The majority of the architecture of the 2012 Olympics is of a somewhat different nature than previous games, with an underlying sense of pragmatism, reflective of the current economy and state of global consciousness. Innovation, flexibility and sustainability are core concepts for the actual events, as well as the structures in which they are held.
On December 30th, 2011, the architecture community (and the world) lost an icon of vernacular modernism, Ricardo Legorreta.
Occurring on the third Friday of September, PARK(ing) Day is an annual event that began with a single parking space in 2005 in San Francisco. Since then, the event has grown as a platform for creative 'guerilla landscaping', as well as a venue for illustrating the need for public green space, civic participation, and thoughtful community development.
A great collaborative stop motion sculpture was recently animated in Melbourne's Federation Square. Created over a two-week period, the work consists of a moving sculpture of dynamic triangles, juxtaposed alongside the time-lapse of people interacting with the piece and moving through the public space.
For fourteen years, Scott Strazzante, a Pulitzer prize-winning photographer at the Chicago Tribune, tracked the evolution of a typical Illinois family farm through its transformation into a suburban subdivision. With housing sprawl replacing grazing land and big box stores built where crops once grew, this award-winning documentary depicts a phenomenon all too familiar in rural areas.
