The New Yorker’s art critic Jackson Arn takes on two of the most recent (and spectacular) cultural offerings of the Silver State — "One with a deluge of images and the other with a tantalizing lack of them," as he writes. Related on Archinect: Take a look at photos of Michael Heizer's... View full entry

This post is brought to you by Harvard Graduate School of Design Executive Education A year after the launch of ChatGPT and the proliferation of generative AI tools, there remains enormous potential for architects able to harness AI-driven tools to solve their core challenges. That is why... View full entry

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have unveiled a “first-of-its-kind AI model” that can help policymakers identify and prioritize houses for retrofitting and other decarbonizing measures. The deep learning model, trained by researchers from the university’s Department of... View full entry

Refik Anadol has made history as one of two prominent digital artists to have their works acquired into the permanent collection of the 94-year-old Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. The museum announced its acquisition of Anadol’s 2022 Generative AI piece Unsupervised – Machine... View full entry

Following last week's look at an opening for the Director of the College of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an opportunity on Archinect Jobs for an Assistant Professor for AI in the Built Environment at... View full entry

The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) has announced the launch of the New York City Mass Timber Studio in an effort to join industry leaders who are elsewhere raising the bar for the use of sustainable materials in the built environment. The Studio is operated with support... View full entry

As part of Archinect’s Studio Pin-Ups series, Katherine Guimapang featured work from NYIT’s ARCH 802 Design-Research Studio "Designing (Inter)Scalar Domains". Reimaging Social Infrastructures Urban Conservation - Coexisting Ecologies by Kaymar Thomas via NYIT Plus, for the latest Studio... View full entry

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has debuted a new concrete alternative material as part of its participation in the fifth Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB 5), which is taking place now through February 11th at multiple locations citywide.  The firm’s Bio-Blocks technology is being... View full entry

WilkinsonEyre has been announced as the architects of a new $268 million adaptive reuse plan that will overhaul a World War II era bomb shelter underneath High Holborn, London into a high-tech immersive tourist destination. The plan was made possible after the government-run tunnels were made... View full entry

Architectural software developers Rayon have launched a new design tool to “enable seamless collaboration across AEC industries.” The software, which shares its company’s name and is backed by funders including Norman Foster, is a browser-based tool that allows teams to collaborate on 2D... View full entry

This post is brought to you by UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, an Archinect Partner School Our infrastructure is aging, and as it does, we face dilemmas around what to do with it. Renovate? Replace? Eliminate? Today, these age-old questions are complicated by the climate crisis: threats like... View full entry

Our latest weekly curated jobs roundup from the Archinect Job board highlights six firms with California-based positions for BIM and architectural technology specialists.  If you're on the other side of the country, be sure to check out our roundup of BIM, architectural technology... View full entry

Continuing with our weekly job highlights, we're focusing on six firms with open positions for design professionals who specialize in BIM, architectural technologies, and computational design.  As a leader in architectural employment and professional practice, the Archinect job board... View full entry

A group of designers, artists, and technologists from MIT have unveiled details of a pavilion delivered by the team for Burning Man 2023. The Living Knitwork Pavilion is described by the group as “an architectural-scale interactive 3D knitted textile shade structure that leverages electrically... View full entry

The third collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)’s ongoing Augmented Reality Monumental Perspectives series has been unveiled to the public, featuring works of five artists that offer insights into the histories of their own unique pockets of LA’s patchwork mosaic of... View full entry