"Cities have always been global nodes where people, cultures and goods
intersect. More than any other of the Urban Age cities, Istanbul has
performed this function for several thousand years: a global ‘hinge’
city that connects civilisations and continents. Read...

Until we put the posters on Archinect in full-size/print-friendly format, enjoy the samples we've uploaded to the Archinect Facebook Fan page. If your school's poster isn't included it make sure to send it to us - archinect@gmail.com Read...

Eric Owen Moss dispels the rumors and corrects the record: The school's lease is not up next year but in a decade, things are pretty chill with the landlord, and—most importantly—SCI-Arc would never leave downtown. Read...

Jason Rodriguez, reportedly a former employee of architecture and engineering firm RS&H, opened fire today in his previous workplace. Last count is 2 dead and 6 injured. Orlando police are still searching for him. Google News

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Prelim master plan includes about 20 tall buildings, underground transit and grey water reuse. Read...

New editorial in "the architect's website" claims there is no proof for global warming. (Can't say I didn't warn you...) Read...

The University of Kentucky College of Design has posted a video of Wednesday's lecture by Robert Somol, director of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture. Steven Ward, who attended the lecture, compared some of Somol's discussion with Bernard Colenbrander's recently posted critique of contemporary architecture criticism. It's a long video, so I recommend you bookmark it for some downtime this weekend. Once you get past the first few minutes of bad jokes it's a really great presentation. Read...

Two decades since the Berlin Wall came down, BBC Mundo looks at walls and barriers around the world which are still standing - or have been put up - since 1989. Read...

Bernard Colenbrander discusses the price of architecture criticism. According the Colenbrander architectural criticism cannot exist without appropriate funding. Read...

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"Stephen Massiah is in his first term studying architecture at St Edmund’s College. He took his A-levels at Bedford School, an independent school, and then did a degree in law. After working for a number of years for a corporate law firm in the City, he decided to have a career change and take a completely new direction." Cambridge Univ. Read...

Toronto's Ryerson University has announced the appointment of Alsop to Distinguished Visiting Practitioner in Architecture. Read...

Mark your calendars for those of you in the following cities during the next week... Brooklyn, Los Angeles, New York, Syracuse, Barcelona, Aachen, Dubai, Seattle, Cambridge, Toronto, London, Amsterdam & Phoenix... Read...

"'This memorial for the fallen haunts me'" Guardian
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Lewis.Tsuramaki.Lewis, nARCHITECTS, SCAPE Studio, and Matthew Baird Architects have been selected for a residency at P.S.1 to help address flooding and climate change in New York Harbor. Their job will be to create innovative designs to address issues raised by Guy Nordenson, Catherine Seavitt, and Adam Yarinsky, who have been studying the area for some time and helped coordinate the residency with MoMA. Read...

Chicago to demolish Gropius campus... disappointing for a city that claims to be the birthplace of modernism and "friend" of architecture. Read...

Amanda Baillieu ( @AmandaBaillieu ) is the editor of the UK's Building Design. Her Twitter stream also suggests that she denies human impacts on the Earth's temperature. Read...

Did you know that Yelp was co-founded by an architect that once worked for Norman Foster? Did you know that this same ex-architect also helped define the RSS standards? Well, now you know! Learn more about how David Galbraith moved from architecture to "maker of 'Internet Stuff'" in the latest installment in our Working out of the Box series.

And for some inspiration for the young struggling architects currently getting beaten up by the economy, take a look at the beautiful, recently completed, chapel by a couple of 26-year-old architects in Chile. Read...

Angela Palmer embarked on a mission two years ago to try to capture the physical properties of climate change - by finding what is thought to be the most polluted air on Earth, and the purest. Read...

Iran's rulers are considering plans to relocate the country's capital. They say Tehran is in danger of being struck by a major earthquake. So how easy is it to move a capital out of a city, and where might Iran's go? -- BBC Read...

Last spring, Mies van der Rohe's Haus Lange in Krefeld was the subject of artist John Baldessari's playful work described as “contra-Mies”. Read...

The Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards have recently been presented to Australia’s most inspiring recent architectural projects and architects at an award ceremony in Melbourne. Read...

Do you like speaking at conferences? Do you like cities? Do you like architecture? Then we've got a talk you can give! Just visit the Urban Computing conference title picker and you'll be jetting off to address a crowd in no time.

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You thought your Phillip Johnson impersonation was tops on Halloween? Three siblings from Brooklyn went trick-or-treating as the Whitney, the Guggenheim, and the New Museum. T'was a great day for architecture. Read...

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"Less than half of all architecture graduates are in employment six months after graduation" - AJ Read...

NYT posts the AP headline. | L'ethnologue Claude Lévi-Strauss est mort Read...

The plan is to add "flow based" theories of urban traffic movement to conventional radar/camera based tracking of vehicles. Read...

Thanks to everyone who submitted answers to our "Why are you studying Architecture?" contest. We (myself and Barry Lehrman) were both impressed by Gabby Uvidia's response, addressing the issue that architecture, while difficult to find work in close to home, is actually more in demand now than ever before with rising housing crises around the world.

So Gabby... Read...