http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 03 May 2006 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 03 May 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/2006/0503/news_1-1.html In the wake of a century in which in U.S. residential architecture suffered from suburban sprawl, wastefulness, the popularity of extravagant but barren "MacMansions," and indifference to history, urban context, and affordability, it is refreshing to see a collection of projects that offer positive object lessons for architects and homebuilders. Wed, 03 May 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/news_2-1.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, 03 May 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/news_3-1.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, 03 May 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/design_1-1.html In addition to the usual challenges facing an architect designing a synagogue, Joseph Boggs confronted a few special ones at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Any contemporary U.S. synagogue designer has to create a sanctuary large enough to hold the High Holiday full house while creating a space that still feels intimate when mostly empty during the weekly services. Wed, 03 May 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/design_2-1.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, 03 May 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/design_3-1.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, 03 May 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/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, 03 May 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/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, 03 May 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/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, 03 May 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/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, 03 May 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/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, 03 May 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/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, 03 May 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/environment_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/culture_1-1.html When Germanborn architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the famous twintower Lake Shore Drive Apartments in Chicago, these modern icons, also known as the "Glass Houses," took their place in line along a lakefront history exhibit of the city's residential architecture. Editor Wed, 03 May 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/culture_2-1.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, 03 May 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0503/culture_2-1.html