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As one of the presenters at Indianapolis Museum of Art’s  Miller House Symposium on May 20, I may sound rather biased. Nevertheless I would say it was one of more interesting symposiums in which I have participated. Craig Miller, the design arts curator at IMA ingeniously decided that rather than having a full

The Architects Newspaper reports that Nicolai Ouroussoff will leave the New York Times at the end of this month following a seven-year run as the august paper's architecture critic.

The section leg of the elevated Manhattan park designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and James Corner Field Operations opens to the public on Wednesday. For a quick preview, watch a video produced by Brooklyn filmmaker Matt Wolf for Friends of the High Line after the jump.

The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum recently announced the winners and finalists of the 2011 National Design Awards, which recognizes design excellence across several disciplines including architecture design, interior design, landscape architecture, and product design.  

Just two months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, Sendai is getting back to normal. 

Gothamist has the first (illicit) photos we've seen of the new section of the High Line. The second phase of the elevated Manhattan park by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and James Corner Filed Operations is slated to open officially in June.

I went to see Teddy Cruz speak at the Center for Architecture in New York last night, and as always, he presented research and ideas about planning that were not only socially and politically valuable, but also rooted in a very common sense approach to development.

Lighting designers and manufacturers gather for the country's top lighting trade show.

Record held a cocktail napkin sketch design competition at the McGraw-Hill Construction booth during the AIA show in New Orleans this week and gave away sets of Pentel drawing instruments to several winners each day.

Known for its restaurants, which serve up rich compositions of gumbos, spicy creoles, and bananas flambé, dinner at New Orlean’s classic Broussards Thursday night after an exhausting day of AIA activities did not disappoint.