Affairs at the Jupiter hotel

Mary Deane Sorcinelli, EdD, is Associate Provost for Faculty Development, Professor of Educational Policy and Research Administration, and founding director of the Center For Teaching at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is co-author of Developing a Teaching Portfolio (2000), Heeding New Voices: Academic Careers for a New Generation (2000), and Creating the Future of [...]

Sylvia Lavin, Professor of Architecture and Director of Critical Studies at UCLA, will present “The Open Box: Umberto Eco, Achille Castiglioni and The Architecture of Television” on Thursday, May 6 at 5 p.m. in the Boliou Hall Auditorium on the Carleton College campus. Read the whole article at The Dexigner

Landmark new offices, a minimalist cave and the famous Yellow Treehouse Restaurant are among outstanding designs recognised in the 2010 New Zealand Architecture Awards. Read the whole article at The Dexigner

paragraph class=”noindent”>“The Standard Grill in the base of the Standard Hotel—standard meatpacking district,” a diner observed recently, even though a list of adjectives drawn on a blackboard by the hostess stand declared him to be lost among Standardazzle and Standardream and Standardo-it. At . . .Read the whole article at The Newyorker