Hello, self-driving cars, and goodbye to 4.1 million jobs?
When the self-driving-car revolution firmly takes hold, there will be carnage, according to Wolf Richter of the Wolf Street blog. Not the car-crash kind — though that is a prevalent fear — but on the...
View ArticleMoMA Will Make Thousands of Exhibition Images Available Online
“The entire website is conceived of by the museum now as a living archive,” Ms. Elligott said, “and this is really just the beginning, ..."
View ArticleHow much will India have to spend to meet its urban housing needs?
India will likely spend between Rs 5 trillion and Rs 7.5 trillion ($75-110 billion) in constructing houses and other infrastructure for its burgeoning numbers of city dwellers between 2016 and 2020,...
View ArticleSan Diego Museum of Art to pay homage to Louis Kahn this autumn
Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture, opening November 5th, looks to bring 200 objects related to Kahn’s life and building projects into focus, including the first public showing of the Philadelphia...
View ArticleSmart cities could result in social inequality, say experts
Govt needs to address the digital divide and overcome the trust deficit
View ArticleA walk down memory lane, restoring the legacy of Pierre Jeanneret’s home in...
THE ADDRESS: House Number 57, Sector 5, once home to Swiss-born architect and furniture designer Pierre Jeanneret, who lived here for close to 11 years (1954 to 1965). One of the few houses that...
View ArticleNext set of smart cities to be announced next week: Venkaiah Naidu
NEW DELHI: The Centre will announce the next set of 27 cities for financing under the Modi-government flagship Smart City Mission next week, Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said...
View ArticleIndia Will Be Fully Urbanised By 2050: Venkaiah Naidu
On 14 September, while inaugurating the three-day conference on ‘Urban Transition in BRICS’ at Visakhapatnam, Minister of Urban Development and Housing And Urban Poverty Alleviation Venkaiah Naidu...
View Article[in-enaction] The Design of Parliaments Has a Funkadelic Impact on Politics |...
For the past five years van der Vegt and Max Cohen de Lara, his partner at XML, have studied the halls of parliament of all 193 United Nations member states. In a new book, Parliament,1 the duo...
View ArticlePurity and Contamination in Ren. Art and Architecture (Cambridge, MA, 1 Oct 16)
Purity and contamination have long figured in the accounts of the European Renaissance. Scholars, in the last few decades alone, have mapped the role these ideas have played in debates about godliness...
View ArticleCollaborations between architects and historians (Detroit, 23-25 Mar 17)
We are happy to announce a call for papers for a session related to the intersection of architecture and history at the upcoming American Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) conference in Mar. 2017.
View ArticleArchitectural painting in the 16th and 17th century (Antwerp, 10 Oct 16)
Colloquium organized in conjunction with the exhibition Divine Interiors held at the Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp until October 16th.Programme08.45 Registration and coffee09.30 Welcome by Dr....
View ArticleSome New London homeless shelter properties taxable after all
The city stands to gain about $10,000 in annual taxes as a result of scrutiny of the tax-exempt status of rental properties owned by the New London Homeless Hospitality Center.Homeless Hospitality...
View ArticleHousing minister votes for 'own your parking space before you own a vehicle'
Maharashtra state for housing minister Ravindra Waikar says, if any one wants to own a vehicle, h/she should have their own parking slots. "If this move is approved, it will address the traffic...
View ArticleIn Practice: History as Research and Design Strategy: Sessions at ACSA...
In both the profession and the academy, there is a renewed interest in the past. With the passing of theory, and efforts to move beyond the emphases on economics, technology, and ecology, contemporary...
View ArticleArchitectural Intelligence : Sessions at ACSA (Detroit, 23-25 Mar 17)
Once a distant technological dream, artificial intelligence (AI) today is a subject of wide interest, with promises that machine intelligence and autonomous interaction will alter our daily lives. More...
View ArticleOn Complexity (Rennes, 2 Dec 16)
On Complexity / Exploring the Enigmatic in ArtSummary: In modernity, the word "hermetic" is generally used to designate certain poetic works (those of Hopkins, Mallarmé or Celan, for example), while...
View ArticleInternational jury to visit CEPT for Archiprix 2017
CEPT is hosting South Asia's first Archiprix - a biennial competition of graduate projects in the fields of architecture, urban design and landscape. As the first step towards this, an international...
View ArticleMumbai's Dharavi divided into 12 parts for redevelopment under SRA
After finding hard to get the bidder for Rs30,000 crore worth Dharavi redevelopment project, Maharashstra government decided to divide the Asia's largest slums in 12 parts and redevelop under the slum...
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