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The University of Michigan leadership committed this summer to seek LEED certification for every new construction project of at least $10 million. The new Ross School of Business building is full of environmentally friendly technology.



NPR discusses LEED. NPR

The 36th Annual Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition has just been announced. This year's jury includes Archinect's own Nam Henderson. www.krobarch.com | via Bustler View the results from 2009, 2008 and 2007

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Issue 7 of MAS Context is out. The focus of the issue is on INFORMATION. For these reasons, they talked to those leading the pack with their ideas and work, about the opportunities, challenges, trends and mistakes of the so-called Information Age. Articles include an essay on blogitecture by Javier Arbona and Mimi Zieger on the PURSUIT OF CONTENT IN A FORMAT AGE

News Announcing Archinect Sessions. The re-occurring sessions will take place at the Neutra VDL House in Silver Lake. Debate #1: will be on the The Future of Urbanism, and feature moderator Orhan Ayyuce, and guests Bryan Finoki (Subtopia) and Geoff Manaugh. Find out more here Heather Ring continues her reporting from the Venice architectural Biennale with: Venice #6: Live Builds, Venice #7: Croatia stranded at sea, Venice #8: Nordics @ Work w/, Venice #9: USA bootstraps it, Venice #10: Street Training and Venice #11: 'Hylozoic Ground' . Re: the news that Stefano Boeri will run for Mayor of Milan I agree with superinteresting!. Autodesk has decided to reintroduce it's AutoCAD design software for Macs. For the third year in a row Archinect is soliciting submissions for architecture school lecture posters. Discussion Threads graphite wonders if anyone out there can help them understand/explain/relate to an attraction towards Morphosis' presentations and drawings. sublimespaces reawakens this old thread to give us their review of Reiser Umemoto's book Atlas of Novel Tectonics. School Blogs At Lawrence Technological University Constance Bodurow is heading up Randall's section of Urban Design which he finds exciting as her accomplishments echo a novel. Michael at Architectural Association is currently in the process of compiling and sequencing a book of all the research his team has conducted over the last six months. Additionally Brute Force Collaborative has another great run in their Elevating the Discourse series this time on Public Toilets: pt. 1 and pt. 2.

In his highly anticipated blogpost, our anti hero and most talented Glen Small shows what he can do with his hands in the desert sand. This is essential Glen: ABU DHABI FROM OREGON (PART 2 OF 3) S@L Part 2 | Part 1

The Canadian Pavilion offers an immersive, interactive installation, an exploration in responsive architecture, a breathing, intricate lattice of living web of tens of thousands of digital sensors, in Philip Beesley's 'Hylozoic Ground.' The project stems from the concept of Hylozoism, the ancient philosophical belief that all matter contains life. A geotextile meshwork weave of digital components, feathers and whiskers, the artificial forest breathes and reacts as a living organism, giving a heightened sense of being part of an interconnected, responsive world.

some photos from detroit's infamous derelict manufacturing areas.

It's that time of the year again! For the third year in a row Archinect is soliciting submissions for architecture school lecture posters. See 2008 posters / 2009 posters Please send school lecture series posters to archinect@gmail.com. If possible, please send the original digital file in PDF format, or some other high resolution format. Please note that we are only currently exhibiting posters representing lecture series at architecture/design schools for the Fall 2010 semester/term, but you may submit past and future posters for upcoming galleries and archives.

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Boeri, Italian architect and editor-in-chief of Abitare, has announced his plan to run for mayor of Milan. He speaks of 'networking the energy, "a campaign which will be" great laboratory of listening, the need to "renew the ruling class to change air at Palazzo Marino. - translated article from Corriere della Sera

September 03 SHIFTboston Moon Capital Competition September 07 DESIGN 21 Call for Entries: “Crafting Excellence” - A Competition in Support of Artisans September 08 Building Fashion - Richard Chai Design Challenge September 13 Whitehaven Central Harbour Site Competition 10 Andreu World International Design Competition The HuB Design Competition September 15 Olympic Museum in Athens Ballet West Fluid Adagio POST FACT: Visualizing Information [a curated exhibition] James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation 2010 Grant Announcement An International Design Ideas Competition for ‘Urban Renewal For Rifle Range, Penang’ 2010 TCA Student Design Contest Los Angeles Cleantech Corridor and Green District Competition 1st Annual ENYA Merit Award September 16 The Re-Announcement of Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural & Popular M

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Google has announced plans to build 480 low-cost rental housing units in seven communities across the American West to Midwest. The housing complexes being built with the fund include a range of one to four-bedroom apartments, and offer a shared laundry facility and community gathering area; effectively creating 500 new units of affordable housing. The release says that Google has also recently invested in two other low-income housing projects for senior citizens, one in the San Francisco Bay community of Sunnyvale, and the other in the Los Angeles County community of Inglewood. - TechCrunch

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No Port After the Storm: Post-Katrina New Orleans, still rife with blighted housing, is a lesson for recovering from future disasters. Read | Plus: "A short digression on the meaning of a word that apparently has no generally agreed-upon political definition:" Liberal

London-based artist Lottie Child led a group of people, mostly children, who live and work around Via Garibaldi in Venice, in a Street Training session for architects and planners. Inverting educational hierarchies, with adult professionals being trained by children in imaginative responses to the built environment, the session explored the relations between the built infrastructure and the social infrastructure in terms of safety and joy. With less than 5 playgrounds in Venice, the children occupy the streets. Lottie initially embarked on her research by asking the questions, "How do you feel safe in the streets?" and "How do you feel joyful in the streets?" Many people had answers to the first question, as fear mediated their experiences, but only the children had ideas on strategies for joy. Lottie decided to apprentice herself to the children, and here she brings to us some of her research: joyfulness in the streets of Venice. Climbing on the fence of the Giardini: Playing ball against the buildings: Cartwheels through the streets: Singing into the telephones: Splashing from the fountains: Adopting urban play strategies of children is not always as easy as it looks, to truly feel joyful, without it feeling contrived or self-conscious. But it's definitely worth practicing ... !

Some good old-fashioned bootstrapping as the US pavilion celebrates the "proactive, entrepreneurial spirit of architects, engineers and designers who recognize the transformational potential of focused partnerships." Entitled, "Workshopping," the US curators Michael Rooks of the High Museum of Art and John D. Solomon of 306090 invited Archeworks (Chicago), Terraform (NYC), cityLAB (LA), Hood Design) (Oakland), Architecture Research Office (LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio) and John Portman & Associates (Atlanta) to show their pioneering strategies. I was familiar with most of the work, as urban food growing projects (Archeworks), community based landscape architecture (Hood Design), and urban theory (Terraform). But I was interested in the inclusion of John Portman Associates Peachtree Center in Atlanta. I haven't been, and this installation didnt really tell anything about what the Peachtree Center was like as an experience or how it has impacted the surrounding communities, as it just seems like a big corporate enterprise. The installation also didn't make legible the process for getting it built -- architect as landowner, as client, as entrepreneur. Does anyone have thoughts on this project? It seemed quite different in its scale and strategic ethos than some of the other projects on display, like the small urban food growing project of Archeworks. But then there's an infographic-ready project from Terraform, who presented "New York City (Steady) State," a large-scale inquiry that seeks to answer the question: can New York City become self-sufficient within it's polictical boundaries? The US pavilion opted for the fall-back strategy of re-presenting projects rather than transforming their pavilion into a new sort of vision, or better ... testing some of these pioneering strategies in Venice, to build partnerships and make the process a living experience of workshopping. But they did have one installation, which doesn't appear to have any relationship with the workshopping theme ... a calorie-light canopy by MOS (Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample) called Instant Untitled. It's light, it's fun ... was it just meant to be a counterweight to the "heavier" ideas inside? "Instant Untitled has a small carbon footprint. It barely even exists. It's an urban figment ... This type of architecture is like diet-architecture, a copy without the calories." -- MOS

With their slick presentation of completed urban design projects from Sweden, Norway and Finland, the Nordic pavilion took a while to get the picture: this year it's about people and architecture. At the last minute, they brought in Tor Lindstrand, who recently founded the project, Economy.. In collaboration with Testbedstudio, they initiated At Work With, an office environment with a three month residency program in the Nordic pavilion. Conceived as a productive environment for seminars, screenings, discussions, displays, projects, models, meetings, cooking and more, they have invited a series of young offices to relocate their staff, materials, process and projects temporarily to this very public site. You can follow the residencies on the At Work With blog. Tor Lindstrand described to me his interest in the horizontality of the design process (the table) as opposed to the verticality of the finished presentation (by contrast, the rest of the slick pavilion). Archinect actually met Tor Lindstrand a couple years ago in Second Life, where he was running a Stockholm studio utilizing Second Life as a mode to explore ideas of architecture and representation. Alas, you may be disappointed to learn he looks nothing like his avatar. ;)