Zaha Hadid "would like to get her hands on Miami, a place she sees as a young urban city hungry for a public architectural statement." Miami Herald. View full entry
Newsweek lobs a few questions at Frank Gehry and calls it a "special." via NA and Defamer View full entry
"Where is it written that buildings have to be boxes?" asks Czech-born architect Jan Kaplicky, founder and partner of the London-based practice Future Systems. "People aren't boxes." Is Europe finally starting to listen to him? Busines Week takes note. | related: The Pyongyang Candidate View full entry
John Stewart Detlie , the Hollywood set designer, artist and architect who led the effort to camouflage the Boeing airplane factory during World War II, died from lung cancer last Wednesday. After leaving MGM, he went on to manage a project for the Army Corps of Engineers. To confuse enemy... View full entry
A fair (and edgy) write-up of Santiago "Bird Man" Calatrava's trajectory to date by the succinct Martin Filler in the NY Review of Books. | nyrba sampling:Some of Calatrava's coprofessionals have cast a skeptical eye on what they see as his tendency to overelaborate his designs and obfuscate the... View full entry
Architectural Record's Design Vanguard of emergent firms is online featuring Luce et Studio, Studio Himma, Evan Douglis Studio, Urbanus, King Roselli Architetti, Rojkind Arquitectos, Chris Lee and Kapil Gupta, ITERAE Architecture, Taira Nishizawa Architects, and Mitnick Roddier Hicks. View full entry
From the LA Times:Architect Jolts Trust in Japan Quake Safety TOKYO ”” Until the scandal broke, Hidetsugu Aneha was just an anonymous architect, running a small, Tokyo-area firm that carried out the mundane but crucial calculations to determine how much reinforced steel should be used... View full entry
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The man of steel, that's who. Burj Dubai? Trump Tower? Sound familiar? read View full entry
The recent scandal involving Japanese architect Hidetsugu Aneha has sent shockwaves through the country's design and engineering communities. Aneha has been accused of falsifying structural data order to expedite the completion of many recent projects. Today the story took a more grisly turn when... View full entry
The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan offers three fellowships in the areas of architectural research and design instruction. The Michigan Fellowships are one of the longest running fellowship programs in architecture and former fellows include Adam... View full entry
There was a decidedly self-effacing attitude in the air when Gehry sat down with Kelvin Shawn Sealey, founder of the Film and Education Research Academy at Columbia University's Low Library to discuss "Architecture in the Public Imagination." Mark Wigley, dean of Columbia's Graduate School of... View full entry
Yes, he's still alive. At 97, Mr. Niemeyer is still angering critics as he attempts to finish, what is assumed to be, his final project in the Brazilian capital. Hey Oscar, it's been 45 years, don't you think it's about time to wrap it up? From Bloomberg View full entry
It appears that Japanese architect Hidetsugu Aneha, falsified strength analysis documents on twenty-one of his recent, large scale, projects. At least two of them are liable to collapse in a strong (level 5+) earthquake. To quote the architect, “I had many complicated jobs. I wanted to make... View full entry
Informative interview with Oliver Thill of Kempe Thill, recent recipient of the Dutch Maaskant Prize for Young Architects 2005 is at ArchiNed. View full entry