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ASMUSSEN'S CULTURE HOUSE Austrian-born artist and scientist Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) developed the "spiritual science" of anthroposophy — "a path of knowledge aiming to guide the spiritual element in the human being to the spiritual in the universe." He saw all natural phenomena as interconnected spiritually and dependent on the larger whole. To explore the integrative and holistic ideals of anthroposophy, Swedish architect Erik Asmussen built the Rudolf Steiner Seminary, at Järna, Sweden. Its social and cultural focus is the Culture House (completed in 1992), an expression of art, craft, spirituality, and functionality. — Editor
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A MODERN MORE OR LESS HUMANE Since before its completion in 2002, Stephen Holl's award-winning MIT dormitory, Simmons Hall, has been garnering praise from the architectural community. But assessing a building as a professional critic is different from living in and interacting with it. I wondered how the students who lived there felt about it.
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More Building Culture Survey Reports Strong Design Focus on Kitchens and Baths — AIArchitect, 2006.0301Increase Business with Existing Clients — ZweigWhite press release, 2006.0301 Rerooting Boston's Skyline — Opinion at Boston Globe, 2006.0301 Preserving a Modernist Masterpiece — New York Times, 2006.0228 Schumer and Bloomberg Clash on Ground Zero Plan — New York Times, 2006.0228 Design Within Reach — Greater Baton Rouge Business Report, 2006.0228 Home, Sour Home for Apple's Jobs Right Now — Seattle Post-Inteligencer, 2006.0228 Reinventing East 86th Street — New York Sun, 2006.0228 For Architect-Author, Less is More — Triangle Business Journal, 2006.0227 Still Museum to Be Built near Denver Art Museum — Denver Business Journal, 2006.0227 A Fiat Caveat: Don't Urbanize the Olympics — Washington Post, 2006.0227 An Architectural Tour of London — Independent Digital, 2006.0226 It's My Arch of Triumph — Guardian Unlimited, 2006.0226 Four Modern Masterpieces to Put on Your Must-See List — Guardian Unlimited, 2006.0226 The Art Deco Gem Baking in the African Sun — Guardian Unlimited, 2006.0226 Why Egotists Need Architects...and Vice Versa — Daily Yomiuri, 2006.0226 Diversity Matters — AIArchitect, 2006.0224 Women and Women Architects in the 1890s — AIArchitect, 2006.0224 Building New Orleans 2.0 — Spiegel Online, 2006.0224 Major Plans for Governor’s Island — World Architecture News, 2006.0224 Wolf in Sheep's Clothing — Building Design, 2006.0224 Empty Bottle, Empty City — Building Design, 2006.0224 Architecture for All under School Reforms — Building Design, 2006.0224 U.S. Bidders Line Up for £3m Archigram Files — Building Design, 2006.0224 Stolen RIBA Archive Sold on eBay — Building Design, 2006.0224 The Koolhaas Kids Come of Age — Business Week, 2006.0223 Architecture and Design Blogs — Artkrush, 2006.0222 Architecture and Design Blogs — Artkrush, 2006.0222 More Historic Buildings win Nameplates — Shanghai Daily, 2006.0222 Arab Architects ‘Should Shun Heritage Cloning’ — Opinion at Gulf Times, 2006.0222 Refined, Yet Ridiculed — TBO, 2006.0222 Zaha Hadid to Build Issam Fares Institute at AUB — Daily Star, 2006.0222 African Roots Sprout in New York — eOculus, 2006.0221 Zaha Demystifies Herself — eOculus, 2006.0221
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