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Cambridge University Department of Architecture is seeking feedback from alumni to bolster its fight against closure. Spread the word. info: alumni | discuss | prev View full entry
Traversing Harvard's yards and buildings is a stroll through a well-preserved masculine museum. When will the University catch up with its peers and its newly female-dominated campus? From Crimson.com By KRISTINA M. MOORE Contributing Writer If the admissions office conducted information sessions... View full entry
In this polemical article , architect Charles Siegel calls for a renewed sense of social purpose among architects. Siegel argues that there is an urgent need to refresh architecture at the beginning of the new millennium: "Because... technological optimism has faded, today's post-modernists do... View full entry
As Ludwig Abache reported last month, icon magazine ran a story on the impact of design-related weblogs and resources. The article featured some select words by Paul Petrunia as well as mentioning our offsite colleagues at reluct, dezain, DO, and Ludwig's very own 0lll. Now it is posted online at... View full entry
Attributing designs to 1 name can slight teams of geniuses. (Detroit Free Press) View full entry
Construction photographs of the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec by Patkau / Croft Pelletier / Menkès Shooner Dagenais have been uploaded to the image gallery. View View full entry
We mark this date with a contribution by Gabriel Arboleda in the Views. Today, the 9th of November 2004 marks 40 years since the opening of Bernard Rudofsky's MOMA exhibition "Architecture Without Architects." View full entry
A year and a half after dropping OMA, the Whitney museum unveils Renzo Piano's design. | nyt | pics: oma / piano View full entry
Thomas Shine, of Brookline, Mass., is seeking unspecified damages in federal court in Manhattan for what he said was the theft of his design. The lawsuit alleges that the "Freedom Tower" is strikingly similar to a design David Childs of SOM had seen as a juror back in 1999 for a Manhattan... View full entry
K. Stevens evaluates the top dolla sums being spent on Neutra, Lautner, Schindler, et al; If there is a name architect involved, there is an instant value attached. Retro-archi-branding. | nyt | prev View full entry
Spanish architect Alejandro Zaero-Pollo of Foreign Office Architects offers this as the main centerpiece for London's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics. The organic roof structure mimics human muscular form and is meant to "communicate the idea of physical strength." Read from the Guardian. More @... View full entry
After the wall came tumblin' down, with new city center, Berlin is the heart of Europe again. SFGate takes a look back and forward through this looking glass. | Previously 1 2 View full entry
Shanghai is mad for skyscrapers - it has more than the entire west coast of the US, and still they keep coming. But, as Stuart Jeffries discovers, preserving the past and planning for the future are rarely part of the architect's vision. And now the city's planners are grappling with the... View full entry
The epilogue to OMA and Herzog and deMeuron's failed collaborative efforts at Astor Place is Gwathmey Siegel's tower, now going up. Pith.org is keeping a photorecord of its construction. New York Magazine says this is part of a larger trend of... View full entry