Buildings that produce more energy than they use may be a necessity in the future. A new design competition asked architects to design these net-zero buildings for a site in California, with impressive results.

The American Institute of Architects has announced the winner of its Barbie Dream House competition: a four-story, eco-friendly Malibu manse with signature pink sliding doors.

The recipients of the American Institute of Architects’ 2011 Housing Awards include $100,000 houses in Philadelphia built to exacting LEED Platinum standards, a high-rise interpretation of New Orleans’s low-slung French Quarter, and a glassy lakeside redoubt in upstate New York by the architects of the Apple stores.

Architecture is an infamously rough profession--the saying goes, there's more starving architects than there are starving artists. So for the last six years, the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects has been giving super-young New York firms a leg up, in their New Practices Award, handed out to firms founded in the last six years. This year, 65 firms entered, and seven were tapped this week. On July 15th, they'll all get an exhibition at the Center for Architecture. Read More »

Fresh from announcing the year's Top 10 Green Buildings, the American Institute of Architects has just announced its 2010 Housing Awards, which recognize the 18 best projects, designed in America by American Architects. What follows is a sampling of ten of those, which caught our eye.