http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 27 Feb 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/2008/0227/news_2-1.html The recently announced recipients of the American Institute of Architects 2008 AIA Honor Awards, divided into the categories of architecture, interior architecture, and urban design, range from small singlefamily homes to museums to regional plans. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/news_3-1.html The partners of KieranTimberlake Associates LLP approach design as a holistic process that benefits from the collective intelligence of architect, client, and others. The American Institute of Architects has selected KieranTimberlake to receive the 2008 AIA Architecture Firm Award, recognizing the firm's approach to complex challenges, its elegant buildings, its commitment to sustainable design, and its extensive research. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/news_4-1.html Renzo Piano first captured the attention of the architecture world as codesigner of the Centre Pompidou in Paris with Richard Rogers, an epochal building that dramatically established the stillreigning hightech modern style of architecture. Piano's subsequent projects, including several gorgeous museums and other beautiful buildings around the world, have steadily reinforced his reputation as a profound designer, sensitive practitioner, and master craftsman of building. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/design_1-1.html O'Donnell Tuomey Architects spent ten years working on one block in Temple Bar, the cultural quarter of Dublin, Ireland. We started on conversion of the former Quaker Meeting House into the Irish Film Centre in 1986. Meeting House Square, with the National Photographic Archive and the Gallery of Photography, was opened to the public in 1996. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/design_2-1.html Some Westerners, when faced with Oriental creativity, have a tendency to get a little carried away. Instead of a balanced, rational approach, a tendency emerges to ascribe the aesthetic effect of what they see to some mysterious, spiritual force that is absent from their own culture, whether it be called Zen, Tao, wabisabi, or yin and yang. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/design_3-1.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, 27 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/building_1-1.html Installing a fullscale intertie photovoltaic PV system on a home is the king of solar investments. To allow good time for decisionmaking, expect the entire process to take 90 days or more. With a really serious focus on conserving and altering energy consumption patterns, expect the process to take six months. Here's a list of the things that need to be done: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/building_2-1.html Weaving is most often associated with textiles, but it is also relevant to architecture. It is a construct and a craft that can purposefully and aesthetically order building systems. Just as a thread can be pulled from a woven fabric and a new one inserted in its place, so too can building and urban systems be removed, replaced, or added when the whole is conceived as an exposed woven tapestry. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/tools_1-1.html The Education City Convention Center on the outskirts of Doha, Qatar, designed by Arata Isozaki, includes a giant structure resembling two intertwined trees to support the building's exterior canopy. Used in lieu of vertical columns, the 250meter 820foot long, doubly curved steel tree structure forms the signature entrance to the convention center, currently under construction. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/tools_2-1.html In his mainstage presentation at Autodesk University 2007, Autodesk CEO Carl Bass cited several key trends in the world of architecture, engineering, and construction AEC: increased digitization, increased globalization, a boom in global building and infrastructure, the rising cost of energy, and climate change. He made the case that technology is required for more efficient and more sustainable design, building, and maintenance of that new infrastructure worldwide. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/tools_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/environment_1-1.html Just north of London, off the M25 highway, a single large wind turbine reaches into the air and turns steadily above the bucolic English countryside. The turbine serves to generate power, and also as an emblem of the headquarters of the wind energy company Renewable Energy Systems RES, set among the hedge rows and rolling hills of Hertfordshire. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/culture_1-1.html Construction frenzy may have taken hold of Shanghai and Beijing, not to mention China's hundreds of other towns and cities. But for the past ten years, Hong Kong has floated behind serenely, like a successful, rather conservative older cousin. Still, there are signs that the city is developing something that other Chinese cities lack: public discourse. Its first architecture biennale, running through March 15, 2008, headlines a growing public interest in the built environment. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/culture_2-1.html Somewhere between the nostalgic musings of I. M. Pei and the flickering of an independentminded slideshow, noted Marcel Breuer expert Barry Bergdoll expressed perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Breuer's architecture: "by the end of his career, even heavy things seem to float in air." Bergdoll illustrated his point with a series of striking images in which massive concrete structures balance as if on tiptoe. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/culture_3-1.html Public urban open space. In the course of one L.A. day, those four little words inspired comparisons to a dining room table, descriptions of a "third revolution," arguments for spatial justice, historical tales of the search for an R1 residential paradise, and an examination of what being "green" means in a desert. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/culture_3-1.html