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Thursday, June 25, 2020 EDITOR'S NOTE: Between cabin fever, an on-going heat wave, and the 4th of July holiday coming up, we're taking a much-needed break. We'll be back Tuesday, July 7. 'Til then: Stay well. Stay safe. Stay cool Click here to see Today's News. Feature stories below the news note. ANN feature: Peter Piven's The New Norm, Part 2: Finances : Recommendations and mandates to fight the COVID-19 pandemic impacted architectural practices immediately. The operational changes have financial consequences. -- Architectural historian and educator Samia Henni unpacks the violent coloniality that the Executive Order Make Federal Buildings Beautiful Again embodies, and calls on architecture schools to do more to encourage current and future architectural 'possibilities of an otherwise.' -- Wainwright takes a deep dive into what's been going on with the seasteading movement, including BIG's slick Ted Talk-style vision of low-density suburbia sprawling virulently across the sea ( remarkably supported by UN-Habitat), and Waterstudio's luxury 'SeaPods' that look like a row of gigantic motorbike helmets on poles. -- Gragg considers DLR Group's reconstruction of the Michael Graves-designed Portland Building that may cause it to be de-listed from the National Register of Historic Places, which foregrounds a fundamental question in the preservation of landmark Modernist and Postmodernist buildings - what's historic - the building with its original materials, or the design concept? -- Ravenscroft reports on MAD Architects' largely subterranean Shenzhen Bay Culture Park museum complex topped by two pavilions designed to look like groups of large stones (archi-babble included - not his). -- A stellar list (and great presentation) of ASLA 2020 Honors Recipients Honorary Members. Weekend diversions + Page-turners: -- The National Building Museum presents Documenting Crossroads: The New Normal online exhibition of urban photographer Camilo Jos Vergara images of how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected people in poor, segregated neighborhoods across the New York metropolitan area. -- The Chicago Architecture Center re-opens next week, including the CAFC River Cruises and walking tours (yay!). -- The National Museum of African American History and Culture is launching Rendering Visible, an initiative focused on the creative production of black architects for inclusion in the NMAAHC's collection of digital images (looking for sketches, renderings, and artistic illustrations ). -- Medina's great Q A with Geoff Manaugh Nicola Twilley re: their (now particularly relevant) upcoming book on quarantine, formerly The Coming Quarantine and now Until Proven Safe : It does not seem to be a coincidence that these protests are at their most successful and wide spread at the exact moment that cities are being redesigned, however temporarily, for better access to urban space. -- Wainwright cheers curator and architectural historian Mohamed Elshahed's Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide that includes unfinished, abandoned, demolished and never-built buildings, and unpicks what Egypt's capital might have been - a rallying cry to take another look at the everyday fabric of this richly layered city (ancient Egyptian revival meets high camp included). -- Indianapolis architect Gary Vance completes the 2nd book in his Kid Architect series for kids K-12 to teach them about the wonders of architecture - with all team activity pages now available to download for free. Of protests, racism, and urban issues - the industry responds: -- Sitz talks to a number of Black architects and designers re: how they're confronting structural racism in the profession - many professional groups, firms, and schools have released statements in support of racial justice, but for some, many of those words fell flat. -- Matthew Fleischer: Want to tear down insidious monuments to racism and segregation? Bulldoze L.A. freeways. Our freeway system is one of the most noxious monuments to racism and segregation in the country - and their history proves it. -- Budds cheers architectural designer and Harvard GSD professor Sean Canty's Airtable called 200 Black Creators - like a spreadsheet, but it put faces to names (he's looking for more!). COVID-19 news continues: -- Davidson delves into why the American nursing home is a design failure. Even before COVID, its dynamics were deeply flawed. But there are people thinking about how to fix it (there's hope!). -- Anthony Flint takes a deep dive into the destiny of density and the impacts of an insidious virus - density itself is not the cause of collective pain - the issues cities urgently need to address are overcrowding, lack of affordability, and economic and racial disparities. -- To end on a lighter note: Barcelona's opera house reopens with performance to 2,292 plants - to mark Spain's lifting of lockdown - each one will be donated to a healthcare worker at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona (full disclosure: we love plants and Puccini - it's online!). The New Norm, Part 2: FinancesRecommendations and mandates to fight the Covid-19 pandemic impacted architectural practices immediately. The operational changes have financial consequences.by Peter Piven, FAIAJune 25, 2020(Peter Piven)Lesson Plan #9: Ideas on Architectural EducationSchools of architecture have not found ways of teaching the art of building that is effective. We want, collectively, to make architectural teaching better, and through that, to make architecture better.by Christopher AlexanderJune 11, 2020(Nikos A. Salingaros)Wild about Saffron: Revisiting Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Gates New York City: a February Tuesday in Central Park. 55 degrees and sunny (originally posted February 21, 2005)by Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLAJune 2, 2020(Kristen Richards)Quiet and Disquiet Together: A Quarantine-Induced Assessment of Downtown ManhattanWe savor the city, lingering on the rich detail, walking down streets that we neglected in busier times. It does feel like the proverbial music has stopped. How could it not? Hopefully we'll emerge from our collective timeout recommitted to creating a more equitable and resilient city.by Dan Kaplan, FAIA, LEED APMay 28, 2020(Kristen Richards)Remembering Michael Sorkin, Critic and ActivistThe wickedly funny Sorkin, known to many as Comrade, was a social justice warrior. He maintained perpetual outrage in the course of writing 20 books and hundreds of articles, honing his invectives for gentrification, Disneyfication, waste, and conspicuous consumption. We have lost a polemicist who urged us toward the best of our architectural principles.by Katie Faulkner, FAIAMay 21, 2020(Kristen Richards)

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