UNIVERSO GAUDí In concluding "The Year of Gaudí," the Center of Contemporary Culture in Barcelona and the Queen Sophia Museum in Madrid have brought together an impressive array of materials for an exhibition about the life, work, and influences of master architect Antonio Gaudí. The show, "Gaudí's Universe," comprises almost 400 pieces in three sections: "Things Seen," "The Studio," and "The Legacy." — Published 2003.0122
	CALATRAVA WAVES Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava recently unveiled "Wave," a perpetually moving sculpture on the plaza in front of the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. The 26-by-68-foot (8-by-21-meter) sculpture is made of 129 hollow-steel, bronze-coated bars that rise and descend in a syncopation that simulates a wave motion. The sculpture balances over a large, shallow, black granite reflecting pool of slow-moving water. — Published 2002.1106
	VIRTUAL WEISSENHOFSIEDLUNG In the 1920s, 17 European practitioners of the emerging modern architecture were invited to contribute designs to a collection of houses that came to be known as Weissenhofsiedlung. The future luminaries included, among others, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius. — Published 2002.0911
	SWISS ARCHITECTURAL SUMMER Strange figures have appeared in Switzerland this summer. A rusty cube rises over 100 feet (30 meters) out of Lake Murten. Three giant saucers hover over the shoreline of Lake Neuchâtel, and another blurry shape is at lake's end. In the so-called Three-Lakes region, the four cities of Biel, Neuchâtel, Murten, and Yverdon have been connected into a network of sites and temporary structures this summer for Switzerland's sixth national exhibition that will run through October 20, 2002. — Published 2002.0814
	ARCHILAB CONFERENCE 2002 ORLéANS A small French city tackled a very large topic when the fourth annual architectural conference "Archilab" met in Orléans to ponder "Earth Economics." As in past years, the curators Marie-Ange Brayer and Béatrice Simonot offered innovative architectural research programs, exploring the range of approaches and projects of the participating architects. Their goal is to create, through an openness and curiosity toward all innovative movements, a space for a creative discussion about the challenges of architecture today. — Published 2002.0710
	LONDON'S THAMES BARRIER PARK Thames Barrier Park is the first riverside park to be built in London for over 50 years. Since it opened in late 2000, it has won design accolades from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the American Institute of Architecture (AIA), and most recently, the United Kingdom's Civic Trust Award 2002 for landscape design. — Published 2002.0529
	PIXELPARK IN PARIS In July 2000, the Parisian architecture firm Edge won a design competition for an office renovation. Just six months later, the client company Pixelpark moved into its new 27,000-square-foot (2500-square-meter) headquarters. — Published 2002.0515
	SERT'S MIRO FOUNDATION In 1974, Spanish architect Joseph Lluis Sert completed the Miró Foundation, a museum in Barcelona dedicated to his friend, modern artist Joan Miró. The light-filled galleries were as varied as the artwork they were designed to display. — Published 2002.0206
	POSTCARD FROM ROTTERDAM Dear ArchitectureWeek, This is a small exhibition pavilion in Rotterdam, the result of a competition held last year by the national organization for Dutch architects (BNA). The program called for a temporary exhibition space for 20 people. The pavilion had to be movable so it could be used in different locations. — Published 2001.0808
	UK CELEBRATES ARCHITECTURE WEEK The month of June, 2001 saw the start of the fifth annual Architecture Week in the United Kingdom, an initiative supported and managed by the Arts Council of England in association with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and endorsed by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). — Published 2001.0718

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