http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ArchitectureWeek Editorial System editor@architectureweek.com editor@architectureweek.com http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/news_1-1.html Fundamental changes in the nature of architectural practice and building construction are taking place today. Those changes were clearly evident at the 2007 Build Boston convention and trade show. This conference has become, over the years, one of the key learning opportunities for the construction professions. And with over 15,500 attendees and a hall full of exhibitors, many workshops at the November conference were sold out in advance. Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/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, 02 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/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, 02 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/design_1-1.html The Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla and Len MUSAC by Spanish architects Mansilla Tun, located in Len, Spain, reflects van der Rohe's philosophy in its minimalist architectural language and the museum won the 2007 Mies van der Rohe Award, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. At the same time, its design works to redefine both the role of a museum with respect to its cultural context and the way people experience museums. Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/design_2-1.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, 02 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/design_3-1.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, 02 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/building_1-1.html The igloo, also spelled "iglu," and sometimes called an aputiak, is a temporary winter shelter built by native Eskimos primarily for use in winter hunting camps. In their native language, Eskimos call themselves Inuit, meaning "the people." They inhabit much of the Arctic from as far west as the Aleutian Islands of Alaska to as far east as the western coastline of Greenland. Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/building_2-1.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, 02 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/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, 02 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/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, 02 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/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, 02 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/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, 02 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/culture_1-1.html Probably the most classic and memorable of New England centralchimney houses had a twostory front and a long roofline sloping down to one story in the rear. It went by several names. Saltbox is the most familiar term, reflecting the look of a oncefamiliar container. Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/culture_2-1.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, 02 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0102/culture_2-1.html