Valorizing the Normal

Donna, Ken and Fred all converged in the meatspace that was the AIA National Convention last week in Philadelphia – to explore the massive Expo floor, visit local architecture, vote on resolutions and oh yes, those keynotes (!) from Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Neri Oxman and Rem Koolhaas. Spoiler alert: Rem's was the most boring. For more information about the resolutions up for debate at the convention, check out our episode with Gregory Walker covering unpaid internships and WTC-truthers. And don't forget to check out our ongoing coverage of the 2016 Venice Biennale – we collaborated with the Taubman students setting up the US Pavilion, have a bunch of interviews with curators in the Features, and will soon be publishing dispatches from Venice to the News. Shownotes: Fred Scharmen's work with outer space for The Working Group on Adaptive Systems LMN Architects in Seattle named AIA's 2016 firm of the year Architecture Lobby's collaboration with Slought on (Re)Working Architecture Neri Oxman's 'Qamar' wearable for extraterrestrial environments