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How an Architect Stole the Stockholm Furniture Show
Gert Wingårdh's architectural folly proves the extraordinary power of architecture, even when a building lasts just four days.
by Linda Hales February 19, 2013 | 
(Linda Hales) |
One-on-One: Revolution in Architecture: Interview with Gregg Pasquarelli, SHoP Architects
"We never limit ourselves to simply designing an image. Part of our initial concept is always about knowing how something is going to be built."
by Vladimir Belogolovsky February 12, 2013 | 
(Photo by Bruce Damonte) |
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Laurie Olin Remembers Ada Louise Huxtable, Champion of Urban Design
With eloquence, grace, and warmth, the master landscape architect shares his personal encounters with the most notable of critics.
by Laurie Olin, FASLA February 5, 2013 | 
(Sketch by Laurie Olin) |
Nuts + Bolts: Mission Possible: Increase Your Value Without Lowering Your Fees
Fact or fiction: Lowering your fees makes you competitive? You decide.
by Steve Whitehorn January 24, 2013 | 
(Johnathan Ward) |
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ArchNewsThen: Life After Ada: Reassessing the Utility of Architectural Criticism (first published March 2, 2009)
Ada Louise Huxtable deserves mucho thanks and praise - but other questions moving us to a new flavor of criticism have to be asked. (ALH's response: "I couldn't agree more.")
by Norman Weinstein January 11, 2013 | 
(lesather / flickr) |
Ten Years and Counting...
Reflections on the year, ArchNewsNow's first decade, and our 10th ANNiversary Fête.
by Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA December 21, 2012 | 
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Best Architecture Books of 2012
10 books reflect the changing climate - in every sense - of the profession.
by Norman Weinstein December 14, 2012 | 
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Book Review: The Pesky Persistence of Psychological Encounters with Home Design
Edwin Heathcote elegantly meditates on the symbols and myths infusing domestic design in "The Meaning of Home."
by Norman Weinstein November 16, 2012 | 
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Tadao Ando's Thoughtful Heart
Two recent books track a trajectory of a spiritual engagement with Modernism.
by Norman Weinstein October 24, 2012 | 
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Prime Time for Landscape Architects: Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects Masters the New Collaborations
The expanding influence of landscape represents a fundamentally different way of thinking about urbanism.
by John Gendall October 18, 2012 | 
(Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects) |
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"Harry Seidler: Architecture, Art and Collaborative Design"
A new traveling exhibition celebrates the 90th anniversary of the birth of Harry Seidler, the leading Australian architect of the 20th century who followed his convictions and vision.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky October 3, 2012 | 
(Max Dupain) |
"Just Trying to Do This Jig-Saw Puzzle"
How architecture's and urban design's practice can change through studying of a little-appreciated Renaissance art, intarsia.
by Norman Weinstein September 21, 2012 | 
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The Banal
Prix takes issue with the state of the Venice Architecture Biennale, saying "architects are playing on a sinking gondola while, outside in the real world, our leaky trade is sinking into powerlessness and irrelevance."
by Wolf D. Prix/COOP HIMMELB(L)AU August 30, 2012 | 
(Kristen Richards) |
Q&A with Nicole Migeon - Architect of "Warm Minimalism"
Designing places of respite for creative clientele
by ArchNewsNow August 16, 2012 | 
(John Morgan) |
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The Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence Marks 25 Years
New Director Anne-Marie Lubenau, AIA, reflects on the past, looks to the future.
by ArchNewsNow July 19, 2012 | 
(Photo courtesy Charles Smith Davis, CS Photo) |
Campus Collective: Leers Weinzapfel Associates Rethinks Higher Education Design
Addressing the interconnectivity of campus environs and student experience
by John Gendall June 29, 2012 | 
(Anton Grassl/Esto) |
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Albert Barnes Offers Critical Response to Placement of New "Barnes"
Barnes agrees to talk with fellow Central High School of Philadelphia alum after 61 years of silence, but only on the condition that his remarks remain unedited. This transcript respects his requirement.
by Norman Weinstein June 20, 2012 | 
(Photo courtesy Lee Rosenbaum) |
The Geeky Side of Design
"Architects are often phenomenal at connecting us to the outdoors, but horrible at disconnecting us when it's necessary. And that is the fundamental problem with architecture today," says Building Science Corporation's sometimes irreverent but always straight-talking Joe Lstiburek, Ph.D., P.Eng.
by Wendy Ordemann June 4, 2012 | 
(Building Science Corporation) |
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INSIGHT: Let's Quiet Down: The Case for Places, Regionalism, and Sustainability
Architecture should be concerned primarily with place-making, not object-making.
by Peter Gisolfi, AIA, ASLA, LEED AP May 30, 2012 | 
(Bing Maps) |
Who Designed the Space Needle?
Victor Steinbrueck's contributions have been given short shrift, leaving the design of what is arguably Seattle's most important structure clouded by assumption and innuendo to this day.
by Dale Cotton May 11, 2012 | 
(Drawing courtesy of University of Washington Special Collections Division; photo composite by Dale Cotton) |
