Inbox Overflow

Some selections from my ever-expanding inbox:

2005 Innovation Conference
An impressive line-up for McGraw Hill's conference on innovative building materials, digital fabrication, and their effects on architecture.

Material Skills: evolution of materials
Further exploring new techniques and materials and architecture, the exhibition makes its way to Paris next month.

Solar Decathlon
Designed by students, powered by the Sun (Thanks Eric M.)

Projects on ceramics and architecture
.ekwc's latest call for architects to investigate the "creative potential in the relationship between ceramics and architecture" has a deadline of December 1.

Extreme Makeover, Japanese edition
Not the name of a Japanese TV program where an architect renovates a lucky owner's house - in Japanese, but click on faces for before-and-after pics. (thanks Leslie)

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Variable Geometry Acoustical Domes
You've got a little under two weeks to catch architect David Serero's installation at the Villa Medici in Rome (above).