Hadid, Libeskind: How our childhoods made us architecture's greats - CNN.com
Childhood ReCollections: Memory in Design at Roca London Gallery will include six modern-day "cabinets of curiosities" created by architects Zaha Hadid, Kengo Kuma, Daniel Libeskind, and Denise Scott...
View ArticleUrbanisation in India slow, messy, hidden: World Bank - The Times of India
India and her neighbors are going through a tortuous process of urbanization - slow, messy and partly hidden. This is seen in severe problems of livability and congestion, making cities unattractive...
View ArticleCons: No takers for NDMC Gole Market plan - The Hindu
Bricks lay exposed, walls stood crumbling and a stench hung in the air around the historic Gole Market in Central Delhi on Thursday, a day after the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) took possession...
View ArticleCFP: Irish Post-Medieval Conference 2016: The archaeology of consumption in...
From ceramics to tobacco and textiles to tea, patterns of consumption in Ireland underwent profound shifts between c.1550 and 1950. It was an era marked by increased commodity consumption and the...
View ArticlePR: Architect Deborah Berke to be next dean of Yale School of Architecture
Deborah Berke, architect and founder of the New York-based design firm Deborah Berke Partners, will be the next dean of the Yale School of Architecture, announced President Peter Salovey in a message...
View ArticleGerman Cities Rewrite Building Codes to Provide Homes for Refugees |...
Germany has reformed building codes in a marshaling of political will known as the "Culture of Welcome" for an expected one million refugees. German cities, many of them shrinking for decades, see the...
View ArticleHey, media: Those gentrifying neighborhoods had residents before the yuppies...
At the top of Sunday’s Real Estate section, The New York Timesannounces, “The South Bronx Beckons.” “For decades,” the Times observes, “the lower part of the Bronx remained off the radar.” It couldn’t...
View Article'The Edsel of architecture'? L.A. reacts to the Petersen Automotive Museum's...
The building, designed by New York-based firm Kohn Pederson Fox (KPF), is a bit of a statement to say the least: a red box structure wrapped in a series of churning steel ribbons, which are meant to...
View ArticleConf: Architecture in Time: The Temporal Conditions of Design
Birkbeck Institute for Social Research in collaboration with Architecture, Space and Society CentreColloquium Organiser:Lesley McFadyen (Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, and member of...
View ArticleConference Announcement: Conceptualizing African Epistemologies: Subaltern...
Participant AbstractsMichael O. Afolayan, Ph.D, Founder & Lead Education Consultant, M&P Educational Consulting InternationalAcquiring Traditional Occupations Among the Yoruba: Pedagogy and...
View ArticleModern architecture: What will the Queen's architectural legacy be? | The...
IN 1955, just three years after acceding to the throne, Queen Elizabeth II offically opened Terminal 2 at Heathrow airport in London. In 2014, towards the twilight of her reign—which this month became...
View ArticleThe immaculate conception theory of your neighborhood’s origins | City...
Last week, a columnist in Seattle Magazine, Knute Berger, expressed his discontent with modern housing development. As Berger sees it, today’s homebuilding pales in comparison to the virtues of early...
View ArticleEconomic Benefit of Increasing Neighbourhood Walkability: Is it a Myth?
Assessing Benefits of Neighborhood Walkability to Single-Family Property Values: A Spatial Hedonic Study in Austin, TexasWei Li, Kenneth Joh, Chanam Lee, Jun-Hyun Kim, Han Park, Ayoung Woo,
View ArticleChina’s eco-cities are often neither ecologically friendly, nor functional...
China has embarked upon what amounts to an eco-city extravaganza. Upward of 200 new eco-cities are being built across the country. Typically, these new eco-cities are built from scratch as...
View ArticleMayors: The Case for Completely Redrawing the Arrondissements of Paris - Citylab
The case for redrawing the boundaries is strong. When they were first drawn up in 1860, the arrondissements divided a Paris radically different from today. The city core teemed with residents packed...
View ArticleBanksy's Dismaland 'gave Weston-super-Mare a £20m boost' - BBC News
Over the past five weeks, more than 150,000 people have visited the subversive theme park in a derelict seafront lido, which had been shut since 2000 and reopened in a blaze of publicity on 20...
View ArticleLabour considers biggest social housebuilding drive since 70s | Politics |...
John Healey, the former Treasury minister appointed by Jeremy Corbyn as shadow housing minister, will say on Monday that the state could build 100,000 new council houses and housing association homes a...
View ArticleCall for Papers: Transdisciplinarity in Architectural Practice
In an age of globalised collaboration, architecture, as an isolated discipline, seems no longer equipped to address the demands of contemporary society. One solution offered in this crisis of relevance...
View ArticleWhatever You Do, Don’t Become an Artist: Revisiting Prabuddha Dasgupta |...
On September 19, the National Gallery of Modern Art hosted the opening of Prabuddha Dasgupta: A Journey, a retrospective on the work of a man regarded as one of India’s finest photographers in the past...
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