Around downtown LA today and looking to pair your lunch with a great lecture? Walter van Dijk of NL Architects will be joining the SCI-Arc Future Initiatives Review 12/17 and giving a somewhat impromptu lecture before hand at 1 pm. The lecture will take place in Room 226 (north end of building)... View full entry

Robert A. M. Stern has been named the 2011 recipient of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. Stern will receive $200,000 and a model of the Choregic Monument of Lysikrates during a March 26, 2011, ceremony in Chicago. Bustler View full entry

Includes his various proposals, built public monuments and stories behind them. Includes his various proposals, built public monuments and stories behind them."HERTY WANTED A SUB DIVISION ON SOME ADJACENT LAND. THE BULLDOZERS HAD ALREADY STARTED LAYING OUT SOME MUNDANE GRIDDED STREET PATTERN WHEN... View full entry

To Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger, Frampton's great achievement was to "shift the focus of the theoretical dialogue in architecture" from buildings as symbols "to the way buildings are made, to the way they feel and to the way they are perceived." In recent decades... View full entry

Oscar Neimeyer may have found the key to old age - positivity. To write a samba at the age of 102, while laying in a hospital bed titled "Tranquilo con la Vida" (Feeling Good about Life), is the sign of a special individual. The lyrics by Neimeyer will be performed by musicians Edu Krieger and... View full entry

Why are so many great architects short of stature? - SlateWhy are so many great architects short of stature? - Slate View full entry

Studio Banana TV interviews Ole Bouman, director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI), Holland. Studio Banana TV interviews Ole Bouman, director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI), Holland. StudioBanana.tv / Previously on Archinect: OLE BOUMAN: On Survival View full entry

CRITICS AND NAYSAYERS suggest Frank Gehry isn't fit to sharpen his claws on the New York skyline given such failures as the Atlantic Yards arena, also undertaken with Mr. Ratner, and the Guggenheim on the East River, a project that Mr. Gehry insists "was never real. It was always more of a dream."... View full entry

"Confronting a shortage of home-grown architects, the Canadian government is making it easier for foreign-trained designers to work there." "Confronting a shortage of home-grown architects, the Canadian government is making it easier for foreign-trained designers to work there." For all you folk... View full entry

Perhaps Frank Gehry, whose attention-getting powers are on full display in this building, hasn’t yet mastered the tenets of today’s healthcare design—in brief, providing patient-centered amenities throughout. There’s no question that he has succeeded in his main mission: to... View full entry

When coming up with the design for the High Line, an urban park on an abandoned section of elevated railroad in New York, architect Elizabeth Diller and her colleagues started with a question: What would failure look like? When coming up with the design for the High Line, an urban park on an... View full entry

Emerging practitioners say the new nomenclature signifies a larger rejection of the idea of architect as singular creator and a retreat from the era of the "starchitect" fueled by the pre-recession building boom. Anointing celebrity architects was arguably good for business, many practitioners... View full entry

Our friend Geoff Manaugh over at BLDGBLOG has just served up an interview with Jeffrey Inaba about his recently published book World of Giving and the recently released 24th issue of Volume. Worth reading   View full entry

MovingCities published in a recent issue of MARK magazine an interview with Chinese architect Zhang Lei [Atelier ZhangLei]. In the interview, the Nanjing-based architects talks about his recently completed projects such as Split House and Brick House, Chinese architecture in the 1980s, CIPEA, his... View full entry

Former OMA partner Ole Scheeren starts his own firm together with long-time collaborator Eric Chang: Büro Ole Scheeren. Doors open in Beijing, Hong Kong and London. Press release after the break. | previouslyFormer OMA partner Ole Scheeren starts his own firm together with long-time... View full entry