BACK TO THE FUTURE

The Palladio Awards program honors contemporary projects — in residential, commercial, and civic architecture — that have been designed in traditional styles. The program’s goal is to recognize work that enhances the beauty and humane qualities of the built environment through creative interpretation and adaptation of design principles developed throughout architectural history. Next week we'll look at the award recipients, including a Florida beach house by Cooper Johnson Smith Architects (photo by George Cott).

LAYING OUT EISHIN CAMPUS

The Pattern Language is a landmark work developed over the course of many years by Christopher Alexander and a large team at the University of California, Berkeley. Subsequent work by Alexander has embedded his pattern language within a conceptual framework of "systems of centers." Next week, we'll read how principles of identifying and nurturing relationships between buildings and the land, interpreted as patterns of centers, were applied in the 1980s in designing the Eishin Campus in Japan.