Jeffrey Heller, FAIA, President of the California Architects Board, pens this letter to the editor of a local Colorado newspaper, posing a few additional questions to Aspen City Councilman Jack Johnson on his use of the term architect. Aspen Times View full entry
With a cylindrical glass academic building and a new undulating landscape that will extend the campus right to “the banks of the old Raritan,” the Mexican architect Enrique Norten has won the competition to reimagine the historic Rutgers campus in New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers, the... View full entry
San Francisco's AIA chapter releases their latest quarterly online publication _Line. This edition "reveals the less-explored relationships between pleasure and design." View full entry
Alex Steffen, co-founder of the blog Worldchanging, Joel Makower, the “guru of green business practices,” and designer Sarah Rich, managing editor of Worldchanging and the blog Inhabitat, give their advice on how to make an eco-friendly lifestyle possible. WNYC View full entry
The first in a series of publications from the 2006 Subtle Technologies conference, Professor Val Rynimeri discusses the SOHO (Self Organising Holarchic Open-ended) systems approach to urban ecosystem planning and design. Architecture Radio View full entry
Record 's annual issue of young progressive firms is out today and they feature a variety of refreshing architects -- Studio SUMO, Kumiko Inui, Assadi + Pulido, SeARCH, BAR, BmasC Architects, Bercy Chen Studio, UnSangDong Architects, WORK, and Studio Luz l related View full entry
The New York Times profiles the restoration of Kahn's Yale University Art Gallery. More articles here. View full entry
Ambient Addition is the thesis project of MIT Media Lab research assistant Noah Vawter. It is a Walkman which, rather than isolating the user from the outside world, processes the sound of the environment into music... almost like having Matthew Herbert in your pocket. As a result, users become... View full entry
The Aerotropolis , Big Urbanism, Energy-Harvesting Floors, The Humane Flophouse, and Smart Elevators. NYT View full entry
First came the pyramid, now comes the tent. Foster is designing a new project for Kazakhstan called Khan Shatyry: "The idea is to recreate summer, so that when the outside temperature is -30C, the residents of the Kazakh capital can play outdoor tennis, take boat rides or sip coffee on the... View full entry
Thought it was bad enough when your hometown ended up in the crease of the road map? If its cutesy, rural namesake is too long to satisfy clarity and legibility standards, think again: "...Georgia erases 488 place names off the map." | Houston Chronicle/AP View full entry
What's the perfect birthday gift for half of the world's most famous perfect couple? Why, a visit to one of the world's most famous houses, of course. Yesterday, Angelina Jolie treated Brad Pitt to an afternoon at Fallingwater. Read View full entry
With its ability to interweave art and civic life, the new Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston is the most important building to rise there in a generation. nyt View full entry
Mosques being constructed in German cities are stoking anti-foreign sentiment and reinforcing fears that Christianity is under threat. nyt View full entry
Does Chicago have enough mega-millionaires left to absorb the 850 additional residential units in Santiago Calatrava's newly bulked up tower? Read all about it and see the pictures here. View full entry