Italian-based Marco Zagaria has launched Teti, hyper-detailed micro "city-sculpture" modeled as a wearable ring. The pieaces are plates with precious metals with options in copper, silver, gold, and nickel. After the shape of the ring is composed using 3D-printing technology, it is then... View full entry
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has published new and updated AIA contract documents that are designed to "support businesses with reaching their sustainability goals and programming." The latest set of documents focuses on AIA's renewed efforts to center environmental design... View full entry
A much-anticipated lecture delivered by Bjarke Ingels at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) is now available for online viewing. In the wide-ranging, nearly two-hour presentation, Ingels, founding partner at Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)... View full entry
In response to the urgent need for more widespread and rapid COVID-19 testing, Perkins and Will's New York studio — along with its Denmark studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, and in partnership with multi-disciplinary design group Arup— has... View full entry
“Our entire profession is geared toward the values and demands and needs of human beings,” [...] “But all over the world, these huge mechanical entities are now appearing. They are typically enormous, typically rectangular, typically hermetic.” [...] “We need to conceive of architecture that accommodates machines and robots, maybe as a priority,” Koolhaas says. “And that then investigates how robots and human rights might coexist in a single building.” — Time
Rem Koolhaas his thoughts on how architecture as a discipline might change in the post-COVID-19 era, as social distancing, automation, and anti-urban attitudes begin to take hold. Koolhaas tells TIME's Belinda Luscombe, “It would be opportunistic if I said either, I told you so, or... View full entry
The COVID-19 pandemic has necessarily prompted a rethinking of many of the most fundamental aspects of daily life around the world, as people, businesses, and governments seek to retrofit the built environment in order to minimize the potential for future exposure. Everything from HVAC... View full entry
In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles. Tip: use the handy FOLLOW feature to easily keep up-to-date with all your favorite Archinect profiles... View full entry
Jaquelin “Jaque" Taylor Robertson, FAIA, a founding partner of architecture firm Cooper Robertson and the urban designer behind the master plan for Celebration, Florida, has passed away at age 87. Aerial view of Celebration, Florida. Image by Robert Benson Photography. A message from Cooper... View full entry
A never-released recording of the 131st presentation of the Royal Gold Medal to the office of Charles & Ray Eames has been unveiled for the first time by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Converted from its original analog format into digital by RIBA's former Chief Archivist... View full entry
This post is brought to you by Azure Magazine An exceptional year, an incredible result: the internationally renowned jury of the 2020 AZ Awards has selected the very best from the 1,241 architecture and design entries we received – the highest number of submissions to date – from 47 countries... View full entry
University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design fifth-year architecture student David Sweere has been awarded the 2019 Aydelott Prize, beating out three other competing Aydelott Travel Award recipients. The Aydelott Travel Award and Prize have been awarded each year... View full entry
The University of New Mexico (UNM) has selected Robert Alexander González as the new Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning. González comes to New Mexico from Texas Tech University (TTU), where he currently serves as the Director of the Architecture Program... View full entry
Los Angeles-based SPF:architects has completed a 5,000-square-foot renovation of a 1970s-era beachfront California modernist home designed by notable mid-century architect Jerrold E. Lomax. SPF:a's renovations for the home, which is located in Malibu, California among a tightly clustered... View full entry
Paris-based design studio Ubalt Architectes has redesigned a number of spaces at France's National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance (INSEP) as a part of its partnership with Adidas. The primary aim of the renovation was to create a sustainable and functional environment for the... View full entry
At the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, students taking part in a Graduate Architecture Program seminar developed by U Penn Professor Ezio Blasetti have found a way to complete work fabricating design projects despite not being able to physically access the school's... View full entry
