The Cornell Daily Sun 's Ann Lui discusses the difficulties with addressing race in the context of architecture. Read View full entry
Metropolis' blog reviews Work AC's survey of unbuilt urban utopias; currently on exhibit at the Storefront for Art and Architecture. If you can't make it to "the city" to see the show, buy the book! Read the review here. View full entry
The News & Observer (NC) profiles Philip Freelon, head of The Freelon Group, who is designing the new Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture, along with David Adjaye and others. TN&O | prev. | related commentary View full entry
MovingCities publishes a recent interview with Wang Shu (Amateur Architecture Studio), Chinese architect and Professor and Head of Architecture department at the China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou. The interview explores the absurdities and realities of the construction process in China and his... View full entry
One of the great British New Wave authors passes. Share your thoughts. Rats in studio !!!Outed gives some wonderful advice to those about to graduate. Urban scale greenwashing? Finally anyone for a PICNIC ? View full entry
Danny Forster just reminded me that his show, Build it Bigger, goes back on the air tonight at 10pm on the Science Channel. The season opener takes us behind the scenes of the Dallas Cowboys Stadium, the nation's biggest football stadium. As some of you may recall, Build it Bigger began its life... View full entry
Some 10 architects wrote a letter in The Sunday Times accusing the Prince of using his "privileged position" to have his say on the design of the former Chelsea Barracks in central London. Press Release View full entry
Emeco has sent us news of a new bench entitled Tuyomyo (Spanish for “Yours and Mine”), designed by Frank Gehry, to be debuted this week at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. Take the jump for the full description, or view hi-res images at SpaceInvading.Emeco with Gehry: A Collaboration... View full entry
The Sesquipedalist questions moves to protect the title "architect" by going straight to the core: what is the knowledge of architecture? What do architects actually do? Read it all, because this one's important! Is the free market the right place to prove the value of architecture? View full entry
An entire counterfactual history of New York could be written simply from the stories of buildings that never got built. Today all these buildings are casualties of a building boom that got ahead of itself. NYMag View full entry
The author JG Ballard, famed for novels such as Crash and Empire of the Sun, has died aged 78 after a long illness. BBC View full entry
At St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church on the Lower East Side, hidden rooms where black parishioners worshiped are being restored. NYT View full entry
With special glasses, a motion-detecting visor and what appears to be a white rubber swimming cap exploding with a tangle of wires, researchers are trying to solve a centuries-old conundrum: how architecture affects the brain. via NYT Style Magazine View full entry
Maybe it’s the chill that has descended over the world’s economy, but the warmth of wood — especially plywood — is looking mighty inviting. Mind you, this isn’t a sudden development: wood has been making a comeback in the furniture world for some time. Still... View full entry
"Architecture is a fiction," states Aaron Betsky in the first edition of Beyond that will appear this month. Beyond I is the first bookazine packed with short stories on architecture.Beyond the Beyond View full entry
