ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 385

Fri Jun 20 09:37:33 PDT 2008

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BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART
    by James McCown
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	Museums today aspire to be open, transparent, and
	welcoming. However admirable these qualities appear from
	our 21st-century viewpoint, it is instructive to
	remember that at the height of the Gilded Age, when the
	American museum was ascendant, the opposite was true.

	The lavish Beaux-Arts buildings of that era were
	unapologetically aristocratic and aloof. Art buildings -
	both public and private - were funded, designed, and run
	by bluebloods. The middle-class visitors allowed into
	their walls were presumed to be elevated, spiritually if
	not socially, by the museum-visiting experience itself.

	No small building in New England so exquisitely
	epitomizes the Beaux-Arts style as Charles Follen
	McKim's Walker Art Building at Bowdoin College, whose
	exterior has remained unchanged since its opening in
	1894.

	Several prominent architects have attempted over the
	past decade to enlarge the Walker for the college's
	Museum of Art and were met with multiple contradictions.

	Everyone agrees that the building's haughty elegance
	should be maintained, but the rigid symmetry and grand
	entrance stairway so essential to the Beaux-Arts style
	were problematic for handicapped access, and lent a
	sense that the elite college was turning its back on
	Brunswick, Maine, its host community.
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Getting Green Products Right
    by Thomas E. Glavinich
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	Green project requirements can be found just about
	anywhere in the contract documents. This is also true
	for green building product requirements that are an
	important part of any green building project.
	Just like green project requirements, green building
	product requirements can be included in the contract
	documents either explicitly or implicitly.
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 The newest architectural history book from the University of
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 Balancing Nature and Heritage in Preservation Practice' -
 Richard Longstreth, Editor. Innovative essays on
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 preservation. For a complete list of architecture books from
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People and Places
    by Nancy Novitski
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	RTKL Associates Inc. in Baltimore, Maryland - Gary Lee
	Partners in Chicago, Illinois - Carmody Groarke in London,
	England, United Kingdom - VOA Associates Incorporated in
	Rancho Mirage, California - RED Design Group in Karawaci,
	Indonesia - Environment Associates, Architects and
	Consultants in Austin, Texas - Rudolph and Sletten, Inc. in
	San Francisco, California - SmithGroup in Lansing, Michigan
	- Glenn Howells Architects in Birmingham, England, United
	Kingdom - Perkins + Will in New York, New York - Meltzer/
	Mandl Architects in Brooklyn, New York - gkkworks in Granada
	Hills, California...
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Building a New Way to Estimate - New York Construction, 2008.0618
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UI Technology Preview for Autodesk Inventor 2009 - Autodesk Press Release, 2008.0617
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Using MS Sharepoint in a Major Construction Effort - Network World, 2008.0616
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Right Hemisphere Ships Deep Exploration Software 5.5 - Right Hemisphere Press Release, 2008.0616
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ArchiCAD 12 Released - Graphisoft Press Release, 2008.0616
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	True or false (for lumber in the United States):
	A. Joists are customarily specified in terms of nominal
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	   and required modulus of elasticity are based on actual size.
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