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sat. september 24th, 2005
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Rebuilding New Orleans: We must not get this wrong...The one-two punch of cataclysm and windfall will shape the way America conceives of its cities for generations... One person who has an idea of what right and wrong mean is Jaime Lerner, the three-time
Ground Zero in the Big Easy: Building Model: How can New Orleans learn from New York? ...if the Big Easy doesn't learn from the Big Apple, it will end up making the same mistakes. By Clay Risen -- Margaret Helfand; Michael Sorkin; Ernest Hutton; LMDC; New
Gulf Coast Dream House: What Happened to Shutters and Porches? ...among the humble architectural devices that we discarded when we decided we could engineer our way out of anything. By James S. Russell
Prefab shelter from the storm: Flood-ravaged Gulf Coast provides a laboratory for housing design... Habitat for Humanity's "Operation home delivery" By John Bentley Mays
The big squeeze: Is the plan to demolish 2,700 homes on a south London [Aylesbury] estate an attempt to push out the locals, or to cram in more residents? ...branded as "social cleansing" by tenants' groups.
That sinking feeling on 'estate from hell': In Britain, we did the Athens charter - however wrong-headed this may have been - too quickly, too cheaply, too brutally and without the necessary skills. Result, misery. By Jonathan Glancey -- Le Corbusier
Rhythm and blues: Prince Charles's latest experiment in community planning is inspired by a village in Florida. It hopes to transform UK housebuilding. [slide show]
Blurred Line for the Ground Zero Museum: International Freedom Center...report...did little to close a fundamental fault line in the greater debate over the World Trade Center redevelopment... -- Snohetta [link to report]
Altar of Peace War Set to End: Row lulls as Augustus monument's new home gets preview -- Richard Meier
If you go down to the woods today: Fear of traffic risks and ‘stranger danger’ are holding our children captive indoors. For the sake of their health and development, and for the environment they will one day need to protect, we have to find ways of getti
Toppling walls of race and gender, Iraq's Hadid builds for the future: London-based architect makes name for herself with gravity-defying take on spatial perception
MoMA's Safety Check: Q&A withg Paola Antonelli about "SAFE: Design Takes on Risk"
It's not kids' stuff: Indianapolis Museum of Art has the real Arts and Crafts: 1 of only 2 museums in U.S. exhibiting 300-plus works by Stickley, Rookwood, Wright and more.
Avoiding the crowds at Taipei Fine Arts Museum could lead to some exciting discoveries on 3rd floor: "Art of Architecture: Works by Laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize"
Here's looking at you, S.F.: San Francisco's architects are throwing a monthlong party..."Architecture and the City." By John King
Art by Architects designed to please: Memphis Architecture Month breaks ground with a grand party [images]
INSIGHT: Vancouverism vs. Lower Manhattanism: Shaping the High Density City. By Trevor Boddy [images]
Op-Ed: Modern Ironies: Notes on Losing the Bunshaft's Travertine House (1963). By Kenneth Caldwell [images]
Sept. '05 Build Business: Marketing from the Inside Out
source: http://www.archnewsnow.com
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Upcoming and current IAA related events

'Unhoused' by In the Field will be showing at Common Room from March 27 to May 25, 2007. The opening reception is Tuesday March 27, 6-8pm at 465 Grand St., NY, NY. Brett Bloom and Ava Bromberg of In the Field will lecture on Thursday March 29, 7pm

'Lobbying' is an exhibition of new and old projects by INTERBORO. Opening reception is Tuesday February 13, 6-8pm. The show runs until March 16.

Starting January 19, 2006, Plausible Art Worlds will be featured at Philadelphia ICA's winter exhibition and event series , continuing through March 25.

On September 26, 2006, the New York office will be celebrating the opening of its new headquarters The Common Room which includes shared offices and public exhibition lobby. Reception is 6-8 PM at 465 Grand St., NY, NY.

We will be participating in the 2006 Plausible Art Worlds conference in Philadelphia, for which we have also helped to design a conference center. Public reception and exhibition is to be held at September 18, 7-11 PM at 723 chestnut st, 2nd floor.

EVIDENT USE 2005 in collaboration with BASEKAMP on display at the North Adams Center for DeTourism at the Contemporary Artists Center, May 21 - Oct 29, 2005. Opening November 20 at Pond in San Francisco, This Way Please is a "participatory curatorial installation premised on the concept of a travel agency offering tours of the everyday." We will be showing a new version of the Evident Use mapping system.

We will be taking part in a symposium at Columbia University on Thursday, November 11 7PM at Prentis Hall, featuring participants in September's Connect the Dots show.

Building Sound part of Connect the Dots, an exhibition investigating models of connectivity created by artists curating artists, at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University from September 7 - September 28, 2004.

EVIDENT USE in collaboration with BASEKAMP on display at the North Adams Center for DeTourism at the Contemporary Artists Center, August 7 - August 29, 2004.

Participating in the Camp for Oppositional Architecture in Berlin, June 25 - June 27, 2004.

Presenting "Building Sound: An Alternative Medium for Architectural Research" at RESEARCH: ARCHITECTURE'S MEDIA, MESSAGES, AND MODES at UCLA School of Architecture, April 30 - May 1, 2004.

LOOP FEEDBACK LOOP in association with the Center for Land Use Interpretation on display at the CLUI Los Angeles exhibit space March 5 - April 4, 2004.

March Building Sound on March 29, 2004 on killradio.org. This month: "Traffic 3".