"Prince Charles yesterday resumed his long-standing argument with architects and planners, suggesting they were responsible for building unhealthy cities and buildings." Guardian | previously”¦ View full entry
What have foreign embassies done for the architecture movement in Berlin? With a couple of exceptions, the 90's featured less than anything daring. But the turn of a new millennium and the import of foreign representation has brought much of Berlin's best contemporary architecture to light. NYT View full entry
Steven Litt writes about the backlash to the Bilbao effect, and a new sense of “calm” in American museum design today, that emphasizes the contents rather than the showcase itself. Is Piano's Art Institute of Chicago expansion the perfect antidote to the... View full entry
BD reports on Changing immigration rules with ARB and Home office that may affect all you thinking of going to UK for training. Architects are the latest group to feel the national crackdown on economic migrants, a BD investigation reveals By Ellen Bennett Britain is closing the door on foreign... View full entry
There's been a lot of talk about architecture and design in Scotland recently. Sebastion Tombs has been appointed as the new chair of Architecture and Design Scotland, and he wastes no time starting his job. Architecture seems to be the talk of the country: editorials 1, 2 related/previously... View full entry
The trouble with trying to sell a Frank Lloyd Wright house: yahoo View full entry
Columbia University, AMO, and Archis magazine launch a new publication, Volume. Press conference for VE#1 with Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas, and Mark Wigley will take place Monday o2.28.o5 in Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall. Links: Gsapp, OMA, Archis View full entry
Right now is the time for a diverse culture within the practice of architecture, is D. Adjaye's thesis. "The world has changed. Predominantly single-culture practices need to get up to speed with this issue; they should be hungry to recruit people from diverse backgrounds because they need to get... View full entry
A host of articles on recent urban issues and projects: Karrie Jacobs refutes Richard Florida (metropolis) | More on Prince Charles' INTBAU and its resultant Cape Cotswolds (telegraph) | Houston develops in the Dead Zone (houstonpress) | Plater-Zyberk is designing an academic village for the... View full entry
Of note: Dellekamp Arquitectos building in Colonia Condesa, Mexico City, gallery from Noticiasarquitectura | 32BNY Issue 5/6 now available | Sarah E Lorenzen essay on multidisciplinary design View full entry
Van Severen, a very highly regarded young designer, has died at the age of 49 due to cancer. Danda View full entry
Q: What does the director of SCI-Arc do? A: Not a goddam thing. That's why I'm never here. Moss interview in the LA Downtown News.Designs on DowntownSCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss on the School, That Pesky Lot, and How Nowhere Becomes Somewhere by Jon Regardie One thing about Eric Owen Moss: The... View full entry
A collaborative arts residency comes of age at the Montalvo Arts Center. SF Chron checks out 10 digs in Saratoga, Ca., designed by different artists and architects for the Lucas Artists Program. View full entry
Prince Charles has launched an attack on the "cavalier attitude" of Britain's architects and town planners, and warned against the dangers of architecture being used to make iconic statements or indulge in egotistical ambitions. | BBC View full entry
Hunter S Thompson - author, cultural revolutionary, and wacked-out cool guy - has committed suicide. | cnn | nytimes View full entry