Laurie Manfra

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  • The battle for dominance in the 3-D modeling industry is heating up. Four updated software releases have tightened the race.

  • Building Documentation

    New York City's Department of Buildings has taken a critical first step toward digitizing the design and construction process, a move that will reduce the towers of paper—which average 300,000 pages per month—the agency receives.

  • Film

    May 8–9, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Calif.

  • How do you build an igloo—that icon of the arctic landscape—in Southern California?

  • The pleasure afforded by a lovely view has always come at the expense of thermal efficiency, glare, and compromised security, a meager tradeoff for the many favorable attributes that windows afford. They frame scenes of the natural and manmade environment, and they let natural sunlight permeate our lives. But they also impose the need for elaborate draperies or blind systems to allow privacy, mitigate glare, and prevent heat from escaping in winter and getting trapped in summer.

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