ARCHITECTURAL ALMANAC The Almanac of Architecture & Design is an annual compendium of architecture and design facts, award winners, projects, firms, rankings, schools, and other information. Architecture critic Robert Campbell wrote the third edition's foreword, in which he refers to many of the resources available in the book. — Editor — Published 2002.0206
	REBUILDING A STONE HERITAGE "[ I worked with the mason]... until my fingers had the art to make stone love stone." — from "Tor House" by poet Robinson Jeffers For the past two years, students from the United States have gathered in a small village in northern Italy to participate in an unusual experience — the preservation of a built environment that has changed little since medieval times. — Published 2002.0130
	HIGH SCHOOL DESIGN AWARD At more than 500,000 square feet (46,000 square meters), Chesterton High School is a state-of-the-art facility that accommodates nearly 2,000 students in grades 9-12 as well as many specialty program areas. For the school's design, the Celina, Ohio architecture firm Fanning/Howey Associates, Inc. has been awarded the 2001 William W. Caudill Citation by American School & University magazine. — Published 2002.0116
	THE TEA ROOMS OF MACKINTOSH Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh is famous for his tea rooms, and he deserves to be. The Willow Tea Rooms in Sauchiehall Street were among his most original buildings and the most complete in their scheme of decoration and furniture. In the Salon de Luxe, the inner sanctum of the Willow, the waitresses even wore chokers and dresses designed by Mackintosh. — Published 2002.0109
	SEATTLE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS In the northwest corner of the United States, a decade of explosive growth in technology, trade, and communications has offered tremendous opportunity to design professionals. Such rapid growth also tests their mettle as stewards of the built environment. — Published 2002.0102
	SINGAPORE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS A mixed-use development in a historic Chinatown, an austere, yet serene, house in a Singapore suburb, two radically different clubhouses, a high-density primary school, and the surprising combination of a Western business college with a historic Chinese homestead: these are just a handful of exemplary projects honored in this year's Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) Design Awards. — Published 2001.1114
	ACADIA REFLECTS ON 20 YEARS Every October, a group of architecture professors, students, and practitioners from around the world meets to reflect on the directions the profession is going with computer technologies. These thinkers gather to decipher the effect of digital media on education and practice and to explore new options through their research. This year they met at the State University of New York at Buffalo, under the leadership of Wassim Jabi, who also edited the published proceedings, Re-inventing the Discourse. — Published 2001.1031
	PEDESTRIAN SIMULATION Spatial network design applied to infrastructure planning models may sound like a complex concept. But this form of computer analysis of human behavior in architectural spaces is such a simple idea that you may wonder why no one was using it sooner. — Published 2001.1017
	NEW ZEALAND DESIGN AWARDS An imaginative yet respectful transformation of a post office into an art gallery, a spatially intriguing, energetic new school, and a simple, serene house that bridges culture and nature. These three projects have won National Awards in the New Zealand Institute of Architects annual celebration of the most successful of that country's new buildings. — Published 2001.0912
	TWO COMPACT URBAN SCHOOLS A school on top of a parking garage might not initially sound appealing. A parking garage would be a bleak, unlovely place, an aesthetic bludgeon to hungry young minds. But that's where design comes in. The Gonzalo and Felicitias Mendez Fundamental Intermediate School in Santa Ana, California, is tucked behind a shopping mall, on top of a parking garage. — Published 2001.0725

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