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Everyone's an Architect

Software architects, enterprise architects, information architects: Can title creep be stopped?


  • Brave New Codes

    Promoted by New Urbanists, form-based codes are gaining in popularity around the country. What do they mean for architects?

  • the telescoping design of architectural testing inc.õs shock tubeñwhich houses a driver (at far right) capable of generating up to 3,000 psi of air pressureñmeans the company can shape a òblast profileó as precisely as a particular fenestration test might require.

    Putting Fenestration Systems Through Their Paces

    Architectural Testing Inc.'s Security Research Center ensures that manufacturers' windows and doors can stand up to bullets, mobs, and bomb blasts.

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    Shanghai Surprise

    At this summer's Shanghai Expo, China's largest city shows off ... and so do the nations of the world, through pavilions that range from sleek to whimsical.

 
 

One Shelley Street

The original idea for the new Macquarie Group office at One Shelley Street in Sydney...

930 Poydras Street

Few American cities embody “place” quite like New Orleans, where European, African...

the new building at the north carolina museum of art provides more than 65,000 square feet of exhibition space, in addition to public areas such as a store and a cafž. the entry plaza is delineated by a tree-lined path that leads to a 2-1/2-acre environmental art installation (completed in 1997), which includes an amphitheater by new york architects smith-miller + hawkinson, a sprawling environmental work by conceptual artist barbara kruger, and landscaping by nicholas quennell.

North Carolina Museum of Art

Since he became the North Carolina Museum of Art’s director in 1994, Lawrence Wheeler...

 

Event

2010 R+D Symposium

Register to attend ARCHITECT's two-day conference about the forefront of building technology.


 
 

Web Exclusive

The G-List

Lance Hosey surveyed 150 sustainability experts about the best green buildings of the past 30 years. What did he learn?


 
 
 

Call for Entries

2010 Annual Design Review

Enter Architect’s Annual Design Review, celebrating the best in a year of American architecture.


 
 

Announcement

New AIA/Hanley Wood Integrated Media Partnership Supports Opportunities That Advance the Architecture Profession (PDF)

The agreement, effective January 1, 2011, creates a portfolio of integrated media channels, editorial, events and continuing education with a media partner committed to increasing the impact and relevance of the contributions of the AIA and its members. Download the PDF (below) for complete details regarding this integrated media partnership.

 
 
 

Blogs

Aaron Betsky

Beyond Buildings Blog

Lance Hosey

Ecology Blog

Blaine Brownell

Mind & Matter Blog

 
 

July Issue

July 2010

The Shanghai Expo, Figuring Out Fees, The (IT) Architect, Thomas Phifer and Partners' North Carolina Museum, and more.

 

Spring Product Spec Guide

Spring Product Spec Guide

Mind & Matter, Product Architect, Raw Materials, 140 Products, and more.

 
 

Architect's Network

 
 

Outdoor products

the air stool is the latest addition to gandía blasco’s plastic collection of indoor-outdoor furniture.

Gandia Blasco Air Stool

The Air stool is the latest addition to Gandia Blasco's Plastic collection of indoor-outdoor furniture.


 
 

Architect TV

Sustainable Product Picks

Sam Nunes, Pauline Souza, and Adam Woltag from WRNS Studio (winner of a 2010 AIA COTE Top Ten Green Award) talk about green products at the AIA Expo in Miami.