With 95% of British architects white and 75% male, a new campaign is encouraging diversity in the profession. More...
Architecture: ‘People from social housing should build cities’
Dix lieux infinis et français partent en voyage à la biennale de Venise
La 16e biennale de Venise s'ouvre ce 26 mai pour six mois, sur le thème du "freespace". L'occasion pour le ministère de la Culture de faire flotter "l'esprit du permis de faire" dans le pavillon français à travers la mise en valeur dix "lieux infinis" comme la Belle de mai à Marseille, la Ferme du bonheur de Nanterre ou encore le Tri postal d'Avignon. Plus...
Le biomimétisme : de l'architecture à la pédagogie

SCORM Deployment Issues in an Enterprise Distributed Learning Architecture
SCORM Deployment Issues in an Enterprise Distributed Learning Architecture
This article is dauntingly technical, but it's a great read, clearly illustrating why SCORM cannot be deployed in a multi-domain environment. In a nutshell, the SCORM API interfaces (commonly known as the 'wrapper') require that the learning object and the LMS communicate with each other using Javascript or a similar technology. More...
Architecture apprenante
Les fonctions d'un entrepôt et d'une bibliothèque sont assez apparentées, ainsi que leur aménagement. Leurs différences structurelles tiennent surtout à ce qui est manipulé. Ce qui vaut aussi pour les usines, qui partagent toutes un certain air de famille. Plus...
'Intensive but fun': all you need to know about studying architecture
The course involves long hours and a huge workload, but it can be hugely rewarding and can give you the skills for a range of careers. More...
Intro to an Open Standards Architecture
Intro to an Open Standards Architecture
This is a detailed and complex read, but one that rewards the intrepid as it contains a vision for a much more robust, useful, and interesting world wide web. There are some bits that need refining - why would we place all the content reviews in a shared database, for example, when they could be as easily distributed as content. More...
Understanding Information Architecture
Understanding Information Architecture
Rusty Foster's article - and the subsequent discussion on the Online News mailing list - got me to thinking. All this discussion makes me wonder why my website looks the same, day after day. Only the content changes. More...
Libraries and Librarians Aren't About to Disappear
Libraries and Librarians Aren't About to Disappear
Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed, 2018/01/05
This post is a response to recent reports that "libraries and archives to be among the fastest-declining industries in America." At frist glance the numbers are significant. "Employment change in libraries and archives from 2007 to 2016 was -80.3 percent, with a current employment total of 33,033." But is the decline that dramatic. More...
Abbaye Saint-Wandrille
Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. L‘abbaye Saint-Wandrille, « anciennement abbaye de Fontenelle, est une abbaye bénédictine de la congrégation de Solesmes située sur la commune de Saint-Wandrille-Rançon, dans le département de la Seine-Maritime. Fondée en 649, l’abbaye a connu une longue histoire. Voir l'article...