http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ArchitectureWeek Editorial System editor@architectureweek.com editor@architectureweek.com http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/news_1-1.html The annual Build Boston conference, now in its 22nd year, was held in November 2006. Over 15,000 attendees explored important recent developments in the design construction industry at this trade show brimming with 350 booth exhibits and over 230 seminars. Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/news_2-1.html The Seattle chapter of the American Institute of Architects has just celebrated its 55yearold program of design awards honoring the "the state of the art in architecture produced by the Washington design community." The chosen projects emphasize an environmental sensitivity and sense of place in a variety of regions throughout the state and in the very different but "neighboring" states of Alaska and Hawaii. Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/news_3-1.html Architect and urban designer Peter Calthorpe has received the 2006 J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development from the Urban Land Institute. This award salutes his 30year career of creating neighborhoods and communities that are livable, walkable, and diverse. Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/design_1-1.html The new Federal Courthouse in Eugene, Oregon by Thom Mayne and his Los Angeles firm Morphosis, is in some ways an outstanding building for this small city. Mayne certainly delivers a strong dose of visual excitement, but the depth of art in this architecture is more open to question. Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/design_2-1.html New schools are springing up across the United States with design that doesn't go "by the book." These schools for grades Kindergarten through 12 are responding to meet new community demands or simply to replace aged facilities. Fortyfive percent of the nation's elementary schools were built between 1950 and 1969, according to ZweigWhite, a market research firm. And enrollment in public K12 schools will continue to rise through 2012, predicts the National Center for Education Statistics. Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/design_3-1.html "When you build one million square meters, you really don't know if what you envisioned will be good or bad," says Massimilliano Fuksas, the Romebased architect for the New Milan Trade Fair. The 10.8millionsquarefoot convention complex, which opened in April 2006, has a milelong canopy that wows visitors with its whimsical flair, transforming a glass and steel structure into a fabric that billows and then touches down like tornados to the floor. Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/building_1-1.html Modular intermodal cargo Containers used to serve primarily for transporting massive amounts of manufactured goods across oceans. But an ongoing imbalance in trade volume between Asia and North America contributes to a surplus of these huge corrugated metal boxes around ports in the United States. And as shipping containers become ubiquitous, architects are increasingly incorporating them into creative buildings. Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/building_2-1.html Since its origins in 1888, the Star Ferry has been an icon of Hong Kong. With tens of thousands of people crossing Victoria Harbour every day, the ferry and its piers play a special role, with both tourists and locals, in the city's history and folklore. Now the icon is threatened by recent controversial developments. Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/tools_1-1.html "Smart geometry" technology has been coming to life in the field of digital architectural design and fabrication. Even those unfamiliar with the parametric modeling approach have seen its effects in innovative building forms over the past few years. Among those collaborating to advance education and research in the area of advanced 3D CAD applications is a small group of scientists, architects, and inventors the Smart Geometry Group. Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/tools_2-1.html This year the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture ACADIA marked its first quarter century of involvement in promoting the use of computers to enhance design creativity in architecture, planning, and building science. Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/environment_1-1.html Architectural education often cloisters students in an internally focused world of individualized design 151; encouraging Wrightlike bravado or Gehryesque showmanship. The work of educator Sergio Palleroni challenges this instructional paradigm, and the profession as a whole, to confront a larger global reality and to creatively tackle problems of growing poverty, increasing population, and shrinking resources. Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/environment_2-1.html On a cloudy day in April 2006, a crowd of curious onlookers gathered on a hillside street in Santa Monica, California, to watch the installation of the first LivingHomes prefabricated house. Over the course of eight hours, 11 modules were hoisted by crane onto a concrete slab in a dramatic departure from traditional residential construction. Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/culture_1-1.html Dear ArchitectureWeek, Add to your list of great spaces to visit: the new Fleet Library of the Rhode Island School of Design RISD in DownCity, Providence. The 1917 12story former office building now houses 130,000 books and 685,000 images slides, videos and pictures. Well designed, uptodate conditions and equipment for feasting on this information and knowledge are lovingly inserted into this Italian highrenaissancestyle banking hall. The inhouse Portfolio Cafe makes daily food feasting convenient and stylish too. Above the twostory library is housing for 500 RISD students. Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/culture_2-1.html Located in the British town of BexhillonSea, the De La Warr Pavilion is a striking example of international modernism. It was built in 1935 by celebrated architects Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff and has recently reopened following a renovation that rescued it from decades of neglect and damage. Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/culture_3-1.html Since gaining World Heritage Site status in 2003, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on the outskirts of West London, has seen several additions to its building stock. This work is part of a 30year master plan for the garden to guide the historic site's future development. Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/culture_3-1.html