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Elizabeth Diller: ‘Trump is producing an activist generation’VideoSubscription
Winner of the Jane Drew Prize 2019, Elizabeth Diller, co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, talks Trump, High Lines and the state of American architecture when we catch her at the Women in Architecture awards in March 2019
Competition: Ragdale Ring pop-up theatre 2019, IllinoisSubscription
An open contest has been launched to design a $15,000 temporary theatre at the Ragdale artists retreat in Illinois, USA (Deadline: 8 March)
Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986)Subscription
The architect of Pruitt-Igoe and the World Trade Center survived a life of racial discrimination and blame laid for the demise of the Modernist dream – but did not live to see the revisionist movement that asserts the underfunded Pruitt-Igoe’s fate was predetermined
Fashion victims: the preservation and evolution of the Museum of Contemporary Art San DiegoSubscription
Buildings such as Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates’ Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego should not be embalmed, but pursuing fads can be equally compromising
Design Earth: ‘a drawing is an argument about the world’Subscription
In the face of unthinkable, catastrophic climate change, Design Earth’s speculative architecture means to tell new stories, to render our environmental future sensible, or legible to the senses
Clorindo Testa (1923-2013)Subscription
Architect to the National Library of the Argentine Republic and the Bank of London in Buenos Aires, the fanciful Clorindo Testa is a mainstay of modern Argentine architecture
Revisit: Biblioteca VasconcelosSubscription
Mexico City’s national lending library by Alberto Kalach + TAX allows for an unintentional plurality of inhabitation and experience
Competition: Financial Services Commission Building, MontserratSubscription
Montserrat’s Financial Services Commission is seeking an architect for its new £1.3 million headquarters in Little Bay (Deadline: 9 January)
Competition: Beam Camp Spectacular Projects 2019, USASubscription
Beam Camp in New Hampshire has launched its annual international competition for a series of $12,500 temporary installations (Deadline: 6 January)
Volcanic panache: Ampuero Yutronic, UK & ChileSubscription
Ampuero Yutronic’s black-stained Casa Hualle in Pucón, Chile, is evocative of both the volcanic stone-clad houses and the agricultural sheds of the region
