Table of Contents November 2008
Education Issue
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Architecture education is often criticized for different reasons by different practitioners, but its strength is the breadth of what is taught today.
Weijen Wang's 11 architecture students are getting a lesson in real-world school design that's not quite what they signed on for (just ask them). Not least because the clients are in China—in Sichuan Province's Beichuan County, which suffered a devastating earthquake last May.
"There's no program, but there is a client," explains architect Dirk Denison of the studio he's conducting at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) with longtime friend film critic Jonathan Miller.
To redesign Campbell Hall, U.Va. architecture dean Karen Van Lengen hired her own faculty.
As UCLA student Stephen Nieto points out, architecture studios start to look the same after a while: Bide your time for several weeks, then pull some all-nighters near the end to finish a solitary project. But the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban
Rios Clementi Hale Studios designs a studio building that instructs through structure.
Who knew a bagel shop delivered to studio? It's 9:30 on a Friday morning, and nine sleepy fourth- and fifth-year students at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture are preparing to present their research when a cell phone chirps and one person makes a break for the door. "Is she coming back?"...
Antoine Predock Architect creates a new public face and promotes a sense of community for the School of Architecture & Planning.
On a perfect October day on the palm-studded University of Miami campus, Jaime Correa's students can be found deep inside a Bauhaus-by-way-of-South Florida 1940s studio block, trawling Google Earth for promising sites for a zero-energy town—the eventual o
Gwathmey Siegel renovates and expands Paul Rudolph's legendary, controversial A&A building.
Local Market
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Screen Grab
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Sites, blog posts, and other web items of interest.
CEOs for Cities brings together mayors and executives to tackle the challenges of urban America
Technology
Products
Custom, center-pivoting glass doors from UltrGlass
SilentGlass Technology by Saflex is reported to cut perceived noise by up to 50 percent
With LightPoints LED glass by Schott, LEDs are wirelessly encapsulated inside laminated glass.
Iridescent glass mosaic tile made with 70 percent recycled glass
Patterned and clear safety laminated glass with translucent interlayer from Bendheim.
New version of DuPont's glass laminate.
Ten patterns of glass by textile designer Suzanne Tick.
Coating options give a light, steel-blue-green color with a 34 percent visible light transmittance to PPG's Solarban glass
Other Articles
Maybe you're tired of hearing that BIM promises a "revolution" in building design. Why adopt it now? Here are a few good reasons.
New software promises to make a firm's design process more efficient, but some fear that it may sideline the architect's contribution.
Culture
Other Articles
Q&A
Other Articles
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The Red Menace
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Eero Saarinen's beloved Bell Laboratories building, once threatened with demolition by a prospective buyer, now has a tentative owner more inclined to find an adaptive reuse for the structure.
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Four applied-research projects have been awarded a grant by the AIA Upjohn Research Initiative, which provides base funds for research that advances professional architectural knowledge and practice.
Marywood University, in Scranton, Pa., has announced a new school of architecture, the state's seventh. The school, which will begin enrolling students for the fall 2009 semester, will feature a strong focus on sustainable design.
HOK's Yann Weymouth brings daylighting to a space normally preferred dark.
The co-founder of the Lawrence Group offers suggestions for hiring the right talent.
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News briefs from around the world of architecture.
Egyptian-born Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil, two-time recipient of the Aga Khan Award, has been named the winner of the 2009 Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture.
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The AIA has launched a webpage to help architects navigate the economic crisis.
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The National Architectural Accrediting Board recently met to review the conditions for accreditation, something it does every five year. It has also joined several international accreditation agencies in recognizing each other's programs.
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The Getty Research Institute has created a department of architecture and design.