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    Installation: Sun Pavilion

    Design firm Generator Studio builds a photovoltaic installation for the 'World's Fair' exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins. Through Aug. 19.

     
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    Installation: The Avenue

    Last year's Avenue, displayed at the AIA National Convention, is now being put together as a house in New Orleans.

     
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    Book: 'Freedom's Cap'

    In the 1850s, the political climate was just as partisan as now, when politicians helped design and construct the U.S. Capitol Building.

     
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    Exhibit: 'Chinese American Architects in Los Angeles'

    As part of the Pacific Standard Time consortium of exhibits, the Chinese American Museum highlights four architects who helped build L.A. Through June 3.

     
  • Eli Meir Kaplan/Wonderful Machine for ArchitectMartin Moeller, Senior Vice Presindent and Curator of the National Building Museum, poses for a portrait on Wednesday, April 18 a the Building Museum in Washington, DC. Moeller curated the exhibit "Unbuilt Washington."

    Q&A With Martin Moeller

    The National Building Museum curator talks about a new exhibition that looks back at the influence of the Progressive Architecture Awards.

     
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    Exhibits: 'Ettore Sotsass' and 'Olivetti Connection'

    Ettore Sotsass is getting two retrospectives in Berlin. Through June 23; through June 9.

     
  • Book: 'Writing About Architecture'

    Alexandra Lange, an architectural critic and a writer for Design Observor, teaches us all to take a second look at buildings in her primer on reading and writing architecture criticism.

     
  • Object: Alexander Calder Mobiles

    On Tuesday May 8, at 7 p.m., bidders will have a rare chance at acquiring one of Alexander Calder’s mobiles. Christies will auction off one red and one white mobile that architect Eliot Noyes commissioned from Calder for his home in New Canaan, Conn., where he had set up his practice in the 1940s.

     
  • Sketch Sketches

    Opera: 'Don Giovanni'

    Frank Gehry, after building the Walt Disney Concert Hall, now sketches out set designs for an opera inside the hall. May 18-26.

     
  • Book: 'The Nature of Place'

    An architecture professor describes eleven architecture and urban environments that have that elusive authentic, sense-of-place quality--with lessons to be learned in each.

     

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AL Design Awards

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The 2012 Evergreen Awards

ECO-STRUCTURE is now accepting entries in six categories. Deadline for entry is June 1.

 
 
 
 

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Code Green

The International Code Council has unveiled its latest rulebook and long-awaited green code. Meanwhile, the USGBC is on the cusp of releasing LEED 2012. An overview of what you need to know.


 
 

Awards

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2012 AIA Honor Awards

Profiles of Gold Medalist Steven Holl, Architecture Firm of the Year VJAA, and 25-Year Award winner Frank Gehry’s house. And coverage of all of the projects that won Institute Honor Awards in Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Regional & Urban Design.


 
 
 

May Issue

May Issue

2012 AIA Honor Awards, five building features, three on-the-boards projects, contemporary mosque design, working for the GSA, Calatrava’s Peace Bridge, the new green codes, building around D.C.’s height restrictions and its new streetcars, the Architect of the Capitol talks Unbuilt Washington, Moeller talks P/A Award winners, and more …

 
 
 

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