Designboom served it up the last few days with two pieces about hand made fonts. The first is about an Estonian firm called, yes, Hand Made Font. The second is by Dutch firm Autobahnwho made fonts by squirting stuff like...

It's been a long time since we scoped out some floating homes, so we were excited to see this one, by MOS . The house is in Ontario, was completed in 2005, and is great because it's literally a floating...

Friends Of The High Line has sent us a year-end summary email, chock full of construction images that we hadn't seen yet. Try as we might, we were unable to find these on their website, so we have included two...

Tropolism will be quiet for a week while we observe a holiday. We leave with books, all our glorious books. And, pictured, a library to read them in: Steven Holl's crazy yet unnervingly beautiful design for the Franz Kafka Society...

One of Enric Miralles's last projects, one he never saw realized, is the spectacular Santa Caterina Market in Barcelona. It is one of our favorite projects, looks great from the air, looks great from the street, and Eikonographia's walkthrough gives...

Daily Dose gives us the diagram action, again, by delving into a NYC DOT study of 6 of New York's streets. The report focuses on how streets affect the character of urban areas (this is how far we've come since...

Looking for a way to help out the flood-damaged Farnsworth house? And satisfy your weekly dose of Miesian Delusions? Buy a cake! The gingerbread Farnsworth is by April Reed Cake Design in New York City; 15% of its $4,320 USD...

For those of you who didn't get Special Tropolism Newsletter #1.7, here it is. It is in honor of one of the features I am most passionate about on Tropolism: book reviews. Architecture books inspire me to discover new ways...

The Starn Brothers, every 1989 college student's favorite artists, are back! They are finishing up construction on a large installation in the South Ferry Station of the New York City Subway called See It Split, See It Change. Their...

Tropolism Newsletter 1.6 comes out this weekend, and in it I'll be writing about my five favorite buildings of 2008. Each building isn't just about the building, but about the bigger memes that surrounded it. Be sure to sign up...

This little magical summer house was built in England in 2005 by architects Ullmayer Sylvester. It's got a very DIY interior, and the exterior is the perfect, minimalist folded mirror. The house is further accentuated by being inside such a...

First El Croquis, now a+t architecture publishers: they are offering projects from the four volumes of their now out-of-print Density series in PDF format. Each project is only 5€. It's like itunes, except for architecture books: brilliant....

One book we haven't gotten a review copy of yet is New York City Landmarks, the 4th Edition of the book put out by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. It's so new, it's not even available on Amazon...

Mies sad. Way back in September, when we were a little quiet around these parts, the Farnsworth House got flooded. Yes, again. The house is built in a crappy spot. But it's Mies, and he did the mystic dance...

Speaking of documenting New York City, a new weblog called Scouting NY documents the travels of a film location scout. He is dedicated to the art of actually looking at New York City, while everyone else rushes on the sidewalk...

Between March and November 2006, Richard Howe photographed every street corner in Manhattan. Yes, he took pictures of all four corners too. The images are powerful because of the close cropping of the buildings on that corner: you get a...

Speaking of Marmol Radziner renovations of Neutra houses, we came across this recounting of a visit to the Sten-Frenke house. The article includes a link to an amazing slideshow over at Pentagram, who collaborated on the renovation. The photograph I...

In a side room of the installation of Zaha Hadid's stalactites, at Sonnabend Gallery, was a room of Beate Gutschow's photographs. Artnet has a handy little gallery of the images. They are like deserted movie sets of Corbusier-influenced superbuildings. My...

1. Guiyang Huaxi Urban Center by Dieguez Fridman Arquitectos y Associados. 2. Vauxhall Sky Garden by Amin Taha Architects. 3. One Madison Park by Studio Daniel Libeskind....

This is one of our favorite time of years: mine Google Analytics for good, hard data about what everyone liked last year. The results surprised even us. Click here to read the list of our top 10 posts, as...

Even though we are architects, we have a special hobby called typefaces. We love them. We collect them. Our favorite are the sans-serif fonts developed in the middle of last century. We collect books that heavily feature them. And so...

Yuichi Higashionna is a Japanese artist whose most eye-catching work are florescent light fixture sculptures. They are almost like creatures, or armatures of the kind you'd find on the set of Twelve Monkeys. There are several photo galleries floating around,...

Title: The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture Author: The Editors of Phaidon Press Publication Date: December 1, 2008 Publisher: Phaidon Press ISBN: 9780714848747 Amazon Few architecture books dare to take on the mantle of Atlas, but The Phaidon Atlas...

Want to see your project on Tropolism? Send us a note through the Contact page. We are seeking new buildings, projects under construction, new projects, student work, competition entries, the most amazing plan or diagram ever, wicked fierce material...

File under density: New Orleans hosts yet another installation-heavy event this week with DesCours (pronounced like the cajuns do, not the Parisian pronunciation). The New Orleans AIA presents installations by 14 architecture/design firms, spread around the Quarter and Business District....

Three years ago we published one of our favorite lists: the NYC Ice List. Today we are happy to announce a maybe addition to the list: the Brooklyn Bridge Park Ice Rink. You know, under the Brooklyn Bridge, where the...

Title: Bunker Archeology Author: Paul Virilio Publication Date: January 12, 2009 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press ISBN: 9781568980157 Amazon Paul Virilio an architect of theory (which is the opposite of a theorist for architects). He organizes theory, making it useful. There...

Us and our lists. Here's another one: Rocking Chair History at Designboom, a little web timeline of the rocking chair. The list is heavily focused on the modern interpretations of the rocking chair, including a few Miesian Delusions (like Jean-Michel...

Continuing our meme of Miesian Delusions (see Tropolism Newsletter 1.4 yo) we point you to Greg Allen's archeology of house by A. James Speyer, who was Mies van der Rohe's first graduate student. The house is a full on Mies...

Tired of the same, overblown art frenzies this time of year? Then forget Miami. Or at least get a new leg on your ticket. The place to be is New Orleans, about as un-Miami as you can get these days....

Title: Marmol Radziner + Associates: Between Architecture and Construction Author: Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner Publication Date: July 1, 2008 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press ISBN: 9781568987446 Amazon As architects who build, we are continuously confronted by the friction between desire...

Sou Fujimoto Architects, they of Next Generation House fame, long ago (2005) did a plan based on this diagram, called T-House. Yes, we love the diagrams! And the house is amazing. It gets full on profiling from Arch Daily, including...

James Corner, he of Field Operations (warning: totally annoying website navigation ahead), gets a lot of attention over at Landscape+Architecture last week. First he got a perfectly good mash note on November 24th: "The savoir [sic]... of course is James...