http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 05 Dec 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/2007/1205/news_2-1.html More than two hours before the 9 a.m. opening session for Greenbuild was set to begin in Chicago's McCormick Place conference center, that largest of U.S. convention centers in square footage was already bursting at the seams. If you were looking to register for the conference, the line might be negotiated by lunchtime. If coffee tempted, the line at the inhouse Starbucks snaked all the way into a sky bridge around the corner from the store. Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/news_3-1.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, 05 Dec 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/news_4-1.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, 05 Dec 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/design_1-1.html Nestled on the edge of a dike in the southwestern Netherlands, the compact Punt House addition completed by Geen Punt Architecten GPA in summer 2007 carefully reconciles no fewer than three disparate architectural philosophies within its slender wood frame. Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/design_2-1.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, 05 Dec 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/design_3-1.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, 05 Dec 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/design_4-1.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, 05 Dec 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/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, 05 Dec 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/tools_1-1.html In Part One of this architectural wiki tutorial, we created the core of a building case study in the Archiplanet wiki, with summary building information and uploaded photos we took ourselves. Here in Part Two, we will enhance that study with an external link, add a live building location map, and select and collect appropriate images from a photosharing site, and see how to add those to the building case study, too. Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/tools_2-1.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, 05 Dec 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/tools_3-1.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, 05 Dec 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/tools_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/environment_1-1.html The Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee simply radiates with a special kind of beauty, from the inside out. It's a charming, efficient, respectful, and delightful structure, and more. It's a community building whose building has helped build a community. Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/environment_2-1.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, 05 Dec 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/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, 05 Dec 2007 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1205/culture_1-1.html