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DESIGN REVIEW ON REVUE
"Private Jokes Public Places," a play by Oren Safdie, will be premiering October 12-28, 2001 at the Malibu Stage Company.
Setting: Classroom in a school of architecture — Published 2001.1010
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OLD AND NEW IN ESTONIA
In the expressive silhouette of Tallinn, Estonia's capital city and largest port, visitors approaching from the Baltic Sea see a distinct personality split into the new and the old. The split can be traced back to 1227, when the medieval town in northeastern Europe was conceded to an order of crusading knights. — Published 2001.1010
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HIGH DESERT MODERN
The Atacama Desert, in northern Chile, is one of the driest deserts on earth. It is a startlingly brutal place where boiling geysers burst through mountain plains caked in salt, and jagged red rocks give way to massive sand dunes and desolate open salt flats. Extreme temperatures jolt your body and dry up your eyes and skin while dust fills your clothes. — Published 2001.1003
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PRINTWORKS, DUBLIN — PART 3
This is the third part of a four-part series on the Printworks in Dublin, which in summer 2001 won the Silver Medal for Housing from the The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI). Part One - Part Two
In the Cornell Journal of Architecture #1, 1981, Professor Colin Rowe contributed an essay entitled "The Present Urban Predicament." — Published 2001.0926
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ART TO GO WITH ARRIS
There's no longer any question that large architectural projects call for sophisticated computer-aided design systems for their execution. But sometimes very small projects do too.
As recently demonstrated in the new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art store at the San Francisco International Airport, a top-of-the-line design system can work very well to control the design quality — and cost — of a small architectural gem. — Published 2001.0905
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CHANDIGARH: VISION AND REALITY
The golden jubilee celebrations of 1999 and 2000 marked fifty years since the conception of Chandigarh, India, one of the few built examples of modernist town planning. Now, planners and architects the world over are showing renewed interest in this unusual modernist city.
In 1951, the French architect Le Corbusier conceived a master plan for the city — in only four days! Yet the image he created has become synonymous with urbanism of fifties. — Published 2001.0822
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FROM MAYBECK TO MEGACHURCHES
Now that we have turned the corner into the 21st century, surveying the evolution of religious architecture over the past hundred years seems fair game. Starting from 1900, what were the noticeable changes, and what were the common denominators that survived through the end of the century?
What was the impact of the modern movement in architecture on the designs for religious buildings? Can this evolution provide insight into religious architecture for the new millennium? — Published 2001.0808
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BUILDING TYPE BASICS FOR MUSEUMS
After a period of decline, reflecting stagnant public interest in viewing art and in expressing cultural heritage, museum construction took a sharp upturn in the 1980s as the public in the United States and overseas took a new interest in that heritage. — Published 2001.0808
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MIES, CLASSICAL MODERNIST
In New York this summer, Mies van der Rohe seems to be everywhere, in addition to where you'll always find him, at his Seagram Building on Park Avenue.
The "Mies in Berlin" exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and "Mies in America" at the Whitney Museum of American Art bookend the work of one of the most celebrated Modern architects. — Published 2001.0801
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EVOLVING COMMUNICATION
In this article, architect and teacher Larry Barrow presents a perspective on the importance of communication media.
Information technology (IT) per se is a modern obsession, but the importance of information exchange in accomplishing architecture is as old as recorded history. — Published 2001.0725
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