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Today’s News - Thursday, September 12, 2019

EDITOR'S NOTE: Tomorrow and Monday will be no-newsletter days. We'll be back Tuesday, September 17.

●  Walker and #OurHomesOurVotes2020, a coalition of 600 organizations, tell the presidential candidates ahead of tonight's debate: "It's time to talk about housing." At last week's climate town hall, all 10 "were well-prepared on climate issues. Now they need to do the same for the U.S.'s affordable housing crisis."

●  Wainwright reviews "Push," a "powerful documentary about a UN investigator travelling the planet to get to the bottom of the global housing crisis," and "lays bare a $217 trillion scandal."

●  Sisson delves into how "hardening' schools exacts a financial and psychological toll on students. A security-industrial complex is already forming - is it an architecture of protection, or an architecture of resignation?"

●  Lauer & Ayers, of Climate Smart Missoula and Loci Architecture + Design respectively, look into how "local architects have responded to the call for urgent, near-term global carbon emissions reductions by reframing the conversation on building materials," the value of deconstruction over demolition, and the "opportunity to weigh in on the next version" of Montana's statewide building codes.

●  How wind energy is causing a big waste challenge: "While most of a turbine can be recycled or find a second life on another wind farm - there aren't many options to recycle or trash turbine blades," but efforts are underway to figure out what can be done with the gigantic things.

●  KCAP + Felixx win the competition for the redevelopment of Shenzhen's coastline, severely damaged by the Mangkhut typhoon last September, with a proposal for "a barrage system to ensure future resilience" with "6 strategic projects" along the 32-kilometer coast.

●  On Saturday, Pace Gallery opens its Bonetti/Kozerski-designed "game-changing global flagship in the heart of Manhattan's art world" with "a new kind of machine for displaying and selling art."

●  Lam reports that yesterday, the Canadian Centre for Architecture announced a major leadership change: After 15 years, director Zardini is stepping down, and chief curator Borasi, who "plans to push forward with types of content that go beyond the museum's walls," steps in - "actively fostering a global network of collaborators" ("The CCA will still have a main door," sayeth she).

●  A good reason to be in Sydney for the rest of September: 2019 Glenn Murcutt International Architecture Master Class led by masters.

●  A good reason to head to Washington, D.C. next week: the ULI's 2019 Fall Meeting, focusing on the latest industry trends.

●  ICYMI: ANN feature: Miguel Baltierra: Report from the 2019 North American Passive House Network Conference: Of particular value were presentations by Passive House practitioners, developers, and city agencies who have advanced PH implementation in their own practices and businesses - and in public policy.

Weekend diversions:

●  Kamin x 2: A fab round-up of the Top 10 in Chicago architecture this fall, including new skyscrapers and the 3rd Chicago Architecture Biennial ("Mies houses, in period style and in lights" - cool!).

●  He's quite taken with MASS Design Group's Gun Violence Memorial Project at the Chicago Cultural Center that challenges "the narrative that gun violence is solely confined to young African American men who belong to gangs" - and the two Chicago mothers of slain sons who were instrumental in making it a reality.

●  Everything you need to know about the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial, titled "...and other such stories."

●  The Beazley Designs of the Year 2019 shortlist announced - and on view at London's Design Museum, curated by Beatrice Galilee and designed by Pernilla Ohrstedt in "a space that reuses the past year's installation."

●  Dunmall cheers "Original Bauhaus" at the Berlinische Galerie in Berlin that "stands out for its refreshing approach. Without being deferential, it manages the rare task of breathing new insights and experiences into a movement that is at times too referenced for its own good."

●  For "For Forest," Klaus Littmann plants a forest of 300 trees in an Austrian football stadium: "Putting trees in an unorthodox situation" can "be interpreted as an artistic sculpture, or a philosophical symbol of life."

Page-turners:

●  Weinstein cheers Kieffer's "The Evolution of a Building Complex: Louis I. Kahn's Salk Institute for Biological Studies": "A book this ambitious could have been as daunting to approach as its subject, but Kieffer's awareness of Kahn's humanity as well as his art keeps it inviting - a rarely seen face of Kahn, as pragmatically flexible as steadfastly poetic."

●  Reiner-Roth's Q&A with Diana Agrest re: the intention behind publishing "Architecture of Nature/Nature of Architecture," and "how its contents may be a valuable resource to academics and practicing architects alike."

●  Peters praises photographer Fair's "On the Edge" that documents "how sea-level rise is slowly eating away at coastal communities and landscape" along the U.S. East Coast.


  


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