Decontextualizing landscape features can make for great prints. Decontextualizing landscape features can make for great prints. Jenny Odell: The Satellite Collection is a series of six digital prints that I made by collaging cut-out imagery from Google Satellite. Each one is printed and framed at... View full entry
The right of photographers to stand in a public place and take pictures of federal buildings has been upheld by a legal settlement reached in New York. The right of photographers to stand in a public place and take pictures of federal buildings has been upheld by a legal settlement reached in New... View full entry
In a time marked by unprecedented events and challenges on a planetary scale, in a world where the reality we face is more extraordinary than the worlds we have imagined in science fiction, what is the role of design? Featuring Bruce Sterling and Geoff Manaugh, hosted by Ed Keller and Carla... View full entry
Browse through a few typical online comment threads, and the need for anger management quickly becomes clear, likely sending sane people scurrying off to more pleasant corners of the internet. Now scientists at Yahoo and their colleagues are devising ways to automatically flag inordinately irate... View full entry
"It's dangerously unstable when 5 percent of American earners account for 35 percent of all consumer spending. History makes it clear that when economies mutate into plutonomies they become dangerously volatile. Just as a ship with a broad base is more stable than a top-heavy boat, so an economy... View full entry
How to write a great cover letter is a popular topic in our discussion forum, and something we've also addressed in our Employment Advice / Professional Practice features. Hunter S. Thompson, however, provides us with another approach worth considering... if you're Hunter S. Thompson.How to write... View full entry
Re; Damien Hirst: "There is nothing worse than good taste. Nothing more stultifying than an array of consumer choices paraded as a philosophy of life. And there is nothing more absurd than someone who aspires to show good taste in contemporary art." Re; Damien Hirst: "There is nothing worse than... View full entry
This is "The Pale Blue Door" in Berlin. In a shanty town style people eat roast beef... This is "The Pale Blue Door" in Berlin. In a shanty town style people eat roast beef... Reuters | menu View full entry
Presenting a fascinating range of maps from the collection of the Hand Drawn Map Association, From Here to There is a guidebook to DIY cartography. Presenting a fascinating range of maps from the collection of the Hand Drawn Map Association, From Here to There is a guidebook to DIY cartography... View full entry
Issue 7 of MAS Context is out. The focus of the issue is on INFORMATION.Issue 7 of MAS Context is out. The focus of the issue is on INFORMATION. For these reasons, they talked to those leading the pack with their ideas and work, about the opportunities, challenges, trends and mistakes of the... View full entry
The Canadian Pavilion offers an immersive, interactive installation, an exploration in responsive architecture, a breathing, intricate lattice of living web of tens of thousands of digital sensors, in Philip Beesley's 'Hylozoic Ground.' The project stems from the concept of Hylozoism, the ancient... View full entry
some photos from detroit's infamous derelict manufacturing areas...some photos from detroit's infamous derelict manufacturing areas. View full entry
Google has announced plans to build 480 low-cost rental housing units in seven communities across the American West to Midwest. Google has announced plans to build 480 low-cost rental housing units in seven communities across the American West to Midwest. The housing complexes being built with the... View full entry
Another gem from the Archinect Discussion Forum... Another gem from the Archinect Discussion Forum...Back in school we always wanted to start a boyband called SteelStuds, but lack of talent, time and dancing coordination got in the way. Other names that popped out: -The Caulk rocks (lots of... View full entry
Don't miss this exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., on display until September 5, 2011. For 15 years, Adam Reed Tucker was an architect. Now, he constructs models of famous buildings with thousands of Legos. Smithsonian Magazine Don't miss this exhibition at the... View full entry