Cameron Sinclair Speaks at MFAH
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
On Wednesday October 10th, Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, and co-author of “Design like you Give a Damn” will be delivering the final lecture in the Rice Design Alliance’s 2007 Fall series “Design Activism: Agents of Change.”

Luce et Studio
By kim
Monday, October 08, 2007
Luce et Studio was the brainchild of Canadian architect Jennifer Luce and was established in 1990 in San Diego. "The studio focuses on innovative responses to design and architectural challenges at all scales. Passionate about research, new technologies, materials and a strong philosophy about art in architecture, the work defies classification and explores innovation." Internationally recognized and awarded for incredible modern design. 

David Chipperfield's "Small Acropolis" Wins the Stirling
By Steve
Monday, October 08, 2007
The biggest award in the UK for architecture, the Stirling Prize, was given out this weekend...to a building in Germany. Ah, but if you read the fine print, you see that the firm who wins "must be a RIBA member, but the building can be anywhere in the European Union." The winner in question is the beautiful Museum of Modern Literature, designed by the top-tier David Chipperfield Architects.

Bilbao and the Gift of Gehry
By Steve
Monday, October 08, 2007
Speaking of museums and architecture, but heading in a much, much different direction, comes this story from the weekend edition of the Financial Times: "The Museum That Saved a City." It's about Frank Gehry's waterfront batch of twisted metal, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain and how it has saved a dying town.

James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia
By Architecture Matters
Sunday, 7 October 2007
After getting a series of hate mails from die-hard-architecture fans and not to mention archi-maniac on my previous post - What is Architecture? Once again, what is architecture? Is it a form of art? and architects are into architecture because of the money? passion? a civic duty to uplift mankind?

Weekend Review: The Future of Nature
By Kelli Best-Oliver
Saturday, October 06, 2007
When I talk to people about thinking sustainably, they inevitably ask for books to read, and although there are several books I love about sustainability, they’re all very specific to one area of sustainability. Want to read about food? Try Michael Pollan, Peter Singer, or the new Barbara Kingsolver book. 

Archidose #141
by John
Saturday, October 06, 2007
The Bloch Building addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO by Steven Holl, 2007. 

Taking Life Easy in Urban Italy
By Stephan Orth
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Supporters of Italy's "Slow City" movement are trying to develop liveable cities, banning cars from city centers and blocking McDonald's branches and supermarkets. The movement is spreading across Europe and is now taking off in Asia. It's not easy to be punctual for a meeting with Stefano Cimicchi. Parking places are hard to come by in Orvieto, even if cars are still legal. Cars in the city center stick out like a sore thumb among strolling pedestrians, who move to the sides of the streets with studied slowness.