http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 04 Feb 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/2009/0204/news_2-1.html The 2008 Build Boston convention and trade show seemed, on the surface, to be its usual hustling, bustling, active marketplace of hundreds of educational workshops, dozens of receptions and affiliated conferences, and a convention floor full of product booths centered around the design and construction industry. Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/news_3-1.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, 04 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/news_4-1.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, 04 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/design_1-1.html The Yale Art and Architecture building in New Haven, Connecticut, designed by legendary architect Paul Rudolph and completed in 1963, is now close to how its architect intended it to be, after a 45year journey through celebration, fire, indifference, and abuse. One of the most iconic architecture school buildings in the world, the object of a lovehate relationship with those who have known it, has found new repose amid a complex mixture of adoration, restoration, and exhilaration. Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/design_3-1.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, 04 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/design_4-1.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, 04 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/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, 04 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/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, 04 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/environment_1-1.html Attendees of the 2008 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo had good reason to be excited. Since the conference's debut in 2002 in Austin, Texas, when just over 4,000 people gathered to discuss the importance of sustainable design, Greenbuild has expanded dramatically. Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/environment_2-1.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, 04 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/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, 04 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/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, 04 Feb 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0204/culture_2-1.html