The AIA honors Antoine Predock with the Gold Award. "Like his buildings, Antoine Predock has always strived to both fit in and stand out. Riding one of his vintage motorcycles on a dusty back road or skiing a deep-powder mountain trail, he cuts a maverick figure””the lone man set... View full entry
'It can seem that all the action in architecture today is in museums. The private house, which used to be the generator of experimentation and form-making, has been supplanted by the big, wealthy international art institution's expensive landmark building. Yet, the various manifestations of... View full entry
Twenty minutes in the future with RemTV is best served up by DOMUS' new joint venture with AMO to promote starchitects with juicy 3D panoramas of their built work called Domus d'Autore. Domus l more View full entry
Things tend to fall apart. With the continued excrescence of OMA spore firms started by the many progeny of Koolhaas, is there any wonderment at their own rupture and regeneration into more multiples like so many horny spring time rabbits. What is this all about you might ask? This is just a... View full entry
Zaha Hadid: Thirty Years in Architecture , her first major retrospective in the United States, gives New Yorkers a chance to see what they've been missing. The show, which opens tomorrow in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's rotunda, spirals through Ms. Hadid's career, from her early enchantment... View full entry
Richard Murphy founded his practice in 1991. Its early reputation was built on highly crafted and innovative domestic work in the Edinburgh Area. A considerable number of awards and publicity has lead to larger projects, often arts related, and the practice now has projects in England, Ireland... View full entry
Paul Goldberger gets all maestro with the new projects by former "bad boy" architect Renzo Piano. New Yorker l previous View full entry
Swedish architect Erik Gunnar Asplund's life (1885-1940) spans the period between neoclassicism, proto-modern eclecticism, and the first stirrings of the modern movement. His first project for the Gothenburg Law Courts (1913), the Enskede Cemetery (begun 1915), the 1920 Woodland Chapel, and the... View full entry
Lee Siegel with an a sophisticated but double-barreled critique of Piano's addition to the Morgan library. It's true that Renzo has way too many American projects right now to do good jobs on all of them, and probably isn't hitting all the keys. TNR View full entry
Sam Jacobs of Fat tells Bob and Denise to "Keep up the bad work," with nods to Kraftwerk, Ed Ruscha, and Independent Group. | strangeharvest View full entry
Jean Nouvel's architectural pallus obession changes gears with a winning competition entry for a new multipurpose building in Vienna for UNIQA. And if that isn't enough architectural power, Nouvel was also honored this past week with the International High-Rise Prize 2006. Floornature l EC View full entry
Architecture for Humanity wins this year's Wired Magazine Rave Award for Architecture: Wired. Other winners, in other categories: complete list. Earlier. View full entry
New Urbanist white knight Andrés Duany enters the fray in New Orleans. Will he be the savior of the city or part of its demise. NYT View full entry
LATimes Chris Hawhtorne reviews the Siza exhibit at Santa Monica Museum of Art. Previously View full entry
Christopher Alexander has been branded the most dangerous living architect. Can he live up to that? His The Nature of Order is reviewed in the voice literary supplement. View full entry
