http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 14 Nov 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/2007/1114/news_2-1.html AIA Chicago has announced the winners of its 2007 Design Excellence Awards. Chapter president Laura Fisher, FAIA, lauded the almost 300 submissions as reflective of the "versatility and creativity of Chicago's architecture and design community." Fortysix awards were given in the categories of distinguished building, sustainable design, interior architecture, and "divine detail," including 13 honor awards, the highest honor. Distinguished Buildings Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/news_3-1.html Living Steel has announced the three winners of its second International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing. The consortium of steel companies challenged participants to design innovative, resourceefficient housing solutions using steel. Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/news_4-1.html The Stirling Prize for 2007 has been awarded to the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach am Neckar, Germany, designed by David Chipperfield Architects. With a spare colonnade around its boxy, minimalist form, the Museum Literaturmuseum der Moderne is something of a neoclassical Parthenon, helping the larger cluster of buildings which also includes the National Schiller Museum 1903 and the Archive for German Literature 1970s come together as a seeming Acropolis atop its ridge overlooking the River Neckar. Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/news_5-1.html Even if global greenhouse gas emissions were to stop increasing today, the climate would continue to warm. That was the stark reality underlined in February 2007 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC.1 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/news_5-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/design_1-1.html Overland Park, Kansas, is not quite the center of the United States, but you can just about see it from there. Less than ten miles south of Kansas City, Overland Park is a leafy college town, 167,000 strong, the state's second largest settlement after its closeby neighbor to the north. Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/design_2-1.html The Juliana Curran Terian Design Center is the newest addition to the Brooklyn, New York, campus of Pratt Institute. Designed by Hanrahan Meyers Architects, the structure is located between two existing academic buildings that house Pratt's various schools of design. Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/design_3-1.html It seems both fitting and fashionable to design a highend lingerie store with minimalism in mind. Just as less is more in the world of underwear, luxury retail design has long subscribed to a similar philosophy. For Lorenzo Apicella and John Rushworth at Pentagram, the fabled Londonbased multidisciplinary design firm, this was the natural starting point for the creation of Essenziale, a signature, unisex lingerie and beachwear boutique in London's gentrified Mayfair district. Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/design_4-1.html "That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics." Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/building_1-1.html The 1829 Jacob Yoder farmhouse in the rolling hills of eastern Pennsylvania is crafted from the materials that surround it: fieldstone, pine, and oak. The patient hands of time have turned the pine floors amber and the stone walls a color wheel of earth tones. The house is one with the land and history, which is precisely why the owners, two refugees from Manhattan, bought it. Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/building_2-1.html The twelvestory, 362,987squarefoot 33,723squaremeter Seattle Public Library sits on a steep urban site with a 29foot 8.8meter height difference between its boundaries on Fourth and Fifth Avenues. Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/tools_1-1.html We've been talking recently about the "wiki" phenomenon of communitycreated web sites and what they might mean to architecture both in terms of wikis in general, and in the context of the ArchitectureWeek web family. Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/tools_2-1.html The "wiki" form of collaborative web site, emerging dramatically with the great Wikipedia as its lead example, has to be my favorite cultural technology development of recent years. Wikipedia is more just an amazing collectivelycreated web site. It also the headliner for a huge new phenomenon in collective creativity. More than 9000 wikis hve been launched using MediaWiki, the same free, opensource software that runs Wikipedia and that's just one of the options for wiki software. Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/environment_1-1.html The sedum roofs of today symbolize performanceoriented green roof design. Like finetuned engines, they run on leaner artificial substrates with almost no organic matter; volcanic rock or expanded shale, baked at 2000 degrees Fahrenheit 1093 degrees Celsius, make the substrates lighter and soil depths as thin as possible. They seem to be race cars in the fleet of green roofs maximum performance paired with minimum weight. The simple soil mixtures and roof sections of the early days of green roofs developed into multilayered complex systems supporting the homogenous surface of succulents. The unkempt and rough gave way to the groomed and cultivated, reminiscent of the unrelenting beauty of agricultural fields. Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/culture_1-1.html In the 19th century, the great majority of the houses of western Minnesota were cheap, plain, awkward, and unlovely. Harmony and unity emerged from the mundane clutter, however, in the form of the classic Lhouse, which became representative of much of the farming way of life in the Midwest. Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/culture_2-1.html Over fifty years ago, the "Harvard Five" architects, Marcel Breuer and his students Landis Gores, John Johansen, Philip Johnson, and Eliot Noyes, built houses for themselves and their clients in New Canaan, Connecticut. Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/culture_3-1.html Curitiba, Brazil called "the world's greenest city" by the New York Times Magazine in May 2007 is increasingly well known for its longterm success in integrated land use, transportation, and environmental planning, including its exciting public bus system. Less well known is the extensive program of public architecture that helps animate the urban fabric of the city, weaving together parks and open space, tourism, urban identity, and industrial reclamation. Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/culture_3-1.html