October 1st marks the first day of an outstanding event marathon in New York City: Archtober, a month-long festival of architectural design activities, programs and exhibitions. The program was carefully curated by the Center for Architecture, in collaboration with a host of other organizations, and includes special tours,…

If you're in the Los Angeles area these days, we highly recommend to visit the excellent exhibition Rethink LA: Perspectives on a Future City, currently displayed at the Architecture and Design Museum on Wilshire Boulevard. The exhibition runs until September 4. Created…

World Architecture Festival (WAF) has confirmed Michael Sorkin will head-up the ‘super-jury’ at this year’s WAF Awards,  to determine which building, from entries across the globe, will be crowned with the ultimate prize - ‘World Building of the Year 2011’. Sorkin is principal of the

If you're in London this summer, don't miss to check out this year’s Architecture Room at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition, curated by Piers Gough of CZWG and Alan Stanton of Stanton Williams. The exhibition opened on June 7 and runs through August…

If you're in New York next week, make sure to check out the book launch party of the Hall of Femmes project, a new book series highlighting the contributions of women in design. Presented by the Art Directors Club, the party will be hosted at the ADC…

Daniel Toole, an architect at Perkins + Will in Seattle and a 2008 University of Oregon architecture graduate, has won the 5th Annual Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship award for his design, “Whittier Organic Food Center Towers,” a system that “flips” greenhouses vertically to incorporate on-site…

If you're in the Toronto area this spring, don't miss the exhibition "Guy Tillim: Avenue Patrice Lumumba" from April 20 to June 14, 2011, presented by the Design Exchange, Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival and Wedge Curatorial Projects and organized by the

If you're in the LA area, don't miss the public forum at the A+D Museum tomorrow night, held by the Arch Is_ competition. The AIA Los Angeles chapter, organizer of this design competition, recently announced the winners of the 2011 edition which invited young…

Launched with the keynote lecture Complicity and Simplexity by Branko Kolarevic, Chair in Integrated Design at the University of Calgary, TEX-FAB 2.0 began its second event to great success. Well over 100 attendees from across the US, Mexico and the UK attended the Friday lecture series…

Collectif etc have shared with us the design-build project "A nous le parking" that they recently conducted with students of the National Graduate School of Science and Technology in Strasbourg, France. The project questions the dominance of spaces for cars vs. spaces for people in the urban…