http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 30 Aug 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/2006/0830/news_1-1.html As part of "Paris Calling," a season of contemporary French art exhibits around London, host venue Camden Arts Centre and Le Plateau Frac IledeFrance have collaborated to present "Archipeinture: Painters Build Architecture," an entire exhibition curated around artists' views of architecture. Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/news_2-1.html In May 2006, in its annual awards program, the Michigan Chapter of the American Institute of Architects cited sixteen projects for design excellence and creativity. Many of these fall, coincidentally, into pairs of similar building types, inviting design comparisons. Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/news_3-1.html On New York City's Lexington Avenue at 53rd Street, Citicorp Center built 1976 to 1978 reaches into the sky like a giant sheathed in aluminum and glass. Its designer, architect Hugh Stubbins, Jr., who challenged modern skyscraper orthodoxy of the time, died July 5, 2006 at the age of 94. Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/design_1-1.html With the bulging prow of its aluminum and glass skeleton looming beside the fast lanes of Highway B14 in Stuttgart, Germany, the new MercedesBenz Museum lives up to the German automaker's refined engineering image. On entering the structure designed by the Dutch firm UN Studio, visitors ascend eight stories to the top, then wind down twin ramps through a collection of 160 vehicles displayed over 178,000 square feet 16,500 square meters of exhibition space. Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/design_2-1.html The Torre Agbar, a new tall building from Ateliers Jean Nouvel, in collaboration with b720 Arquitectura, GarciaVentosa Arquitectura, and Leopoldo Rodes Arquitecto, thrusts into Barcelona's skyline from the Placa de las Glories, a gritty district that Barcelona's planners have designated "the next big thing," a new center of commercial activity. Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/design_3-1.html "Everything happens as if there were onetoone oscillations between symmetry, order, rationality, and asymmetry, disorder, irrationality in the reactions between the epochs of civilizations. My own musical research on sounds with continuous variation in relation to time ... led me to lean towards geometric structures based on straight lines: ruled surfaces" Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect 1922 2001 Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/building_1-1.html When firms take the time early in the design process to improve construction coordination for instance between mechanical, electrical, and plumbing MEP subcontractors working in constricted areas they can reap tangible benefits. This article offers a designbuildoriented perspective. Editor Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/building_2-1.html I have noticed as a professional actor an observation reinforced in my work as a registered architect, specializing in theater design consulting that the same shortcomings in backstage design occur time and again. Creating inefficient and sometimes barely workable spaces, these chronic problems in layout and provisions may be attributed in large part to design efforts that disproportionately concentrate on the lobby and the auditorium. Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/tools_1-1.html Rapid prototyping technologies such as 3D printers and stereolithography have achieved some popularity in producing architectural models. But these methods are limited in the size of the models they can produce, and they require expensive materials. So at School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, we have been working with computer numerical control CNC milling to produce architectural models. We have demonstrated the utility of CNC machining by producing a 1:33 scale model of a curvilinear, precastconcrete structure for the Ballingdon Bridge in Suffolk County, England. Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/tools_2-1.html Futurist Alvin Toffler said: "You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction." He was probably not referring specifically to architecture students, but his statement applies well to students thinking about design concepts when learning to use computeraided design applications. Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/environment_1-1.html Perched like a fortress in the foothills of the Liguria maritime alps, the tiny Italian hamlet of Torri Superiore may seem an unlikely flagship in the search for sustainable solutions in architecture, landscape, and lifestyle. But a closer look into this labyrinth of stone dwellings reveals a community working hard to find workable solutions to what many see as a looming global energy famine. Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/environment_2-1.html As "green" principles begin to take hold in U.S. firms, those architects who have been following them the longest are demonstrating a refined and diverse understanding of what "sustainability" means to a building's occupants. For the NBBJ design team for the Washington State Veterans' Home, sustaining the elderly inhabitants' quality of life was a key component of the design intent. Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/culture_1-1.html Creating an edifice draws on an almost mystical process of imagining and materializing something from nothing, of developing original thought forms and manifesting them in the physical environment. Swissborn Mario Botta provides a unique perspective on this creative process. He is best known in the United States for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and is considered one of the world's foremost architects for churches and museums. Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/culture_2-1.html In his 1926 article, "Care of the Body," in the Los Angeles Times, Rudolf Schindler describes the house of the future: "Our rooms will descend close to the ground, and the garden will become an integral part of the house. The distinction between the indoors and the outofdoors will disappear. The walls will be few, thin, and removable. All rooms will become parts of an organic unit instead of being small separate boxes with peepholes." Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/0830/culture_2-1.html