California

»It was a Me­di­ter­ra­nean mutt fal­ling down its steep hillside«, he said, and just get­ting to the front door re­qui­red clim­bing a 60-step stair­way from the street. Still, Mr. Mi­randa, who paid $257,000, was »attracted to the rustic set­ting, …

The Uni­ver­sity of California’s pro­po­sed new art mu­seum, de­si­gned by the Ja­pa­nese ar­chi­tect Toyo Ito, would be a ma­gi­cal place to view art.

At the end of Sep­tem­ber the Chi­cago Athen­aeum Mu­seum of Ar­chi­tec­ture and De­sign, Me­tro­po­li­tan Arts Press Ltd. and The Eu­ro­pean Cen­ter for Ar­chi­tec­ture Art De­sign and Urban Stu­dies an­noun­ced the win­ners of this year’s In­ter­na…

With his Mu­seum of Na­tu­ral His­tory in San Fransisco’s Gol­den Gate Park Renzo Piano has suc­cess­fully united the twelve dif­fe­rent buil­dings of the Ca­li­for­nia Aca­demy of Sci­en­ces, con­struc­ted bet­ween 1916 and 1991, under one sin­gle, …

The Ame­ri­can In­sti­tute of Ar­chi­tects, AIA named its 10 re­ci­pi­ents of the 2008 Young Ar­chi­tects Award. The list of names, along with short bio­gra­phies were an­noun­ced at the end of Ja­nu­ary 2008. The bes­to­wal will take place at the AI…

Architects, ar­tists and re­se­ar­chers were asked to con­sider what me­thods might be de­ve­l­o­ped and de­ployed to give form to new ur­ba­nism. Ac­cor­ding to Ed­ward Soja (Pro­fes­sor of Plan­ning at the Uni­ver­sity of Ca­li­for­nia), phy­si­cal…

Architects, ar­tists and re­se­ar­chers were asked to con­sider what me­thods might be de­ve­l­o­ped and de­ployed to give form to new ur­ba­nism. Ac­cor­ding to Ed­ward Soja (Pro­fes­sor of Plan­ning at the Uni­ver­sity of Ca­li­for­nia), phy­si­cal…