Unfairly assuming that Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind and Frank Gehry represent the top four architects of our time, I decided to pit their fame against each other in a highly questionable Google Trends test:
Volume of Google search-queries for each architect’s full name in all regions throughout the year 2006.
Frank (in green) comes out [...]
Germany’s Spiegel Online has a very interesting series of reports about the world’s most famous underground train networks. Entitled Mind the Gap, they have so far reported on Moscow, London, Berlin, New York, Tokyo, and most recently, Paris.
The articles explore this most ubiquitous form of urban architecture, its mythologies, its cultural signifiers, its sheer weight [...]
Just came by this very interesting posting by Geoff Manaugh for BLDG BLOG, concerning the state of architectural criticism.
On the pains of writing for important architectural magazines, he says:
“You want to talk about a videogame, or a Tim Burton film, or castles as described in the books of J.K. Rowling – but nope: it’s all [...]
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