A chance discovery of a medieval clay oven has revealed that Moorish architects used powdered animal bones to protect the walls of fortresses close to the Alhambra Palace in southern Spain. Globe & Mail View full entry

the Universal World House is a $5,000, 390 square foot modular home, outfitted with plumbing and boarding facilities to support up to eight residents each. The secret of its construction is its "paper" shell; the resin-soaked cellulose, made from recycled paper, is shaped into honeycomb walls... View full entry

News The Organs of a city. There goes my new fancy, "Green" dorm.! Or maybe I will just have to build my own?Beware the possible monster's of "Green".Why couldn't this work in the U.S.A? Continued after the jump..FeaturesSeveral thousand Archinect visitors offered themselves up for the pulse test... View full entry

Architectural Record reports on Gehry's new digs. Previously | SpaceInvaded View full entry

Congrats to John for 10 years of A Daily Dose! View full entry

NYT: "The National Park Service and an organization representing victims’ families have reached a deal to buy the most critical piece of land needed for the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa." & "The goal is to have the first part of the $56 million initial phase of the... View full entry

We like to think of the National Mall in Washington as immutable space: the permanent embodiment of the nation’s highest democratic ideals. But its history has been a roller-coaster ride of architectural controversy. Nicolai Ouroussoff NYT View full entry

Global warming may seem like an overwhelmingly complex problem to tackle. But one scientist thinks the answer is brilliantly simple: all we need is white paint. A lot of white paint. Guardian View full entry

Thursday January 15 /.EventsDateModule Narrative Space, a talk by Duncan McCauley Studio , New York, NY THE TREE CIRCUS OF AXEL ERLANDSON: by Mark Primack , Brooklyn, NY Independent Projects , The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue Mentorship Resume Workshop , AIA San Francisco, CA Friday January... View full entry

The NYT features architect Gary Chang's 344-square-foot, 24 room Hong Kong apartment. SpaceInvaded View full entry

Jan Kaplický, leading architect behind Future Systems, has passed away at the age of 71, hours after his wife gave birth to their daughter. ČeskéNoviny.cz View full entry

James, at New Jersey Institute of Technology, takes a trip down to Sarasota, FL to have an eye on Paul Rudolph's famed school. With graduation on the horizon, Emily, at University of Southern California, is moving fast and brags about SoCal's weather. Sort of. William, at University of... View full entry

With some top universities reporting anywhere between 15-30 percent losses to their endowment, many are being forced to reconsider building/expansion plans.ArchitecturalRecord View full entry

As we leaked in the discussion forum last week, we've launched a new website entitled SpaceInvading.SpaceInvading is a site we've launched that collects architecture and design from across the blogosphere. It's basically like an image-focused RSS feed compiling all the most interesting... View full entry

The American Institute of Architects has announced the winners of the 2009 Honor Awards for Architecture. The nine honorees represent a range of buildings with widely varying budgets, scales, and contexts. According to an AIA press release, “these projects have a tremendous impact on the... View full entry