Like Napoleon, French Architect Jean Nouvel is extending his architectural empire across all oceans and developing a globalized practice that parallels the overall agenda of the burgeoning French culture industry. WJS View full entry

On Friday, October 26th, Craig Borum and Karl Daubmann of PLY Architecture were the keynote speakers at the 3rd Annual AIA Florida Emerging Professional's Conference in Sarasota. The Emerging Tampa Bay Architects blog features a lengthy interview with Craig and Karl. View full entry

Leon Brand, an architect who conceived and administered the Albert S. Bard Award, an architectural prize intended to raise the standard of excellence for building design in New York City, died on Oct. 24 in Manhattan. He was 74. NY Times View full entry

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Carmody Groarke makes the grade in the UK to take the 2007 YAYA. BD l previous l related feature View full entry

Progressive Reactionary has unearthed a wonderful archive of Paul Rudolph drawings on flickr. At least these can't be knocked down...or can they? View full entry

From Frieze The London-based architecture practice de Rijke Marsh Morgan (dRMM) consciously avoids the strictures that come with having a signature style by choosing not to have one...It’s a position that allows the practice the freedom to find its limitations elsewhere: in the very... View full entry

Earlier this month UN Studio received the Jencks Award (chaired by Charles Jencks) for the practice who has made the greatest architectural contribution to both theory and practice. AZO View full entry

Howard Finster designed and built a complex of buildings consisting of a home, church and garden pavilions, in Penneville GA. Since his death the buildings have fallen into disrepair, but some are now being renovated.... Via NYT View full entry

ArchRecord sits down with Tom Kundig, FAIA to learn about his design philosophy. Kundig describes some of his recent award-winning projects, ponders the elemental human needs that housing must satisfy and chats about what it’s like to design for different parts of the world. View full entry

Juan Navarro Baldeweg has been fired from construction site by goverment. Link View full entry

The first BD Young Architect of the Year recently won a £30 million building, while one of the 1999 winners now mostly designs fabrics. A decade on, Ellis Woodman looks at how the various victors have fared. more View full entry

What I strive for in architecture is an openness, a transparency, a concern with light and space, a relationship between what's manmade and what's natural--I try to have the architecture not just be something in that place, but something that expands that place. Bloomberg l previous View full entry

The Times Online goes through the role call for the candidates to BD's Young Architect of the Year Awards. YAYA candidatesCarmody GroarkeWHAT_ArchitectureDesign Research Unit WalesGraeme Massie ArchitectsRiches Hawley Mikhail Architects View full entry

Antoni Gaudí was a fervent Catholic whose fantastical buildings burst with colour, freedom and hedonism - is he the greatest urban architect of modern times? Guardian View full entry