Hitoshi Abe , Chair of the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, has been awarded the second SIA-Getz Architecture Prize for Emergent Architecture in Asia. The prize seeks to bring recognition to Asian architects, who through their vision and commitment have made a significant... View full entry
Slate's Witold Rybczynski takes a look at Renzo Piano's addition to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Slate View full entry
What's the greatest threat to architecture? Its lack of relevance to contemporary life. Architecture has become more about spectacle than buildings. Guardian View full entry
Today, Renzo Piano has been awarded the 2008 Sonning Prize, Denmark's largest cultural award. Bustler View full entry
what advice would you give to the young? I don't have advice for them, but perhaps they can give me advice and help me. I think a young architect today should be a little more revolutionary...different from what we have seen built over the last 40 years. designboom View full entry
Pentagram has given Diller Scofidio + Renfro a new online face using papervision3d, a popular new Open Source realtime 3D engine for Flash. Read about it on Pentagram's blog View full entry
"Peter Zumthor’s buildings have nothing triumphalistic about them. They seem to be free of the gestures of repressed arrogance, of the grandiosity of contemporary prestigious architecture, free from the urge to have to attract widespread attention in public space. Not that they timidly... View full entry
Mark Rahner talks to architect Rem Koolhaas, who designed the Central Library. The Seattle Public Library celebrates the completion of its "Libraries for All" building program Saturday. ST View full entry
An Outsider architect who tends to work for outsider clients (the disabled, the deviant, the disenfranchised), is an exemplary member of the so-called "Red School" of Japanese architecture. artscape View full entry
Rem Koolhaas will give a presentation titled, “Public Space,” at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13 at The Seattle Public Library, Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Microsoft Auditorium. Koolhaas of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture and former Seattleite Joshua-Prince Ramus were... View full entry
What can a designer bring to the world of architecture? The popularity of Heatherwick’s designs is a testament to his drive to make his work comprehensible to people who don’t know the first thing about design.New Yorker View full entry
In the 1970s, visionary architect Paolo Soleri built an extraordinary eco-city in the Arizona desert. Did it work? Steve Rose tracks down a guru who now finds himself back in demand. Guardian View full entry
His groundbreaking book A Pattern Language urged architects consider emotional and spiritual ideas when designing. It was the beginning of an elaborate, nuts-and-bolts philosophical system. Alexander failed to revolutionize the practice of architecture, but he inspired a movement in computer... View full entry
Frank Lloyd Wright’s many renovations haven’t exorcised the ghost of his murdered mistress from Taliesin, the home the famed architect built for her in Wisconsin. Last Exit Magazine View full entry
The New Republic 's Sarah Williams Goldhagen discusses the Pritzker Prize and this year's winner Jean Nouvel. Read View full entry