Tickets go on sale on the web today for Robert Venturi's November 9th lecture at IIT, "Mies is More, Learning from Mies", part of the 2005 Chicago Humanities Fest. read about it here. View full entry
Trusty Japan source manobox sends over a link to some remness happening in a dark room. View full entry
Studio Libeskind takes up the 19th floor of a Gotham-era skyscraper near Ground Zero itself. The Times of London View full entry
Modernist architect Ralph Rapson is still hard at work, even at 91. What is it with these modernist they won't stop working...MPR View full entry
Which building will win Scotland's biggest architecture prize? Well, the shortlist for the 2005 RIAS Andrew Doolan Award has been selected. The ceremony for the winner will be announced October 5th. BBC | Archiseek Shortlist: - Sentinel Office Development, Glasgow. Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop... View full entry
Doves flying at the WTC. Meanwhile, moving dirt in J-lem. View full entry
The Metropolitan Museum, which hasn't held a show on a living architect since the 1970's, now will feature the work of Santiago. Ouroussoff takes the opportunity to exclaim it's high time for riskier shows in New York. In the process, he echoes Michael Kimmelman's recent extensive exposé... View full entry
The architect and his L.A. firm, best known for its landscape design projects, use Southern California as a muse for everything from dishes to government buildings LATimes View full entry
As visionary as she was contrary, Eileen Gray ranks among the giants of modernism, thanks to just two buildings. The Guardian View full entry
Big ups to Archinect ed's F. David Boira and Zoë Coombes (CommonWealth) for their appearance in the Center for Architecture's expo(sed) show. (more in here). They will also be featured in an AIA NY exhibit in Syracuse coming soon. View full entry
Did the My Architect damn the Louis Kahn legacy for the masses? The SF Chronicle analyizes the movie and why Kahn should be celebrated. View full entry
A cryptic riddle? "Frank Lloyd Wright: Renewing the Legacy brings together two iconic buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright - America's greatest 20th-century architect - with new, associated projects by Toshiko Mori and Zaha Hadid, two women recognized as influential visionaries of contemporary... View full entry
Thought I throw this into the mix. Columbia Graduate Alex Pincus has launched his new website. Check out his work, which includes professional work for DJ Spooky and many more. View full entry
Tom Dyckhoff decodes the brilliance of Eileen Gray's work (the times) View full entry
an architecture collective called Chicago Associates Planners and Architects "charter" an airstream trailer on their roof, just for those "eureka" moments. read | disc View full entry
