This is the time of year when I acknowledge you, dear reader, for making Tropolism a success! Accordingly, I've opened up our referral stats and compiled a list of your favorite entries. You all vote with your clicks!: 1....

Tropolism's editorial staff is travelling again (DTW to EWR, sorry, no update on the hole at IAD). We would like to invite you, again, to participate in our community map over at Frappr. Enjoy!...

The New York Times produces an exceptionally useful piece related to works of architecture by calling the Travel section. They tour the work of Rural Studio, Sam Mockbee's legacy in western Alabama, and its ongoing work. Of most interest,...

We admit our addictions and obsessions. We love diagonals. Give us something architectural with a tetrahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, or pentagram in it, and we're yours. Future Feeder heard our silent cry and points us to a map archive that...

Tropolism will be posting here and there for the next few days. We are travelling. Some of the places have no WiFi, and some have something called "dial-up", which we've totally never heard of. First stop: Dulles airport, where,...

The only thing we dislike more than errors and ommisions (because we have E&O insurance, yo) is getting late information. And here we are. A diligent reader sends us news of another project in diagonal living that might possibly...

The fact checker takes an early Christmas Vacation and look what happens. Tropolism misses some big news! Zaha's Louvre competition entry, the one we so breathlessly admired below, is, alas, on the cutting room floor. Javier at Archinect gives...

Waaaay before we launched we were fascinated by this underpublished soccer stadium by Herzog & de Meuron. The good folks at Interactive Architecture and Information Aesthetics (those are two different websites) have posted pictures of the new stadium in...

While we admit some disappointment with Zaha's latest buildings (the car factory, and the project that Ourousoff wrote his love note to in the New York Times last month), projects like this one give us cause to get excited....

DesignBoom has published an interview with Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishiwaza, the principals of SANAA (who win the award for best architect's website). My favorite part of the interview: what are you afraid regarding the future? s: I am...

When we were little, we played almost exclusively with Legos. In fact, our best childhood fantasy was that we could construct the whole world out of a perfect and infinitely variable system of interlocking, and brightly colored, blocks. Go...

With a name destined for ridicule, the Center for Urban Pedagogy could have been a one-exhibition wonder. But no. They are Involved. The are Policital. And, most of all, they are Productive. No complaining, only solutions. This, we can...

We love MoMA. We really do. But sometimes, it just is workin' our nerves. Mercifully, there are some facts in this article, which state that 70% of the work shown in the upcoming review of contemporary Spanish Architecture at...

I've been waiting for someone to mention this. Greg Allen has some words for Zaha getting inspired by Ernesto Neto....

Continuing our theme of ways people map the city, we discovered, through BoingBoing, the Folksongs for the Fivepoints project. You can remix the sample sounds of the Lower East Side and create your own folk song. A glorious noise....

December, New York: cold weather and blog awards. However, instead of being nominated for lame awards, Tropolism is being nominated for cool and bad-assed awards. This one is exciting, because the nomination comes with a little review of Tropolism...

I've been looking forward to writing about this building. The sidewalk protection went down a week or so ago, making close-up pictures possible. The tower is on Tenth Avenue at 24th Street. What has caught my eye, since they...

While most of Yuko Nishimura's paper-folding exercises are wall-hung objects, the object shown above portrays a potentially thrilling direction. Way past a simple generic Asian room divider, the canopy shows how the complex operations on a simple material can...

Last week I experienced Super Vision at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The show was thrilling in its technology, with super-highres-and-bright projectors in front, back, and a few actors roaming around amongst the sets. The most interesting thing to...

Hell. Also known as a full day of continuing education credits. Props to the AIA for a great Center for Architecture and offering two days of continuing ed credits, for those of us who got zero over the year....

Speaking of "let's start a prefabricated housing company now!", Adam Kalkin is back. He's still got his pervy edge, this time with his how-the-hell-did-he-fund-this (i know the answer to this question, otherwise i wouldn't ask it) prefabricated house company....