http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ArchitectureWeek Editorial System editor@architectureweek.com editor@architectureweek.com http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/news_1-1.html Despite the prevalence of jagged edges or curvy surfaces in contemporary architecture, there survives a passion among some architects for traditional values and classical ideals. This is revealed not only in the careful restoration of historic buildings but in the detailing and forms of some new construction. Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/news_2-1.html Twice in recent months, the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. has hosted a ceremony to honor a tireless international leader in the public promotion of architectural ideals. The prestigious Vincent Scully Prize went to Prince Charles of Great Britain and to Phyllis Lambert, founder of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/news_3-1.html The Tennessee chapter of the American Institute of Architects recently announced 16 projects in its annual awards program. These projects from the U.S. heartland represent a diversity of traditional and modern, of modest and monumental. Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/design_1-1.html Any telephone user knows how frustrating it is to be "on hold." When an entire design project is put on hold, however, the challenges multiply. Building codes may change, and the architects may develop new design approaches. When the Santa Monica, California firm of Pugh Scarpa saw a residential design process stretch out to ten years, they treated it, finally, as an opportunity to inject an old project with new ideas. Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/design_2-1.html With its allencompassing copper skin and ninestory twisting ascent to an Olympian view of San Francisco's skyline, the new de Young Museum presides imperially over Golden Gate Park. Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/design_3-1.html Nestled on the edge of a town in southwest Germany is the Fleischmann House. Its owner, a photographer, craved open, visually quiet surroundings to counteract the visual bombardment of his profession. Onethird studio, twothirds openplan dwelling, the house is a sustainable abode flavored by Japanese tradition. The building plan is rectangular. Maki Kuwayama, of unit a architects, describes both the exterior architecture and interior design as "simple and clean... not so much a style as a lifestyle choice." Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/building_1-1.html Flexible and open plans have been standard in corporate offices for several decades. During this time, architects have struggled to design open spaces that still provide private, supportive environments for the workers. Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/building_2-1.html Until recently, the site of Osaka Japan's National Museum of Contemporary Art, one of three national contemporary art museums in Japan, was at the far edge of the city, on the former site of the 1970 World's Fair. The museum had planned to move from this distant suburb to a central urban location in the middle of Nakanoshima Island, part of a planned cultural arts district that has great potential to activate and energize an integral part of the city. Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/tools_1-1.html Over the last few years, a significant change has occurred in the design of libraries, the result of changing needs, newly available services, and rapidly developing technologies. For instance, radio frequency identification RFID technology is used for automatic sorting and retrieval systems ASRS. Modern library equipment will now log a book in and send it to its proper sorting bin for reshelving. Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/tools_2-1.html As U.S. demographics shift with young people leaving rural areas in search of education and jobs and with retirees migrating away from urban centers in search of peace and quiet access to healthcare in remote areas is becoming a more serious and visible problem. Architects can help with the design of technologies that can improve healthcare access in the rural infrastructure. Editor Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/environment_1-1.html River Campus Building One, for Oregon Health Sciences University OHSU in Portland, is a highperformance building with a conventional budget. The 16story building, currently in construction, displays an innovative approach to mechanical engineering for a medical and research environment. In collaboration with developer Gerding Edlen and GBD Architects, Interface Engineering has met aggressive design criteria for resource conservation while paying special attention to the thermal comfort of medically fragile occupants. Editor Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/environment_2-1.html With the growing awareness of the environmental harm of greenhouse gases, one major culprit in the construction industry is beginning to attract attention. The production of Portland cement, a key ingredient of concrete, releases substantial amounts of carbon dioxide C02 8 percent of greenhouse gases worldwide. The United States consumes 110 million tons 100 million metric tons of Portland cement annually and China now produces and places five times that amount. Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/culture_1-1.html Dear ArchitectureWeek, In an expanse of land almost as arid as a desert, lies a relatively unknown architectural jewel one that is well worth investigating further for those with a spirit of adventure. This region of 16 square miles 40 square kilometers was once filled with over 13,000 stupas, temples, and pagodas, and some 2000 or so remain today. Bagan, in the center of Myanmar formerly Burma, can be thought of as a sister of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, though here tourists are fewer, and the most common form of transport is the horse cart. Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/culture_2-1.html Austrianborn artist and scientist Rudolf Steiner 18611925 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 Jrna, Sweden. Its social and cultural focus is the Culture House completed in 1992, an expression of art, craft, spirituality, and functionality. Editor Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/culture_3-1.html Since before its completion in 2002, Stephen Holl's awardwinning 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. Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0315/culture_3-1.html