Table of Contents March 2009
Dialogue
Features
The Brooklyn, N.Y–based nonprofit Terreform 1 was founded on the premise of bringing together science and the built environment, ecology and urbanism.
Interboro Partners aims to unite architecture and planning, using the creativity of the former to loosen up the data-heavy world of the latter.
Dana Cuff and Roger Sherman founded cityLAB in 2006, with the support of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Harvesting the power of landscape to shape cities.
The recession has hit everyone hard, and firms are withstanding the pain as best they can. Firm leaders share their coping strategies.
Thanks to President Obama's focus on urban places, designers who engage with the city in compelling ways now have a chance to be heard. Four firms make the case for reinventing American urbanism.
A new study of architectural offices in Chicago reveals what factors really make for a diverse, woman-friendly workplace.
Buildings
A massive Chicago-area condo complex was designed, built, developed, and marketed by one man—architect David Hovey—and his firm, Optima.
Siegel & Strain Architects and Goring & Straja Architects used recycled materials—including from a surplus school—when creating a sustainable town center in Northern California.
Page Southerland Page's The Grove restaurant brings well-executed Modernism to a downtown Houston park.
Business
Best Practices
Local Market
Fort Benning's expansion is expected to bring in 30,000 new residents to Columbus, leading to a rise in residential, healthcare, and school construction.
Specialist
About 5 percent of what people think and feel is articulated, says Fathom founder Christine Astorino. Her consultancy helps architects comprehend, and design for, the elusive 95 percent.
Other Articles
Technology
Detail
Ecology
Products
SlimmKer is a new line of ultrathin porcelain tiles from Inalco.
Imazi series of wall tiles.
Vexcon unveils a new color tint system for its StarSeal lines.
Trend USA's Wallpaper tiles can be used wherever you want, in whatever configurations.
All of the company's hues of paint now come in zero-VOC paint.
Culture
Books Exhibits Etc.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is showing the "Austere" exhibit, a study of reduced form.
An exhibit at New York's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Musem, shows off the fabric's versatility and sustainable properties.
The Yale University Art Gallery traces the evolution of chanoyu through 11 centuries.
Twenty hours of taped conversations between Philip Johnson and A.M. Stern are now compiled in a book.
Crit
Screen Grab
Past P/A
Other Articles
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