Table of Contents November 2007
Dialogue
Features
When Hale County was threatened with a lawsuit for not meeting a state requirement that each Alabama county have an animal shelter, in stepped Rural Studio.
Time moves at its own pace in Hale County, Ala., where cotton was once king, and where former slaves and their descendants were left behind to eke out an existence.
The low-income houses that Rural Studio is known for are still an important part of its mission.
Located in neighboring Perry County is Perry Lakes Park, where the Rural Studio has completed four projects since 2001.
Little League baseball is alive and well in Greensboro, Ala., thanks in part to five thesis students who developed a new master plan for the town's 40- acre Lions Park.
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Still true to Samuel Mockbee's social ideals, Rural Studio is starting to think big under director Andrew Freear.
Two designers-turned-directors put the spotlight on architectural education.
The Carnegie Museum of Art lifts the fig leaf from its 100-year-old collection of plaster casts.
Report
News
In late September, nine winners and 13 honorable mentions were announced for the first Lifecycle Building Challenge, a sustainable building design contest created by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the American Institute of Architects, the Building Materials Reuse Association, and West...
The images for sale are exceptionally rare, but experts call their origin ‘mysterious'
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News briefs from around the world of architecture.
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ASLA and others join to create environment-focused rating system
You don't have to have been an actual mayor to oversee the influential Mayors' Institute on City Design at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). But it will likely be an asset for Maurice Cox, who is taking over the institute as NEA's new director of design.
Screen Capture
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Sites, blog posts, and other web items of interest.
Every day for a year, a reminder that toxic messes remain
Other Articles
Departments
Best Practices
Products
Pro Bono
Technology
Copyright 101
Culture
Object Lesson
Books
Exhibits
Sidewalk Critics
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art has been a Beaux-Arts jewel box on its Brunswick, Maine, campus, exhibiting just a small portion of the liberal arts institution's collection of more than 15,000 pieces.
Q&A
Other Articles
B.ARCH. students expected to graduate next May
Two views -- from a student and an HR director -- of education's role in the hiring process.
An advanced studio at Columbia borrows from reality TV to generate exciting design.
The top 10 graduate schools of architecture in the United States.
When it comes to architecture school, anyone with a degree in the subject already knows the drill: late nights and a lifetime's start on caffeine (or stronger stimulants).
Every year for the last nine years, the Design Futures Council and the journal DesignIntelligence have produced a ranking of the architecture schools that best prepare students for professional practice.
If there's any big takeaway to be had from our first annual education survey, it's that architecture students and professors are facing the same epochal forces of change as the profession itself.
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