Team designs 35-foot smart structure that responds to people interacting with it. Winner of MIT's first mini-skyscraper design competition, "Muscles" is the brainchild of four graduate arch students known collectively as the WhoWhatWhenAir skyscraper team. The team was awarded $7,000 to build its... View full entry
Former Chelsea gallerist Henry Urbach appointed the new curator of Architecture and Design at SFMOMA, as rumored. | Press release | MAN View full entry
Liquid Architecture ! Tate Online gets chatty with Jasia Reichardt, Vince Dziekan, Hani Rashid, Ken Friedman, Rodrigo Alonso, and Eddie Berg in a panel discussion moderated by Celine Condorelli. Bios View full entry
"If you live where I do, in the actual city of Hollywood, just a few blocks away from where the Oscars are held, you see the Church of Scientology as somewhat of a savior. Within a two-mile corridor along Hollywood Boulevard, the Church owns eight historic buildings, four of which are on the... View full entry
With a name that echoes the moniker of 30-year-old Habitat for Humanity and the blitz of media coverage that hasn't stopped since its founders first hung out a shingle, it's easy to assume that Architecture for Humanity is an institution with history. But as the nonprofit's new book--Design Like... View full entry
"John Dwyer, an architect in Minneapolis, has designed a self-reliant housing structure that could have a wide reach of potential use all over the world, from disaster recovery to urban slum upgrades, remote refugee facilities to needed supply of effective relief housing." Subtopia. View full entry
Once reviled, Modernism is now the height of fashion. Bob Stanley explains why it works for him. Times of London View full entry
Sometimes they look like nothing special, only marginally cooler than carrels you might find at a college library. But at other times, especially late at night, they seem visionary, an architectural realization of the social and personal life of the future. nyt View full entry
3D prints from Google Earth. (Has anyone around here tried this?) Sounds like an instant site model but the hacking part can't be that fast. Via View full entry
Home of Hadid's first building in the USA, Cincinnati will give ZH the Fine Arts Fund's $15,000 Rosa F. and Samuel B. Sachs Fund Prize. The periodic award recognizes “artists who have made an important contribution to the artistic life of Cincinnati” and also brought distinction... View full entry
Max Protetch (strike that)...Henry Urbach (?) to curate at SFMoMA? | NLArchitects master terrain vague | more whirling Zaha in Barcelona | AA DRL grads Base 4 do interactivity pavilion for London 2012 | Charcoal burner's hut | Rammed Earth Guest House experiment | Welcome to Suburbia on the East... View full entry
Miguel Fisac died at 92 in Madrid and was buried yesterday there. Fisac was a brand apart from the rest of the postwar architects in Spain, blazing a new trail. He challanged both a reigning classicism and illusionistic varieties of functionalism. Instead, he opted for an empirical approach that... View full entry
The rumours have proven to be true -- Prince-Ramus will be leaving Koolhaas, and taking his entire OMA-NY staff with him while he and parter Erez Ella form Ramus Ella Architects, or REX. Read more about this from JPR, in his personal email that JohnProlly posted to this discussion. Today's Sunday... View full entry
Owen Hatherley of The Measures Taken knocks down the wickets of Alain de Bottom, the false choice of market style "Ikea Alvar Aalto" modernism, and the V&A's Modernism Exhibition. l related l context l View full entry
For those in the midst of review-insanity, rest assured that architecture totally beats out sleeping, eating and having a life. (Sex might be a different story.) View full entry