What Will It Take to Safeguard New Orleans? With officials vowing to rebuild New Orleans, the question of how fully to defend the city against another catastrophe will be examined as never before. And in the LATimes, A Comeback for Big Government...the president is turning to many of the New Deal... View full entry
Veritas et Venustas has some news clippings from the Philadelphia Inquirer. Read View full entry
Call for Short Papers. "Events overturn theory", was one aphorism of Henri Lefebvre. What have we learned? How does New Orleans reveal shortcomings in theoretical positions and in accepted social attitudes and practices? What new questions should be asked? View full entry
A Portrait of the Visual Arts by RAND researchers. As museums seek to expand audiences, they face tradeoffs between drawing large crowds and undermining the quality of an individual's museum-going experience. More on artists and what the future holds for fine arts. report pdf | news: Visual Arts... View full entry
NEW YORK - Holding up pictures of their loved ones and signs that read "Preserve Sacred Ground," more than 500 relatives of Sept. 11 victims rallied at the World Trade Center site Saturday against a proposed museum. AP | see also Monumental History the Sequel and Snohetta Building Smaller &... View full entry
Black Cat Bone , a blog from Biloxi that has been charting the culture infrastructure damage of the Hurricane, posted some before and after shots of historic structures on the coast. More news at the Washington Post, including quotes from Gehry architects on the Ohr O'Keefe. Previously: Gehry... View full entry
Christopher Hawthorne, architecture critic for the LATimes, evaluates the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the built fabric of the city. Pictures and informative graphics provided. Via Daily Dose. Also from that Dose, see mindboggling and amazing slide show w/ narrative timeline of events from the... View full entry
Will the New Orleans Saints ever play again on the astroturf, stage to "relief efforts gone wrong, a scene of heartbreaking misery for thousands"? read View full entry
The case against rebuilding New Orleans gets turned over in Slate and places the future of the city into the lens of theme park. The whole situation becomes a sort of anti-Venice? via Urbanism.org View full entry
An authoritative voice is hinting at climate change. It is ironic, even Orwellian, that the White House could see itself forced to embrace that kind of reasoning after never acknowledging global warming. At least it would be a less accountable scapegoat for the tragedy than the reported "brain... View full entry
Did someone say something about 'come hell or high water'? The "toxic metropolis" has some surreal charms. "You're able to see the stars," he says. "It's wonderful." And some people are reluctant to leave home, pets and neighborhood unsupervised. Besides, "I haven't even run out of weed yet," she... View full entry
... has now officially begun and tickets are still available over the phone for last minute New Yorkers. Diller + Scofidio will be speaking, along with many other high-profile designers from web, graphic, and motion. SP05 View full entry
The Slate's take on temporary/modular housing its history: "Architects in the past have proposed a variety of ingenious shelters, including prefabs, inflatables, geodesic dome kits, sprayed polyurethane igloos, and temporary housing made of cardboard tubes and plastic beer crates. As Davis points... View full entry
Auburn University students have designed shipping container shelter units for the victims of Katrina.AUNews l via View full entry
The New Yorker this week re-prints a classic 1987 article by John McPhee, on New Orleans and its strange topography - and it's really so good, so unbelievably interesting, from an architecture/landscape engineering/future catastrophe standpoint, that it's hard to imagine anyone doing better than... View full entry