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Architect claims politicians and military men are the real architects of spatial landscape. -- Duany calls big development plans in Syracuse "heartbreaking" (expletives deleted), and developer/mayor "clash makes it easy for the community to take its eye off the ball, which - from start to finish - has always been design." -- Traditional town planning informs a California mall. -- Prefabs are no longer "modular faux tudors and colonials built by large modular- and kit-house manufacturers." -- U.S. rejoins the World's Fair circuit (no thanks to Uncle Sam). -- San Francisco's newest landmark making its mark (to cheers and jeers). -- Client/architect matches made with click of a mouse. -- L.A. luminaries have high hopes for new L.A. Times architecture critic. -- Examining the evolution and extinction of architectural styles (including the U.K.'s red phone booth). -- 13 honored for community building. -- Deadline looms for student architectural essay competition. -- U.S. competition to design the perfect martini glass. - Derrida declawed.

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A parallel world: "Designers of the spatial landscape have never been architects," says architect Eyal Weizman, "but rather politicians and military men. By Esther Zandberg - Anselm Franke- Ha`aretz (Israel)

Destiny USA’s plans sour urban-planning architect: ...described the plans as "heartbreaking"..."To propose a Florida-style theme park as a salvation for a city is the kind of simplistic idea that, from time to time, has bamboozled elected officials." - Andres Duany- Syracuse Post-Standard

A Different Sort of Mall for a California Town: 12 blocks...feel as though they are in a city that has existed for decades. Despite its urban bravura, Victoria Gardens is an amalgam of the regional mall with elements of traditional town planning. - Field Paoli; Altoon & Porter; KA Inc.; Elkus/Manfredi- New York Times

Some assembly required: Customized at the factory, designer modular homes snap together on-site...From Finland to Oregon, architects are rethinking prefab... - Michelle Kaufmann/Glidehouse; Michael Graves; Atelier Z- The Oregonian

Design Diplomacy: U.S. Rejoins World's Fairs: [Aichi 2005] prefabricated structures will minimize damage to the site, in keeping with the fair's environmental theme. - Thom Filicia; Bud Hollomon [images]- New York Times

Long before its finishing touches, the new de Young's already controversial: News flash: If San Francisco can swallow a pyramid without belching, it can digest a slab-topped museum just fine. By John King - Herzog + de Meuron; Walter Hood- San Francisco Chronicle

Architect and Client Matched by Mouse: Just as the Internet has realigned mating rituals, it is now transforming the way architects and clients find each other. - ServiceMagic; David Marlatt; Brad DeMotte; Robert Siegel; United Office Architecture- New York Times

Local Luminaries Share Their Hopes for New L.A. Times Architecture Critic Chris Hawthorne [transcript]- The Planning Report

Red phone box to be object of study: John Linares...looking at the evolution and extinction of architectural styles - Sir Gilbert Scott (1920s)- Eastern Daily Press (EDP Norfolk, UK)

Knight Program in Community Building at the University of Miami School of Architecture Announces 13 Fellowships- University of Miami

7th Annual Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence Essay Competition; deadline: December 10- Berkeley Prize

Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition (U.S.)- Bombay Sapphire

Derrida declawed: When the French philosopher Jacques Derrida died last month at seventy-four, the response was loud, passionate, and predictably divided according to demographic origin.- The New Criterion

Second Look: George Washington Bridge Bus Station / Pier Luigi Nervi, 1963: One of Nervi's few completed projects outside Italy is a superb example of the poetry he wrought from ferro-concrete. By Fred A. Bernstein- ArchNewsNow

Exclusive Principal's Report Survey: Is Offshore Outsourcing an Idea Whose Time has Come? By Stephen A. Kliment, FAIA- ArchNewsNow

-- Brisac Gonzalez Architects: Museum of World Culture, Göteborg, Sweden
-- Opening: Cesar Pelli & Associates: National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

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