The timing could hardly be better for "The Infrastructural City," a new collection of essays on Los Angeles edited by Kazys Varnelis, director of the Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University. A book with a title like that, unless written by Mike Davis or John McPhee, would typically have a... View full entry
No, I'm not misusing the term "architect". This year, for the first time in the history of the Academy Awards, an architect was hired as production designer. David Rockwell, of NYC's Rockwell Group, talks with the NY Times about his mantra for the 81st Oscar ceremony: “More intimacy. Less... View full entry
A Harvard professor [Martha Schwartz] has attacked the British for paying too much attention to their gardens and too little to their parks - but the fault is not the people's but the government's. Telegraph View full entry
During this economic turmoil many of us are making transitions in work and life. If you're looking for new studio space, or trying to rent out some of your space... or if you're trying to sell the shirt off your back to pay this month's rent, ArchMart is here for you, the architecture and design... View full entry
Quilian, at Harvard University - GSD, is getting closer with his thesis prep and shows what's keeping him busy. Jacob, at Kent State University, highly recommends the movie True Stories, with and by David Byrne of Talking Heads, to be analyzed from an architecture/urban design standpoint. Samuel... View full entry
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Thursday February 12 /.EventsDateModule Peter Eisenman to present his University of Phoenix Stadium for the Arizona Cardinals in film and pe , Center for Architecture | 536 LaGuardia Place; New York, NY 10012 Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2009 , London, United Kingdom - Design Museum... View full entry
Visitors traveling to Stockholm will find soon themselves with the option of sleeping on a plane! That may not sound like the most exciting proposition until you realize that the 747-200 in which they will be sleeping has been salvaged from being dumped somewhere to rot and turned into a... View full entry
Can the view on cities get any bigger than through religion? Probably not. But we believe that a magazine on urbanism such as MONU, that appears only twice a year, can never have a too open perspective. Although the picture in this issue is big, and the contributions are diverse and have... View full entry
Foster and Partners cut back its London office by nearly 300 architects and closed its Berlin and Istanbul offices yesterday. Some insiders say the decision came as Norman Foster has to restore his office size to pre tax evasion days with a lawsuit looming over. View full entry
These images show Pritzker prize-winning architect Robert Venturi’s two-storey Lieb House being moved from its original site in Long Beach Island New York to a new home in Glen Cove, New York. BD | NYT | yesterday View full entry
Show your love for buildings and the buildings you love to love in. Vote to support the best building for dating in the UK. RIBA View full entry
In a gift to the city’s subway riders, MoMA takes over Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street subway station, filling the station with reproductions of over 50 works of art in the MoMA collection. More (on their very nicely conceived website) | SpaceInvaded View full entry
There is a movement within the Cornell community to stop the planned construction of Milstein Hall (previously - 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6). Those opposing it argue that the school's budget is already over-extended, and the planned project doesn't have a gold LEED rating. Some say the opponents have... View full entry
A terrible crime has been committed in the name of egotism and irresistible desire for absolute power. A robust dictator turned its back to demising beauty. A cruel bastard... Or, ROMEO OR JULIET, MUMTAZ AND JAHAN, GIRLS IN THE MIDDLE... (Read the double mystery here.) TVCC Fire, 2/08/09 by Orhan... View full entry
