A lil excerpt from an interview with Dirk Lohan, grandson of Mies -- mostly on Chi-town. (He likes it.) Stop Smiling. View full entry

Contemporary architecture has failed to tackle the problem of how to create public buildings for the modern age, according to David Adjaye. | observer View full entry

Peter Eisenman's critical beatdown of Calatrava during the Jencks/Eisenman debate, seems to have set off a deluge of critical fury. Most recently, the New Republic's Sarah Williams Goldhagen has gone in for the flying elbow. l Previous l Related l View full entry

Vincent Scully to be on "If These Walls Could Talk" broadcasting on the VoiceAmerica Channel Thursday, January 19 at 3PM Pacific (6PM Eastern). This is available worldwide via the internet.| read View full entry

For those of you who check Archinect via RSS and don't get our weekly newsletter, we have just published an interview with Renzo Piano, by Liz Martin, during the opening ceremonies of the new High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. View View full entry

The New York Review of Booksanalyses the work of Santiago Calatrava in a stinging critique by Martin Filler.l Via l Related l View full entry

Well, to promote his latest project in Sacto, developer Craig Nassi has erected two large billboards around the site of his planned Aura condo tower, featuring the face of, who else, the building's designer: Daniel Libeskind. Check it out. View full entry

Ouroussoff foreshadows a new endeavor, looking for flowering talents of architecture all over the global. First on the get globalized list, Senan Abdelkader Arab Israeli in East Jerusalem. NYT View full entry

Vid streams with the H and d M from Berkeley. thanks to reg for the tag| offcenter View full entry

Read here. Includes pics of the Lotus house. More in our Gallery. View full entry

The AP's John O'Donnell discusses Albert Speer's son and his decision to pursue architecture under his father's name. Reuters View full entry

"James G. Pulliam, a civic-minded architect whose understated geometric style helped shape mid-century modernism in Southern California, died last Tuesday. He was 80." LA Times View full entry

WTC Architect, Minoru Yamasaki's studio/office facility in the commercial district of Troy, Michigan is slated for possible demolition. | asianwk View full entry

Some are trying. A few of them are in Seattle. "I love designing for this price range. You're really forced to develop a beautiful plan, and use a lot of the things that are free -- light, air, circulation." Seattle Post-Intelligencer View full entry

Unconfirmed word on the street that Sylvia Lavin is up for curator of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art. Still unconfirmed. View full entry