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A busy year for Architecture for HumanityAFH is a wonderful organization that has made architecture a tool for effecting change and hope around the world... check out the past, present and future for AFH, including a fellowship opportunity announcement.
"Eye-popping architecture doesn't have to come at the expense of function"Another review of Herzog & de Meuron's new de Young Museum in San Francisco.
Architecture 2005: Shaken & StirredThree from the Los Angeles area look back at the world of architecture in 2005 - Thom Mayne, Co-founder of Morphosis; Richard Koshalek, President of Art Center College of Design; Dana Cuff, Professor at UCLA dept. of architecture and urban design.
A Conversation with Ada Louise HuxtableAn interview with the 84-year-old critic - Ms. Huxtable weighs in on architecture, landscape and the role of critics today.
Student Design ReviewEntries are currently being accepted for I.D. magazine's 2006 Student Design Review. Four categories: Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Interactive Design, Miscellaneous. Deadline for entry is February 1, 2006
Competition - Designing the Future of New OrleansArchitectural Record in partnership with Tulane University School of Architecture announce two International Competitions (one for students, one for all) to generate housing proposals for New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Architects Call for Fifty Percent Reduction by 2010 of Fossil Fuel Used to Construct and Operate Buildings"AIA Supports Ratings Systems and Standards that Contribute to a Sustainable Future."
Living, Breathing BuildingsTwo finalists in the '05 Next Generation Competition have designed responsive building systems that exploit the inherent properties of materials with a similar goal: independence from the power grid and mechanically produced energy.
Conceptual FormsBeautiful photos by Hiroshi Sugimoto of pre-computer age plaster models of mathematical algorithms.
2005 May Be Warmest Year Ever"In Geneva last week, the World Meteorological Organization reported that 2005 thus far is the 2nd warmest year on record, extending a trend climatologists attribute at least partly to heat-trapping 'greenhouse gases' accumulating in the atmosphere."
Whispering GardenA landscape installation designed by Edwin van der Heide and NOX/Lars Spuybroek that manipulates the wind to produce a computer generated sound-scape. Planned to open late 2006 in Rotterdam.
Fresh MorphosisMetropolis provides excerpts from a recent lecture by Thom Mayne at Columbia University. (images)
Waving and shoutingHugh Pearman reviews the new National Assembly for Wales building in Cardiff by Richard Rogers.
Landscape Legends: Oral History InitiativeThe Cultural Landscape Foundation has posted four interview clips from their Oral History Initiative: Richard Haag, Ruth Shellhorn, Lawrence Halprin and Walt Gutherie. Full interviews will be available to download or for DVD purchase in spring 2006.
Great Park Indecision"Stumped for a winner, (the Irvine board) puts off a decision until January." Design team leaders are: Ken Smith, EMBT Arquitectes and Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abey. Also see our Orange County Great Park from September.
1930's American mega-urbanism"Why has Rockefeller Center succeeded where so many other urban mega-projects have not?" Witold Rybczynski pays tribute to Raymond Hood's 22-acre urban masterpiece.
President's Medals Students AwardsRIBA has announced the winners of the President's Medals for excellence in the study of architecture. See links under "Winners 2005" at right.
New turf for science: suburbiaSuburban ecosystems are one of the last frontiers for scientists trying to understand how people change the natural world - ecologists studying role of lawns, pesticides.
Casa PolloSpanish architect Santiago Cirugeda, architect of "Strategies for subversive occupation", built the 30 sq meter prototype "Chicken House" in Barcelona during the EME3 festival. The house is made with recycled materials, can be assembled in one week.
1st Advanced Architecture Contest WinnersThe winners of a competition to develop self-sufficient dwellings have been announced.
I-5 Colonnade - a park under a freewayAn interesting project in Seattle where 7.5 acres beneath a freeway deck have been reclaimed as a public park.
Architectural Wonders: Building InnovationBusiness Week comes up with a list of technologically advanced wonders of the world.
Gehry, Gehry specialFrank Gehry spews forth in an interview with Newsweek... why do his cardboard chairs cost over $800 more now than the originally did? He doesn't know. How is it working with Brad Pitt? He hasn't heard from him. Etc., etc., etc.
The Tank House LoftA repurposed water tank is part of a loft renovation by Messana O'Rorke Architects in New York City.
Heed the call of nature"Landscape architecture is an old and noble art and not to be used as a verb." Elizabeth Farrelly profiles the profession, from world history to the present in Australia.
Cellular FantasyI haven't heard anything about Michele Saee since my SCI-Arc days. Still producing intricately layered and detailed sculptural spaces... here an interesting intervention in a landmark bank building in Los Angeles (see his website for more images).
AIA Names 2006 Gold Medal and Firm Award Winners"Antoine Predock, FAIA, has won the AIA’s highest honor, the 2006 AIA Gold Medal, and California-based Moore Ruble Yudell Architects have won the 2006 Firm Award."
Fruit, please - The Edible Estate Los AngelesGardenlab is seeking Los Angeles citizens who are brave enough to break the toxic uniformity of the typical front lawn. L.A. is the next regional prototype in the Edible Estates series for spring 2006.
Manhattan tower sports woodA Manhattan apartment tower clad with exterior ply-wood panel system... Tropolism shows the goods.