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

In its ten-year history, few practicing architects have won the Vincent Scully Prize. The award honors individuals who have made noteworthy contributions to architectural practice—in addition to scholarship and criticism—but the majority of winners have been academics, policymakers... View full entry

An exhibition at the Hammer Museum, makes a strong case that John Lautner’s legacy has been curiously underestimated. NYT View full entry

Jean Nouvel was featured in today's Morning Edition on NPR. Read/Listen View full entry

Hidenori Watanave (Associate professor of Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) and students are developing 3D image database of "Oscar Niemeyer" on Second Life. This is an official art project of "The 100th anniversary of exchanging between Japan and Brazil". View full entry

The John Lautner House Tours start this Sunday with visits to The Harpel Residence (1956), The Tyler Residence (1953), and The Schwimmer Residence (1982), as part of the Hammer Museum's current exhibition Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner. Future tours will be held on... View full entry

Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas talks about new trends in architecture and urban development, the end of the European city, the rise of Dubai, Russia and China, the obsession with XXXL and the difference between the people who design buildings for a living and "star architects."Der Spiegel A... View full entry

An urbanist who lived in a fishing cottage, an iconoclast who invented the highrise, an architect who wanted to be a painter ... Steve Rose goes in search of the man who designed the 20th century. View full entry

In an article that purports to be about the Standard Hotel, nearing completion in Chelsea's Meatpacking District, Philip Nobel praises Polshek Partnership's quiet confidence and their propensity for operating without a fixed stylistic mode...even in this vaunted age of carpetbagging stars... View full entry

Architects Directory 2008 : The world's 50 hottest young architecture practices. Says so Wallpaper*. View full entry

Chicago architect Wendell Campbell, 81, first president of National Organization of Minority Architects, died of natural causes Wednesday, July 9, in his South Commons home, said his daughter Susan Campbell Smith... In 1971, feeling that his field’s leading professional organization, the... View full entry

The Royal Institute of Dutch Architects (BNA) has awarded cepezed architects with the BNA Cube 2008 for its complete body of work. The BNA Cube is the highest decoration of the institute and is presented for exceptional merits within Dutch architecture. Bustler View full entry

The LA Times discusses the work of LA-based architects Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena, comparing it to the work of John Lautner. Read | Slideshow View full entry