BUILDING ON METAPHOR IN THE DESIGN PROCESS

Every hospital architect wants to create a physical environment conducive to healing. To do so requires understanding the innermost thoughts and feelings of patients, families, and staff. This challenge prompted the architecture firm Astorino to adopt the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique, a research protocol that elicits information from respondents based on visual images, metaphors, and emotions. Next week Louis D. Astorino, FAIA will explain how this works.

RUSTIC CABINS FROM THE CCC

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, The Civilian Conservation Corps built countless structures in U.S. state and national parks, providing jobs to unemployed youth. Many of these structures were designed and documented by Albert H. Good, consulting architect for the National Park Service. His goal was to present structures that "appear to be a part of their settings." To celebrate the 70th anniversary or the CCC, ArchitectureWeek looks back at two of his rustic cabin designs.