“Feminism weds theory to practice and encourages us to rethink the relationship between architecture schools and the larger professional world”: Despina Stratigakos on feminism, architecture, and a recent Van Alen roundtable.

Japanese architecture firm Nendo has made the natural urban by building a “Bird-Apartment.” The small animal complex—nested high above the ground—can house 78 birds and one human guest. The project was funded to promote access to nature activities.

Deborah Berke is the winner of UC-Berkeley’s first Berkeley-Rupp Prize, awarded every two years to outstanding women architects. At Yale since ’87, she receives $100,000, a semester teaching at Berkeley, and a show of her work on campus.

“How did a joke from Sneakers end up on the uniform of a real-life U.S. intelligence agency?” Seeking an answer Lowen Liu called artist Trevor Paglen, whose collection of black-op patches was part of our graphic design show, to help decode the patch’s secrets.

William Moggridge, who pioneered interaction design, is dead at age 69. The designer of the first laptop, Moggridge co-founded the influential product design firm IDEO and was director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

After donating $100,000 to the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Frank Gehry will now have an annual prize named after him. The first Gehry Prize, going to the best graduate thesis project, will be awarded September 9.

Based on the British Museum’s BBC series “A History of the World in 100 Objects,” the Times asked historians and curators to select 50 objects that embody New York. Items range from oysters to elephants, AIDS pins to coffee cups, dust from 9/11 and yellow cabs.

“It’s what guarantees the deepest impact, the highest level of conservation and access in perpetuity”: Frank Lloyd Wright’s immense archive is permanently moving from Taliesin sites in Wisconsin and Arizona to the MoMA and Columbia in New York.