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POSTCARD FROM KLAMATH FALLS
Dear ArchitectureWeek,
Seeing them as pure object form in the landscape, a poignant aesthetic of contrasts entwines these manmade elements with their landscape — muscular diversion canal snaking improbably high along the canyon walls, diminished river following below — huge steel penstock tubes dropping hundreds of feet from some apparently random spot on the hillside — the two round generators themselves, framed by their own dedicated traveling crane, bridging over the outwash beneath, loud rushing to rejoin the native waters. — Published 2009.1007
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POSTCARD FROM MAPLE GROVE
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. — Published 2009.0805
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WIKI DESIGN STUDIO - PART TWO
In the first episode of Design Studio Wiki, we went step by step through creating a functional design studio home page in the Archiplanet wiki.
In this article, we'll step through how to build from the design studio home page itself to a full set of design studio course and projects support pages. — Published 2008.1022
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WIKI DESIGN STUDIO - PART ONE
While the most common type of page in the Archiplanet all-buildings wiki presents an individual building, the huge flexibility of the wiki structure provides for support for almost any kind of documentation — especially if it involves groupwork — and this particularly includes the architecture school design studio.
Simple Concept — Published 2008.1001
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POSTCARD FROM A TIPPING PLANET
Dear ArchitectureWeek,
Please take a minute to look at this great short animation from Leo Murray. — Published 2008.0924
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POSTCARD FROM ST. ANTHONY FALLS
Dear ArchitectureWeek,
We pause this week in remembrance of the thirteen Minnesotans who were killed and the dozens injured in the catastrophic failure of the I-35W bridge across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota. — Published 2008.0730
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POSTCARD FROM BOSTON
Dear ArchitectureWeek,
Party at the BPL! — Published 2008.0521
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CLIMATE ACTION NOW
In ArchitectureWeek No. 377, in Tackling Climate Change, we took a reality check on the level of challenge embodied in established targets for reducing emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
Then in ArchitectureWeek No. 378, on April 30, 2008, we announced a new call to action for architecture firms across the United States and around the world. — Published 2008.0430
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TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE
Just about a year ago, Al Gore rocked the national AIA Convention in San Antonio with a climactic final keynote address, and received a prolonged standing ovation from thousands of architects who had lined up for hours to get in.
Gore expressed the compelling case on global climate change, anchoring the powerful presentation with this silver spur to action for design professionals: — Published 2008.0423
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JEAN NOUVEL PRITZKER PRIZE
In a world where so much contemporary construction is so repetitively mundane, in the majority, and so dissociatively egotistical, in the contrasting minority, it is a deepening pleasure to celebrate poetically bold, eloquently sensitive, contextually beautiful work.
And that's just the celebration we find in the 2008 Pritzker Prize award to Jean Nouvel of France. — Published 2008.0402
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