate change, but also a whole lot greener, where pedestrians rule and every building has a roof garden. — treehugger.com
The exhibit, which is the work of Yannick Gourvil and Cécile Leroux of the architecture firm Collectif et alors, is called "+2º: Paris s'invente!" Part of the City's Week of Sustainable Development (April 1-7), it was born of a simple idea: having acknowledged that the planet is... View full entry
Thursday April 14 SCI-Arc NYC Discussion and Cocktail Party with Ming Fung and A, New York, NY Friday April 15 FABRICATE 2011 Call for Work, London, UK Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry, Chicago, IL HUBURBS: Metrolinx Mobility Hub Symposium, Toronto, ON, Canada Saturday April 16 AA Istanbul Visiting... View full entry
at the same time,cecil balmond+roland snooks studio from university of pennsylvania was presenting their agent-based works just down stairs in the big studio.suddently,we ve felt something like earthquake that we thought it should be normal as we are in tokyo,japan.but it didnt soon stopped as usual and was going on shaking,wont stop!!!we started to run asap to 1st ground from 2nd studio in the persistent shakes.there is nothing in my mind at that time but run — University of Tokyo (Zhao) School Blog
Archinect School Blogger, Zhao, shares his first-hand experiences with the Japan quake while in classes at the University of Tokyo View full entry
Event includes panel discussions featuring leaders of the environmental design professions including: Marvin J. Malecha, Ray Kappe, Richard Chylinski, Frank Clementi, Stefanos Polyzoides, Deborah Sussman, Michael Rotondi, Ken Smith, Rick Bishop, and Lorraine Wild. — 40th Anniversary Party for the College of Environmental Design
SCHEDULE OF ENV 40 PANELS, Saturday April 16th 201110 – 11 am: The early years Dean Emeritus Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA, 2009 President of the American Institute of ArchitectsProfessor Emeritus Ray Kappe, FAIA, former Chair of the Architecture Department (who went on to found... View full entry
Members of this organization begin the narrative process by examining city neighborhoods and commercial districts for compelling structures that appear to have fallen into disuse—“hidden gems” of the built environment. In varying states of repair, these buildings suggest only stories about the past, not the future. — bldgblog.blogspot.com
The 1941 Maxwell house by Richard Neutra, one of Southern California's most celebrated residential architects, is being moved in pieces from Brentwood to a vacant lot in Angelino Heights, the neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles best known for its restored Victorians. Photographer Brian Thomas Jones was on the scene as the first part of the 1,700-square-foot wooden structure made the journey down Sunset Boulevard to its new home. — LA Times
The LA Times covers the moving of Neutra's Maxwell house. View full entry
Two seating spaces I didn't get a chance to sit in: some pointy mineral deposits by Aranda/Lasch in collaboration with Island Planning Corporation, and raumlaborberlin's Kitchen Monument, which played host to a programme of talks and exchanges. The Giardini was dotted with interesting spaces to... View full entry
OMA finds us in Cronocaos, as the boundaries between preservation and demolition collapse, Caruso St. John pays homage to a private home in Chongqing that stood against all odds, and Bahrain takes home the prize in their moving call to preserve their coastline from development. The Office for... View full entry
As part of the British Pavilion, London-based artist Lottie Child investigates how children play in the streets of Venice. London-based artist Lottie Child led a group of people, mostly children, who live and work around Via Garibaldi in Venice, in a Street Training session for architects and... View full entry
Some good old-fashioned bootstrapping as the US pavilion celebrates the "proactive, entrepreneurial spirit of architects, engineers and designers who recognize the transformational potential of focused partnerships." Plus, a seemingly unrelated installation from MOS, who call their work... View full entry
In which Economy. and Testbedstudio singlehandedly save the Nordic pavilion. With their slick presentation of completed urban design projects from Sweden, Norway and Finland, the Nordic pavilion took a while to get the picture: this year it's about people and architecture. At the last minute, they... View full entry