It's Geek Week in the school blogs: Krissy, at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is seeking to reach the Zen of Revit. Sharon, at Columbia GSAPP, likes computers but doesn't know if the feeling mutual. Gene, at New Jersey Institute of Technology, makes us drewl with some very sexy tech specs... View full entry

From this week on KCRW's Design and Architecture, "Barack Obama will be the first president to hail from a major metropolis in a long time. What does this mean for architecture and design? Plus, James Bond and his relationship with Modern architecture." Take the jump to listen... Get the Flash... View full entry

As of right now Woodbury University, University of Nebraska Lincoln and University of Tennessee, Knoxville appear to be leading in the polls for best lecture poster for Fall '08. You still have until Sunday to cast your vote. Here are the candidates. Pick your favorite and vote here! View full entry

From New Mexico to British Columbia, the West's signature pine forests are succumbing to a huge infestation of mountain pine beetles that are turning a blanket of green forest into a blanket of rust red. While such widespread loss has increased economic opportunities (lumber mainly) it has also... View full entry

Detroit blog Model D profiles homeboy Andrew Zago. View full entry

Students at Vancouver's Emily Carr University were given the task of designing 64 square-foot living spaces for homeless citizens that would have a price point of $1,500 each. Great idea, in theory, but proving to be a failure in reality. CTV View full entry

In the last recession, 40% of architects lost their jobs. Are they prepared for this one? And how will the crunch affect our once-booming cityscapes? "I didn't lose any work in the first recession I experienced," says Zaha Hadid, "because I didn't have any work. I was drawing with freezing cold... View full entry

NewsGehry goes home and almost looses the curves, except for that beautiful staircase.He wanted to be an architect!!!,They obviously didn't ask any architects.Is there anything architects can't solve? DiscussionsTactical or not?Inspired by news of the new Obama administrations' proposal for an... View full entry

Was modernism complicit with colonialism, and did the struggle for decolonisation also entail a targeting of imperial modernist architecture? Mark Crinson visits the exhibition "In the Desert of Modernity" to see if the charge will stick.Read in Mute Magazine and check out the Haus der Kulturen... View full entry

tiny provisional building in the Canton of Waud, Switzerland. Photo Gallery and small article in German. Architect's website> View full entry

ONE of the most cynical clichés in architecture is that poverty is good for preservation. The poor don’t bulldoze historic neighborhoods to make way for fancy new high-rises. Ouroussoff waxes romantic... NYT View full entry

Frank Gehry has often said that he likes to forge deep emotional bonds with his architecture projects. But the commission to renovate the Art Gallery of Ontario here must have been especially fraught for him. Mr. Gehry grew up on a windy, tree-lined street in a working-class neighborhood not far... View full entry

Skidmore Owings & Merrill has partnered with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to create CASE (Center for Architecture Science and Ecology).A new academic-industrial alliance is required to accelerate a more aggressively experimental process that leads to development of new systems that... View full entry

Wired explores the lairs of Bond villains. As essential as the curvaceous leading ladies and not-so-subtle sexual innuendo, every James Bond villain has an impressive lair. Some are exotic, others chic. View slideshow and related View full entry

Here's something you don't see every day: a town built in the middle of a lake. Not on an island, but actually below water level. It's the ancient city of Seuthopolis, in Bulgaria, which was discovered in 1948. Six years later, a dam was destroyed and it was covered in water, ending up at the... View full entry