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Today’s News - Thursday, March 7, 2019

EDITOR'S NOTE: Tomorrow and Monday will be no-newsletter days. We'll be back Tuesday, March 12.

●  Betsky expands his take on "Robotic Innovation" with "Machine Madness": "I am fascinated by effects, not techniques - and imaginary architecture by the mindless spinning out of codes by machines set loose by those too lazy to figure out how to make good architecture."

●  Solly weighs in on studies re: curvy vs. right angles: "Architects are more likely than non-experts to deem curvilinear spaces beautiful, but less likely to enter curved over straight-edged rooms."

●  Wainwright cheers "Will Alsop's intergalactic porcupine of knowledge - a laboratory complex so lovable, you almost want to give it a cuddle," and a "chubby little thing" that is "part of a much bigger Alsopian universe."

●  Peters parses Space&Matter's new neighborhood of floating houses in Amsterdam - "a model that could be used in coastal cities that already struggle with flooding - some version of the design could also be used in disasters."

●  King talks to pros re: building models: "For some architects, old habits die hard - physical models play a role in the creative process that can't be emulated on a computer screen."

●  One we couldn't resist: RIBA "drops an International Women's Day cookery class after more than 50 architects and academics signed an open letter urging the institute to rethink the proposed event - labeling it an 'astonishing misstep.'"

Winners all:

●  Pedro y Juana wins the 2019 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program with "Hórama Rama," an "immersive junglescape" that includes a 2-story waterfall (and hammocks).

●  "Irish star" Sheila O'Donnell of O'Donnell + Tuomey wins the Women in Architecture/WIA Architect of the Year 2019 award, and 43-year-old Xu Tiantian of Beijing-based DnA wins the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture.

Deadlines:

●  Call for entries: J.M.K. Innovation Prize: $175,000 each for up to 10 organizations "tackling America's most pressing challenges in environment, heritage conservation, and social justice."

●  Call for entries: Architecture: Future of Past (international; open to students and young graduates): "What role to give to a building such as the Compagnie des Notaires de Paris in the future of the city?"

Weekend diversions:

●  Wainwright cheers again: The Milan Triennale is "back with a bang" as it "takes on apocalypse" with "Broken Nature": "Paola Antonelli's show isn't the self-flagellating doom-fest you might expect. It is a nuanced, witty and thoughtful take on where we are now, and what the future might hold."

●  Welton weighs in on "RECKONstruct," the U.S. pavilion in Milan that is taking the "Broken Nature" theme "seriously by exploring a revolution in material use."

●  ArchitectureAU editor's picks of highlights of the 2019 Melbourne Design Week, themed "Design experiments: how can design shape the future?" (Wainwright, Wardle, and SO-IL included).

●  Next week, the ADFF:LA/ Architecture & Design Film Festival LA 2019 will feature 22 films (including Hawthorne's film about FLW's Maya-inspired houses).

●  Allen cheers "Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture at Bizzell" at the University of Oklahoma that "presents a fascinating chapter of American architectural education," and includes "OU students' otherworldly, hand-drawn renderings" (great pix!).

Page-turners:

●  Moonan toasts "Cocktails and Conversation: Dialogues on Architecture and Design" by Suckle and Singer: "Illustrated with photos, sketches, and lush watercolors by architect Bishakh Som," this is "a lively if informal compendium about many issues architects face in design and practice."

●  Russell praises Klinenberg's "Palaces for the People, which "shows how modest undertakings and subtle, insightful design can strengthen communities," and "shows that a little social infrastructure could be really big."

●  A great excerpt from Wolfe's "Urbanism without Effort": "A bed-sheet-as-movie-screen can transform public space into a community gathering point, not because of doctrine or dogma."

●  Moore says "Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus" by MacCarthy "reveals a passionate man whose reputation for coldness is largely undeserved - as a way of bringing the human stories of this extraordinary phenomenon to life, it's hard to beat."


  

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