http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 26 Apr 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/2006/0426/news_1-1.html In March 2006, architect and planner Bob Berkebile, FAIA addressed an overflow audience at the Building Energy '06 conference in Boston. He gave a stirring call to arms, saying that this was a powerful moment in human history. Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/news_2-1.html Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha has been chosen as the 2006 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. In announcing the jury's choice, Thomas J. Pritzker, president of The Hyatt Foundation, said, "Mendes da Rocha has shown a deep understanding of space and scale through the great variety of buildings he has designed... While few of his buildings were realized outside of Brazil, the lessons to be learned from his work, both as a practicing architect and a teacher, are universal." Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/news_3-1.html In the "Granite State" of New Hampshire, the annual AIA awards program has recognized a series of projects that reflect the character of New England: muscular architecture to withstand a harsh climate and to protect the warm and inviting environments within. Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/design_1-1.html A generation ago, the University of Cincinnati was a commonplace American commuter school riddled with surface parking lots, the campus severed by a busy thoroughfare. Despite being nestled in the heart of a large city, it felt suburban. But over the ensuing years, the university has undergone a billiondollar makeover. Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/design_2-1.html In the river delta of Oulu, Finland, the natural environment is likely the toughest factor an architect has to consider. In the upper reaches of cold country, the price one pays for summer's midnight sun is long, cold winters which usually make large glass surfaces impractical and fortressthick walls a sound investment. Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/design_3-1.html An exotic location like Chilean Patagonia demands an exotic hotel. Hotel Remota's design draws from the dazzling explosion of islands, glaciers, icebergs, and mountains on this southern tip of South America. Inspired by Patagonian sheep farm buildings, Hotel Remota offers warm interiors to shield visitors from the wind and cold. A central courtyard introduces visitors to the Patagonian wilderness: except for a few large boulders, the plaza is empty, but full of suggestion. Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/building_1-1.html Whipped by winds on a mountain slope in northern Pakistan, Graham Saunders moves carefully amid the shattered remains of a mudwalled village, surveying the damage caused by a powerful earthquake in October, 2005. Sliding a digital camera from his hip pocket, he photographs each pile of splintered timber and stone. As an architect who has encountered many similar scenes for the last decade, his mind is already on what it will take to rebuild here. Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/building_2-1.html A "notsobig" house is not necessarily an inexpensive house. But if you keep the size of the house small and stick with common materials, basic construction methods, and simple details, you can indeed build or remodel on a limited budget. Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/building_3-1.html The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament has been an impressive landmark of California's capital city of Sacramento ever since its 1889 completion. But by the turn of the 21st century, it had deteriorated and been found incapable of withstanding the next big earthquake. Now, a 34.5 million restoration has rescued this spiritual oasis in a political city. Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/tools_1-1.html In my thirdyear architectural design studio at the California Polytechnic State University, assignments are crafted to encourage students to refine skills in both digital and analog media physical modeling and traditional drawings to allow them to see the advantages and disadvantages of both, to develop a critical attitude toward media, and to develop a design project using these tools. Early design exercises are exploratory, and students are encouraged to use formZ for its iterative ability and its facility in generating rich graphic vocabularies that suggest spatial character and experience. This is balanced with physicalmodel building and traditional drawings to sort out issues of scale and siting. Later exercises require students to translate early vocabularies into functional building elements. Associate Professor Thomas Fowler, IV Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/tools_2-1.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, 26 Apr 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/environment_1-1.html When we think of "data center," what comes to mind most readily may be a low, nondescript warehouse in a flat, featureless industrial park. But think again. RTKL Associates, in designing the Highmark Data Center in West Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, built the structure into a hillside, to great functional advantage, and achieved a LEED silver rating in the bargain. Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/environment_2-1.html In a state better known for its green forests than its "green" building practices, a newly renovated warehouse sets a precedent for sustainability. Front 5 Building in downtown Boise, Idaho has just been received the state's first LEEDNC New Construction and Major Renovations certification for its energy and resourceefficiency. Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/environment_3-1.html As the concept of "green design" enters the mainstream of our building culture, designers are being given a glut of information and misinformation on what constitutes environmentally sound practices. The term "greenwashing" has entered the lexicon to mean giving the appearance of being green without providing substantive environmental benefit. Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/environment_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/culture_1-1.html Southeast Asian cities embody many contradictions. They possess, for instance, an indelible amalgam of traditional and contemporary architecture. It is not unusual in cities such as Hong Kong and Taipei to see bamboo scaffolding swaying as workers climb to what appear to be irrational and dangerous heights. Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0426/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. 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