"[Extreme Programming] practices can be readily and beneficially adapted to architecture. This paper shows how." Written by an architect/software developer. (Via Jonas Bengtsson.)

"... investigates the fundamental form-generating processes in architecture, considering architecture as a form of artificial life, and proposing a genetic representation in a form of DNA-like code-script" (via angermann2).

"...some correspondence between Peter and I about Paul Shepheard..."

"In advance of his new book on Lagos, architect and theorist Rem Koolhaas explores the particular dynamics of that city, its modes of dispersal and reclamation, and describes the flexibility, intensity and efficiency with which it functions."

"DSB: We are very interested in archetypes, in typologies. Imagine a toy train that runs through a small, toy-train town. What would the post office, schoolhouse, and town hall look like in that little town? Those are generic types." (Via Fish.)

"[Jonas Dahlberg] borrowed the title of his work from Calvino's famous book, [alluding to] his desire to construct his work as architecture, as 'a space which readers must enter, explore and maybe get lost in, but eventually find their way out of'."

"The [joint] exhibition [at the Venice Biennial, by the Swedish, Finnish, and Norwegian museums of architecture] is accompanied by a newly produced tabloid [...] containing supplementary presentations of the architect offices taking part." (PDF doc.)

"Seminariekväll med utgångspunkt i den nyutkomna boken om Tage William-Olsson [den] innovative och kontroversielle arkitekten vars mest kända verk [är] Slussen."

(PDF) "Why Danish IT architecture does not result in interoperability." (Via Olov Östberg.)

(Free reg. required.) "[...] the Louisiana Museum's Utzon exhibition is an almost unqualified triumph." Be sure to visit before it ends on August 29.

"Den här gången har Sven-Olof Wallenstein i fem kapitel, som spänner från Antiken till idag, beskrivit det intressanta förhållandet mellan arkitektur och filosofi."

Interviews with Renzo Piano, Maurice Müller, and Andreas Marti. Requires free registration.

Via 2 Blowhards.

A bunch of links on Archigram (via Anne Galloway).

"The author then asks why the definition of architecture has come to mean only 'building' and suggests it began at the turn of the 20th century, at a 'time when everything started to become invisible.'"

"RP: I believe architecture is art, of course. It's art, but it's not sculpture because it's made for making service to something else." (Via rodcorp.)

"Architects have been designing and planning organic structures for a decade. Now, finally, says Nigel Coates, some of them are getting built."

Absolutely brilliant post!

"A slide-show essay on the rock star of architecture."

A response to Salingaros. "I certainly don't see the Manhattan Transcripts as an attempt to replace 'handbooks' of urban design such as Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language."

A site about a very interesting house by Frank Lloyd Wright (via Peter Merholz).

"[A]rchitectural theory has developed into two parallel strands. [One] based on solutions that work historically [and one] on science [aiming] explain how architectonic form emerges, and why [we] react in certain predictable ways to different structures."

"Nikos Salingaros interviews Léon Krier."

"An excellent overview" of Archigram, according to Dan Hill of cityofsound.

"[D]ocuments the past seven years of Rem Koolhaas and OMA-AMO's work" (via reluct.com).

"Since [the 1970s], popular culture has moved away from Modernism as the expression of the times, towards the idea that Modernist art and architecture are just styles."

"The [modern] architect designs buildings, usually object buildings. The traditional urban designer designs the streets, squares and blocks that make the public realm."

"[A]rchitecture is the manifestation in space of the basic human needs for interaction, inspiration, and a healthy way of living."

"Supposedly, their [Gehry, Libeskind, etc.] buildings are based on the New Sciences such as complexity, fractals, emergence, self-organization, and self-similarity. I disprove Jencks's claim, and show that it is founded on elementary misunderstandings."

"Although Modernism was meant to be an approach that suited a post-religious age, it quickly took on all the characteristics of a traditional religion."

"MDA aims to separate business or application logic from underlying platform technology" (via Robert Palmqvist).

On Bernard Tschumi's New Acropolis Museum

A summary of John Frazer's book (via Håkan Kjellerstrand)

(via Håkan Kjellerstrand)