http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 20 Jun 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/2007/0620/news_1-1.html The Maryland chapter of the American Institute of Architects has announced the recipients of its annual awards program. The goal is to encourage design excellence and bring public attention to the architect's role in shaping the built environment. Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/news_2-1.html The American Society of Landscape Architects ASLA has announced the recipients of its 2007 Professional Awards. As in past years, the selected projects reflect the breadth of a profession that concerns itself with residential gardens, municipal parks, and regional master plans. Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/news_3-1.html When ScottishAmerican philanthropist Andrew Carnegie opened his first public library in his hometown of Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1883, the motto he had inscribed over the door was "Let there be light." Although he was probably referring to the enlightenment of learning, his words resonate today in the importance modern architects place on daylighting in libraries. Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/design_1-1.html Almost ten years ago, the Dominus Estate Winery was one of Herzog and de Meuron's first works in the U.S. to catch critical attention. To understand the design approach of this Pritzker and Stirling Prizewinning firm, and more importantly in terms of the architecture itself, it is worth taking a closer look. Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/design_2-1.html Sometimes designing a firehouse isn't just about fire trucks, bells, and red doors. In designing the 18th Firemen's Brigade in Santiago, Chile, architect Gonzalo Mardones Viviani found that he had to give careful consideration to the firehouse's role in the surrounding neighborhood of Viracura and to its function as a real "house," a home to the fire fighters who live there together with their families. Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/design_3-1.html Museum franchising seems to be a growing trend. The Guggenheim is a well established worldwide franchise, and The Louvre is on its way. The New Yorkbased Museum of Modern Art and Dia Art Foundation each have two sites, while the Londonbased Tate has four. Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/design_4-1.html Pritzker Prize laureate Norman Foster is a master of levitating buildings of dubious design, treatment, or association to the pantheon of architectural icons. The Hearst Tower in Manhattan, which he designed in collaboration with architects Adamson Associates and Gensler, is the most recent example of this resuscitation. The 42story glass and metalskinned tower is characterized by a large diagonal grid, emphasized by vertically alternating recessed and projecting multistory corner triangles. Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/building_1-1.html The Yale University Art Gallery, designed by Louis Kahn, reopened a few months ago after a threeyear restoration and rejuvenation by Polshek Partnership Architects, working with a team of experts in restoration, exhibit design, and other specialties. The result brings the building back very close to the way Kahn envisioned it when it was completed in 1953. Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/building_2-1.html It is a historical fact that with economic transition comes environmental change. Perhaps there is no greater influence on the physical environment than the rapid industrial and economic development of towns and cities. This occurred in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, during the Industrial Revolution. Transportation innovations like the train and later the car encouraged a physical and psychological detachment between the home and workplace, leading to an expansion of residential and commercial districts into rural pastures. Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/building_3-1.html The Rice Residence, on a hillside above Los Angeles, expresses an idyllic Southern California lifestyle with daylight saturating every room, a floor plan that encourages casual indooroutdoor living, and spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean in the distance. Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/tools_1-1.html U.S. airports are being continually retrofitted to meet the latest demands of security and growing passenger volumes gathering climate crisis notwithstanding. One result of ad hoc remodels is an overcrowded, inconvenient, frustrating experience for travelers. To seek solutions to these problems in a new airport design paradigm, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture ACSA and U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS initiated a competition for a millionsquarefoot 93,000squaremeter, 24gate facility dubbed 38 N 82 W Regional Airport. The students who won the competition describe their process working with a variety of digital media for designing an airport that improves traveler experience while providing a distinctive, legible spatial structure and minimally invasive security. Editor Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/tools_2-1.html In the past, various 3D formats such VRML, 3DS, 3DMF, and o2c have been touted as "the 3D PDF" portable document format. But their opportunity to become the de facto standard may have passed. In January 2006, Adobe unveiled its own 3D format software, called Adobe Acrobat 3D, which actually uses the latest PDF file format. As with those other formats, a free viewer is available. Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/environment_1-1.html Architects practicing in wealthy countries are becoming increasingly aware that our resources are finite and that if climate change goes unchecked, we could face a much warmer, harsher environment. Scientists present us with images of expanding deserts, sinking water tables, and material scarcity. For Namibian architect Nina Maritz, the challenges of working in a harsh environment with limited means are already an everyday reality. Her work presents a model for making compelling buildings despite "a poverty of resources." Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/environment_2-1.html Depending on your generation, you may have been taught: "Waste not, want not." Thrift is certainly one incentive for deconstructing buildings for reuse. In addition, many of us are motivated by a desire to be environmentally sensitive, a fondness for antiques and other items from the past, a yearning to have more control over the quality of materials used in construction, or a recognition that many of the materials available for salvage are of higher quality than those produced today. Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/culture_1-1.html Some of the great and defining architects of the modern European tradition put their design and process philosophy and intentions into words. Even if you've encountered some of these statements before and whether or not you agree with the attiudes and explanations expressed you may find these thoughtprovoking today. Walter Gropius Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/culture_2-1.html While most glass artists treat their medium with care, one of them deliberately shatters it. Cyprusborn, Londonbased Yorgos Papadopoulos has developed an edgy art form that is attracting international attention. His work exploits the crystalline forms of broken glass and mixes in bold combinations of color to create provocative art panels. Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/culture_3-1.html Chartres Cathedral in France is the "thought of the middle ages made visible," according to art historian, Emile Male. Through sculpture, stained glass windows, and high arches, it is understood as encapsulating an essence of the Christian spiritual mind of the time. Today, in an increasingly secularized world confronted with diversity, confusion, and a continued decline in church attendance, is there still a need for sacred architecture If so, what is its contemporary expression Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0620/culture_3-1.html