Table of Contents July 2007
Dialogue
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t takes a lot to make me angry. But a recent article in The Washington Post did more than that; it made my ears smoke. On May 27, the paper's culture critic, Philip Kennicott, reported that Congress is considering the appointment of a non-architect to the vacant post of Architect of the Capitol.
Features
Steven Ehrlich architects delivers a huge, light-filled, worker-friendly warehouse in Los Angeles.
Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities Design and Construction and Campus Architect, University of California, San Diego
Director of Facilities Design and Construction, University of Arizona
University Architect and Director of Campus Planning, Tulane University
University Architect, Princeton University
Four architects chart ambitious courses for universities old and new.
Report
News
Three distinct building proposals are in the running for the last undeveloped land in downtown West Palm Beach, Fla.
Architectural designer Walter Netsch can not practice architecture nor even refer to himself as an architect without risk of criminal prosecution by the state of Illinois.
The Van Alen Institute named Hans Ulrich Obrist the recipient of its 2007–2008 Senior Prize Fellowship on May 23. In its inaugural year, the program aims to support advanced independent research and to generate programs that engage architecture in the public realm.
Van Alen Institute, Columbia University, and national parks group hope to spur interest in rehabilitating a dilapidated national recreation area
There is a chance that whoever becomes the next Architect of the Capitol won't be an architect at all, though presumably he or she will carry the title.
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News briefs from around the world of architecture.
On June 19, U.S. firm Hillier Architecture finalized a merger with RMJM Group of Edinburgh, Scotland, creating a worldwide firm of 1,000 design professionals with more than $15 billion in construction value for buildings currently under design.
Screen Capture
In design, as in many professions, practice and research exist in mostly separate worlds. Caren Martin has lived in both.
Sites, blog posts, and other web items of interest.
Other Articles
Departments
Best Practices
Products
For five days in April, the population of Milan, Italy, swelled by 20 percent, as over 270,000 people gathered from far and wide to see the offerings at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, aka the Milan Furniture Fair.
Critique
Ecology
Culture
Object Lesson
Books
Exhibits
Q&A
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