http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 28 Feb 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/2007/0228/news_1-1.html The AIA announced 29 recipients of the organization's annual honor awards for architecture, interior, and urban design in January 2007. Richard A. Logan, AIA, chair of the jury for the architecture awards, cited "the exterior aspects, the quality of the interior spaces, site considerations, environmental issues, and social relevance" as factors in making the final selections. Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/news_2-1.html How should the rapid changes in 21stcentury society influence the methods of urban planners How can planners promote sustainable development in light of population shifts from traditional city centers To answer such questions, the French research organization Sustainable Urban Development PIDUD started the new year with a binational event. The FrenchGerman colloquium "Cities and the Various Time Scales of Sustainable Development" took place in January 2007. Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/news_3-1.html Architect and urban planner Jaquelin T. Robertson is the 2007 recipient of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. This honor is given to individuals who incorporate the principles of traditional and classical architecture in modern urban developments. Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/design_1-1.html Visitors ascend from street level by elevator and enter the new Red Bull headquarters via a rooftop reception lobby. This dramatic entry sequence, from a small groundfloor lobby to a grand, rooftop terrace overlooking London's West End, is heightened by views from the terrace down into and through the building. Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/design_2-1.html Australian architect Andrew Maynard is bursting with theories. He develops concepts such as "malleable space" into architectural "products" such as a mobile bedroom unit, with the ultimate goal being to transform it into architecture. The process sounds simple enough, but Maynard is the first to acknowledge that such conversions are rarely smooth. "Reality is always getting our floaty idealized concepts dirty, and that is half of the fun." Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/design_3-1.html The Tschuggen Bergoase spa, nestled in the mountains near St. Moritz, Switzerland, takes on a cathedrallike quality. It was designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta who is renowned for his museums and sacred spaces. In contrast to the neighboring Tschuggen Hotel, the spa wears a sleek, timeless design that signals a shift into an interior space of natural quiet. Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/building_1-1.html Glass, as a building material, offers a special interlayer between our outer and inner space and has opened up and contained, as well as sheltered and revealed, the architecture of its time. Architects' pursuit of the minimal environmental envelope has created an evolutionary and reductionist approach, whereby glass has become a predominant and essential cladding material of contemporary architecture. Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/building_2-1.html Students at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation have been building complex structures and in the process learning about parametric modeling, digital fabrication, and computerassisted assembly. They have been using the Trusset System, developed by Columbia researchers in the Avery Digital Fabrication Laboratory. The system provides an inexpensive and simple method for manufacturing and building a customdesigned, threedimensional spacetruss structure and enclosure. Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/building_3-1.html Sealants are an important part of the building envelope system. I think of them as the third line of defense against water and vapor intrusion. The first line of defense is made up of the building skin, with its coatings, veneers, and sheathings. Membranes and flashings are secondary. Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/tools_1-1.html We live in a wonderful age in which architects can be educated in almost any subject you can imagine, via the Internet. Over the course of this last year, I have gone "back to school" online for lessons in such diverse subjects as book publishing, SketchUp photo modeling, calibrating bitmaps in DataCAD, doing ZiPCAD punch lists, and solving a Rubik's Cube. Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/tools_2-1.html The new home of the Bridge Academy, a secondary school in a lowincome area of Hackney, London, will be a complex sevenstory, terraced building, fitted into a relatively small site. With a focus on mathematics and music, the school is one of many specialist academies being built by the British government. It is sponsored by UBS, a global financial services firm. Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/environment_1-1.html Architects designing educational centers for environmental organizations bear a special responsibility to make their medium part of the message. The new Gwinnett Environmental Heritage Center GEHC in Buford, Georgia, designed by Lord, Aeck Sargent, is a lesson in itself about energy and water conservation. Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/environment_2-1.html Many people start a home remodeling project by designing an addition and selecting finish materials. But if your goal is to live in harmony with nature, you need to begin with something more basic: a personal strategy for weaving your needs together with the natural elements available at your site. Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/environment_3-1.html In the rolling hills just east of Austin, Texas, a small compound of experimental buildings makes up the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems CMPBS. Here, Pliny Fisk III, his partner Gail Vittori, and a cadre of researchers and interns explore the depths of sustainable building. Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/environment_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/culture_1-1.html In 1960, Michael Graves was awarded the American Academy in Rome's prestigious Prix de Rome. Having just completed his graduate studies in architecture, he embarked on a twoyear "Grand Tour" that led to a lifelong fascination with the landscape, the culture, and the history of Italy. During this time, Graves was exposed to ideas about architecture that went well beyond his modernist upbringing. 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