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POSTCARD FROM ROME Dear ArchitectureWeek, Rome is an intensively occupied, definitively urban city. After thousands of years of concentrated human development and redevelopment, there is much hardscape, where the stony facade of one building is connected to the brick wall of the next by more stone, in the form of cobbled streets and other pavements.
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WEST AFRICAN ADOBE Too often, when people in the West think of African architecture, they imagine nothing more than a mud hut — a primitive vernacular remembered from an old Tarzan movie. Why this ignorance to the richness of West African buildings? Possibly it is because the great dynastic civilizations of the region were already in decline when the European colonizers first exposed these cultures to the West.
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REVIVAL BY TOWNHOUSE One of the innovations Henry Ford is known for in automotive history, besides the Model T and the assembly line, is the concept that his employees should be able to afford the products they made. Reflecting this spirit, the Detroit, Michigan neighborhood he once lived in, near the now-abandoned Model T factory, is experiencing new life as an affordable housing development.
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More Building Culture Employing the Shame Factor — Chicago Tribune, 2004.0309Progress Group is Blasted by Expert — Scotsman Online, 2004.0308 Block With 2 Rare Windows and 2 Unusual Statues — New York Times, 2004.0307 2004 Accent on Architecture Gala — AIArchitect, 2004.0305 A/E Buyers Must Differentiate to Close the Deal — ZweigWhite press release, 2004.0305 There's More than One Way to Save a Building — Newsday, 2004.0303 A Frozen Landscape of Mysterious Designs — International Herald Tribune, 2004.0302 SoCal Architectural Firms Combine Forces — Sacramento Business Journal, 2004.0301 World Trade Center Architect to Speak — IDS News, 2004.0301 AEC Job Search Strategies: Common Interview Questions — AECWorkForce, 2004.0227 Conjuring Histories at a Crucible of the Revolution — New York Times, 2004.0225 Exuberant 'Googie' Architecture at Risk — San Francisco Chronicle, 2004.0225 Architect Shares His Spacious Designs — Yale Daily News, 2004.0224 Urban Change Requires Vision — Toronto Star, 2004.0224 The Nuts and Bolts of Working with a Quality Contractor — Chicago Tribune, 2004.0220 Buildings Should Be for People — San Francisco Chronicle, 2004.0219 GSA TO Be Honored for Contributions to Design Excellence — National Building Museum press release, 2004.0218 Rem Koolhaas: New World Order — Independent Digital, 2004.0218 Architects Sent Back to School — Scotsman Online, 2004.0215 Architect's Legacy Much More than Buildings — Toronto Star, 2004.0213 Design Matters — Guardian Unlimited, 2004.0213 Affordable-Housing Exhibit Honors Cambridge Project — Boston Herald, 2004.0212 Historic Eagle Statue Coveted — The Journal News, 2004.0110
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