this week on the internet (23-29 Oct).

[01] firstly, some non-architectural happenings:

(a) Rosa Park passed away last monday (24 Oct 05); she's the woman who set racial equality going for afro-americans by sitting in the white folks' part of the bus.

(b) Cornell President condemns teaching of Intelligent Design. a while back, yaoks had sent me a link for Flying Spaghetti Monster, which is basically a parody of ID. a few weeks ago, on Boston Legal, Schmidt made a most incredulously convincing argument for the teaching of ID because, fundamentally, "In God We Trust".

[02] in melbourne, the erection of a handphone building attempts to set the city on the map; so will suicide by a million paper-cuts performed in front of a crowd at the Federation Square but i don't see you doing that... there is fame, and then there's infamy.

[03] fabPrefab is simply a fabulous site on pre-fabrication.

[04] notice how i like process pictures? especially real-life construction projects? yeah well, you can now find construction pics of Diller and Scofidio's Institute of Contemporary Art, in Boston. plus, i just found out that there's a whole thread dedicated to the monitoring of new projects and their construction in Singapore at Skyscrapercity.com. (if you haven't checked skyscrapercity.com out, especially the singapore channel, you really should do it soon...)

[05] sometime ago, Jencks says that "the question of whether the new paradigm exists in architecture is worth asking" (article on and for his new book, The Iconic Building.)

[06] archidose illustrates well how we're seduced by the illusion of images. which really doesn't help in my questioning of added virtuality in architecture, or at least our dependence on it as authority.

[07] for the hopelessly color-uncoordinated ones, might i introduce the Color Scheme Generator [via resarch.net].

[08] a site for the archiving of info maps, some cool, most esoteric, but definitely pretty. [via fromform.net.]

[09] sign-posting madness manifested online, cute though not particularly interesting in my opinion. something abt it being borne out of a flat space that doesn't so much excite me as it does irritate me. [via gravestmor.com.]

[10] last but not least, Calatrava's show at the Met comes under fire: "Architects draw for different reasons than artists do - for one thing, to work through ideas with a freedom that cannot be replicated by using computer software.". debate on archinect suggests that the writers don't get it, but i think there's much truth in what's been said. maybe i'm old school, but i do like to take into consideration curatorial discourse on the dialogue between objects in show space, and the evolution of the traditional gallery space. either way, i'd rather not so much see it as an art show as it is just an exhibition of processes.

[11] and because i'm late this week, i'd bring you good news: archidose reports that "architects are the sexiest" of professions! hahaha!!! [text-version]

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