AGA KHAN AWARD FOR ARCHITECTURE 2004 Made of mud, sand, stone, glass, and steel, scaled from tiny to immense, designed for living, working, learning, and worshipping, a select collection of projects reveals a "comprehensive approach adopted to discover, understand, and explain the challenges of architecture in the Muslim world as it confronts modernity in all its diversity." — Published 2004.1201
	SCHOOLS OUR KIDS WOULD BUILD In 1967, and again in 2001, British schoolchildren were invited to submit their ideas to a competition "The School I'd Like." In their drawings and poems, they expressed the desire for schools that are attractive, safe, flexible, relevant, and respectful. This review of the archived results suggests that architects could benefit from understanding these children's visions. — Editor — Published 2004.1117
	RECOVERING KINGSDALE The refurbishment of a dilapidated 50-year-old secondary school in a London suburb has set a number of significant benchmarks for school design in the United Kingdom. The project has lifted concepts of roof design to new heights with what may be the first "variable membrane" roof in the world. — Published 2004.1103
	CALIFORNIA AIA AWARDS 2004 In July 2004, the California Council of the American Institute of Architects (AIACC) chose this year's recipients of its annual design awards. Projects cited range from single-family houses to high-tech laboratories, and from adaptive reuse of modest structures to cutting-edge contemporary design. These buildings demonstrate many ways to insert design excellence into the loftiest or humblest of sites. — Published 2004.0901
	GREGORY BURGESS AUSTRALIA'S GOLD MEDAL To understand the origins and purposes of life in its myriad forms and in its totality is an ancient aspiration of the human being. It sustains our journey towards wholeness. It urges us to reach deep into ourselves, high above ourselves and into all things, so that we can bear, celebrate and share the fruits of our journey. — Published 2004.0616
	GREEN SCHOOL GATHERS FOR TAKEOFF When architects speak of "green" buildings these days, they seldom mean it literally. But for the elementary/ middle school in Lake Zurich, Illinois, Legat Architects, Inc. have justified both environmental and chromatic interpretations of the word. They designed the new school for sustainability and gave it a distinctive copper entrance that the students have dubbed "the green spaceship." Says their principal: "They keep waiting for it to blast off!" — Published 2004.0526
	SCHOOLHOUSE MODERNISM During the second half of the 20th century, the Texan architecture firm of Caudill Rowlett Scott (CRS) grew impressively in size and influence. They became known as masters of modern practice and construction management. Their innovations in school design mirrored the firm's own evolution. — Editor — Published 2004.0114
	BUILDING COMMUNITY WITH STRAW BALES Tons of straw are produced each year as a by-product of grain production. Modern wheat farmers burn straw, but for thousands of years straw and other grasses have been valued as a building material around the world, whether thatched into roofs, woven into walls, or mixed with mud to strengthen bricks and stucco. — Published 2003.1217
	CHICAGO AIA AWARDS 2003 Since the late 1800s, when Chicago began competing with New York for building height and urban prominence, it has become known as one of the world showcases for innovations in modern architecture. The illustrious architects Daniel Burnham, Louis H. Sullivan, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have been key players in this history. — Published 2003.0924
	BATON ROUGE ROSE AWARDS 2003 When the Baton Rouge, Louisiana chapter of the AIA selected their annual design award recipients in September 2003 , they chose a variety of commercial and institutional projects — from a futuristic planetarium to a minimalist sanctuary — that represent the cultural diversity of this historic city in the American South. — Published 2003.0903

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