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Our experience and sensibilities can evolve through reflective and silent analysis. To open ourselves to perception we must transcend the mundane urgency of “things to do”. We must try to access this inner life which reveals the luminous intensity of the world.

Design as a Verb | Renzo Piano gets museum airborne | Stoner Architect Drafts All-Foyer Mansion | A Lisbon Architect Brings His Skills to MoMA | 15 iPhone Apps Every Architect Must Have | Anne Tyng, Theorist of Architecture, Dies at 91 | Architect Devin Louis Miller Completes 25th No-Fee Project in War-Torn Country | Mark Dowie: What’s A Park For? | Lessons from the Front Lines of Social Design | architecture Ryan Gosling

last word: Santo Domingo Mayor vows Colonial Zone Facelift

Supply and demand regulate architectural form

 Local architects are incapacitated | Modern dollhouse furniture | Architecture: Reading between the Lines | Fairy Tales Seen Through the Lens of Architecture | Choose the most beautiful building in Boston | Beautiful Brutalism versus Art Deco | 1,000 Door Building in South Korea | Fictional Landscapes | USGBC/AIA announce Architecture for Humanity Sustainability Design Fellow | Push for greener, leafier spaces on Parisian roofs | Food Meets Architecture at the James Beard Awards

Last word: Hunters and gatherers - a review of the Glenn Murcutt Masterclass

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes 

Make things with your hands | Top 10: World's most spectacular modern churches | Parklets, The Tiny Parks of San Francisco | 7 Of The World's Best Nano Houses | Joys of Earthquake-Free architecture | 11 Best Architecture Moments of 2011 | Top 10 Most Viewed Conceptual Architecture of 2011 | A Bubble of Your Own | Koolhaas’s Defense of Generic Architecture | Top 6 Green Architecture Stories of 2011 | Squiggly Line Drawings

last word: The Mathematics of Lego

You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there

How I Survived The Housing Slowdown | Jane Jacobs’ Masterpiece, An urban legacy in need of renewal | Austrian Embassy, Jakarta’s first green building | Why Use Ipe when you can have Black Locust? | Manifest Destiny: A Guide to the Essential Indifference of American Suburban Housing | The Architecture Lover’s Manifesto | world's lightest material | 9/11 Museum Is Delayed | Classical Piano and Modern Design: Sundays with Rafael Viñoly | FIBandCO win Gold in Paris

last word: Occupy the streets - highlighting the subversive need for a shared reality of values and demands

Wherever the city is functioning below standard, architecture takes action. It takes the place of the city's spontaneous and organic functioning; it is a prosthesis, architecture is always the place of, in the place of.

Learning from Passive House | Africa’s First Plastic Bottle House Rises in Nigeria | Zaha to build her own home in San Diego | The Cult Satirical Design Bloggers Play Guest Editors With the Nowness Archive | Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper: Transform Your Public Spaces Now | Lessons of design learned from nature | Designer Living: A place to reflect in Amsterdam | David Chipperfield to curate 2012 Venice Biennale | In Ontario, Some Like it Hot

last word: Instead of buying kitchen gadgets, why not share?

Cuba legalizes sale, purchase of private property | if architects... | Habitat for Humanity & the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter to build 100 homes in Haiti | House in Horinouchi, Japan by Mizuishi Architect Atelier | Built-in Obsolescence | Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation rebuilds, seeks CEO | What did you want to be when you grew up? | Getting an architecture degree is expensive. Is it worth it in a recession? | The Pritzker Prize is headed to China | archi-kids

last word: Interviews with 4 Irish Female Architects Shaping the Future of architectural practice.

architecture and design is our way of living and a source of pleasure and inspiration

emerging-market innovation: slums as inspiration | Le Corbusier and UNESCO | Interview with Robert Oshatz: The Natural Beauty and Lyrical Music of architecture | Twisting Architecture | Donovan Wylie on the Architecture of Conflict | Philips unveils an elegant ‘Microbial Home’ concept | Couple brings web of creativity to architecture building | Outside Cleveland, Snapshots of Poverty’s Surge in the Suburbs | Celebrating Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel

We have to be careful not to criticise things just because they don't appeal to us as architects

Giant melting da Vinci artwork recreated on Arctic sea ice | Aberrant Architecture – ‘Peeping Tom’ | Architect magazine now on iPad | Spotlight: Mansueto Research Library | Clemson trustees approve plans for new Charleston architecture centre | Unfolded Architecture | China's richest village opens luxury 328m tower as it begins an architectural ascent | Architecture: Please forgive the critic (but he just has to rap…) | Old School Drafting |

last word: On Architecture and Authorship: A Conversation

Making a sandcastle is like an ideal version of architecture: make mistakes, erase them, start again.

Classic Documentary The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, Now Available Online | The Challenges of Housing Design for a Growing World | Interview with José Miguel de Prada Poole | Home-In-A-Dumpster | The Green Cathedral | The Park Avenue Armory Gets a Much-Needed Facelift From Herzog & de Meuron | Hemingway's Cuban home restored, next Marcus Garvey's childhood home in Jamaica | Tv commercial featuring Bjarke Ingels and Gary Chang | Bad Boy Architects & China's New Face | Crater Lake by 24° Studio

last word: Why Architecture's Identity Problem Should Matter to the Rest of Us

The approach to architecture should be like science, with breakthroughs that create new information, not repetition of old ideas

Is architecture best taught by practising architects? | Designers for Olympic Park shortlisted | Building in Grand Cayman | Sustainable Homes Are Not McMansions | 50 best blogs for architecture students | Death by suburban sprawl | Need a new roof? Solar power's included | Architects Using Robots to Build Beautiful Structures | Concrete vases by Xiral Segard | Outside the Box by Frank Gehry | And somewhere, an architect got his smug-wings | Into Africa

last word: social media for architects

For all great architecture is contemporary of its time, relevant to its situation in space, time and human society-but also eternal. Without being eternal - that is in harmony with the cosmos and the evolution of life - no architecture can be called contemporary.

Kharga market by Hassan Fathy

The 10 Coolest College Libraries | How to build a sandcastle | Architecture capital | Enough With the Scary Architecture Already! | Jeanne Gang wins MacArthur Prize | rumours emerge of illegal steel thinning in Zhengzhou, China | Energy-efficient homes seem to sell faster, fetch higher prices | 10 reasons Architects can fix it | Expert In Urban Renewal To Visit Jamaica | Ice Cube Celebrates Ray & Charles Eames | Design Miami names David Adjaye Designer of the Year Award |

last word: A Cosmic Corbusian Love Affair - Rem Koolhaas and OMA's New Building for Cornell's Architecture School

The average person doesn't exist. So by designing buildings for the average person one is designing for non-existent people

Memory in the Making | Genting [...] reveals resort plans | The Exposed City: A Brief History of Mapping the Urban Invisibles | the Forks lands 'rock star' architect | Candy Pavilions For A Better City (Life) | 16 Architectural Details That Sing | Le Corbusier inspired fashion - what the well-dressed architect should be wearing | Designing an Architectural Masterpiece in 15 easy steps | Chicago Subway Train Transformed Into Lush Mobile Garden on Wheels!

Read more: Chicago Subway Train Transformed Into Lush Mobile Garden on Wheels! | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

last word: What 14th-century cathedrals have to do with Google, Darwin and the purpose of art’s existence.

Sometimes, in architecture, there's a sense that the building has to separate its inhabitants from outside completely

Barbie's Dream House | Drawing on experience: Pompeii | Rugged Individualism: A rammed-earth house accommodates a farmer mentality | The sweet life of the non-practicing architect | Broccoli House | Critic's Notebook: Apple's new campus will be a retrograde cocoon | Experts hope Denver's loss of another star architect won't hurt future projects | 10 coolest garages | Right, Wrong, and Reality!

last word: Every drop counts

WikiHouse, An Online Building Kit, Shows How To Make A House In 24 Hours | Challenges and benefits of “going green” in Nigeria | Dan Wood, architecture student, named Britain's Best Dressed Man 2011 by Esquire magazine | Impressions | Architectural photographer creates impossible edifices | Penrose: "People love to mock architects" | Respect the Architect | Stanley Tigerman: The Retrospective


last word: a pair of architecture graduates Lee Wilshire and Nick Varey have launched an initiative called Riot Rebuild to help repair homes and businesses in areas of the UK affected by recent riots.

I've always felt anyone with a paint can [and] should have as much say in how our cities look as architects

Meet the Makers | How A Museum Can Regenerate An Entire City | Taiwan’s Taipei 101 Skyscraper Crowned the World’s Tallest LEED Platinum Building | Manifesto Barbados: Pop-Up Art Campus & Lounge | Is Fallingwater Modern? Not according to the Wall Street Journal | New Zealand calls for entries to 2011 Unbuilt Architecture Awards | Building for Change | 10 Extraordinary Structures Inspired by Extreme Conditions | A Piano Tune Generates This Opera House's Architecture


last word: A Shit With A View

Architecture is a fuzzy amalgamation of ancient knowledge and contemporary practice, an awkward way to look at the world and an inadequate medium to operate on it.

The destruction of Tottenham's buildings isn't just a sentimental loss | Top talent edged out | Amonle Studio Workshop Relies on ArchiCAD BIM for Concept Home Design | 'Don't photograph our building', say private security guards caught on film | Converted Churches of Maastricht | 20 Solar Decathlon Designs for 2011 | Panama’s Historic Colonial District Battles Development Boom | What 9/11 Taught Us About Designing Skyscrapers

last word: Architecture's perfect storm… Dismay for British Architecture as Foster defends London Icon: "Gherkin was not a disaster..."

we want to create a clear, organic architecture, whose inner logic will be radiant and naked, unencumbered by lying facades and trickeries

The Ten College Campuses with the Best Architecture | Why Architects Shouldn't Build Condos out of Glass And People Shouldn't Buy Them | John Pawson’s Majestic Minimalism in L.A. | Children's Park will get a needed face-lift | Design + Build: It cost what it cost | ‘Not So Big’ concept works in Illinois | RIP: Troppo Architects director Lena Yali | Slide-S: Egypt’s Solar Green House | Security concerns trump architectural grace

last word : First Drafts - Architect Ricardo Porro on His Project for Fidel Castro

The present-day monopoly of the architect has to do with the fact that there is no real theory, but merely a set of pseudo-theoriesä in other words, observations which only reflect the preferences of their authors.

Carmageddon in Los Angeles: The closure of the 405 | DBPA's 'Multi-Tasking Ban' | How to grow a Garden City | How to build your own living structures | Will Alsop leaves RMJM | Fiscal Woe Haunting Baltimore Poe House | 1 Million Dead in 30 Seconds | The 10 best street art works - in pictures | Architecture – modernism v traditionalism | RIP: Douglas Garofalo, 1958-2011 | An uptown twist for UNCC

last word: With Funhouse office, MVRDV turns a punishing job into a joy

Always design a thing by considering it in its larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

World's coolest ceilings | Do Buildings have Agency? | Shigeru Ban comes to Japan’s rescue with multistorey shipping container housing | Mo’ MA: Museum’s Inspired, Insipid Tower Returns | Good Design is as Little Design as Possible | Sustainable Perfection: A Michigan Couple's Model Green Home | Visualizing the Traffic of Rome, Paris, and Tel Aviv | Projects labelled: Cricket ground |

last word: Developers for the Museum Plaza Tower in Louisville, Kentucky designed by REX has been axed!

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. There should not be a single ornament put upon great civic buildings, without some intellectual intention.

The value of good design | FLW's Fallingwater, at 75 | Deconstruction: Z Table by Hellman-Chang | Living Large In Narrow Houses | Dave Degobbi's "Crawler Town" and Other Inhabitable Mobile Mega Structures | Child’s Play, Grown-Up Cash | Implausible Futures for Unpopular Places | Starchitecture High | RIBA Stirling Prize 2011 Shortlist Announced | nonLin/Lin Pavilion by Marc Fornes & TheveryMany |

last word: World-Architects has added the newest country profile, Indian-architects.com