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FIRM MAKES ROOM FOR THE NEXT GENERATION An established, award-winning firm with a heavy workload but a shortage of qualified talent to hire. A newly formed firm with architectural expertise but little experience in the business world. Put the two together, and it's a formula for success. This is what's happened with Design Collaborative Southwest Architects, Inc. (DCSW) and Environmental Dynamics, Inc. (EDI) Both Albuquerque, New Mexico firms claim a win-win result of their unusual collaboration.
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THE FACTORY ARCHITECTURE OF ALBERT KAHN In the late nineteenth century, the industrial geography of the United States underwent a decisive shift linked to the emergence of the automobile and aeronautics industries. Already, from Pittsburgh to Buffalo to Chicago, and including Cleveland, Akron, and Toledo, a chain of regional metropolises formed that counter balanced the industrial centers of the original thirteen colonies.
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WE ARE WHAT WE BUILD Book Review: The Culture of Building by Howard Davis. Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-1951-1294-6. It's not often that a book appears with the potential to fundamentally change the way we think about the built world. The Culture of Building by Howard Davis is such a book.
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More Building Culture Not Nelson's Obelisk — James Burke, Scientific American, 2000.12House of the People — Washington Post, 2000.1101 Building on Bauhaus Legacy — LA Times, 2000.1030 The White House at 200 — AP, 2000.1030
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