Call sent on Friday, March 15, 2024 - 13:20

Recent Spatial Theory in the History of Science, Call for panelists below for the upcoming History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Conference.

The ‘spatial turn’ in the history of science demonstrated the importance of space (and place) not merely as a backdrop for thinking through the various histories of science but as a co-producer of scientific knowledge and understanding. Since...

Location: 2024 HSS Annual Meeting; Mérida, Mexico

Submission Deadline

05th April 2024

Conference Dates

07th November 2024 to 10th November 2024

Media/Scan sent on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 19:42

Le Corbusier protégé and longtime Knowlton School professor José Oubrerie dies aged 91

José Oubrerie, 1932–2024

José Oubrerie, a French architect with ties to many leading modernists, has died at the age of 91. The longtime Knowlton School professor was noted for his academic accomplishments and for being one of the last surviving members of Le...


Media/Scan sent on Saturday, March 9, 2024 - 15:28

Tokyo offers toilet tours amid flush of excitement over Wim Wenders’s Oscar hopeful, Shibuya district is offering tours of its architect-designed public facilities that feature in Perfect Days.

Kōji Yakusho in Perfect Days, Wim Wenders’s film about a Tokyo toilet cleaner that is in contention for best international feature at this year’s Oscars.

Japan’s hi-tech toilets have long fascinated visitors who rave about their heated seats, bidet function, automatic flushing, and even background noises to mask the unwelcome sounds that can accompany the call of nature.Now, international...


Call sent on Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 14:20

The City in Literature & Culture, Special Session at Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference 2024.

The City in Literature & Culture (special session) of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) is now accepting proposals for the organization’s 121st annual conference. The call-for-papers deadline is Tuesday, April 30,...

Location: PAMLA Annual Conference 2024; Palm Springs, United States

Submission Deadline

30th April 2024

Conference Dates

06th November 2024 to 10th November 2024

Media/Scan sent on Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 12:00

John Walker, Tech Executive Who Popularized AutoCAD, Dies at 74, He avoided the spotlight, but he helped bring to market a popular computer program that revolutionized the architecture and design industries.

John Walker in 2008. He was well known in tech circles, not just for his triumphs in business but also for his skills as a programmer.

John Walker, a groundbreaking, if reclusive, technology entrepreneur and polymath who was a founder and chief executive of Autodesk, the company that brought the ubiquitous AutoCAD software program to the design and architecture masses, died on Feb. 2 in...


Media/Scan sent on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 - 12:41

An Architect Who Builds Community Wins the Pritzker Prize, Riken Yamamoto of Japan is recognized for modest designs that inspire social connection and both literal and figurative transparency.

Riken Yamamoto

Riken Yamamoto, whose understated buildings quietly emphasize community and connectivity, has been awarded this year’s Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor.“Whether he designs private houses or public infrastructure, schools or...


Media/Scan sent on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 - 12:00

New Yorkers rail against luxury tower blocking Empire State Building: ‘The mighty dollar rules the sky’

Artist's impression of the under-construction 262 Fifth Avenue tower

Tom Clark’s Lower East Side apartment comes with a prime view of the Empire State Building. “I can see it from my couch,” he said. Well, he used to be able to catch a glance – before an ultra-thin luxury tower dubbed 262...


Media/Scan sent on Monday, March 4, 2024 - 15:51

Unveiling History: Third Solar Temple of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty Discovered at Abusir, Discovery of the Third Temple of the Sun at Abusir, marking a major breakthrough in understanding Egypt's ancient solar worship and architecture.

Third Solar Temple of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty Discovered at Abusir

Archaeologists have unearthed a significant piece of ancient Egyptian history at Abusir, revealing what is believed to be the long-lost Third Temple of the Sun. This discovery, made by an Italian-Polish archaeological team, marks a pivotal moment in our...


Media/Scan sent on Sunday, March 3, 2024 - 21:00

New Book Explores M.C. Escher’s Lesser-Known Works

M.C. Escher, “Ascending and Descending” (1960), lithograph, 14 x 11 1/4 inches

The book traces the Netherlands-born Escher from his origins through his education and the actualization of his unique vision, culminating in the “Eschermania” that has preserved and proliferated that vision. Work made during his years...


Commentary sent on Sunday, March 3, 2024 - 11:00

Tropical Modernism review – a complex story of power, freedom, craft… and cows

‘A flat-out rejection of almost everything the Europeans stood for’: self-taught architect Nek Chand’s Rock Garden in Chandigarh.

The exhibition as a whole, like this room, presents a complex picture of power and freedom, and of modernity and craft. It traces the evolution of architecture in India and Ghana, as they moved from colonial rule to independence, both countries led by men...

Location: V&A South Kensington; London, United Kingdom

Exhibition Dates

02nd March 2024 to 22nd September 2024

Media/Scan sent on Sunday, March 3, 2024 - 09:08

Entrance fees, visitor zones and taxes: how Europe’s biggest cities are tackling overtourism, From Seville to Venice to Amsterdam, Europe is learning to improve locals’ lives by curbing tourists’ enthusiasm.

Tourists thronging the Acropolis in Athens in July last year.

“Mass tourism,” said one, “is destroying our city.”It’s a refrain heard in historic ­cities across Europe, from Prague to Barcelona, Athens to Amsterdam. Mass tourism, promoted by cash-hungry councils since the 2008...


Media/Scan sent on Sunday, March 3, 2024 - 05:00

'Vernacular Architecture of India: Traditional Residential Styles & Spaces' book review: Homeward Bound, Despite the flimsy text, its stunning photographs make this book a valuable archive of Indian architecture.

A Chettiar vernacular house in Tamil Nadu.

The author, who also took all the photographs, save the superb monochromatic ones from the Archaeological Survey of India and India Society, is a former IAS officer, and he seems to have gone trigger happy, so to speak, wherever he was posted, and also in...


Media/Scan sent on Saturday, March 2, 2024 - 12:00

Illegal diggers arrested near Pasargadae

Pasargadae

The commander of the Cultural Heritage Protection Unit in Fars province announced the arrest of four unauthorized excavators near Pasargadae in southern Iran.Masoud Razmjui stated that police forces were dispatched to the suspects’ hide-out...


Outreach sent on Saturday, March 2, 2024 - 02:42

Designing Decades: Architectural Poster Art (1972–1982)

Le Corbusier Saint-Pierre De Firminy-Vert for Univerity of Texas Arlington, 1982.

Curated from the private collection of Judith York Newman, American architect, educator, and owner of SPACED Gallery of Architecture, this presentation commemorates her longstanding commitment to intersecting architecture and art. Sourced from...

Location: Paul Rudolph Institute For Modern Architecture; New York, United States

Exhibition Dates

07th March 2024 to 07th April 2024

Media/Scan sent on Friday, March 1, 2024 - 12:00

An Architect Builds Toward the Future on Mexico’s Border, With her library, senior center, markets and sports complexes, Fernanda Canales is bringing a sense of community, beauty and safety to towns..

Inés Acosta, who started a book club in Agua Prieta, Mexico, on a ramp of the new library designed by Fernanda Canales. Behind the arches, inspired by Sonoran architecture, is the border wall and its murals.

 


Media/Scan sent on Friday, March 1, 2024 - 11:30

White House announces initiatives to boost manufactured housing

The White House has announced a series of moves to increase the production of manufactured housing in the United States. The initiatives are intended to both preserve and rehabilitate existing manufactured home communities and ease barriers...


Media/Scan sent on Friday, March 1, 2024 - 09:30

International trade fair Design Mumbai to launch in India

Tradeshow Design Mumbai, which will showcase Indian and international design as well as architecture and interior brands and designers, is set to launch this November.A new venture by design and event specialists Ian Rudge, Michael Dynan and Piyush...


Media/Scan sent on Thursday, February 29, 2024 - 12:00

Revamped public school buildings fail to halt student exodus

The physical rehabilitation of public school buildings, devastated by the ‘Gorkha Earthquake,’ has been completed with remarkable aesthetics.However, despite the rejuvenated infrastructure, concerns loom large over the dwindling student...


Media/Scan sent on Thursday, February 29, 2024 - 12:00

Myanmar’s controversial timber trade persists, despite Western sanctions, A year after the Deforestation Inc. exposé, ICIJ and partners found wood products have continued to flow from the military-controlled country .

Last November, agents coordinated by the European Union’s law enforcement agency Europol seized a cargo of Myanmar timber that had been smuggled into the bloc illegally. While the finding was relatively small, worth about $13,000, it pointed to a...


Media/Scan sent on Thursday, February 29, 2024 - 12:00

No turning back - 41% of architects now using artificial intelligence, reveals RIBA report

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) released its Artificial Intelligence Report for 2024, detailing the findings of a survey conducted with 500+ RIBA members about AI and what it means for practice and the profession,...


Media/Scan sent on Wednesday, February 28, 2024 - 14:00

Belmopan, Belize’s Capital, Is a City of Brutalist Calm, The British-designed capital, Belmopan, is bureaucratic and, some say, boring. Some in the city want it to stay that way..

Belize’s National Assembly building in the capital, Belmopan. The city has only about 25,000 residents and a cluster of hurricane-proof, heavy-on-the-concrete Brutalist buildings.

The capital of Central America’s only English-speaking nation can feel jarringly different from the frenetic capitals of neighboring countries. In terms of its origins and design, Belmopan has more in common with the capitals of other former British...


Media/Scan sent on Wednesday, February 28, 2024 - 07:29

Neolithic Child’s Burial Excavated in India

The pot beside the skeleton is typical of neolithic period. Many shreds of burnished red ware and burnished grey ware belonging to the same period were also found at the burial site

 Students and professors from the department of Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Madras, have unearthed an ancient burial site of a child with a pot beside it likely dating back to the neolithic period, at Chettimedu Pathur in...


Commentary sent on Monday, February 26, 2024 - 12:00

Dhaka: A Continual Implosion, Amidst rapid growth and unique challenges, Bangladesh's capital offers a study in contrast, defying traditional urban norms..

Streetscape in Dhaka.

The second realization my quick trip gave me is that the character of what has not been designed in such a high style is so without hierarchy as to defy many of my other expectations.[fn]There are a few high-rises, with a few more on the way, but the...


Media/Scan sent on Sunday, February 25, 2024 - 21:00

Onlookers Records the Lure of the Tourist Gaze, Kimi Takesue’s new documentary nudges us to consider whether we in the audience differ all that much from the tourists whipping out their iPhone.

Still from Onlookers (2023)

Relying on a stationary camera for shots ranging from 30 seconds to over five minutes, the film moves from space to space in an unnamed Southeast Asian country, seldom revisiting any setting or individual. Not knowing when a scene will end, we are...


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