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Today's News - February 27, 2007

How Disney's utopian dream changed the world ("You can see Orlando's sprawl from outer space.") -- Rethinking affordable housing strategies. -- The 'burbs need to step up to the plate. -- Latinos and planning: its time to bring this growing demographic into the process. -- King lauds bold not big plans for housing project in San Francisco's Octavia Blvd. as "a welcome blast from the past." -- Corbu and Wright knew more about what makes a good house than today's "annoying international clique of jetlagged starchitects." -- With 162 projects in downtown, L.A. isn't all about Grand Ave. -- Koolhaas "rubric cube" to rise on Jersey City shores (second item has lots of pix). -- FEMA's toxic trailers. -- Campbell's take on Americans' favorite building poll (and a list of his won). -- Medieval Islamic architecture "appears to have involved an advanced math of quasi crystals" (modern science found them only 30 years ago). -- Seattle "Envelope House": "Don't let the "cute" factor mislead. There's serious architecture afoot."

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The Theme-Parking, Mega Churching, Franchising, Exurbing, McMansioning of America: Walt Disney's utopian dream forever changed Orlando, Florida, and laid the blueprint for the new American metropolis.- National Geographic

Rethinking Affordable Housing Strategies: ...at Housing Charlotte 2007, Bruce Katz discusses current housing challenges in Charlotte, principles of success, as well as where the city, and the nation, go from here.- Brookings Institution

Suburbs Should Collaborate on Affordable Housing: ...have not collaborated to reach the state's mandated goals, according to a University of Illinois at Chicago study...- Newswise

Op-Ed: Latinos and Planning: The Road Ahead: With the Latino population growing tremendously, it's time to begin addressing the shortcomings in the practice of planning regarding this key demographic. By Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP- PLANetizen

A welcome plan for bold -- not big -- housing: ...a welcome blast from the past: the idea that lots of little buildings are better than one or two big ones. By John King -- Build Inc.; Saitowitz/Natoma Architects; Envelope A+D- San Francisco Chronicle

Want a new house? Then copy the Georgians: Today, the annoying international clique of jetlagged starchitects has little to contribute to the argument about what a house should be.- Observer (UK)

Coming Into Focus: With 162 Projects, Downtown Continues to Evolve -- Robert Ley/Adria Pauli; Nakada & Associates; M2A Architects; Frank R. Webb Architects; Hodgetts + Fung; John Sergio Fisher; Steven Holl; Stephen B. Jacobs Group; Thomas P. Cox Architects; Killefer Flammang; Brenda Levin- Los Angeles Downtown News

Koolhaas Presents Design for 52-Story Tower in Jersey City: ...wants to inspire social interaction, life and energy...$400 million project at 111 First St... -- Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) (AP) [image]- 1010 WINS

Across the River, Rem Koolhaas Gone Wild: 111 First Street...Would look great in the East Village...set to rise in Jersey City. [images, link]- Curbed NY

Toxic Trailers: Along the Gulf Coast...survivors of Hurricane Katrina are suffering from a constellation of similar health problems...There's one other similarity: The people suffering from these illnesses live in trailers supplied by the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA). (The Nation magazine)- SunHerald (Mississippi)

Which is the fairest of them all? The buildings we love best: Americans are old-fashioned people when it comes to architecture...and this is an old-fashioned list. By Robert Campbell- Boston Globe

In Medieval Architecture, Signs of Advanced Math: A new study shows that the Islamic pattern-making process...appears to have involved an advanced math of quasi crystals, which was not understood by modern scientists until three decades ago. [images]- New York Times

Fremont duplex celebrates urban life with simple forms and complexly arranged spaces: "Envelope House"...Don't let the "cute" factor mislead. There's serious architecture afoot. By Lawrence W. Cheek -- Bohlin Cywinski Jackson- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Herzog & de Meuron: Forum, Barcelona, Spain

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