http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 14 Mar 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/2007/0314/news_1-1.html On February 20, 2007, architects and students worldwide demonstrated en masse that they are ready to go to work to stop global climate change. Their "gathering" was virtual, however, as schools, firms, and individuals from 47 countries tuned in to the 2010 Imperative TeachIn webcast. During several hours, a panel of three experts from different disciplines discussed the building sector's impact on global warming. Their presentations are available online. Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/news_2-1.html The ideals are familiar to any architect working in a big city: a project should be well designed, well built, and well integrated into its urban environment. And yet we have too few U.S. examples to follow when it comes to applying these principles to housing for the poor. Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/news_3-1.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, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/news_4-1.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, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/design_1-1.html The new building for the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program ANSEP at the University of Alaska in Anchorage is becoming a cultural icon. ANSEP serves many different indigenous cultures, each with different ideas about appropriate symbolism. The building's final form was based on a shared icon arrived at after an interesting, sometimes arduous, journey. Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/design_2-1.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, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/design_3-1.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, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/building_1-1.html Mention Northern Ireland, and two images likely come to mind: rolling green hills and violent clashes dressed up as religious unrest. While the first are very much still in evidence, the latter are much less so. In fact, the region has transformed in the last ten years, with the capital city of Belfast bustling as a center of redevelopment. Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/building_2-1.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, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/building_3-1.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, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/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, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/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, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/environment_1-1.html When architects are asked to articulate the economic benefits of "green" buildings, they may say something like: "they may cost more in construction than conventional buildings but will more than make up the difference in the long run." This claim seems reasonable, but how do we know it's accurate Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/environment_2-1.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, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/environment_3-1.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, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/environment_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/culture_1-1.html Dear ArchitectureWeek, In the interior design of its own threestory office space in downtown Shanghai, China, completed in April 2006, MoHen Design International emphasizes decorative elements. The reception desk is a glass case lit from the inside, an island of light in a dark space. In the main office and work space, cubicles line two opposite walls. Two long fauxfinished tables for collaborative work stretch lengthwise down the middle of the room, flanked by furry, benchstyle seats. Task lighting drops from the ceiling. Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/culture_2-1.html Three hundred steps lead down to the Sundanese village of Kampung Naga. Here, in this valley of West Java, Indonesia, the people consciously maintain the knowledge of their ancestors and their traditional lifestyles in a close relationship with nature. This philosophy extends to their construction methods using local materials of timber, stone, bamboo, and palm leaves. Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/culture_3-1.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. Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0314/culture_3-1.html