Table of Contents March 2007
Dialogue
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I wish we had a different motive for putting Raye McDavid on the cover of this month's ARCHITECT—say, because she's sparked a revolution in building technology, brokered a landmark business deal, or taken the aesthetics of her latest project to a whole new level.
Features
We take steel beams for granted as the bones of new buildings, but how are they made? ARCHITECT walks you through the process.
John Ronan's brash new youth center energizes an inner-city neighborhood.
Long known for its concept-pushing, small-scale architecture-as-art, the firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has moved from discrete installations to a monumental building for the city of Boston—the new home of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA).
The curators of the Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Triennial, Design Life Now, guide you on a tour of highlights from the show.
The number of black women architects has quadrupled in 15 years. But four times a fraction of a percent doesn't amount to much.
Report
News
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If a building pirates your copyrighted design, you can actually sue to have it destroyed. Just be sure to act quickly.
On Jan. 27, a rare print of the Chrysler Building was sold at an Ohio auction to Norfolk, Va.'s Chrysler Museum of Art for $15,000.
The AIA polled the American public on its 150 favorite pieces of architecture in the United States, offering a list of 248 structures to choose from. These are the ones that didn't make the cut.
AIA polls Americans on their 150 favorite U.S. structures
The Architectural League of New York's annual Emerging Voices lecture series has recognized nearly 200 firms and individuals who have, through practice and teaching, made noteworthy contributions to the profession of architecture and the built environment.
The Future City Competition, a 15-year-old contest that asks seventh- and eighth-graders across the nation to design a city of the future.
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News briefs from around the world of architecture.
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A new annual competition that targets interstitial spaces in Cleveland has been announced.
Excessive fees cited in move to third-party oversight of county projects
Screen Capture
Sites, blog posts, and other web items of interest.
Gabriel Arboleda, a Ph.D. candidate in architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, jokes that he can't walk anywhere. So obsessive is his interest in vernacular architecture, he always carries a camera and stops to snap photos constantly.
Other Articles
Departments
Best Practices
Strategy
Last November, at a press opening held at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas stood outside the architecture and design gallery chatting into his cell phone and staring detachedly into Yoshio Taniguchi's modernist atrium.
Portfolio
Culture
Object Lesson
Neverland Ranch, the California residence of Michael Jackson, is not a conventional architectural icon. But downsized to a height of 2 inches and limited to an edition of 500 cast-metal likenesses, the infamous idyll demands its place in history.
Books
Exhibits
Q&A
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