AUSTRALIAN GOLD FOR TAGLIETTI

The Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) has awarded its Gold Medal for Architecture to Italian-born architect Enrico Taglietti. For 50 years, he has lived in Australia and influenced the course of regional architecture in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), most notably in the capital city of Canberra.

IN MEMORIAM

On behalf of everyone at ArchitectureWeek, and the entire extended design and building community, I want to express our deepest sympathies to all the victims of Monday's tragedy in the Blue Ridge Mountains, at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, shattered by the twisted violence of a broken soul: stricken survivors, families, friends, witnesses, associates.

Saturated, overflowing, or washed distantly with grief, all who know of this tragedy are touched through with its sadness.

AIA HOUSING AWARDS 2007

The American Institute of Architects has announced 19 recipients in its 2007 Housing Awards Program. Within this diverse collection of multifamily projects and single-family houses are common themes of economy, sustainability, and sensitivity to urban and environmental context. Collectively, these buildings represent the variety of ways in which Americans, rich and poor, are being newly housed.

RICHARD ROGERS PRITZKER PRIZE

The Pritzker Prize, one of the world's highest honors in architecture, goes this year to British architect Richard Rogers. In announcing the jury's choice, Thomas J. Pritzker, president of The Hyatt Foundation, said: "Rogers is a champion of urban life and believes in the potential of the city to be a catalyst for social change."

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