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Today’s News - Thursday, April 18, 2002

The architecture and design world is a-buzz...the Pritzker Prize has been awarded, for the first time, to an Australian! Not only that. Glenn Murcutt doesn't have one skyscraper in his portfolio. And he hasn't designed a building outside of his homeland. What he does have is a sincere and profound love for the earth that he imparts to his clients, his students, and his profession (fortunately for many of us, he does that on a global scale). Add to that, he's basically a one-man shop who actually answers his own phone (when he's not traveling the world teaching and lecturing or tending to his farm). Our profile of the 2002 Pritzker Prize Laureate hardly does Murcutt justice, but at least it's an introduction to his work and his way of thinking that permeates both his architecture and life. There is much we as an industry, a profession, and individually can learn.

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Pritzker Prize (Surprise!?!): Glenn Murcutt, Sydney, Australia: A sole practitioner who treasures - and respects - the Australian environment wins what is considered the "Nobel Prize" in architecture.- ArchNewsNow Feature

A meeting of two great minds in architecture: It was the young revolutionary meeting the old. - Robert Venturi; Rem Koolhaas- The Philadelphia Inquirer

Rich Firms, Poor Ideas on Towers Site By Herbert Muschamp- New York Times

American University of Beirut unveils ambitious plan for 21st-century makeover: 20-year, $150 million Project will bring Big changes to campus - Sasaki Associates; Machado and Silvetti Associates; Dar Al-Handasah Consultants; MGT- The Daily Star (Lebanon)

Victoria & Albert museum to get £150 million overhaul - Daniel Libeskind- The Architects' Journal (UK)

Form Follows Feeling at the Milan Furniture Fair- New York Times

RadioShack Corporation Finalizes Site Plan for New 900,000-sf Corporate Headquarters; Company Selects Design and Construction Team - HKS- StockHouse

Plan will stress the need for quality architecture: one of the key criteria for publicly funded construction projects- The Irish Times

This is not Tuscany, warn architects- New Zealand Herald

Foundation wants Blandair used for 'urban ecology,' education- Baltimore Sun

Connect the Parks: Anacostia Riverfront Plan Features Network of Connected Parks - Wallace Roberts & Todd- Roll Call (Washington, DC)

Consultant lands contract for MAPS school project - The Facility Group- The Oklahoman

Brown smiles on small firms: once again the main target of tax breaks- BBC

Wright influence in Homerama building - Taliesin Architects; Tony Puttnam- The Cincinnati Post

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