CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATIONS For 35 years, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) has worked hard to protect and restore the damaged ecosystems of the largest estuary in North America. Their latest effort to combat air and water pollution is manifest in their new home, the Philip Merrill Environmental Center near Annapolis, Maryland. — Published 2001.0418
	OWNER-BUILT SUSTAINABLE SHELTER Buying a tract house so insensitively placed on the land that extensively remodeled terrain results and using foreign materials that require large amounts of nonsustainable fuels for their manufacture and transport are signs of a people without guiding principles in their relationship to the environment. That we have become such people and willingly pay for this disconnected life suggests the depth of our alienation and distance from a secure relationship with sustainability and environmental sensitivity. — Published 2001.0418
	ARCHITECTURE EARTH DAY It began over 30 years ago, as growing numbers became alarmed at the seemingly inevitable human-caused destruction of the planet. Since then, concerned citizens, scientists, politicians, and other professionals have gathered each April to celebrate "Earth Day" and to figure out ways to slow or reverse the damage. — Published 2001.0411
	ELEGANT EFFICIENCY AT ZION CANYON Out in the beautiful Utah desert, the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) is elegantly demonstrating how bringing the outside in and the inside out can enhance our appreciation of the built and natural environment. The 7,600-square-foot (706-square meter) Zion Canyon Visitor and Transportation Center, in Springdale, Utah, is a showcase of efficiency and sustainability for the NPS. — Published 2001.0103
	FIRM MAKES ROOM FOR THE NEXT GENERATION An established, award-winning firm with a heavy workload but a shortage of qualified talent to hire. A newly formed firm with architectural expertise but little experience in the business world. Put the two together, and it's a formula for success. This is what's happened with Design Collaborative Southwest Architects, Inc. (DCSW) and Environmental Dynamics, Inc. (EDI) Both Albuquerque, New Mexico firms claim a win-win result of their unusual collaboration. — Published 2000.1108
	NORMAN FOSTER : ANALOG AND DIGITAL ECOLOGY Norman Foster's keynote address at this year's Bentley International User Conference in Philadelphia on Tuesday reminded me again why he is considered one of the most intelligent architects practicing today. In a wide-ranging talk that tied together themes found in his work for over 30 years, Foster stressed the importance of melding the technological with human experience, or the "digital with the analog," as he called it. — Published 2000.0920
	BUILDING WITH THE BREATH OF LIFE Throughout history, cultures have acknowledged the existence of a subtle life-force energy, or chi, underlying and connecting all material existence. The universe of chi is both new and timelessly ancient. It is a vision of the energy—rather than material—basis of all Creation, of the intimate interconnectedness of all life. Some manifestations of this energy, as seen in cities all over the world, serve to illustrate the concepts and make us aware of the emotions that urban settings can evoke. — Published 2000.0823
	"GREENING" A PROFESSION The architecture profession is experiencing tremendous pressure to change the ways it perceives and shapes the built environment. A growing awareness of environmental issues by both architects and owners is fueling this change. In five years, I predict, today's perception of "best practice" will be a source of amusement. — Published 2000.0816

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