Check out this new animated film, Plan Of The City, conceived and directed by Joshua Frankel, featuring flying skyscrapers from New York and Shanghai, remixed cities, the Martian landscape and a chamber ensemble. The film is, in part, a love letter to architecture, urban planing, and impossible…

DESIGN 21 – an online platform to promote design for the greater good – today announced the winners of the Living Climate Change Video Challenge. The competition, hosted by DESIGN 21 and presented by global design and innovation firm IDEO, invited people of all ages to…

Back in December 2009, Bustler reported that the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Board of Directors had selected Southern Californian practice Pugh + Scarpa Architects to receive the 2010 AIA Architecture Firm Award. Last Thursday, on June 10th, Pugh + Scarpa…

If you happen to be in the London area this summer, don’t miss to check out the very promising exhibition 1:1 - Architects Build Small Spaces at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Using the landscape of the…

SMIBE (The Society for Moving Images about the Built Environment) recently announced the winning entries of its second international short film competition. Following the call under the theme “Personal Infrastructures,” over two hundred entries from film makers around the world went into the…

At this year’s big prize presentation of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) in Oakland, CA, our friends at Architecture for Humanity were awarded the 2010 IIDA Pioneers in Design Award. Watch this video and see reviewed projects like post Tsunami reconstruction, Post Katrina Housing,…

On July 27, Bustler reported about the big night at Calgary’s Grand Theatre where the five competition finalists presented their designs for the Cantos National Music Center competition. Presenting firms that night were Diller Scofidio and Renfro, New York, NY, Jean Nouvel Workshop, Paris, France, Allied…

Julien De Smedt, of JDS Architects, gave a public lecture at Harvard University in the Graduate School of Design’s George Gund Hall on March 5, 2009. Topic: “Embracing Diversity”. Watch the video of the lecture here on Bustler:

On a beautiful Los Angeles afternoon, the SMIBE (Society for Moving Images about the Built Environment) jury met at the Neutra VDL House to deliberate the finalists of the short film competition “Story about a Place”. The jurors were Christopher…

The USC School Of Architecture is pleased to announce the winners of the first 2008 Youtube Video Competition! Thank you to all who participated, as all of the entries were of great quality! From clever dance sequences to candid student interviews, all entries were…