what advice would you give to the young? takaharu tezuka: not to follow famous architects. they should try to find answers in themselves. these days everyone is trying to do the same things, wavy roofs and shiny surfaces. maybe they will find answers in their own lifestyle. designboom | previously View full entry
New York based office Rad Nature just launched their new website. The office, established at the beginning of the year and lead by Columbia graduate and REX alum Dong-Ping Wong, is focused on 'determining more optimistic, productive and prosperous typologies of ecological architecture'. Enjoy... View full entry
"MVRDV’s radical, research-driven methodology has been a source of fascination to critics and competitors from the start. 'No one else has found as convincing a way,' writes the historian Lootsma, of 'showing the spatial consequences of the desires of the individual parties involved in a... View full entry
The MacDowell Colony, the nation’s leading artist residency program, will present its Edward MacDowell Medal this year to architect Thom Mayne. He will be the 49th recipient of the MacDowell Medal, which is awarded annually to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the... View full entry
Rainer Pirker is an Austrian based but internationally focused successful architect; from his very first projects (apartment building Ulus, Istanbul) to the very last (specially HEAVEN'S SEAL CULTURE CLUB in China) his architecture has got a very futuristic taste and an independent identity and... View full entry
Lord Norman Foster will be moving his family from London to an 18th-century classical-style chateau in the hills of Switzerland...Having made his name and an estimated £250m fortune with bold designs of glass and steel, he is moving to Switzerland “for lifestyle reasons” and for... View full entry
The Independent discusses the sometimes controversial work of Baron Richard Rogers of Riverside.Lauded for the Pompidou Centre and Lloyd's of London, ridiculed for the Millennium Dome and Terminal 5 – it's fair to say that after half a century in architecture's premier league, Richard... View full entry
In architect Zaha Hadid’s universe, a constant flow of ideas shapes her fluid approach to design – as seen in her London apartment. TimesOnline View full entry
Studio 360 looks at some architects in the green movement.Nader Khalili | William McDonough | Studio 360 View full entry
The Tulane Architecture community is sad to lose Franklin Adams, Professor Emeritus of Tulane School of Architecture and artist, cajun dancer, writer and friend, who passed away on Saturday April 13 in the New Orleans home he designed and built. He was 74. Times Picayune View full entry
The Architectural League has released podcasts of its 2008 Emerging Voices lecture series, featuring el dorado inc, WORKac, Onion Flats, StossLU, Johnsen Schmaling Architects, Moorhead & Moorhead, Belzberg Architects and MOS.View podcasts | 2008 Emerging Voices View full entry
This week marks the opening of nARCHITECTS exhibition design for Frederick Kiesler: Co-Realities at the Drawing Center in NYC. A brief preview is online at Serial Consign. View full entry
These are a few of Frank Gehry's favorite things...published yesterday in the Yale Daily News and being discussed today in the forum. View full entry
The architect Nigel Coates survived Cool Britannia to become one of the country's finest designers. Now he's showing in Milan. TimesOnline View full entry
Or so he thinks. Protesters? They always see the light! NY Mag View full entry
