Places Wire

  • News and commentary from around the web, handpicked by the editors of Places Journal.

  • Images from the Secret World of Bog

    Images from the Secret World of Bog

    The coastal belt stretching from the western and northern fringes of Vancouver Island to Southeast Alaska have the perfect ecological formula for bogs, which host a remarkable variety of species and hold large amounts of carbon as peat. On Calvert Island, they have been developing for more than 10,000 years.

    11 hours ago via @HakaiMagazine @ShannaDBaker
  • Bombscapes: Of War and Earth

    Bombscapes: Of War and Earth

    “Bombturbation” is the cratering of a land surface and “mixing of the soil with an explosive device,” which changes the long-term landscape from the formation of soil and vegetation to future human use, says Joseph P. Hupy, a geographer at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. That’s familiar terrain for people the world over, but no more so than in Laos.

    16 hours ago via @UndarkMag @RamblingSpoon @jerryredfern
  • Screening of Documentary “Unfinished Spaces” in Chicago

    Screening of Documentary “Unfinished Spaces” in Chicago

    The film, directed by Alysa Nahmias & Benjamin Murray, tells the story of the Cuban National Art Schools in Havana. In 2014, it won the Society of Architectural Historians’ inaugural Award for Film and Video. The Instituto Cervantes showing is at 6pm on September 29. (Also see Belmont Freemont’s review of the film, “What Is It About the Art Schools?” in Places.)

    20 hours ago via @Chicago_IC @SAH1365 @UnfnshdSpaces
  • In San Francisco, a Sinking Skyscraper and a Deepening Dispute

    In San Francisco, a Sinking Skyscraper and a Deepening Dispute

    The Millennium Tower, which its developers say is the largest reinforced concrete building in the western U.S., has sunk about 16 inches and is leaning six inches toward a neighboring skyscraper. The ensuing scandal has produced a wide-eyed examination of whether the city’s frenetic skyscraper-building spree was properly monitored by authorities.

    1 day ago via @NYTimes @ThomasFullerNYT
  • How Kampala Is Building a Culture of Taxpaying

    How Kampala Is Building a Culture of Taxpaying

    The Ugandan city has adopted a new tax system, eCitie, aimed at streamlining revenue collections and improving accountability and organization within its government offices. The goal is not only to create a culture that sees paying taxes as a responsibility, but also to ensure that taxpayers see the benefits in services.

    1 day ago via @Citiscope @amyfallon
  • Jane Jacobs’s Street Smarts

    Jane Jacobs’s Street Smarts

    “Most big ideas turn out to be half right, half wrong — and, as time goes on, the right bits look ever more obvious, while the wrong bits look really wrong.” Adam Gopnik reflects on the afterlife of Jacobs’s ideas as several books, including Robert Kanigel’s biography, Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs, mark her centenary.

    2 days ago via @NewYorker @adamgopnik
  • China’s Rural Orphans of Progress

    China’s Rural Orphans of Progress

    According to a UNICEF estimate, 29m children in China have lost both parents to a distant job, and 61m – nearly as many as there are people in Britain or children in America – have lost one. While China’s State Council acknowledged the problem and announced proposals to alleviate it, little impact has been seen in the country’s remote villages.

    3 days ago via @1842Magazine @alecash
  • The Little Misfit Buildings That Make Cities Wonderful and Hold Them Back

    The Little Misfit Buildings That Make Cities Wonderful and Hold Them Back

    Across the city, these properties — holdouts to the development around them — juxtapose Washington’s past with what it’s becoming today. Each has its own backstory. And all attest to the challenge of a city struggling to remake itself in pursuit of denser, taller, more modern. While there is something romantic about them, they can slow the city’s evolution.

    3 days ago via @WashingtonPost @emilymbadger
  • The NMAAHC Building is Striking, But Its Collection is Remarkable

    The NMAAHC Building is Striking, But Its Collection is Remarkable

    Barack Obama formally opens the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. on Saturday. It is the content that should come before the architecture of the building that serves it. But the building achieves its main, difficult task, which is to be both American and African American, and to be of its location but also different from it.

    3 days ago via @Guardian @NMAAHC @rowanmoore
  • NYC’s Subway Gridlock Could Trigger a Transit Renaissance

    NYC’s Subway Gridlock Could Trigger a Transit Renaissance

    In 2019, the city will shut down the L subway line that runs under the East River and across Manhattan for 18 months to repair the damage wrought by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Plans to replace its capacity are underway, including the proposed 14th Street PeopleWay, which could become a permanent car-free thoroughfare.

    4 days ago via @WIred
  • New ASLA Guide to Resilient Landscape Design

    New ASLA Guide to Resilient Landscape Design

    The online guide is based on the principle that resilient design involves working with nature and explains how communities can better protect themselves from natural disasters and disruptive events, including drought, extreme heat, flooding, and landslides, through resilient landscape planning and design.

    5 days ago via @landarchitects @Jared_L_Green
  • Arts Architecture Boom Is Underway Around the World

    Arts Architecture Boom Is Underway Around the World

    Architects are once again fully engaged in the invention — and reinvention — of cultural landscapes, for the first time since the Great Recession sent many of these projects into flat files. New work is forthcoming from firms including Steven Holl, David Adjaye, Herzog & de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas/OMA, Thomas Heatherwick, Fumihiko Maki, Mecanoo, and Robert A. M. Stern.

    5 days ago via @NYTimes @ReedKroloff @stevenhollarch
  • Coming Soon, Economists Hope: Big Spending on Roads, Bridges and Ports

    Coming Soon, Economists Hope: Big Spending on Roads, Bridges and Ports

    With both presidential candidates promising investment in infrastructure plus growing accord among economists that increased spending in the area could invigorate the American economy and raise overall living standards, cautious optimism is emerging that some sort of big public works push is coming, regardless of who is elected.

    5 days ago via @NYTimes @ConorDougherty
  • Tijuana’s Getting a $61m Transit Makeover

    Tijuana’s Getting a $61m Transit Makeover

    The Mexican border city is moving from old U.S. school buses to a 23-mile, air-conditioned bus rapid transit system with WiFi. The first phase of the scheme, called the Sistema Integral de Transporte Tijuana (SITT), is due for completion in November. Transit times are expected to be reduced by 20 to 30 percent.

    5 days ago via @NextCityOrg @johnny_mgdlno
  • Irrigation Nation: Drought and America’s Breadbasket

    Irrigation Nation: Drought and America’s Breadbasket

    The center-pivot irrigation system transformed farming in the Great Plains in the 20th century by tapping into groundwater and making it possible to grow thirsty crops on a new scale. Its impact on the country’s groundwater is alarming, with levels falling in 64 per cent of wells by an average of ten feet in the last two decades.

    5 days ago via @PacificStand @TedGenoways
  • Americans Appear Willing to Pay for a Carbon Tax Policy

    Americans Appear Willing to Pay for a Carbon Tax Policy

    A poll released by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research this week found that 43 percent of Americans aren’t willing to pay anything to fund a carbon policy. Of the remaining majority, 57 percent would pay at least $1 and 20 percent would pay $50.

    7 days ago via @UpshotNYT
  • NMAAHC is a Bold Challenge to Traditional D.C. Architecture

    NMAAHC is a Bold Challenge to Traditional D.C. Architecture

    The National Museum of African American History and Culture, designed by a consortium of architecture firms calling itself Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup, is the most impressive and ambitious public building to go up in Washington in a generation, says Christopher Hawthorne.

    7 days ago via @LATimes @HawthorneLAT
  • Bask in These Glorious Libraries

    Bask in These Glorious Libraries

    Libraries are no longer primarily places where books are stored, but what exactly are they? Flexible spaces open new possibilities and new functions for the library, which leads us to the wonders in the videos featured here. The bold and daring architecture and design of modern libraries continues to fascinate, particularly in an era where so many are losing funding.

    7 days ago via @ScholarlyKitchn
  • President Obama Is Creating the First U.S. Atlantic Marine Monument

    President Obama Is Creating the First U.S. Atlantic Marine Monument

    The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, located about 150 miles off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is a 4,900-square-mile sanctuary rich with three underwater canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon. Obama has protected more land and water than any other president in history.

    1 week ago via @PacificStand @MadeleineTwnsnd
  • Looking into the Collection at the NMAAHC

    Looking into the Collection at the NMAAHC

    The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture opens on September 24 in Washington. The museum ran an “Antiques Roadshow”-style project in fifteen cities that encouraged people to give heirlooms for its collection. Here are a few of these donors, artifacts, and a look at the new museum.

    1 week ago via @NYTimes @NMAAHC
  • Military Experts Say Climate Change Poses ‘Significant Risk’ to Security

    Military Experts Say Climate Change Poses ‘Significant Risk’ to Security

    A coalition of 25 military and national security experts, including former advisers to Ronald Reagan and George W Bush, has warned that climate change poses a “significant risk to U.S. national security and international security” that requires more attention from the U.S. federal government.

    1 week ago via @Guardian @olliemilman
  • Making up Ground: The Story of Manufactured Land

    Making up Ground: The Story of Manufactured Land

    The absence of ground has proved to be a surprisingly small obstacle for people who want to build. Large portions of cities from San Francisco to Hong Kong to Marseilles were built on top of fill. Such human activity has created a new layer on the planet’s surface that geologists and archaeologists are calling the “archaeosphere.”

    1 week ago via @99PIorg @emmettsfitz @earthscraping
  • Denise Scott Brown On Photography

    Denise Scott Brown On Photography

    The influential architect-planner has always relied on her camera as a critical tool. Her photography is currently showcased in the exhibition Wayward Eye: The Photography of Denise Scott Brown, on view at the Venice Architecture Biennale through November 27. Here, she discusses her colorful and analytic use of photography over the decades.

    1 week ago via @MetropolisMag
  • We, the People Versus We, the Wealthy

    We, the People Versus We, the Wealthy

    In one way or another, this is the oldest story in our country’s history: the struggle to determine whether “we, the people” is a metaphysical reality — one nation, indivisible — or merely a charade masquerading as piety and manipulated by the powerful and privileged to sustain their own way of life at the expense of others.

    1 week ago via @TheNation
  • Mourning 9/11 Fifteen Years Later

    Mourning 9/11 Fifteen Years Later

    Fifteen years after 9/11, the tragedy still seems to cast forth questions about how to mourn on a civic or national scale. New York’s skyline is altered, the glassy blue Freedom Tower taller than the Twin Towers it replaces. Millions of visitors have streamed through the National September 11 Memorial and Museum since it opened in May 2014.

    1 week ago via @BostonReview
  • Inside the Gentrification of Grand Central Market

    Inside the Gentrification of Grand Central Market

    First opened in 1917, since 2013 the market has undergone widespread change. Its rediscovery speaks to the collision of commerce and community throughout central L.A., which is why Grand Central’s transformation continues to be both cheered and scrutinized, mimicked and lamented, and in a courthouse just blocks away, litigated.

    1 week ago via @LA_Mag @byjessekatz
  • Climate Change Project Wins ‘Memorials for the Future’ Competition

    Climate Change Project Wins ‘Memorials for the Future’ Competition

    The San Francisco Bay Area-based landscape architects Erik Jensen and Rebecca Sunter won the ideas competition as the Azimuth Land Craft Team with their project, “Climate Chronograph.” The proposed memorial is a public record of rising sea levels: “a living observatory for an indeterminate emergent process.”

    1 week ago via @NatlParkService @NCPCgov @Van_Alen
  • A Timeline of the Earth’s Average Temperature

    A Timeline of the Earth’s Average Temperature

    XKCD’s webcomic shows the Earth’s temperature in a timeline from the last ice age glaciation, 22,ooo years ago, to the present day and into the next century and compares it to the 1961-1990 average. ‘When people say “the climate has changed before,” these are the kinds of changes they are talking about.’

    2 weeks ago via @xkcd
  • The 280 Tribes Protesting on the Plains

    The 280 Tribes Protesting on the Plains

    Activists have called it the largest, most diverse tribal action in at least a century. On Friday, the federal government announced that it was temporarily blocking construction of an oil pipeline at an important river crossing just up the road from the protest camp. Here are some of the stories from those that have made the journey.

    2 weeks ago via @NYTimes
  • The Quiet Power of Maya Lin

    The Quiet Power of Maya Lin

    Three books, Creating the Vietnam Veterans Memorial: The Inside Story, Memorials to Shattered Myths: Vietnam to 9/11, and Maya Lin: Topologies, offer perspectives upon the work and life of the architect that won the open design competition to create the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial of 1981–1982 in Washington, D.C.

    2 weeks ago via @NYBooks
  • Home Is Where the Parking Lot Is

    Home Is Where the Parking Lot Is

    An airport parking lot in Los Angeles has become an improvised village of airline workers. Watch Lance Oppenheimer’s short film about the motor-home community and the pilots, flight attendants and mechanics who have made their homes there.

    2 weeks ago via @NYTimes @lanceopp
  • The View From Baltimore

    The View From Baltimore

    In his coming-of-age book The Cook Up, D. Watkins writes about drugs, race, and class for audiences living in different Americas. It is a personal history that complicates stereotypes and addresses fatal disparities in American culture in a city that has become a locus of racial anxieties.

    2 weeks ago via @TheAtlantic @zhindin @dwatkinsworld
  • ‘Rolling Coal’ in Diesel Trucks, to Rebel and Provoke

    ‘Rolling Coal’ in Diesel Trucks, to Rebel and Provoke

    There is a new menace on America’s roads: diesel truck drivers who soup up their engines and remove their emissions controls to “roll coal,” or belch black smoke, at pedestrians, cyclists and unsuspecting Prius drivers. State legislatures, as well as local law enforcement agencies, are starting to take action.

    2 weeks ago via @NYTimes @HirokoTabuchi
  • The Well-Tempered City: How to Balance Prosperity and Equity

    The Well-Tempered City: How to Balance Prosperity and Equity

    Cities need a framework to unify their many disparate programs, departments, and aspirations. Renowned developer and urban thinker Jonathan F. P. Rose argues for new criteria for urban planning and development based upon five qualities: coherence, circularity, resilience, community, and compassion.

    2 weeks ago via @MetropolisMag
  • The Forbidden City to Convict’s Landing: Rare Early City Maps

    The Forbidden City to Convict’s Landing: Rare Early City Maps

    From London when it had only one bridge on what it thought to be the city’s first printed map in 1572, to a pictorial rendition of Sir Francis Drake’s invasion of Santo Domingo from 1589, these global city maps date back to the 1500s and are taken from Great City Maps, published by DK.

    2 weeks ago via @Guardian @DKPublishing
  • California Is About To Find Out What A Truly Radical Climate Policy Is Like

    California Is About To Find Out What A Truly Radical Climate Policy Is Like

    California has long prided itself on being a world leader on climate change. But now the state is taking on a far, far more audacious task: trying to prove to the world that it’s possible — desirable, even — to pursue the really drastic emission cuts needed to stave off severe global warming.

    2 weeks ago via @VoxDotCom @bradplumer
  • The Modernist Marvel Town on the Marshes of Essex

    The Modernist Marvel Town on the Marshes of Essex

    In the 1930s, the Czech shoe giant Bata built a model town for its workers. East Tilbury was designed after the industrial garden city of Zlín, by František Lydie Gahura and Vladimír Karfík. The town is on show as part of Essex Architecture Weekend, which shines a light on Essex modernism.

    2 weeks ago via @Guardian @timburrows @RadicalEssex
  • The Art of Urban Loneliness

    The Art of Urban Loneliness

    In The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, Olivia Laing investigates the sites and sensations of isolation through the lives and works of visual artists including Andy Warhol and David Hopper. Here, she discusses some of the themes and personal experiences behind the book.

    2 weeks ago via @CityLab @eillieanzi
  • Discrimination By Design

    Discrimination By Design

    You can’t talk about discriminatory design without mentioning Robert Moses, whose legacy in New York City has shown how the physical design of the environment is a powerful tool when it is used to exclude and isolate specific groups of people, but there are many ways that discrimination surfaces in the design of public spaces.

    2 weeks ago via @ProPublica @Digg @lenagroeger
  • The Chaotic Race To Build Elon Musk’s Hyperloop

    The Chaotic Race To Build Elon Musk’s Hyperloop

    Two startups, Hyperloop One and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, are racing to be the first to build Musk’s alternative to California’s pricy proposed high-speed rail project: the Hyperloop, levitating pods that would travel in near-vacuum tubes at near the speed of sound.

    2 weeks ago via @Wired @olifranklin
  • Inside the Mind of a Creative Architect

    Inside the Mind of a Creative Architect

    In the late 1950s, 40 architects took part in a psychology study at the University of California, Berkeley, that delved deep into the personality and processes behind a creative mind. What did the results reveal about the giants of midcentury architecture that took part?

    2 weeks ago via @ArchitectMag @Loudpaper
  • Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun

    Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun

    Scientists’ warnings that the rise of the sea would eventually imperil the United States’ coastline are no longer theoretical. In many regions, the sea has crept up to the point that a high tide and a brisk wind are all it takes to send water pouring into streets and homes.

    2 weeks ago via @NYTimes @JustinHGillis
  • How Voting Laws Squelch Urban America’s Voice

    How Voting Laws Squelch Urban America’s Voice

    America’s disenfranchised felons, disproportionately concentrated in urban centers and estimated to number 5.85m by The Sentencing Project, are denied the vote. A new movement is aiming to change that by reforming laws around the country, including in Louisiana, which currently bars those on probation or parole.

    2 weeks ago via @NextCityOrg @katyreckdahl @SentencingProj
  • Concrete, A Necessary Evil In the L.A. River’s Ecosystem

    Concrete, A Necessary Evil In the L.A. River’s Ecosystem

    As the city moves towards a greener future for the river, it must be sensitive to the life that has managed to grow around it, despite its currently not-so-green surroundings. According to a 2006 report, as many as 15,000 shorebirds, including at least 22 different species, can be found in the river’s concrete channel between Long Beach and Paramount.

    2 weeks ago via @KCET @ccjao
  • Creating Sustainable Cities by ‘Reimagining the Civic Commons’

    Creating Sustainable Cities by ‘Reimagining the Civic Commons’

    Akron, Memphis, Chicago, and Detroit will split $40 million in funding, provided by the Kresge, Knight, Rockefeller, and JPB Foundations, for small, local projects “at the bottom of every mayor’s budget list” — including vacant lots, closed-down schools, and neglected parks.

    2 weeks ago via @CityLab @KresgeFdn @KnightFdn @RockefellerFdn
  • How Can Louisiana Build Back Smarter?

    How Can Louisiana Build Back Smarter?

    The flooding that hit Louisiana last month was the eighth so-called 500-year flood event since May 2015, affecting hundreds of thousands of people over 1,000 square miles. “Landscape architects should be leading the call to design our landscapes to be resilient to flood and disaster,” says Wes Michaels.

    3 weeks ago via @LandArchitects @Jared_L_Green @SMM_Aus
  • Architecture, The Hopeful Act

    Architecture, The Hopeful Act

    “Architects and designers are building today’s cities with the expectation that their work will create well-being for communities now and in the future. Building, after all, is essentially a hopeful act.” Susan S. Szenasy reflects on the promise and potential of architecture in the midst of a divisive political season.

    3 weeks ago via @MetropolisMag @szenasy
  • How Big Can China’s Cities Get?

    How Big Can China’s Cities Get?

    China’s planned city “clusters” — including the Yangtze Delta Cluster which encompasses Shanghai  — are expected to be home to 50m people. The clusters will create the world’s biggest labor markets, extending the limits of China’s major cities, and further urbanize a country that’s still more than 40 percent rural.

    3 weeks ago via @BV @AdamMinter
  • Their Soil Toxic, 1,100 Indiana Residents Scramble to Find New Homes

    Their Soil Toxic, 1,100 Indiana Residents Scramble to Find New Homes

    In East Chicago, the West Calumet Housing Complex is to be demolished following the discovery of high levels of lead contamination, displacing residents and raising questions over the handling of pollution in the heavily-industrialized area and the health implications for local people.

    3 weeks ago via @NYTimes @abbygoodnough @NYTNational
  • New Evidence For The Economic Value of Walkability

    New Evidence For The Economic Value of Walkability

    Research by RedFin calculated a city’s “Walk Score” and found that increased walkability correlates with higher home values. The high price that we now have to pay to get walkable places ought to be a strong public policy signal that we should be looking for ways to build more such neighborhoods, says Joe Cortright.

    3 weeks ago via @CityObs @Joe_Cortright
  • ‘Mapping a Growing Nation’ Exhibition Tracks the Making of America

    ‘Mapping a Growing Nation’ Exhibition Tracks the Making of America

    The Library of Congress’ new exhibition,  Mapping a Growing Nation: From Independence to Statehood, features Abel Buell’s 1784 “New and Correct Map of the United States of North America” — the first map of the newly independent United States compiled, printed, and published in America by an American.

    3 weeks ago via @MapRoomBlog @LibraryCongress
  • Amsterdam, Revisited

    Amsterdam, Revisited

    The urban landscape of the Dutch city is changing as population growth leads to the construction of new housing and a spike in real estate prices. While tourism and global hipsterism have transformed the city, its canals and medieval architecture endure.

    3 weeks ago via @NYTimes @RussellShorto
  • The Fight to Not Be #Deported2Death

    The Fight to Not Be #Deported2Death

    One former detainee brings to light the struggle of many asylum‐seekers who are languishing in detention centers in the U.S. and facing deadly deportation to the countries they fled from: from persecution in Bangladesh to incarceration and hunger strike in El Paso.

    3 weeks ago via @OpenCityMag @dulani_jai
  • The Rent Is Still Too Damn High

    The Rent Is Still Too Damn High

    Large cities aren’t the only places experiencing a dearth of affordable housing. The current crisis highlights the need for the federal government to recommit to the 1949 Housing Act goal to provide all Americans with a “decent home and suitable living environment.”

    3 weeks ago via @DemJournal @BuffaloArchPlan
  • The Restoration of Alvar Aalto’s Vyborg Library

    The Restoration of Alvar Aalto’s Vyborg Library

    The influential building’s restoration was funded by the Finnish government, despite the annexation of the city by the Soviet Union after WW2. The preservation of its Functionalist aesthetic is a success in stark contrast to the later architecture of its surroundings, says Owen Hatherley.

    3 weeks ago via @Dezeen @owenhatherley
  • It Is Impossible To Divorce Nature From Human Influence

    It Is Impossible To Divorce Nature From Human Influence

    Can that influence be democratic? In a forum on “The New Nature,” thinkers including Jo Guldi, Anna Tsing, Vandana Shiva, and Roy Scranton respond to Jedidiah Purdy on the topic of the Anthropocene and the question of nature.

    3 weeks ago via @BostonReview @JedediahSPurdy
  • Photographing “Houseraising” on the Jersey Shore

    Photographing “Houseraising” on the Jersey Shore

    Ira Wagner’s current project, included in The Fence 2016 photography exhibition, looks at the reconstruction of the Jersey Shore after Hurricane Sandy, specifically, the process of “houseraising,” or constructing new elevated foundations to protect homes against future floods.

    3 weeks ago via @United_Photo
  • Why the High Cost of City Living is Bad For Everyone

    Why the High Cost of City Living is Bad For Everyone

    The cost of living in New York, San Francisco, and Washington is not just a local problem but a national one. That these cities have grown into centers of opportunity largely for those who already have it is not good for the cities, which need strivers to flourish.

    3 weeks ago via @NewYorker @chumpchanger @enf
  • This City Runs on Donations

    This City Runs on Donations

    Small family foundations are increasingly funding parks, neighborhood revitalization, education and more in places like Flint, Michigan’s north side. With new emphasis on place-based and data-driven approaches for directing money in cities, what’s next for urban-focused philanthropy?

    3 weeks ago via @NextCityOrg @scottythescribe
  • Does Burning Man Need a New Urban Plan?

    Does Burning Man Need a New Urban Plan?

    Last fall, a group of Burners describing themselves as the Black Rock City Ministry of Urban Planning announced a competition for a new urban plan. Even a temporary city requires thoughtful design when it reaches a population of 70,000 and growing. (See also Burning Man and the Metropolis, in Places.)

    3 weeks ago via @CityLab @kristoncapps @nate_berg @burningman
  • Fukushima’s Underground Ice Wall

    Fukushima’s Underground Ice Wall

    Officially named the Land-Side Impermeable Wall, the $320m project is intended to seal off the plant’s reactor buildings within a vast, rectangular-shaped barrier of man-made permafrost, halting the influx of groundwater and stemming leaks of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.

    3 weeks ago via @NYTimes @facklernyt
  • Dear Artforum: Six Men Memorialize Zaha Hadid

    Dear Artforum: Six Men Memorialize Zaha Hadid

    Reading Artforum’s Summer 2016 issue, Karen Burns encounters antiquated myths of architecture and equity in its all-male obituaries for Zara Hadid. (Also see the series, Women in Architecture, in Places, and Where Are the Women Architects?, by Despina Stratigakos, from Places Books.)

    3 weeks ago via @_Parlour @KazbarBurns
  • The View From the Burj Khalifa

    The View From the Burj Khalifa

    Why are people building elaborate residential towers for no one to live in? The Burj Khalifa is emblematic of this new breed of skyscraper, though such rarefied spaces — and the effects they have on their neighborhoods — can be found in cities from New York to Hong Kong to Melbourne.

    4 weeks ago via @CatapultStory @_mattking
  • Austin’s Magical Music Map

    Austin’s Magical Music Map

    The Austin Music Map, a collaboration with KUTX, is an interactive crowd-sourced map that allows users to share musical locations around the city and share media to create ‘playlists’ for venues and neighborhoods.

    4 weeks ago via @GMapsMania @AustinMusicMap
  • Fighting Foreclosure in Atlanta

    Fighting Foreclosure in Atlanta

    An excerpt from Sarah Jaffe’s new book on grassroots activism in America, Necessary Trouble: America In Revolt, explores the efforts of Occupy Our Homes Atlanta to support residents facing foreclosure and change federal housing rules in response to the mortgage crisis.

    4 weeks ago via @DissentMag @sarahljaffe
  • Today’s Inequality Could Easily Become Tomorrow’s Catastrophe

    Today’s Inequality Could Easily Become Tomorrow’s Catastrophe

    Long-range threats such as future wars and environmental change rarely figure in political debate or the concerns of the private sector. Can we depend on the benevolence of society to compensate and care for those who would lose out if dire events actually happened?

    4 weeks ago via @NYTimes @RobertJShiller
  • Ed Ruscha and the Art of Being in Los Angeles

    Ed Ruscha and the Art of Being in Los Angeles

    The artist captures the deeply two-dimensional city like no one else, says D. J. Waldie in an essay inspired by the deYoung museum’s exhibition, Ed Ruscha and the Great American West. A new Ruscha mural, to replace Kent Twitchell’s 1987 “Ed Ruscha Monument,” is expected this year.

    4 weeks ago via @ThePublicSquare @DJWaldie
  • Uncovering the Potential of Honolulu’s Hidden Streams

    Uncovering the Potential of Honolulu’s Hidden Streams

    Centuries after Native Hawaiians built a vast irrigation system, known as ‘auwai, sustainability advocates are working to put them back into the urban landscape. It is a vital opportunity to protect against flooding and sea level rise and improve the health of the island’s fresh and saltwater resources.

    4 weeks ago via @NextCityOrg @timothy_schuler
  • The ‘Tortured Transit’ of Bus Routes

    The ‘Tortured Transit’ of Bus Routes

    The Transit Center, a research organization focusing on improving urban mobility, is calling for simpler bus routes, arguing that it will not only improve efficiency, but also ridership. Its social media campaign, #StraighterIsGreater, is collecting maps of the most convoluted bus routes from around the world.

    4 weeks ago via @CityLab @linpoonsays @TransitCenter
  • A Monument to Outlast Humanity

    A Monument to Outlast Humanity

    In the Nevada desert, the artist Michael Heizer, a pioneer of the earthworks movement, completes “City,” his colossal life’s work. The sculpture, a mile and a half long and inspired by ancient ritual cities, is made from rocks, sand, and concrete mined and mixed on site.

    4 weeks ago via @NewYorker @danagoodyear
  • A Binational Bike Trail on the U.S.-Mexico Border

    A Binational Bike Trail on the U.S.-Mexico Border

    A planned bike trail in Matamoros, Mexico, would connect with trails in the U.S. city of Brownsville, linking cultural districts on both sides of the border. This is an unusual initiative for a border zone better known for crime, illegal immigration and political controversy.

    4 weeks ago via @Citiscope
  • “Architecture Can Seem Like a Paltry Gesture in Times Like Ours”

    “Architecture Can Seem Like a Paltry Gesture in Times Like Ours”

    How might architecture and design step up to the plate in a time of crisis? Meaningful architectural reactions to crises may take time, but quick temporary structures can be just as effective, and both are far preferable to not responding at all, says Mimi Zeiger.

    4 weeks ago via @Dezeen @loudpaper
  • Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move From Above

    Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move From Above

    Since January, police have been testing an aerial surveillance system adapted from the surge in Iraq. The service, provided to the police by a private surveillance company, operates via a Cessna aircraft that records footage of the city for up to ten hours a day.

    4 weeks ago via @BW @MonteReel1 @philip_nyc
  • Maps Show Segregation in U.S. Schools

    Maps Show Segregation in U.S. Schools

    Edbuild, a nonprofit focusing on how states fund schools, has created an interactive map which explores examples of segregation by income in schools across the United States. The map visualizes the 50 most segregated borders between school districts in the country.

    4 weeks ago via @GMapsMania @KeirClarke
  • The Need To Expand the Frontiers of Urban Sustainability

    The Need To Expand the Frontiers of Urban Sustainability

    Cities like New York, Copenhagen and Singapore each top their regions in the Green City Index. But the prevailing model of urban sustainability is too narrow: socially and spatially, it must be broadened. Social equity and global impacts are missing from measures of cities’ environmental friendliness.

    4 weeks ago via @Nature @NatureNews @dwachsmuth @aldatweets @hiangelo
  • Making a Home For Black History in Washington, D.C.

    Making a Home For Black History in Washington, D.C.

    The National Museum of African American History and Culture opens on the Mall in September. The glass cube building by David Adjaye is sheathed in bronze-coated “corona” that recalls Yoruba art and slaves’ filigree, serving as a reminder of the human work that has gone into the making of America.

    4 weeks ago via @NewYorker @vcunningham
  • The Trouble With Group Living in Boulder

    The Trouble With Group Living in Boulder

    With the share of Americans who rent at an all-time high and a shortfall in housing stock, cities are increasingly expensive. Group living offers a cheaper alternative, but in Boulder, like many other cities, occupancy law prohibits more than three or four unrelated adults from living in the same home.

    4 weeks ago via @Slate @HenryGrabar
  • The Effects of Rising Sea Levels in South Florida

    The Effects of Rising Sea Levels in South Florida

    If scientists are correct, much of South Florida will be underwater by the end of the century. Predicted global sea level rise comes with profound ecological consequences for the Everglades, an area already beset by the effects of development and artificial drainage sea level rise.

    1 month ago via @Gizmodo @themadstone
  • Six Photos Show the Interstate’s Impact on St. Louis

    Six Photos Show the Interstate’s Impact on St. Louis

    On the 60th anniversary of the interstate system, St. Louis-based commercial photographer Michael DeFilippo has been documenting the negative impact highways have had on his Missouri city’s neighborhoods.

    1 month ago via @NextCityOrg @jkjenkinney
  • Saving Langston Hughes’s House in Harlem

    Saving Langston Hughes’s House in Harlem

    The I Too Arts Collective, a group of writers led by Renée Watson and named after a well-known Hughes poem calling for equality, is raising $150,000 to save the poet’s home at 20 East 127th Street. Though it was given landmark status in 1981, the home may be at risk in the gentrifying neighborhood.

    1 month ago via @CityLab @linpoonsays @ITooArts
  • Woodbury SOA’s Annie Chu Named AIA|LA 2016 Presidential Honoree

    Woodbury SOA’s Annie Chu Named AIA|LA 2016 Presidential Honoree

    Conferred by the AIA|LA Board of Directors, the Presidential Honoree program recognizes excellence in design and individuals whose passion, talent, and dedication make an undeniable contribution to Los Angeles. Chu also received its 2016 Distinguished Educator Award and was voted Winner of Woodbury’s 2016 Excellence in Teaching Award.

    1 day ago via @Woodbury_SOA @AIALosAngeles
  • ‘Landscape Architecture as Necessity’ at USC

    ‘Landscape Architecture as Necessity’ at USC

    The three-day conference, from September 22-24, looks at landscape architecture’s ability to respond to the demands of climate change. Speakers include faculty from Places partner schools UC Berkeley, PennDesign and Toronto, and several Places authors.

    2 days ago via @USCArchitecture @nmlister @faslanyc @freeassocdesign
  • Architectural Record’s 2016 Women in Architecture Awards Winners

    Architectural Record’s 2016 Women in Architecture Awards Winners

    The third annual awards program honors design leaders that have contributed to the role of women in the profession in five areas. The winners are: Susan T. Rodriguez for Design Leader, Amale Andraos for New Generation Leader, Jenny Sabin for Innovator, Donna Robertson for Educator/Mentor and Roberta Feldman for Activist.

    2 days ago via @ArchRecord @ColumbiaGSAPP
  • Daniels Faculty Panel at Media Architecture Summit

    Daniels Faculty Panel at Media Architecture Summit

    The Daniels Faculty will host a panel entitled “24 Hour Media Architecture” at MAS 2016, taking place in Toronto September 29-October 1. The panel will explore future trends for media facades, urban media art and aesthetics, outdoor screens as (subversive) public space, and ’mediating’ the identity of place.

    3 days ago via @UofTDaniels @mediaarchitect
  • New Book on Urban Renewal Featured on NPR

    New Book on Urban Renewal Featured on NPR

    In their new book Rebuilding the American City: Design and Strategy for the 21st Century Urban Core, Sam Fox School associate professor Patty Heyda and David Gamble looked at urban design projects in 15 cities. They talked with Robin Young of NPR’s Here & Now about balancing redevelopment with issues of inequality, transportation, and climate change.

    4 days ago via @SamFoxSchool @WBUR @pheydaSTL @GambleAssoc
  • Center for Health & Research Design at Wash U

    Center for Health & Research Design at Wash U

    The CHRD at Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, led by Xiaobo Quan, is part of a growing trend for evidence-based research in architecture and is at the forefront of the field in healthcare design, which looks at the relationship between the built environment and patient outcomes.

    5 days ago via @SamFoxSchool
  • Weiping Wu Named Director of Urban Planning at Columbia GSAPP

    Weiping Wu Named Director of Urban Planning at Columbia GSAPP

    Professor Wu, an internationally acclaimed planning scholar working on global urbanization with a specific expertise in issues of migration, housing, and infrastructure of Chinese cities, will lead Master of Science in Urban Planning program. Dean Amale Andraos welcomed Wu as a “rare scholar who has the ability to bridge theory and practice.”

    6 days ago via @ColumbiaGSAPP
  • The Architectural Legacy of Bacardi

    The Architectural Legacy of Bacardi

    Building Bacardi: Architecture, Art & Identity, by Miami School of Architecture faculty Allan T. Shulman, looks at the brand’s relationship with high design and explores how the company has been a force in the development of avant-garde art and architecture through its corporate, industrial, and private buildings.

    6 days ago via @Rizzoli_Books @UM_SoA
  • Building Diversity in Austin’s Architect Community

    Building Diversity in Austin’s Architect Community

    In Austin, African-American women are hoping to diversify the field of architecture. Out of the more than 1,100 licensed architects in Austin, only seven reported their race as African-American. Architects Devanne Pena and Donna Carter, and Andrea Roberts of UTSOA’s new Initiative on Race, Gender and the Built Environment, talk to KUT about the situation.

    6 days ago via @KUT @UTSOA @FreeBlackTX
  • Marlon Blackwell Lecture at Tulane School of Architecture

    Marlon Blackwell Lecture at Tulane School of Architecture

    Fay Jones School of Architecture department head Marlon Blackwell will give the R. Allen Eskew Memorial Lecture on September 19, addressing how his design strategies draw upon vernaculars, building typologies, and the contradictions of place, seeking to transgress conventional boundaries for architecture. His firm, Marlon Blackwell Architects, won the 2016 ARCHITECT 50.

    6 days ago via @TulaneArch @FayJonesSchool
  • Saving Virginia’s Coasts at UVA

    Saving Virginia’s Coasts at UVA

    Architecture faculty Phoebe Crisman and Alex Wall are working on interdisciplinary projects in Norfolk and Portsmouth, funded by UVA’s Resilient Environment Seed Grants, which support work to develop more resilient communities that can anticipate, withstand and prevent threats from rising water.

    1 week ago via @UVaSARC
  • Bishir Prize for Vernacular Architecture Nominations Open

    Bishir Prize for Vernacular Architecture Nominations Open

    The annual Vernacular Architecture Forum Prize is awarded to the scholarly article that has made the most significant contribution to the study of vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes. UVA’s Louis Nelson won the 2015 Prize with “Architectures of African Enslavement.” The deadline for nominations is December 20.

    1 week ago via @VAFweb @UVaSARC
  • Exhibition ‘The Other Architect’ opens at Columbia GSAPP

    Exhibition ‘The Other Architect’ opens at Columbia GSAPP

    The Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery presents an exhibition of architects who expanded their role in society to shape the contemporary cultural agenda without the intervention of built form. Open through December 2, it features 23 case studies dating from the 1960s to today that explore architecture and the production of original ideas.

    1 week ago via @ColumbiaGSAPP @CCAwire
  • UTSOA Initiative on Race, Gender, and the Built Environment

    UTSOA Initiative on Race, Gender, and the Built Environment

    The new program aims to facilitate diversity among design and planning professionals and students, and foster innovation in teaching and research on race, gender and inequality in American cities. Anna Brand and Andrea Roberts have been appointed as the program’s first emerging scholar fellows.

    1 week ago via @UTSOA
  • New Exhibition ‘Every Building in Baghdad’ Opens

    New Exhibition ‘Every Building in Baghdad’ Opens

    Every Building in Baghdad: The Rifat Chadirji Archives at the Arab Image Foundation is on show at the Graham Foundation September 15-December 31. It examines the work of Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirji through his original photographs and building documents held at the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut. (See also “The Arab City,” in Places.)

    1 week ago via @GrahamFound @AIFCom
  • Architecture in the Age of Digital Media at SCI-Arc

    Architecture in the Age of Digital Media at SCI-Arc

    This symposium, at the SCI-Arc gallery on September 14, aims to address the speculative directions for architecture in relation to contemporary digital culture. Speakers will address the current and future impacts of digital media on architecture and design. Watch the live stream here: sma.sciarc.edu/live.

    2 weeks ago via @SCIarc @Archinect @designboom @LACMA @bratton
  • Michael Van Valkenburgh Lecture at Fay Jones School

    Michael Van Valkenburgh Lecture at Fay Jones School

    Michael Van Valkenburgh will present “Recent works of MVVA” at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, September 14th, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, as part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design lecture series.

    2 weeks ago via @FayJonesSchool @MVVA_INC
  • 2016 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture Call For Proposals

    2016 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture Call For Proposals

    The theme for this year’s Fellowship at Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts is Adaptation. Early-career architects are challenged to explore how flexibility and adaptive response might be better incorporated into the design process. The winning proposal will receive $50,000 to support up to a year of international travel and research. The deadline for proposals is November 1.

    2 weeks ago via @SamFoxSchool
  • Atlanta’s BeltLine: An Ambitious Plan to Bring a City Together

    Atlanta’s BeltLine: An Ambitious Plan to Bring a City Together

    The project, conceived by Georgia Tech graduate Ryan Gravel, aims to convert 22 miles of mostly disused railway beds circling the city’s urban core into a biking and pedestrian loop, a new streetcar line, and a staggeringly ambitious engine of urban revitalization.

    2 weeks ago via @NYTimes @ryangravel @GT_Architecture @RichardFausset
  • Carme Pinós Awarded 2016 Berkeley-Rupp Prize

    Carme Pinós Awarded 2016 Berkeley-Rupp Prize

    The biannual Prize awards $100,000 to a distinguished design practitioner whose work has made a significant contribution to advancing gender equity in architecture and emphasizes a commitment to sustainability and community. Pinós leads Estudio Carme Pinós in Barcelona, Spain, which she founded in 1991.

    2 weeks ago via @CEDNews @UCBerkeleyNews @Est_CarmePinos
  • AIA Award of Excellence 2016 for Fay Jones School Facilities

    AIA Award of Excellence 2016 for Fay Jones School Facilities

    The Vol Walker Hall renovation and the addition of the Steven L. Anderson Design Center for the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas, by Marlon Blackwell Architects and Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects, has been recognized by the AIA’s Education Facility Design Awards.

    2 weeks ago via @ArchitectMag @FayJonesSchool
  • UVA Faculty on Biophilic Design for Cities

    UVA Faculty on Biophilic Design for Cities

    UVA Director of the Center of Design and Health Jenny Roe presents ‘Biophilic Design for Cities: How Can it Transform Health and Wellbeing?’ at a USGBC event in Charlottesville on September 13. She will explore how city-wide biophilic design can impact upon mental health, life span, and chronic health conditions.

    2 weeks ago via @UVaSARC
  • Columbia GSAPP Wins ARCHITECT 2016 Studio and Sloan Prizes

    Columbia GSAPP Wins ARCHITECT 2016 Studio and Sloan Prizes

    The Sloan Prize winning graduate course, ‘School Without Classrooms,’ considered education environments in three potential climate scenarios. Studio Prize winner ‘Hybrid Residential Infrastructures in Rio de Janeiro’ challenged students to adapt existing, commercial-ready buildings in a dense city center for residential use.

    2 weeks ago via @ArchitectMag @ColumbiaGSAPP
  • Taubman College Wins ARCHITECT 2016 Studio Prize

    Taubman College Wins ARCHITECT 2016 Studio Prize

    Taubman College’s course, ‘The Radical and The Preposterous: Mind the Gap,’ has won the ARCHITECT Studio Prize 2016. The studio, run since 1987 in honor of college alumni Raoul Wallenberg, examines the intersection of design and humanitarian issues and has recently focused on the global refugee crisis.

    2 weeks ago via @TaubmanCollege @ArchitectMag
  • Panel on ‘Processing Design’ at Columbia GSAPP

    Panel on ‘Processing Design’ at Columbia GSAPP

    The past two decades have brought steady and swift digitization of both the means of thinking about design and the means of production. What is the meaning of ‘making’ in design processes now? Panelists Billie Faircloth, Mariana Ibañez, and Quayola will discuss with moderator Josh Jordan today at Columbia GSAPP.

    2 weeks ago via @ColumbiaGSAPP @KIERANTMBERLK @Quayola
  • Sam Fox School 10th Anniversary Celebration

    Sam Fox School 10th Anniversary Celebration

    On Friday, September 9, Washington University in St. Louis’ Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the School’s founding and the opening of the Museum’s Fumihiko Maki-designed building.

    2 weeks ago via @SamFoxSchool @KemperArtMuseum
  • Project Mapping Urban Displacement in California

    Project Mapping Urban Displacement in California

    Researchers in urban planning from UCLA and UC Berkeley are mapping gentrification and displacement in neighborhoods in L.A. and San Francisco. The interactive maps examine changes in demographics, socio-economics, housing, and transit services between 2000-2013.

    2 weeks ago via @GMapsMania @CEDNews @uclaurbnplnning
  • Miami SoA Helps Create New Smart City in the Yucatán Peninsula

    Miami SoA Helps Create New Smart City in the Yucatán Peninsula

    Zenciti is being designed by UM SoA’s Responsive Architecture and Design Lab in collaboration with UM’s Center for Computational Science and College of Engineering and the Yucatán State Government’s IT Innovation Center.

    2 weeks ago via @Archinect @UM_SoA @RAD_UM @UMCCS @UNAM_MX
  • Aarhus International Drawing of the Year 2016 Competition Opens

    Aarhus International Drawing of the Year 2016 Competition Opens

    Aarhus School of Architecture has announced its fourth International Drawing of the Year student competition. This year’s theme is ‘Habitation,’ and focuses exclusively on drawings created using digital technology. The deadline for submissions is November 1, with winners announced on December 2.

    3 weeks ago via @aarchdk
  • New Book on the Architecture of WOJR

    New Book on the Architecture of WOJR

    Room for Artifacts, edited by WOJR principal and MIT faculty member William O’Brien Jr, is released this month. The book contains a collection of sixteen architectural artifacts designed by WOJR — a mask, a church, a labyrinth, a dwelling, a bust, and a series of totems, among others.

    3 weeks ago via @MITArchitecture @wojr_org @park_books
  • New Book on Asian Urbanism

    New Book on Asian Urbanism

    Messy Urbanism: Understanding the “Other” Cities of Asia, edited by the University of Washington’s Jeffrey Hou and Manish Chalana, examines the seemingly chaotic urban landscapes of a range of Asian cities and uncovers the formalities of social and institutional politics within them.

    3 weeks ago via @HKUPress @ColumbiaUP @UrbanUW @UWBuiltEnv @ArchUW
  • NEH Award for Urban-Nature Summer Institute at UW

    NEH Award for Urban-Nature Summer Institute at UW

    The institute, City/Nature: Urban Environmental Humanities, led by urban landscape historian Thaisa Way, urban ecologist Ken Yocom, and literary scholar Richard Watts, was awarded $179,000 to examine how a more integrative understanding of city and nature can serve an increasingly urbanized world.

    4 weeks ago via @UrbanUW @UWBuiltEnv @SimpsonCenter @NEHgov
  • Berkeley CED’s Mary Comerio on Italy’s Earthquake Safety on NPR

    Berkeley CED’s Mary Comerio on Italy’s Earthquake Safety on NPR

    Professor Emerita and president of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute in Oakland Mary Comerio discussed the problems involved in reinforcing historic sites, including cost issues and debates over how to retrofit buildings, in light of Italy’s latest devastating quake.

    4 weeks ago via @CEDNews @NPRATC @EERI_tweets
  • The National Park Service Legacy of UVA’s Benjamin Howland

    The National Park Service Legacy of UVA’s Benjamin Howland

    The late UVA landscape architecture professor worked in the NPS for thirty years and was instrumental in projects including the development of the national seashore parks. As the service celebrates its 100th anniversary, Howland’s papers, archived at UVA, shed light on some of its most famous sites.

    4 weeks ago via @UVaSARC @NatlParkService @bmeyer56
  • David Ruy Named Postgraduate Chair at Sci-Arc EDGE

    David Ruy Named Postgraduate Chair at Sci-Arc EDGE

    Architect and educator David Ruy will be the postgraduate programs chair for the new Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture, which will offer four graduate degree programs in fields including architectural technologies, design theory and pedagogy, and design of cities.

    1 month ago via @SCIarc @ruy_david
  • New Site-Specific Composition to mark Fay Jones School 70th Anniversary

    New Site-Specific Composition to mark Fay Jones School 70th Anniversary

    The composition, “In saecula saeculorum” (“In Eternity”), conceived by Dean Peter MacKeith to celebrate music and architecture and composed by Paul Haas of the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, will be presented in a public performance on August 27th in Vol Walker Hall.

    1 month ago via @FayJonesSchool @paulrhaas
  • New Book on Conservation and Ecology in Texas

    New Book on Conservation and Ecology in Texas

    The Texas Landscape Project: Nature and People, co-authored by UTSOA lecturer Jonathan Ogren and David Todd, is part of the Texas Legacy Project and presents maps and photographs detailing the widespread environmental changes in the state as its population and economy have boomed.

    1 month ago via @UTSOA @TAMUPress
  • Guide to Online Courses on Urbanism

    Guide to Online Courses on Urbanism

    As the new school year approaches, CityLab rounds up a selection of free online courses on architecture, sustainability and development from eight architecture schools, including Places Partners MIT, ETH Zurich, University of Hong Kong and the University of Michigan.

    1 month ago via @CityLab @MITsap @ETH @FacArchHKU @TaubmanCollege
  • Symposium on The Secret Life of Buildings at UTSOA

    Symposium on The Secret Life of Buildings at UTSOA

    The four-day event, taking place October 19-22, will bring together leading voices in architecture and critical theory to explore buildings through the lenses of emerging theories including speculative realism and object-oriented ontology.

    1 month ago via @UTSOA @CenterForArch @ColumbiaGSAPP @SCIarc @oteropailos @the_eco_thought
  • UTSOA Fall Lectures and Exhibitions Announced

    UTSOA Fall Lectures and Exhibitions Announced

    UTSOA’s Fall events program begins on August 29 with a lecture from Alberto Campo Baeza of Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza and Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, followed by the LIVING wall: Collaboration + Fabrication exhibition, curated by Danelle Briscoe, on August 31.

    1 month ago via @UTSOA