Flags on Sydney’s Harbor Bridge flew at half mast today as Australia mourned the death of Jørn Utzon, the Danish architect who designed the iconic Sydney Opera House. Bloomberg | Previously View full entry
Ian Ritchie is an architect prepared to break with convention. He tells Amanda Baillieu how his involuntary departure from the Westfield development at Shepherd’s Bush hasn’t deterred him from standing up for what he believes in. BD | prev. View full entry
Matias del Campo (of SPAN) discusses the Brancusi Museum, digital fabrication and "modes of practice" in an interview on Serial Consign. View full entry
Archinect member davvid opines on last night's lecture by Wolf Prix, introduced by Thom Mayne, at the Cooper Union.Throughout the lecture and discussion afterward they kept touching on the idea of rebellion and made the occasional reference to Rock n'Roll. Prix ended his lecture by playing Purple... View full entry
Metropolis Magazine reviews Pré, the Moma exhibition, running through February 2009, featuring over three hundred digitized watercolors done by Steven Holl over the last three decades. These works originally painted early in the morning, before the daily grind of project-driven deadlines... View full entry
Apparently they both wanted to be architects... Chicago Tribune | Previously View full entry
Artists in Design, Literary, Media, Performing, and Visual Arts From Across the Country Each Receive $50,000 Award. The five winning architects include Julie Bargmann, Stephen Burks, Douglas Garofalo, J. Meejin Yoon, and Andrew Zago. Bustler View full entry
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
