PIANO AND ARUP COLLABORATE ON DAYLIGHTING

Because the new museum for the Nasher Collection in Dallas, Texas was intended exclusively for sculpture, the designers were not as limited in their treatment of illumination as they would have been for light-sensitive paintings. While Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano designed a series of stone-clad gallery pavilions, engineers at Arup crafted a latitude-specific geometry for a cast-aluminum roof that admits daylight while shading the interior spaces from direct sun year-round. Next week we'll examine the geometric complexity of the Nasher Sculpture Center's roof form. (Photo: Timothy Hursley)

DEMETRI PORPHYRIOS HONORED FOR CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE

The University of Notre Dame School of Architecture has awarded its second annual Richard H. Driehaus Prize to London architect Demetri Porphyrios. This practitioner and architectural theorist is known for his commitment to traditional and classical ideals in buildings and urban development. One of his projects is the auditorium (pictured) at the 15th-century Magdalen College at Oxford University. Next week we'll see other examples of how Porphyrios creates classical buildings for a modern world.