ReNew Orleans

Architectural Record, and my alma mater, the Tulane University School of Architecture, are teaming up to launch two-fold design competition - Rebuilding The Big Easy: An International Competition for New Housing in New Orleans.
Open only to current architecture students is a competition to design a single family housing prototype while professionals are given the challenge [...]

Introducing the Archi-tourist

John, of A Daily Dose of Architecture has started up a new wiki-powered Contemporary Architecture guide. After months of tireless preparation, The Archi-tourist is online.
The Archi-tourist is an evolving travel guide that will fill in the gaps left by Galinsky and other more traditional guide books. It looks great so far so go check [...]

Pondering Piano

The Guardian gets personal with Renzo Piano:

If you grow up in a school where you are not the first in class, then you grow up with the feeling that you can learn from other people. If you are the first in the class, I guess - I never experienced that - but I guess you [...]

de-Lovely

Better late than never, but I wanted to write a little about the opening weekend at the de Young. For a (most likely) more eloquent and informative article on the museum, see the cover story in this month’s Architectural Record.
The new de Young museum in San Francisco opened on Saturday, October 15th and I, being [...]

N.O. Return

Hey you. Yeah, it has been a while… What? Oh…thanks. You look good too. So um…sorry I haven’t called… things have been kind of crazy lately…

A lot’s happened in the past few weeks, making it difficult to know where to begin. There’s the trip the San Francisco for the opening weekend at [...]