The Wikipedia/Google Maps marriage. Feel the love. | Placeopedia View full entry
Opening (10/14): Art Interactive's nine-week-long experiment in psychogeography. The artists of Glowlab have been invited to to use the Central Square neighborhood of Cambridge as the site of their research and fill the exhibition space with the results of their investigations. View full entry
Forget rapid-prototyping how about some elbow grease - motivated samaritans build houses in New Orleans in a biblical seven days. CSM View full entry
Its Rachel Whiteread turn to fill the massive turbine hall of Tate Modern. The material: 14,000- white boxes. The exhibition opens tomorrow.BBC - the guardian - the independent - the times View full entry
Guatemalan village wiped out as mudslides kill hundreds | Guatemalan Village Overwhelmed by Task of Digging Out Hundreds of Dead From Mud View full entry
Categories can be so, well, 19th century. This article shows how "Category 4" or "Category 5" is only half the story. Can a 4 be worse than a 5? In some cases, such as Katrina, it can be. Not accounting for various other variables can also lead to deadly mistakes. View full entry
New Orleans was a beautiful machine that was left to rust. With America's commitment to infrastructure coming undone, which city will be next?nytimes View full entry
Also in Slashdot, IZ Reloaded writes "The British Library has made available 14 great books on its website. One of them is a 1508 notebook by Leonardo Da Vinci containing short treatises, notes and drawings of a wide range of subjects from mechanics to the moon. The site allows you to view the... View full entry
Early Saturday morning a major earthquake struck Kashmir around 9am local time. At least four serious aftershocks were felt in the region. The tremor is said to have lasted six minutes. India, Pakistan and Afghanistan have been affected. Thousands are feared dead and lmany more remain trapped in... View full entry
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Rita, the School of Architecture & Design at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is collecting strategies for the relief, re-imagining and rebuilding of the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coast, especially the major metropolitan center of New... View full entry
Vast wealth and absolute power aren't the keys to a gracious home - as a book and a documentary about the palaces of dictators show. The Guardian View full entry
British sculptor Rachel Whiteread has "a reputation as the world's leading sculptor of space, an artist who explores the ghostly gaps between objects and conjures an absence into a substance." She's now taking on H&deM's Turbine Gallery at Tate Modern: Guardian. View full entry
Karim Rashid hosts the next apprentice. Reality TV takes over designers with credibility. USA Network View full entry
Interested in software-driven fabrication? Check out what Jim Isermann is serving up at Deitch, NYC. On preview in our image gallery. (At Deitch Gallery 'till Oct. 15.) View full entry
Photographer and artist Amir Zaki (1974) draws inspiration from the mutations and impurities in the architectural heritage of the city of Los Angeles, such as these houses designed by Richard Neutra in the '60s (p. 32), later disavowed by his descendents. domus | amirzaki.com View full entry