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• Architecture Billings Up for Seventh Consecutive Month

  February’s Architecture Billings Index, released in mid-March by the American Institute of Architects, shows growth in the design and construction industry for the seventh consecutive month—as well as a billings score of 54.9, the highest for the ABI since November 2007.

• Robots Fabricate a Lobster-Inspired Pavilion

  An experimental pavilion in Germany was inspired by a lobster's shell and constructed by robots.

• Toyo Ito Wins the 2013 Pritzker Prize

  With the Pritzker Architecture Prize, Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins a bronze medallion, $100,000, and architecture's greatest honor.

• Across the Institute

  Salt Lake City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Denver

• Design Details: Transition Spaces

  Making space for smooth transitions is square footage well spent.

• Bracketing, a New Japanese Aesthetic

  Sou Fujimoto's compelling proposal for the 2013 Serpentine Pavilion in London's Kensington Gardens is the latest example of an aesthetic of dematerialization unique to Japanese design.

• House Bill Requires New Design for the Eisenhower Memorial

  The new Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Completion Act, if it passes, will require an alternate design to replace Frank Gehry's design for the Eisenhower Memorial and cut federal funding for the project.

• Interior Design Billings Index Sees First Drop in Over a Year

  Though the Interior Design Billings Index contracted for the first time in a long string of optimistic months, the American Society of Interior Designers economist still counts on more growth for 2013.

• Architectural Drawing's Renaissance

  We might not be able to borrow, scrimp, or build ourselves out of our architectural mess, but we will be able to draw ourselves out of it, Aaron Betsky says.

• Henri Labrouste Exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, Reviewed

  In "Structure Brought to Light," an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, the work of Henri Labrouste is given a deeper context than the ordinary debate between modernists and postmodernists over his legacy.