Zaha Hadid received an honorary degree at Yale's commencement, which will hang nicely next next to the one from Columbia last year. Yale Daily View full entry

Deborah Solomon raps with Richard Rogers in this interview, which mentions how his firm is known for declining any military contracts. Not taking money, I understand, but have we forgotten already? View full entry

Mr. Cameron Sinclair hits the headlines again this week, as he and Kate Stohr, co-founders of Architecture for Humanity, win this year's Rave Award from Wired Magazine in the category of architecture. Last year's winner? Rem Koolhaas. View full entry

A furious architect, opportunistic politicians, betrayed loyalites, and a price reaching a billion dollars. How a soaring vision went disastrously wrong. NY Metro View full entry

Film by Syndey Pollack | Trailer | Review View full entry

The story of Architecture for Humanity as told by Cameron Sinclair to England's Sunday Observer. View full entry

"The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania recently honored Edmund Bacon, Philadelphia's famed city planner from 1949-70, by naming May 2 'Edmund Bacon Day.'" Among his triumphs is a huge indoor mall: ArchRecord. Six Degrees of Edmund Bacon. Edmund Bacon, Dead at 95. View full entry

The peope whose ideas, power, and sheer will are changing New York. From Richard Meier to Robert A.M. Stern. nymetro.com View full entry

Norman Foster pairs dynamic innovation with respect for history. No wonder everyone wants a piece of him. With more than 30 new buildings in varying stages of construction around the world, it's surprising that the jet-setting British architect Norman Foster ever touches down.Newsweek... View full entry

designer of the ether, michael gabellini in the designboom house. View full entry

One of the world's great practices wants to know why its designs for schools keep getting turned down Richard Rogers Partnership, one of the largest and most successful architectural practices in the world, has not been able to design schools in Britain because of the cumbersome, bureaucratic... View full entry

Architect Ricardo Legorreta is still dreaming of what the new Fort Worth Museum of Science and History will look like. He promises one thing, though. "We can assure you it will have some color," STAR-TELEGRAM View full entry

Starchitects have long been the coveted designers of big new buildings””the Museum of Modern Art extension, the new Salt Lake City library, and the de Young Museum in San Francisco””but in recent months, the names of A-list designers such as Richard Meier, Robert A.M... View full entry

A new self-unfolding prefab/emergency vehicle/mobile home - called "Bob" - has been designed by Andrew Maynard: see it at Inhabitat. Earlier: interview with Maynard. View full entry

Alvaro Siza "Drawings, Models and Photos" - The first museum survey in the United States of the world-renowned Pritzker Prize winner, the exhibit features five projects and 40 travel sketches from the distinguished fifty-year career of an architect known for works of extraordinary grace and... View full entry