William McDonough talks to Newsweek View full entry

Zaha Hadid will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at Columbia University's 251st commencement, joining more than 11,000 other Columbia graduates this year. Yahoo View full entry

Is Renzo Piano America's Default Architect? Here is a quiz: can Piano's current museum projects in the USA be counted on one hand? Why? Archrecord explores View full entry

Three buildings designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the Madison area were honored Saturday as National Historic Landmarks. The First Unitarian Society Meeting House in Shorewood Hills, completed in 1951, was the site of a plaque-giving ceremony for that building and the Herbert and... View full entry

Toshiko Mori is spending much of her time building onto and around houses by those 20th-century masters.Not that Ms. Mori is intimidated. "I like challenging strong men," she said of her architecture. "I'm respectful but not subservient." By Fred Bernstein, NYTimes View full entry

Paul Rudolph 's Larchmont estate, a 6,473sf renovation of a 1958 house completed in 1989, is for sale for $6.5 million. | journalnews View full entry

Trump: The design for the Freedom Tower is an egghead design, designed by an egghead, which has no practical application and which, frankly, didn't look very good. I've gotten great reviews on my buildings. I'm somebody who believes strongly in great architecture and this [the Freedom Tower] was... View full entry

Australia's dearest Harry Seidler, 81, is hosipitalized after a stroke. Pretty amazing life story. | sydney *update* Seidler condition improving | brisbane View full entry

Moshe Safdie: The Power of Architecture , directed by Montrealer Donald Winkler, will be in the Montreal Film Festival May 18 (7pm at National Film Board Cinema). | cjnews View full entry

From LWBs description, this should be pretty damn good. View full entry

BERKELEY – Vernon DeMars, a professor emeritus of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and a co-designer of Wurster Hall, home of the College of Environmental Design, and of the award-winning student center complex on campus, died Friday... View full entry

Architect builds strength into innovative temporary shelter (appeared previously in Christian Science Monitor). USAT View full entry

The Chicago Tribune reports that John Pavlovich, 67, of Lake Forest, a draftsman, allegedly appropriated his former boss' professional identity (Emil Larson, who died in 1993 at the age of 96) and was hit with a $250,000 state fine. State regulators discovered the ruse when drawings for new... View full entry

Sperry, our recent interviewee, is profiled in today's SF Chronicle, extending his plea to architects to boycott prison design. Read View full entry

The Guardian's Leo Benedictus visits ex-Foster head architect Ken Shuttleworth at Make. Read View full entry