“The Architectís Newspaper is my new favorite design publication. Itís a 16-page tabloid that comes out about twice a month. Itís literate and timely, a fast-paced collection of news, reviews and opinion from voices as various as Michael Sorkin, Peter Slatin and Craig Konyk, all beautifully designed (in two ruthlessly efficient colors) by Martin Perrin. And, best of all, it has a gossip column. Last month, they published a piece by Michael McDonough, the accomplished New York-based architect, writer and teacher, called ‘The Top 10 Things They Never Taught Me in Design School.’ I read lots of these kinds of things (and even written a few myself), but I found McDonoughís not just entertaining but actually quite useful, and valid for nearly any kind of design discipline. He has graciously given us permission to reprint it here at Design Observer.”

“Mr. [Walter] Hood, who likes to call himself an ‘urbanist,’ is a pioneer in a new approach to landscape design in which streets, squares, plazas, playgrounds and parks are fused into a jaunty new urban form, one resonant of a site’s past.”

“designboom has grown to become the foremost european design e-zine, launched on april 2000, the independent site evolved into one of the largest and most popular destinations on the web. designboom connects the international design community by offering its designers, architects, manufacturers and other design interested people all over the world useful articles on design history and on the contemporary creative scene.”

“InformeDesign is a research and communication tool for [interior] designers… The mission of InformeDesign is to facilitate interior designers’ use of current, research-based information as a decision-making tool in the design process, thereby integrating research and practice.”

“Design your own house plan, view it from above, take a 3d walkthrough and print it out.”

“A good entry point into space of flows is the office, one of its principle sites. The office as such is a relatively new phenomenon. It became an important place for work only in the second half the 19th century, long after the factory was established as the place of production and, in many ways, in a direct response to the factory…”

“I have found, to my surprise, that architects are not interested in laws of architecture. They prefer to design buildings on the basis of artistic fashion and ephemeral philosophical concerns. The same reaction greeted the efforts of my distinguished colleagues, Christopher Alexander and Léon Krier, to reform architecture as a discipline.”

“This web site contains material from an ongoing doctoral project… Embedding spatial parameters and properties in new products of architecture through an integrated design process.”

A huge skyscraper reference with “over 4350 illustrated structures in our database.”

“Bruce Mau relishes problems. He may be best known for his graphic design of books and other publications, but don’t call Mau a graphic designer. Viewing design in far broader terms, Mau has collaborated with architects, filmmakers, and performance artists, and has designed videos, exhibitions, and graphic identities for buildings and companies.”

“Gijs van Hensbergen has written a terrifically stirring biography of Gaudí. The book vibrates with empathic power. Mr. van Hensbergen makes a strong case for Gaudí’s importance to contemporary architecture and urbanism. He also upholds the right of any perceptive writer to seek autobiographical meaning in artistic form. That search particularly suits the material at hand. If the book is not a substitute for a visit to Barcelona, it is still a gripping first-hand account of Gaudí’s power to melt the mind.”

“On Oct. 17, seven accomplished designers were presented with the http://www.chryslerdesignawards.com/” title=”External WWW link”>Chrysler Design Awards, prestigious annual prizes for innovation and achievement in various disciplines of design. That afternoon, the editors and reporters of House & Home invited them to sit and to discuss their responses to Sept. 11 and to the situations of the last six weeks. Can — and should — design play an important part? And how?”

“A growing webliography dedicated to filtering the WWW for potentially usable content on the family of design disciplines: architecture, fashion, graphic, and industrial design.”

“The Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design in Berlin is concerned with the research and presentation of the history and impact of the Bauhaus (1919-1933), the most important school of architecture, design, and art of the 20th century. It is the most complete existing collection focused on the history of the school and all aspects of its work and is accessible to all. The collection is housed in a building drafted by Walter Gropius, the founder of the school.”

“The Palo Alto firm Ideo may be best known for designing eye-catching objects — the Apple mouse, the Palm V, Nike sunglasses, Oral-B’s Squish Grip toothbrush for kids. But there are lesser-known groups in the company working on things that are harder to wrap your head — much less your hands — around. Ideo has studios that include disciplines as far afield as architecture, cognitive psychology, interior design, cultural anthropology and even linguistics. And these groups are designing environments, services and experiences. These teams are taking the firm’s core strength — a deep understanding of how people really use things — and applying it to a variety of design challenges from hospital walls to HTML pages.”