Table of Contents April 2008
Dialogue
Salary Survey
Lynn Befu describes herself as a homebody—which may help explain her willingness to spend her entire career so far in the comfort zone of the same firm and focused primarily on the same building type: healthcare facilities.
A series of charts tracks salary and benefits by position and experience level.
New York-based Wert & Co. matches mid to senior-level executives in architecture, industrial design, fashion, and other creative disciplines with companies in search of leaders. Judy Wert describes her role as "a little bit of a psychologist, a little bit
For many young college graduates, the opportunity to travel abroad means fun and frolic. But for Amit Price Patel, the experience was a life-changing dose of reality.
The dust-covered jobsite is a far cry from the studio Darren Guyer left behind when he switched from junior designer in an architecture firm to a site supervisor for a construction company, but the 31-year-old isn't looking back.
If architects are either idea people or tectonic people, Mark Pasnik falls into the former camp.
Eddie Abeyta is never far from a sketchbook.
“I was never an architect's architect. I'm too impatient. I just can't wait around for years for a building to get built,” says New Orleans sculptor Laurel Porcari.
Husband-and-wife architects Sarah Dunn and Martin Felsen are on a roll.
The Parameter office sits in the shadow of one of the firm's most ambitious endeavors, the Silo Point condominiums.
More and more, as architecture commands ever higher visibility, architects at all levels are finding that the profession can pay well and offer wealth-generating business opportunities, too. Entry-level and midcareer professionals are increasingly respect
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Despite a shaky economy, architects are making more money.
Features
It was one of those rare projects that came unbidden—and from half a world away. One day in May 2005, Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano, architects and partners in the New York firm LOTEK, received an e-mail from Kengo Kuma, the Japanese architect well known
Day after day, in a locked and sealed room on the third floor of the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., two volunteers in white cotton gloves are quietly and methodically dissecting the question of how we play with form. They're examining build
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Challenge: How does one district build 132 new schools—and update some 800 more—without sacrificing design quality? (Hint: Get architects involved at the beginning.)
Report
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News briefs from around the world of architecture.
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On March 17, the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) announced a $1.5 million gift from U.K.-based architecture firm RMJM to support a new integrated design program at the school.
The winners of the University of Virginia's Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture aren't always architects.
Temporary galleries in L.A. and outside U.S. will help engender a ‘flow of ideas,' says director Joseph Grima
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New GSA office will partner with DOE to establish standards for government and private-sector construction
Local Market
Numbers
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You'd think it would be tough to cloak a nearly 1,900-foot-tall building in secrecy, yet that's exactly what's happening with the proposed China 117 Tower in Tianjin, China, and many other skyscrapers still in the proposal or early building phases.
Screen Grab
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Sites, blog posts, and other web items of interest.
Ethan McElroy travels the country documenting crumbling Victorian insane asylums, then posts their haunting pictures and stories at kirkbridebuildings.com.
Technology
Products
Holds and suspends tensioned metal fabric up to 100 feet
Metal Collection tile from Apavisa is distributed by Walker Zanger
The libretto gridless metal ceiling system has perforations that can form a specific pattern or image
Flush pull handles from FSB are available in multiple sizes for a variety of door sizes and depths
Symetrics system from Dombracht with controls and water outlets that can be separated on counter
Nondirectional, uniformly textured steel gives consistency across InvariMatte and Invarimatte Black panels
Culture
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