http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/ Full issue contents of ArchitectureWeek - The magazine of design and building en-us Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:59:00 GMT Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ArchitectureWeek Editorial System editor@architectureweek.com editor@architectureweek.com http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/news_2-1.html It's not easy to pigeonhole Pugh Scarpa Architects. And that's the way partners Gwynne Pugh, Larry Scarpa, and Angela Brooks like it. The buildings they create are dynamic, many with colorful, angular, patterned facades that exude a sense of whimsical energy. Even at its most eyecatching, the work is also decisively rooted in function and energy efficiency. The firm has also established a substantial portfolio of affordable housing projects. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/news_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/news_3-1.html Living and building day to day in one of the most challenged small countries on our planet entails difficulties hard to grasp from an everyday wealthycountry perspective. Rushing the desperately needed volumes of emergency aid, from water to antiseptics, to the millions who need it in a devastated city and its surroundings though collapsed port facilities, rubbleblocked streets, and a modest airport seems to progress with crushing slowness. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/news_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/news_4-1.html On a windswept site in Australia's Snowy Mountains stands a rounded, steelclad form, like a sleek spacecraft among the grasses. Anchored to a concrete plinth, this groundhugging shelter by James Stockwell Architect deflects wind and transfers snow loads while offering its occupants expansive views of the Snowy and Thredbo River Valleys. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/news_4-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/design_1-1.html The Cary House in Mill Valley, California 1961 was a pivotal project for Joseph Esherick, gathering in the experience and the formal explorations of the gable and chalet manners and looking forward to the singleslope roofs that became the icon of the Sea Ranch style. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/design_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/design_2-1.html China's recent willinginess to be an architectural testing ground has left it with a fair share of question marks dotting urban horizons, but in Linked Hybrid the gamble may have paid off. The bold, highend residential complex in Beijing, by Steven Holl Architects, offers a more pervasive and open sense of neighborhood than most other modern highrise housing in the city. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/design_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/design_3-1.html The simple and strong geometric shape of the Bar House near Aspen, Colorado 8212; which is a bar set boldly across, rather than nestling along, the valley floor 8212; stands up to the rugged and majestic mountains that surround it. Despite its strength, this house by Peter Gluck and Partners is partly submerged in the ground, as if to lock it into the landscape. The views up and down the valley dominate the interior spaces, but they are tempered in different ways by the varied size and placement of the windows and the shape of the rooms. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/design_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/building_1-1.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 sixth in a series about antiquated structural systems that can be adapted or reanalyzed for safe reuse. 8212;nbsp;Editor Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/building_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/building_2-1.html By the time I saw Lloyd House's "Leaf House," then the sauna he built, I realized he was the builder of my dreams. He did things I'd never seen a builder do. He was tuned deeply into his materials and surroundings, and there was joy and wit in addition to master craftsmanship. Here was a builder able to carry through on his own designs to the last detail. His creations took my breath away. When I came upon the sauna, I was stunned. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/building_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/building_3-1.html A stunning new addition has opened at the Cambridge Public Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Using ideas of transparency, inclusiveness, and efficiency as starting points, William Rawn Associates designed the glassandsteel addition as a modernist foil to the original 1888 library by Van Brunt amp; Howe. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/building_3-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/tools_1-1.html At Autodesk University 2009, Autodesk CEO Carl Bass said he was encouraged by signs that the economy seems to be improving. He also acknowledged that Autodesk customers worldwide are being challenged to stay competitive. He suggested that this translates into being able to work more efficiently and being able to do more with less 8212; an idea echoed in every presentation at AU 2009. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/tools_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/environment_1-1.html Every so often, an exceptional work of architecture emerges from an opportune convergence of just the right client working with just the right team of architects, engineers, and consultants on a building that is just right for the times. Kroon Hall at Yale University is one of these. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/environment_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/environment_2-1.html For the new Christman Company headquarters in downtown Lansing, Michigan, SmithGroup set out to design modern, highend offices within a historic building. What resulted, somewhat surprisingly, was a sustainable exemplar. Christman, a Lansingbased construction company, had purchased a 1928 building listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and set a modest goal for sustainable renovation: basic certification under LEED for Core amp; Shell. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/environment_2-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/culture_1-1.html The Gothic style flourished in Central Europe during the late Gothic period, with many of the most exciting innovations in vault design found in churches built in the regions of presentday Germany and the Czech Republic. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/culture_1-1.html http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/culture_2-1.html Continuity and the ability to recognize original design intent is critical to the preservation of modern architecture. Original design intent is the visual and conceptual expression of the designer's creativity and therefore informs every aspect of both the building and its construction. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:59:00 GMT http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0203/culture_2-1.html