http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 26 Mar 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/2008/0326/news_1-1.html Urban Infill 02 is a prototype for affordable singlefamily housing designed by Johnsen Schmaling Architects for a small urban lot in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Two interlocking modular forms compose the house: a twostory woodclad cube and a barshaped, singlestory concrete block. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/news_3-1.html The inaugural Livable Buildings Awards spotlight buildings that excel not only in design and resource efficiency, but also in user satisfaction. Initiated in 2007 by the Center for the Built Environment CBE at the University of California, Berkeley, the awards program recognizes buildings that have been evaluated using CBE's Occupant Indoor Environmental Quality IEQ Survey and received one of the topmost scores. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/news_4-1.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, 26 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/design_1-1.html There is something inherently abstract about the government archive. Storage of old records can too easily be seen as a utility function free of aesthetic aspiration. Compared to a classic library program, an archive might be seen as exaggerating the stacks while minimizing the interacting human element. In some archives this tendency leads to the place where the technical function of storage obliterates the impulse for architecture. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/building_1-1.html The glassandsteel R128 House is located on a steeply sloped site with panoramic views of Stuttgart, Germany. Although this house seems sterile and completely transparent, it is a home where comfort and privacy issues for the inhabitants have been met. It is a completely recyclable, emissionfree, energy selfsufficient building. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/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, 26 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/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, 26 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/environment_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, 26 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/culture_1-1.html International practice sounds glamorous and fun, but is it something that your firm should consider Overseas work can be expensive, disruptive, and a serious distraction. Some firms have even destroyed their domestic practice by diverting too much energy and too many resources to foreign work. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/culture_2-1.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, 26 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/culture_3-1.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, 26 Mar 2008 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/culture_3-1.html