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POSTCARD FROM HALEBID, INDIA Dear ArchitectureWeek, During a drive of four hours from Bangalore, India's hub of information technology, one seems to slip gently back in time. The landscape gradually changes as we move through groves of coconut and banana trees.
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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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More Building Culture Now Shaping Minds, Instead of Buildings — New York Times, 2004.0406Artist of Glass and Light to Join Fulton Street Project — New York Times, 2004.0405 Interest in Drawing Leads to Life of Creating Buildings — Battle Creek Enquirer, 2004.0405 Senator-Scholar Defies Niching — Newsday, 2004.0405 'Unbuilt Chicago' Shows Gems, Gaffes — Chicago Tribune, 2004.0404 Architect Helped to Shape the Look of Minneapolis — Star Tribune, 2004.0404 Best-Selling Home Guru Gets Down to Architectural Basics — Detroit Free Press, 2004.0404 AGO Forges On with Gehry — Toronto Star, 2004.0401 BMA Exhibit to Focus on Its Architect — Baltimore Sun, 2004.0401 In Britain, to the Bauhaus Born — New York Times, 2004.0401 Students Compete to Design Future Building Projects — Alligator, 2004.0401 'Child-Centric' Schools — Seattle Times, 2004.0329 USA Looks at 'Master Plan' for School's Future — Mobile Register, 2004.0329 Architect Gilbert's Work Experiences Rebirth — Journal News, 2004.0329 At 9/11 Site, Balancing Reverence and Retailing — New York Times, 2004.0329 Grand Airport Designs Give Parr a First-Class Vision — Sunday Herald, 2004.0328 Beyond the Edifice Complex — Globe and Mail, 2004.0327 Museum Explores the Art of Building — Courier-Journal, 2004.0325 Rebuild the Things — New York Press, 2004.0324 Architect Defends 'Ugly Building' — BBC News, 2004.0324 Grants Dedicated to Revitalizing Public Housing Are Needed — Planetizen, 2004.0322 Marketing Spending Increasing, But Not Guaranteeing Results — ZweigWhite press release, 2004.0319 The Jewish Shul of Architecture — Ha'aretz, 2004.0318 Moscow Landmark Gutted — Guardian Unlimited, 2004.0315 Unsung Patron Behind Frank Lloyd Wright Sings in Musical — Yahoo News, 2004.0310
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