Teddy Cruz and his Tijuana shanty paradigm get the full Ouroussoff exposa in the Sunday Times as shanty has a nice ring of irony for a new archetype for american suburbian. NYT View full entry

Ray Kappe, Los Angeles architect and founder of Sci-Arc is doing pre fabricated homes.ivinghomes View full entry

Foreign Office Architects has strenuously denied claims that it fails to pay student workers, claiming it is the victim of an internet smear campaign. bd l related View full entry

Embattled architect Lord Richard Rogers gets support from colleague Daniel Libeskind. Libeskind supported Rogers in a recent call to New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver--who remains the pivotal player in the approval of Rogers commission of the $1.7 billion renovation of the Javits Center... View full entry

Another Japanese architect fakes earthquake-resistance data on a number of projects in Sapporo. JTimes View full entry

Lord Richard Rogers has been in the midst of controversial debate swirling about his involvement in a meeting of Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine. Forces in New York City are trying to force Rogers out of projects in the City such as the Javits Center, the Silvercup Studio, along... View full entry

Get in their Shoes campaign is offering (for a price) the opportunity to interview famous and successful professials as part of an outreach program. You can get into Libeskind's shoes on Ebay. via Dosing View full entry

Lot/Ek (pronounced "low tech") a New York City-based design collaboration headed by Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano juxtaposes artifice, salvage, and habitable space into formal constructs. These constructs always include the appropriation of common ready-made objects that are reinvigorated with... View full entry

Ron Witte and Sarah Whiting, of WW, have moved to Princeton and into a Longstreth masterpiece. All it took was a letter... | nytimes View full entry

Prince-Ramus, OMA NY partner, lays out the distinctions between the NY satellite and the Dutch mothership, and the dawning of the hyper-rationalist age. Could Porto and Louisville be more different? | bizweek View full entry

So, can they or can't they pay interns? I have no idea what a brit pound is worth, but you can do the math. PartIV | previously in the blogowan | meanwhile, inquiring minds want to know... View full entry

So... you worked for free to worsen a presentation for a meeting that won't happen for a project that doesn't exist? Yup. | PartIV View full entry

Genius or chancer, that was what architects were asking themselves after Pritzker prizewinning architect Thom Mayne's recent talk in Dublin's National Concert Hall. Irish Times View full entry

Daniel Libeskind's shrink satus in the Freedom Tower debacle is replaced with a sleuth of towering achievements. ArchRecord View full entry

Rumor has it (from a friend/colleague of Vito's) that Peter Eisenman has dropped out of the Architect Duel because he was unaware of the nature of the event. Previously View full entry