Scott Van Voorhis advises his readers at Boston.com to "ditch the architect", and just let the builder do the design work. What do you think? Post your comments here, or send him an email: sbvanvoorhis@hotmail.com View full entry

The SF Chronicle's John King reviews Taschen's 6th installment in the Architecture Now! book series. King comments that the exuberant architecture profiled seems more like a walk down memory lane than a vision of the future. Read View full entry

First, we are now a centenarian! Also, a shout-out to toasteroven for this week's picks.News Robert Stern’s enlightened view of women in architecture. On paradox. Legos appear once and then twice. Continued after jump....School Blogs Critical Activism!!! I have been thinking about monks? A... View full entry

Mustafa, at Architectural Association, DRL, blogs about Greg Lynn, photography, moving, and the 'politics' behind trashing architectural models. Scott, at UCLA, spends his spring break, no, not in Acapulco, but in NYC to catch up with tons of architecture lectures. - Hey, who said nerd alert?!... View full entry

Until March 29, the City of Oslo exhibits the 40 contributions for the Munch Area and the Deichman Axis architecture competition. The list of invited architects includes names like Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, and Foreign Office Architects. Images on Bustler. View full entry

On Saturday the winners were announced for the SCI-Arc/ArchPaper competition A NEW INFRASTRUCTURE. For a breakdown on all the winners visit Bustler. View full entry

Robert Stern believes that the responsibilities of motherhood is the primary reason equally talented women are not as active in the industry as men. BigThink.com View full entry

Beekman Tower, the Frank Gehry-designed luxury rental building in lower Manhattan, has been put on hold 38 stories short of its planned height of 76 floors. Crain's | prev. | related View full entry

Quilian summarizes the Loud Paper Boston Zine round table he participated in a few weeks ago. Check it out View full entry

You have no excuse to be bored this week if you live in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, San Francisco, Boston, Houston, Arlington, Dubai, or Rome. Take the jump to get the lowdown on this upcoming week's events from the Bustler calendar. And in case you haven't heard, there have been a... View full entry

Greenpeace covers with green fabric a gigantic hotel building which they claim is an illegal construction on a natural park in the Spanish coast. The Olive Press > | Spiegel > View full entry

Antón García-Abril, architect of the Archinect-featured (and passionately discussed) Hemeroscopium House, has just been awarded with the inaugural Spotlight Prize by the Houston-based Rice Design Alliance. Bustler View full entry

The ordinary scenes of Habitat for Humanity - volunteers with saws and hammers creating new homes from scratch on empty dirt - are being upended here. NYT View full entry

Thank you to this week's advertisers, sponsors and partners who make this site possible. UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Jumpstart '09 Boston Society of Architects The John M. Clancy Award Georgia-Pacific Gypsum Woodbury University Harvard Univeristy GSD Career Discovery Looking to get... View full entry

Katya Tylevich defends LA architecture on the Decider. View full entry