Happy Friday! And welcome back to The Weekly LOdown - where we gather our favorite links from the architecture and building industry and share them with you at the end of each week.

This week we’re highly praising the AIA, and time capsules! Here’s what we’ve been clicking:

Allison

Will Alsop’s list of Lessons for a Young Architect offers a lot of great insights that are as humorous as they are helpful. The eight tips are taken from the lecture that Alsop gave as the Distinguished Visiting Professor in Architecture at Ryerson University in Toronto. Even though his sentiments are directed toward architects, I think everyone can benefit from his advice to take risks, listen to others and learn to laugh. I particularly like #6 on his list.

Lauren

The devastation in Haiti is undoubtedly on everyone’s mind this week. It’s comforting to know the AIA is doing their part to assist. They’ve put together a page on “Support for Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts,” including a list of resources in line with ways you can help. Their note to “humbly offer our professional expertise to help Haitians reclaim their lives and build confidence in their future” is commendable. Hopefully they’ll do everything in their power to aid in future rebuilding efforts.

Nick

This is a little - OK, this is way off the beaten path…but it’s also fascinating and haunting. Excavators in Antarctica are working to save a 100-year-old hut from sinking into the snow forever. The hut was where British explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his crew stayed before the Terra Nova Expedition, in which Scott and four others died while trying to reach the South Pole. The wooden structure is literally a time capsule, containing everything Scott’s crew used just as they left it in 1911. The pictures of their environs elicit wonder, tragedy and an eerie look into the past. I was especially drawn to the darkroom, the bunks and the dining room because they amazingly show a place - and what look to be moments - frozen in time.