ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 323

Thu Feb 22 16:07:28 PST 2007

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ESSEX STREET HOUSE
    by Leigh Christy
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0221/design_1-1.html

	Australian architect Andrew Maynard is bursting with
	theories. He develops concepts such as "malleable space"
	into architectural "products" such as a mobile bedroom
	unit, with the ultimate goal being to transform it into
	architecture. The process sounds simple enough, but
	Maynard is the first to acknowledge that such conversions
	are rarely smooth. "Reality is always getting our floaty
	idealized concepts dirty, and that is half of the fun."

	The dirt seems to brush off easily, however, and the
	young firm Andrew Maynard Architects is garnering
	worldwide attention for both floaty concepts and dirty
	reality.

	The Essex Street House is the firm's latest built
	experiment. Here, Maynard investigates malleable space at
	a larger scale, seamlessly integrating qualities of both
	industrial and domestic worlds to create an alternate
	universe in a backyard on the edge of Melbourne.
	... full story continues online (18 images, two free):
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/0221/design_1-1.html

AIA Honor Awards 2007
    by ArchitectureWeek
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0221/news_1-1.html

	The AIA announced 29 recipients of the organization's
	annual honor awards for architecture, interior, and urban
	design in January 2007. Richard A. Logan, AIA, chair of
	the jury for the architecture awards, cited "the exterior
	aspects, the quality of the interior spaces, site
	considerations, environmental issues, and social
	relevance" as factors in making the final selections.
	... full story continues online (20 images, two free):
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/0221/news_1-1.html

Continuing Education Online
    by Evan H. Shu, FAIA
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0221/tools_1-1.html

	We live in a wonderful age in which architects can be
	educated in almost any subject you can imagine, via the
	Internet. Over the course of this last year, I have gone
	"back to school" online for lessons in such diverse
	subjects as book publishing, SketchUp photo modeling,
	calibrating bitmaps in DataCAD, doing ZiPCAD punch lists,
	and solving a Rubik's Cube.
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This Week's Quiz -	
	The new pedestrian bridge "Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir"
	crosses the Seine in Paris. It has a length of 885 feet
	(270 meters) and a main span of 620 feet (190 meters),
	yet its main structure, a "pectinate lenticular" truss,
	allows the bridge to be relatively light. Describe the
	basic "look" of the bridge.
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