In late 2013, Kanye West visited the Harvard Graduate School of Design and said, “I really do believe that the world can be saved through design,” and “everything needs to actually be ‘architected.’” For many, this collision of hip-hop and architecture was unexpected, and the staid crowd of architectural professionals reacted, let’s say, defensively.

The American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIANY) and the Center for Architecture today announced Benjamin Prosky as its new executive director.

These days, plans for creating entire cities from the ground up do not surprise us, but South Korea’s New Songdo City (NSC) does.