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Archive for March, 2010
Jason Fried: Why You Can’t Work at Work.
Mar 31st
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American Master
Mar 29th
I.M. Pei is being profiled for the PBS series American Masters – the show will air Wednesday, March 31st.
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Sundance Channel: Architecture School
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Retrofitting Suburbia
Mar 29th
Ellen Dunham-Jones takes you through retrofitted suburbia, transforming dead malls into buzzing downtown centers.
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2010 Pritzker Winner: SANAA
Mar 28th
The 2010 Pritzker Laureate has been named – with this year’s prestigious architecture award going to Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, the Japanese duo that form SANAA.
Now I’d like ask you readers a question that was posed to me earlier today: should they have ‘won’? Arch Daily conducted a reader poll, ad SANAA came in second [...]
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Marrakech 3: Walls
Mar 26th

Marrakech - Wall around the medina (Photographer: Patrick Mayon/Flickr)
I suppose most cities around the world strive for a certain coherence in their urban fabric. Even if the urban fabric is a patchwork of different neighborhoods, built at different moments, a certain continuity in terms of density and height is aimed for. Not so in Marrakech.
The old city of Marrakech is walled and surrounded by a band of parks, detached houses and wastelands. Beyond that band there is the Ville Nouveau (a second city center built in the nineteenth century) and other neighborhoods. The different neighborhoods are again separated by wastelands. In the end, the city of Marrakech is composed of isolated chunks of city. Some of these pieces are densely built, others less densely. What is the logic of this city?
In the Netherlands urban planners without exception strive for a city that has a dense urban core with some less dense urban neighborhoods around it and suburban neighborhoods More >
What About Unplanned?
Mar 25th
Go and See WAI’s The story of the Tower in SUPERFRONT LA Gallery
SUPERFRONT LA presents
UNPLANNED: Research and Experiments at the Urban Scale
Opening reception: Thursday March 25, 2010 5PM – 8PM
On view through July 2, 2010
Pacific Design Center (PDC) Suite B208 | West Hollywood, CA | 90069
Now order the catalog! Preview the introduction here. Catalog features essays by Geoff Manaugh of BLDG Blog, David Turnbull of Atopia, Cristina Goberna of Fake Industries | Architectural Agonism, and Ines Moreira of petit CABANON.
SUPERFRONT cordially invites you to the opening reception of UNPLANNED: Research and Experiments at the Urban Scale, the second SUPERFRONT LA exhibit of 2010.
Just as the discipline of architecture faces a re-imagination of itself in this era of slow-motion global capitalism, the human population finds itself crossing the threshold to a predominantly urban existence. Many of the basic tenets underpinning urban planning – Cartesian geometry, programmatic taxonomy, contextualism – have been subject to skeptical investigation and rebellion in architecture throughout this past decade. Yet conventional urban More >

