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• Exhibit: Mini-Golf at the National Building Museum

  Practitioners from the D.C. region designed and detailed the holes for an architecturally inspired indoor mini-golf course. Through September 3.

• Book: 'Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next'

  An enthusiastic, if not horrifying, glimpse at our possible future of airport cities. Co-authors Greg Lindsay and John Kasarda reintroduce the idea of the city of the future as the spokes surrounding the hub of an airport, and find evidence to justify their assertions.

• Book: 'Vitamin G'

  A best-of compilation and sourcebook for lo-fi sustainable projects and green features includes small-scale and large-scale ideas alike.

• Book: 'Draw Me a House'

  Thibaud Herem’s new book provides a wealth of inspiration for the young architect.

• Book: 'One Million Acres & No Zoning'

  As with so much about Texas, the book 'One Million Acres & No Zoning,' a love letter to Houston by Rice School of Architecture professor Lars Lerup, is full of contradictions.

• Exhibit: 'Hello Materials'

  From where do our materials come from, and to where do they go? A new exhibit in Denmark investigates. Through Sept. 21.

• Exhibit: 'The Architectural Model'

  The nostalgia for architectural models continues, but with a few quirky twists, at Frankfurt's Deutsches Architekturmuseum. Through Sept. 16.

• Book: 'Designing Architecture'

  Author Andrew Pressman's 'Designing Architecture' gives the practice's freshest faces a fresh take on the trade in his how-to guide on design.

• Website: Discover Design

  The Chicago Architecture Foundation recently launched the website Discover Design to teach students about the design and construction of school buildings, and is now challenging those same students to put their pencils to paper.

• Book: 'Young Architects 13'

  The 2011 Architectural League Prize winners reveal what design is like in a post-bust economy, as found in a new book on their projects.