http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 23 Sep 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/2009/0923/news_1-1.html On a former farm outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Indian Community School aims to connect Native American students with their cultural heritage through both curriculum and setting. Antoine Predock Architect PC designed a building to both foster and exemplify that cultural and environmental awareness. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/news_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/news_3-1.html When Providence Health amp; Services hired Mahlum to design a new clinic on the north side of Portland, Oregon, the architects saw a familiar formula, and looked beyond it. "All the rest of their clinics have red brick," recalls Anne Schopf, a principal at Mahlum. "We really wanted to create a new face for them, a new attitude." Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/news_4-1.html When Nanette and Jerry Stump bought a wooded property in Evansville, Indiana, to build an accessible retirement home, they turned to a young architect fresh out of school: their son. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/design_1-1.html Though surely not as great a source of significant contemporary architecture as cultural institutions, places of worship 8212; in one form or another 8212; continue to generate invention and cuttingedge design. The reuse of places of religion for other purposes sometimes poses the problem of deconsecration, with the reticence some users may have when asked to dine or party in a former church. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/design_2-1.html The city of Lecce, located in the southern heel of the Italian peninsula, is associated with highly ornate baroque palaces and churches, their facades overlaid with elaborate decorative carvings in the local limestone. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/design_3-1.html Early in the design process of the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center in Grand Teton National Park, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson made several key design decisions that were critical to the success of the project. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/design_4-1.html Renzo Piano is known for his finely tuned designs, especially for a refined talent in dovetailing elegant new architecture with an existing context, playing on contextual strengths without duplicating the neighbors. He has achieved this feat once again at the Art Institute of Chicago, where a lightstudded new museum wing by Piano opened in May 2009. The Art Institute's new addition is laudable in its intelligent siting, sensitive scale, urban presence, and manipulation of light. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/design_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/design_5-1.html At the edge of the Pike Street and Pine Street corridor in downtown Seattle is a public transitoriented neighborhood populated by mixeduse developments. The 40by80foot 12.2by24.4meter site for the 1310 E. Union Lofts was an infill midblock plot, smaller than a typical singlefamily residential lot in Seattle. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/design_5-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/building_1-1.html For decades, the lower level of the Redpath Library Building at McGill University languished as a drab, dimly lit, compartmentalized box within which books and students were stowed. That changed when the Montreal school revamped some of that standard institutional library space into the Cyberthegrave;que 8212; an open, stylish, technologycentered learning space that has become one of the university's most popular study areas. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/building_2-1.html Two houses in east Australia exhibit powerful simplicity in form, space, and circulation, while each effectively addresses the specifics of its contrasting site, seaside or subdivision. Designed by two different Brisbane firms, each lead by young principals, both of these houses show environmentally conscious responses to the subtropical climate of the southeastern Queensland area, with warm, humid summers and mild winters. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/building_3-1.html Focusing on structural engineering issues involved in the repair, restoration, or adaptive reuse of older buildings for which drawings no longer exist, this article is the third in a series on antiquated structural systems that can be adapted or reanalyzed for safe reuse. 8212;Editor Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/tools_1-1.html A systems approach to building information modeling should not be confused with the notion of a single building information model. Implementing BIM does not mean that all of the information about a building must be compiled into a single data file, reside in a single physical location, or be maintained by a single business entity throughout the life cycle of the building. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/environment_1-1.html In the American South, a region that tends to laud its heritage, modern can be a hard sell. A residential client often hears neighborhood fears that a new modern dwelling will look "chilly" and won't fit in. RainShine House by architect Robert M. Cain answers those concerns. Built near downtown Decatur, Georgia, part of metro Atlanta, the LEED Platinumcertified home is bright, welcoming, treads lightly on its site, and respects its neighbors. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/environment_2-1.html When the Forest Stewardship Council rolled out the world's first "green" wood certification label in 1993, the organization quickly rallied bigbox retailers like Home Depot to the cause. The largest doityourself home improvement chain in the United States became a founding member of the FSC and publicly announced that it would soon ensure all of its products came from certified sources. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/environment_3-1.html Dear ArchitectureWeek, Inside and outside, this building comes across initially as nice, but seemingly a bit buttoned down, handsome yet perhaps a bit conventional in affect. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/environment_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/culture_1-1.html The overwhelming cultural and architectural diversity of the African continent is united by the shared experience of wholesale exploitation and colonization by outside forces. Though many world regions grapple with the complications of postcolonialism, this problem is especially acute in subSaharan Africa, where this legacy pervades all contemporary experiences, including heritage conservation. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/culture_2-1.html In April, about two weeks before his 66th birthday, Swiss architect Peter Zumthor was named the 2009 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Zumthor is not a household name, as many other Pritzker winners have been 8212; architects such as Gehry, Meier, and Pei. Even many architects haven't heard of him. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/culture_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/culture_3-1.html The recent threat of demolition to Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon, one of the city's most visible architectural landmarks, galvanized local architects and historic preservation advocates. But the city's record on historic preservation, in terms of both involvement and actually preserving buildings, is spotty. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0923/culture_3-1.html