This post is brought to you by vagon We are all looking for ways to continue creating as much as we can during the Covid-19 pandemic. Plus, some designers and architects all over the world are doing their best to contribute collaborative design efforts. However, not being able to access a good... View full entry
Eleven years ago, Bill Moyers brought me on his show and presented me as the last socialist in America. Now there are millions of young people who prefer socialism to capitalism.” -Mike Davis — New Yorker
Dana Goodyear of New Yorker had a conversation with Mike Davis on the occasion of his upcoming new book "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties." The article, particularly summing up Davis' own "being there" through the social and political upheavals of Southern California... View full entry
This episode of Archinect Sessions was intended to be a brief introduction to a number of conversations we've been recording with members of the architecture community from around the world, checking in to see how people are coping through the current COVID-19 crisis and related effects to... View full entry
The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced the recipients of its 2020 architecture awards. The four winning designers were selected from a pool of 34 applications, according to the Academy website, and were vetted by a jury chaired by Annabelle Selldorf that also included Peter... View full entry
This post is brought to you by Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis an Archinect School Partner The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis is pleased to announce the publication of the latest graduate and... View full entry
As we're all becoming more fluent in connecting with others online during this time of quarantine, online events offer a fantastic opportunity to connect with others, while continuing to learn, network and stay inspired. The only problem is that there hasn't been a clear way to track and vet... View full entry
Princeton University School of Architecture Professors Paul Lewis and Guy Nordenson have been awarded a research grant by the Princeton University Funding Program for Rapid Novel and Actionable COVID-19 Research Projects fund to help propel the duo's work on "Manual of Urban Distance... View full entry
Social media's growing presence within architecture culture has fueled firms’ desire to tap into a fast and responsive form of online exposure. The use of social media platforms like Instagram is a topic we've discussed widely on Archinect. However, during this time of self-quarantine... View full entry
Despite many construction projects being put on hold across the U.S., some regions, including Los Angeles, have continued on with business as usual. Word of the LACMA demolition came to light during the second week of April, while a neighboring project is also making progress. In the weeks... View full entry
Steven Holl Architects has unveiled a new video highlighting the firm’s designs for a new wing that has been added to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The REACH at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from Steven Holl Architects on Vimeo... View full entry
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced that its AIA Conference on Architecture 2020 has been cancelled for the foreseeable future. As part of the cancellation, AIA will be refunding conference registration fees for those who had previously purchased tickets to the three-day... View full entry
Although the federal government has embraced a significant economic and fiscal response to the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the roll-out of the small business relief support programs created to help keep... View full entry
This is the first installment of a narrative survey of educators around the globe on the challenges of the massive move to online teaching. Some challenges are practical and logistical; others are more conceptual, political, and even philosophical, involving the importance of campus community, the role of schools in providing for the wellbeing of students, and passionate convictions about the nature of learning and the transmission of knowledge. — Places Journal
Places Journal, which recently took a hiatus from its regular publishing schedule in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, has gathered perspectives from leading architectural educators offering their takes on what some of the challenges and concerns are for the period moving forward as design... View full entry
Around the country, as the COVID-19 shut down enters its second month, cities have demonstrated a variety of responses with regards to access to open space as shelter-in-place initiatives have taken hold. Some cities, like Los Angeles, have opted to shut down parks and hiking trails for fear of... View full entry
William Menking, educator, architectural historian, curator, and co-founder of The Architect’s Newspaper, has passed away at age 73 from cancer. Menking was born in 1947 on Ramey Air Force Base in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, and grew up in California’s Central Valley. Menking attended... View full entry
