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• Uses Abound for Newly Discovered Silicone Type

  Scientists at Rice University have found a new form of toughened silicone, which they anticipate will be applied to a wide variety of products, ranging from electronic displays to self-healing polymers.

• Architect Gia Wolff Wins the Inaugural Wheelwright Prize

  Architect and instructor Gia Wolff has won the inaugural Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 traveling fellowship presented by Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.

• Spacial Politics and Food

  Food service is crowding out retail in well-to-do parts of America's downtowns, while poor city areas suffer from a lack of food availability.

• Miami Beach Square by Bjarke Ingels Group

  Miami Beach Square—a 52-acre redevelopment proposal by BIG with West 8, Fentress, and JPA—would replace the Miami Beach Convention Center.

• Cooper-Hewitt Announces 2013 National Design Awards

  The winners' list for the Cooper-Hewitt's 2013 National Design Awards includes several architects.

• Edmund Bacon Biography by Gregory Heller

  Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics and the Building of Modern Philadelphia, a new biography by Gregory L. Heller, explores his role as a Philadelphia planner and as a third way between the visions of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses.

• Six Residential Projects Honored With AIA Housing Awards

  Four custom homes and two larger-scale housing complexes top this year’s entries.

• Modern Matsumoto in North Carolina

  Built in 1960, the Cecile and Bryce DeWitt House was the last house designed and built in North Carolina by Modernist architect George Matsumoto. Designed for two physicists and their four daughters, the five-bedroom house sits on 55 acres that border a lake on the outskirts of Chapel Hill, N.C.

• Crowdfunding Resurrects Controversial Drawing Tool

  An early 19th-century device that enabled users to draw lifelike images before the invention of the camera is making a comeback due to a Kickstarter proposal.

• Alternative Eisenhower Memorial Design Revealed by Latest Graphic

  Several changes for the design of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial were on view in Kansas as part of a summit on President Eisenhower's legacy.