SF Chron 's Design Section profiles two homes: 1. Inside the Box: David Baker's mock-urban loft in Palo Alto > 2. Modern Muse: Stephen MacCracken's family compound in Silicon Valley > View full entry

Architect Renzo Piano will appear on The Charlie Rose Show tonight, Thurs. Feb 17. Check your local listings. View full entry

NYTimes does an about-face as Hawthorne has nuthin but praise for Allied Works' Sun Valley Idaho minimalist modern residence. | nytimes (+slideshow) View full entry

Or..."languishing in cryo, in the vault next to Walt, awaiting reanimation or cloning—Boys from Brazil style—when the technology is sufficiently advanced. Philip 2100!" Michael Sorkin and others on the death... View full entry

Moshe Safdie appointed as Companion to the Order of Canada. link + via View full entry

Bay Area KQED's Michael Krasny talks to architect Daniel Libeskind about the architecture of remembrance. Listen | Discuss View full entry

French architect, Francois Roche, believes in corrupt files, termite mounds and robot builders. From Wired . View full entry

Take a look at the model for the First Sight arts centre in Colchester by Viñoly, accompanied by a fluffy article about why London is irresistible for him and many others. T'graph View full entry

George Dudley, an internationally renowned architect who helped design the Empire State Plaza, the United Nations, Rockefeller Center and Lincoln Center, died Monday at his country estate, Hickory Hill. He was 90. Was dean of architecture at RPI. Established the school of architecture and urban... View full entry

A kinder reflection on the recently departed. From the NY Times View full entry

Kazys Varnelis' "We Cannot Not Know History:" Philip Johnson's Politics and Cynical Survival (here + pdf) | On the shelves: the latest issue of Future Anterior has a fatefully timed article by Leslie Klein about Johnson's testament and his will to control the interpretations of the Glass House... View full entry

Francis Mungai, little known Kenyan architect, and his work with the Architectural Association of Kenya (AAK) profiled. | eastandard View full entry

On a roll ... Hadid thought to be selected for a future Islamic Museum in the Iraqi capital. (Dont miss this glamour shot) | artnewspaper (is that wind?) View full entry

Jennifer Ludden interviews Christopher Alexander on architecture and his mode of thinking which are culminated into his final book of the series The Nature of Order. View full entry

Hilton Kramer weighs in on the Johnson controversies. He writes a much more level-headed column than Andrew Saint's (response). He focuses his sights on Paul Goldberger for writing that Johnson had simply a "passing admiration for Hitler." NYO | via (UPDATED) 'Remembering' Philip Johnson: ...his... View full entry