January 2014 Table of Contents

Redefining the profit center. Read more

Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. Read more

I beg your pardon. What? Read more

Firms sharing people? That's one way to recover from a recession. Read more

Energy, materials, health, resilience and the near future of architecture. Read more

Unleashing the power design, one architect at a time. Read more

The suburbs are dead. That was the rallying cry after the housing crash, when subdivisions turned into ghost towns. The alternative? Transit-oriented development near urban centers. Welcome to Phoenix, the home of megasprawl, which is putting TOD to the test. Read more

Peter Eisenman’s City of Culture was born during Spain’s Bilbao-inspired architectural boom. But as the project now languishes, what does it say about the legacy of its eminent designer? Read more

Partners, Pita & Bloom, Los Angeles Read more

The market for commercial mortgage bonds was on fire until the recession hit. Now, after five long and lean years, the market is clawing its way back to pre-bubble levels, signaling that banks are loosening their lending standards. The upshot? More work for architects. Read more

Partner & Co-Founder, Works Partnership Architecture, Portland, Ore. Read more

Director, Kohn Pederson Fox Associates, New York Read more

Student debt. Small business tax reform. Fannie and Freddie. Given the current economy, lobbying has never been more important for architecture. Legislative liaisons from the AIA, the NAHB, and other organizations share their top issues for the coming year. Read more

Why aren’t more women emulating Jeanne Gang and building skyward? Here are three rising architects who may just crack that ceiling. Read more

Lead architect Jordi Faulí says the seemingly interminable Sagrada Familia project will be finished in 2026, thanks to digital fabrication techniques that allow designers to envision what Antoni Gaudí would have wanted. Read more

A polycarbonate-clad house on an infill site in Hiroshima, Japan, achieves an unexpected balance of maximum daylight and maximum privacy. Read more

In the shadow of Louis Kahn's 1972 masterwork, the new pavilion designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop aims to pay homage to the original, but instead offers a kind of distant defacement. Read more

What do architects think about the current state of the economy? Here's what's trending for 2014. Read more

Ready for the next revolution? The profession changed dramatically thanks to mechanization and mass production, and the next massive shift will be no less disruptive. In this era of small-scale, bottom-up design, say hello to 3D-printed houses, digicities, and curriculums that teach future architects about far more than just building. Read more

Two infamous Justice Department consent decrees, from 1971 and 1990, prohibit architects from setting fees. Afraid of straying into illegal territory, practitioners have largely avoided shop talk ever since. But now, a growing movement of architects is finding legal ground to reshape the profession’s business model and clearly define value for clients. Read more

It's easy to forget just how devastating the Great Recession was for the profession. As the market slowly recovers, firms will adopt a host of strategies to help offset the losses they suffered during the decline. Read more

CO Architects designed custom fabricated and faceted copper panels that emulate the surrounding canyons and reduce solar heat gain at the Health Sciences Education Building. Read more

University of Southern California engineering professor Behrokh Khoshnevis wants to rapidly prototype cast-in-place concrete structures on Earth and in outer space. Read more

Concrete is beginning to shake its reputation for extensive embodied energy and minimal design appeal with innovations that make it lighter and more resilient and aesthetically pleasing. Read more

This rug's abstract design leaves room for interpretation. Read more

The Society Hill Towers by I.M. Pei & Associates, which won a 1961 P/A Award, exemplifies the integration of urban renewal into the city fabric. Read more

With eyes on the new glazed pavilion designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, here's a look back at Louis Kahn's original Kimbell, which put the institution on the architectural map. Read more

Photographer Nic Lehoux spent several days documenting the new Renzo Piano Pavilion at the Kimbell Art Museum for the architects. Here is a selection of his photos. Read more

Plans, sections, and sketches for the new Renzo Piano Building Workshop-designed pavilion at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Read more

Peter Eisenman’s City of Culture complex was intended, à la Bilbao, to attract tourists to Santiago de Compostela. But this town in Northwest Spain has been drawings crowds for centuries, in the form of religious pilgrimages. Read more

ARCHITECT's Peter Eisenman coverage through the years. Read more

A glimpse at Peter Eisenman's City of Culture models and renderings of the project's unbuilt structures. Read more

Photos and drawings of the two buildings to most recently open at Peter Eisenman's City of Culture. Read more

Photos and drawings from the first two buildings completed at Peter Eisenman's City of Culture. Read more

Views from above of the sprawling 173-acre site of Peter Eisenman's City of Culture. Read more

ARCHITECT commissioned photographer Richard Barnes to capture a fresh, and unexpectedly wintry, prespective on the new pavilion at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Read more

Newlight Technologies has developed a plastic that sequesters carbon dioxide and reduces our dependence on petroleum. Is it too good to be true? Read more

These porcelain floor tiles are designed to look like concrete poured into wood molds. Read more

How do you design a new building next to a masterpiece? Piano's addition to Louis Kahn's celebrated museum is a study in careful deference. Read more