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PRESERVING WRIGHT'S WESTCOTT HOUSE In 1907, a house began to take shape on High Street in Springfield, Ohio. Local residents referred to it as a monstrosity. Some thought it to be such a bizarre design for a residential neighborhood, it was mistaken for a sanitarium or hospital.
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PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN NEW YORK Book Review: Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience, by Jerold S. Kayden, the New York City Department of City Planning, and the Municipal Art Society of New York. John Wiley & Sons, 2000, ISBN 0471362573.
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OWNER-BUILT SUSTAINABLE SHELTER Buying a tract house so insensitively placed on the land that extensively remodeled terrain results and using foreign materials that require large amounts of nonsustainable fuels for their manufacture and transport are signs of a people without guiding principles in their relationship to the environment. That we have become such people and willingly pay for this disconnected life suggests the depth of our alienation and distance from a secure relationship with sustainability and environmental sensitivity.
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LIVING IN THE CITY Large cities are facing a new era of evolution. Telecommuting and new living and working concepts, coupled with spatial shrinkage, compel us to rethink how "megacity" buildings and blocks function spatially. Urban densities of 8 to 27 million people and the trend toward live-work spaces in the center of the city necessitate seeking new approaches to public and private space.
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More Building Culture Art Institute to stretch out — Chicago Tribune, 2001.0429'Architects must be like teachers' — Times of India, 2001.0429 Architecture's learning curve — Telegraph, 2001.0428 Pyramids in Peru as old as in Egypt — Chicago Tribune, 2001.0427 Many churches shun spires for warehouse look — Chicago Tribune, 2001.0427 Hearst Castle designs by Julia Morgan found — Sacramento Bee, 2001.0426 Main street comeback — Chicago Sun Times, 2001.0423 Architect papers over devastation — 2001.0423, Asahi Brave new world exists beneath downtown Toronto — South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 2001.0422 Urban heritage award presented — The Times of India, 2001.0421 Skyscrapers can look great, but in the wrong place they're a disaster — Independent Digital, 2001.0421
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