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Today's News - October 17, 2005
Philadelphia loses a master of planning, author of "Design of Cities." -- It's official: Scottish Parliament takes the Stirling Prize. -- Several takes on rebuilding the Gulf Coast. -- Two big wins for Architecture for Humanity means a big win for victims of natural disasters. -- U.K. at the next Venice Biennale - London left out. -- Betsky calls for a Golden Gate Park makeover (and more density elsewhere). -- High hopes for Swansea's new museum. -- Revisiting two early 20th-century utopias. -- A conformist Chicago suburb gets a children's museum that "stops short of sticking its tongue out at its architectural neighbors." -- New Children's Museum of Los Angeles will be "the Disney Hall of the San Fernando Valley." - Holcim Awards for sustainable construction in Africa, Middle East. -- Mockbee/Rural Studio exhibit has much to teach.
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Obituary: Edmund Bacon, 95, planner behind Philadelphia's renaissance- Philadelphia Inquirer |
An Appreciation: Flaws and all, Edmund N. Bacon molded a modern Philadelphia. By Inga Saffron- Philadelphia Inquirer |
Wilful, highly emotional and a winner: Stirling Prize for the best new building of the year was awarded to the controversial Scottish parliament. Deyan Sudjic gives his verdict on the choice -- Enric Miralles/EMBT/RMJM- Observer (UK) |
In Mississippi, the Reshape of Things to Come: ...in the wake of Hurricane Katrina...began to design its way out of disaster...But critics have seized on one hallmark of New Urbanism: exploiting a yearning for an imaginary small-town America. By Linda Hales -- Andres Duany; Smart Growth Network; Eric Owen Moss- Washington Post |
Betting Against Natural Disasters: ...So if we know how to build structures that can't be demolished by nature, why don't we do so routinely? By Roger K. Lewis- Washington Post |
Architects Ponder Rebuilding of Biloxi: Questions of form and function were debated... -- Moule & Polyzoides; Guild Hardy Architects- New York Times |
New Orleans after the Storm: Lessons from the Past, a Plan for the Future: ...how the region might rise again on a better footing by undoing the mistakes of the past.- Brookings Institute |
From the Rubble, Foundations of Hope: When catastrophes strike, Cameron Sinclair's Architecture for Humanity offers innovative and cost-effective ideas for housing the homeless and rebuilding lives- Business Week |
Architects row as London is left out of Venice Biennale- Guardian (UK) |
Give Golden Gate Park a makeover: New de Young exposes flaws. By Aaron Betsky- San Francisco Chronicle |
Full steam ahead: With its sleek new National Waterfront Museum, built by 'winking-eye bridge' architects Wilkinson Eyre, Swansea may yet become the next Gateshead- Guardian (UK) |
Odd Bedfellows: Cranbrook and Ford's Utopian Village -- Albert Kahn; Eliel Saarinen- New York Times |
A rebel in the neighborhood: In the midst of this slough of sameness...new Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago...is like nothing else around it, and thank goodness. By Kevin Nance -- Booth Hansen Associates [images]- Chicago Sun-Times |
Groundbreaking set for Children's Museum of Los Angeles: "This will be the Disney Hall of the San Fernando Valley" -- Edwin Schlossberg; Angelil/Graham/Pfenninger/Scholl- San Bernardino Sun (California) |
Africa Middle East sustainable construction projects receive prizes in regional Holcim Awards- Holcim Foundation |
Exhibition Review: "Samuel Mockbee & the Rural Studio: Community Architecture": Building For The People Architecture Students Use Design To Make Difference in Real Folks' Lives. By Michael J. Crosbie- Hartford Courant (Connecticut) |
Second Look: Tracey Towers by Paul Rudolph, 1972: How did Rudolph, a restless and challenging architectural mind, end up doing subsidized housing in the Bronx? By Fred Bernstein [images]- ArchNewsNow |
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-- Antoine Predock: National Palace Museum Southern Branch, Taibo City, Taiwan
-- Exhibition: "Jean Prouvé: Three Nomadic Structures," MOCA, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
-- Book: "Architecture Now! 3" by By Philip Jodidio |
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