http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ArchitectureWeek Editorial System editor@architectureweek.com editor@architectureweek.com http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/news_2-1.html In locations from the far reaches of the Northern Territory to suburban New South Wales, Australian architect Glenn Murcutt has created modernist houses remarkable for their supreme sensitivity to climate, surroundings, and environment. A true sole practitioner, Murcutt chooses mostly to design singlefamily dwellings, and only in Australia. The resulting structures attest to the depth of attention he affords each project. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/news_3-1.html Built in the 1950s, Woodway Residence north of Seattle was reimagined for a young family by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. Their intervention adds transparency and light, and takes better advantage of the home's picturesque wooded site. It was recently recognized by AIA Seattle. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/news_4-1.html For a Chicago house they call Case Study 1875, the architects collaborated with engineers and fabricators to develop a skin thermally isolated from the structure, allowing an experience of indooroutdoor connection without great loss of heat during the cold Illinois winters. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/design_1-1.html In Cologne, Germany, a city ravaged by World War II, the Kolumba Art Museum embraces and preserves centuries of culture and pays poetic tribute to the layers of civilization unearthed on its site. Designed by reclusive Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, the museum provides a stunning exception to the city's drab urban landscape built after the war. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/design_2-1.html In New Mexico, sandstone walls, granite boulders cracked by tree roots, and timeblurred ruins of past civilizations all rise against a cold cobalt sky 151; variegated results of sun, wind, culture, and geology. Architect Antoine Predock cites such elements of the U.S. Southwest as influences on his design of the University of New Mexico UNM School of Architecture and Planning in Albuquerque. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/building_1-1.html The new medical clinic and community center in the Pictou Landing First Nation in Nova Scotia recalls a longhouse, the traditional winter lodge of the Mi'kmaq. Sustainably harvested spruce poles, six to eight inches 15 to 20 centimeters in diameter, are bent and lashed together at the tops. Like a giant wooden model of a whale's ribcage, clad with rows of oversized spruce shingles, the peaked frame is an adaptation of traditional Native bentwood construction. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/building_2-1.html Expected to be the first LEED Platinum skyscraper, the 945foot 288meter tall Bank of America Tower is located at 42nd Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan, opposite Bryant Park. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/tools_1-1.html In his keynote speech for Autodesk University 2008, Tom Kelley noted that the more time you spend in an industry, the more expertise you develop; but at the same time, you begin to screen out information. He suggested that in these times of economic downturn, companies should take a more anthropological view and look beyond what they already know. Kelley quoted Marcel Proust: "The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes." Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/environment_1-1.html There are numerous benefits to fusing sustainable development and urban development concepts. Moreover, pedestrianoriented, urbanistproject approaches have been vigorously embraced by many environmental groups. It is not, however, intuitively obvious to everyone why highdensity, extensively hardscaped projects would be good for the environment. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/environment_2-1.html Renzo Piano demonstrates a mastery of light throughout his work. At the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, he exhibits the same care lighting a museum of the natural world as he has in lighting some of the world's finest art collections. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/culture_1-1.html About 15 years ago, I met an uncommon and fascinating man. His solid reputation as a scientist and researcher preceded him, a living encyclopedia on plants worldwide 8212; growing in severe and difficult conditions, deprived of light in the shadows of tall trees where, in contrast to the old saying, there is always something growing, or deprived of nutrients among rocks... Here was a man who was familiar with strolling the Amazon forests and riding under the canopy on a raft. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/culture_2-1.html Nestled in the hills northwest of Beijing, a lesserknown attraction vies for attention with a welltouristed section of China's Great Wall: eleven ultramodern villas, each designed by a top architect from China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, or Singapore. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0121/culture_2-1.html