...the exhibition will be organized in six thematic sections: Revival and Reinterpretation; Rising in the East; Glamour and Fetish; Architecture; Metamorphosis; and Space Walk.

...the cafe is located in the landscape of South Korea...

MEXTRÓPOLI will...forge links between citizens and architects, designers, urban planners, sociologists, anthropologists, artists and politicians, and will examine the question of what a desirable metropolis could be. MEXTRÓPOLI also aspires to position Mexico City as an epicenter of architecture and a leader in creative transformation...

...author and former Second Lady... [she] died on Monday in Minneapolis at the age of 83.

On Jan 28 1963...Harvey Gantt enrolled at Clemson College, becoming the first African American accepted to a white school in South Carolina.

The term “Rust Belt”...exaggerates the physical decay and isolates the identity of many cities in static matter. Advocates, journalists and scholars have popularized the term...while perpetuating the emphasis on what makes these places frontiers of decline. Narratives of the Rust Belt are still focused on loss, rife with a cynical nostalgia and a nagging refusal to cast in with wealthier and less damaged cities. The singularity of the conditions of places like St. Louis and Detroit remains mythic fodder for would-be heroes of public policy, architectural design and public art. There are many Daniel Boones of the legacy cities.

...not just a book about the happiness of cities. It’s about as many people as possible living as close together as they can...Chakrabarti’s idea is that if everyone, or at least vastly more people, lived at much greater density, we’d all be happier and more productive and could let the natural world get back to restoring itself.

An architect's position in the prison-industrial complex becomes...like the engineer who designs the guidance system for missiles. The difference being that an architect inflicts design on the people within a space—even if those people aren't consciously aware of what's happening.

....while I was applying to Harvard my proposal for the Cultural Center la Tallera Siqueiros...was chosen to be built. So while I was in the US I was still working in Mexico—it wasn't quite what I had imagined would happen but...After graduating I moved back to Mexico City and continued with my studio—it's been non-stop ever since...Mexico City has been great because I've built several things which a young architect in another country might not have been able to do. There is a DIY culture here which can be seen from street vendors to architects—it's a very free and liberating place to work...

Detroit is a devastatingly poor, mostly black, increasingly abandoned island in the midst of a sea of comparative affluence that’s mostly white. Its suburbs are among the richest in the nation. Oakland County, for example, is the fourth wealthiest county in the United States, of counties with a million or more residents. Greater Detroit—which includes the suburbs—is among the nation’s top five financial centers, the top four centers of high-technology employment, and the second-biggest source of engineering and architectural talent. Not everyone is wealthy, to be sure, but the median household in the region earns close to $50,000 a year, and unemployment is no higher than the nation’s average. The median household in Birmingham, Michigan, just across the border that delineates the city of Detroit, earned more than $94,000 last year; in nearby Bloomfield Hills—still within the Detroit metropolitan area—the median was more than $150,000.

The median household income within the city of Detroit is around $26,000, and unemployment is staggeringly high. One out of 3 residents is in poverty; more than half of all children in the city are impoverished. Between 2000 and 2010, Detroit lost a quarter of its population as the middle-class and whites fled to the suburbs. That left it with depressed property values, abandoned neighborhoods, empty buildings, lousy schools, high crime, and a dramatically-shrinking tax base. More than half of its parks have closed in the last five years. Forty percent of its streetlights don’t work...If “Detroit” is defined as the larger metropolitan area that includes its suburbs, “Detroit” has enough money to provide all its residents with adequate if not good public services, without falling into bankruptcy.

...[image of proposed design for the] Pont Jean-Jacques Bosc Bridge that [will] stretch...across the Garonne River in Bordeaux. the structure re-imagines the bridge as the extension of a promenade that hosts the entire plethora of transport...

...non-denominational chapel...designed in 1980 by an apprentice of [Frank Lloyd] Wright’s, architect E. Fay Jones, who employed the use of steel and glass to create a weightless, almost translucent structure that offers sweeping views...of the surrounding Ozark habitat...Fay asked that no construction element be larger than what two people could carry through the woods by hand.