There's been plenty of excitement the last day or so over the news of this year's Pritzker Prize winner, Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha. Da Rocha's work is significant for his poetic use of an

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PBS thinks so... The company has just announced a new television series about environmentally-friendly architecture called Design: E2, which will be narrated by starchitecture buff Brad Pitt.

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CA Boom is abuzz with activity on its first day. There's lots to see, including the Prefab Zone, sponsored by fabprefab. The Zone includes such Inhabitat faves as Marmol Radziner, Clever Homes,

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The wait is over - the biggest independent design show on the West Coast opens tonight in Los Angeles. CA Boom runs through Sunday at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Exhibitors span numerous design

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A couple of weeks ago, Jill was interviewed about Inhabitat for the Lazy Environmentalist radio show, “Green Goes Mainstream,” which aired on LIME Radio. Along with Mark Spellun of Plenty

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Best known as the founder and CEO of Vivavi, Josh Dorfman also wears the hat of a radio host with his show, The Lazy Environmentalist, where he regularly features some of our favorite cohorts and leaders

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Winter is not, perhaps, the most temperate time of year to head off to Germany and Scandinavia, but the airfare sure is reasonable! I'm excited to report that from February 23 to March 13 I'll be

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Dear readers- A bunch of you have written in to ask about why our comments aren't working. We have had to shut them down because some spawn of satan has set up an automated spam-bot to send us comment

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Now here's an example of using the might of a corporate behemoth for good. The Ben Franklin Coffeehouse Challenge calls on community members to get together and brainstorm ideas for neighborhood

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With the new year, we've decided to try a new theme for Fridays. Since we seem to have a steady stream of stunning prefab crossing our radar, we thought we'd make Friday our day for featuring this

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Who doesn't love Buckminster Fuller - the utopian American architect, designer, philosopher and inventor of the Geodesic Dome? We thought we'd engage in a little shameless self-promotion and express our

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In contrast to our most trafficked posts of 2005, here are our personal favorites from 2005: 1. Floating Homes (Jill) 2. Greenroofs (Sarah) 3. Loveshack (Nicki & Kyle) 4. Skyscraper Farming

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Based on reader traffic and comments, here are the most popular (or the most controversial?) Inhabitat posts of 2005: 1. Tetris Shelving - 66 comments 2. Hansa Canyon Colored LED Faucets - 55

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The end of the year is rapidly approaching, and in the spirit of New Year's reflection, we're going to be looking back at some of the year's highlights. We'd love to hear from you guys, and learn what you

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Buildings account for: +65.2% of the total US electricity consumption +30% of the total US greenhouse gas emissions and +136 million tons of construction and demolition waste in the

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We know its getting down to the wire for that special time of year - and most of you are probably stressing over your holiday gift list instead of pouring over our longwinded carefully written Inhabitat

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And now for round two of shameless self-promotion... Inhabitat made it to the final voting round for the Gridskipper Urbs! We've been nominated as the World's Best Urban Architecture Blog, which we're

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There's a contest going on at Gridskipper. The Urbs celebrate the best urban blogs in numerous categories, including architecture, photography, arts, music, and more. Some super Inhabitat reader(s)

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We've just signed up with Feedblitz, a company that allows us to publish our content in email form. If you want to bypass our website and get Inhabitat posts emailed directly to you, give our new email

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We hope you are all enjoying yourselves, and eating a nice meal, wherever you are. We here at Inhabitat want to give a big thanks to all our readers for supporting us, commenting and sending us emails

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Those of you who subscribe to our RSS feeds might have noticed that we just cut our old feeds back to “excerpts”. Don’t fret loyal RSS readers – we are not abandoning you! We have

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We want to give a big shout-out to Cameron Sinclair, who has just been selected as one of three recipients for the 2006 TED prize, which honors individuals who are making a positive impact on people and

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Inhabitat is looking for new writers to help us expand our coverage on innovative home design. Requirements include a design or writing background, and a passion for groundbreaking architecture, interior

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I've seen some pretty scary things in the news recently ? and I'm not talking about global terrorism or the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Scarier even than anarchy, violence and crumbling social fabric

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If you work in the building industry, there are a lot of things you can help out relieve some of the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. You can donate money, building supplies or your time to

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If you were reading Inhabitat in the past couple weeks, hopefully you have noticed that we have been running reader survey that comes with a chance to win Inhabitat T-shirts! Well, people, if you haven't

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I'm currently here in Reykjavik, the windy capital of Iceland, and will be here until Sunday July 24th. I'll be scouring the scene for the coolest Icelandic design and architecture, so feel free to get

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I'm headed to Iceland today for a week to check out the Icelandic design scene and soak it up in geothermal hot springs! Contributing writer Sarah Rich will be taking care of Inhabitat while I am gone.

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Attention Icelanders and friends of Iceland: I will be hitting Reykjavik from July 17th - 23rd, and I want to hear from you! I have been trying to research the Icelandic design scene, and although I

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We are actively looking for advertisers and sponsors to support the growth of Inhabitat. If you are interested in advertising on Inhabitat, please contact Jill Fehrenbacher at inhabitat@gmail.com.

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