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Book Review: Tracing a Hidden Track from Adolf Loos as Modernist Architect to Jennifer Post as Modernist Interior Designer
By considering this unlikely couple, we can air out that beleaguered term "architectural minimalism" and trace a trajectory of what might be better identified as "essentialist architecture."
by Norman Weinstein March 2, 2012 | 
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Two Books to Accelerate the Translation of Ideas into Practical Forms
New books on design research and transformational ideas through architectural history have potent practical uses: "The Designer's Guide to Doing Research: Applying Knowledge to Inform Design" Sally Augustin and Cindy Coleman; and "100 Ideas That Changed Architecture" by Richard Weston
by Norman Weinstein February 24, 2012 | 
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The Big Chill: Leers Weinzapfel Associates' Chiller Plants Reinvent the Art of Infrastructure Work
Thoughtful analysis, ingenuity, and the ability to envision design opportunities create a unique exercise to "make something of beauty" in urban settings.
by Charles Linn, FAIA February 22, 2012 | 
(Peter Aaron/Esto) |
INSIGHT: Bringing Art to the Streets without Breaking the Bank
An architect explains how he used innovative materials and a close-knit alliance of stakeholders to provide economical solutions to create an artful amenity for a city's public transit passengers.
by Walter Geiger, AIA, FARA February 14, 2012 | 
(© 2011 Walt Geiger Studios LLC, Raymond Martinot, photographer) |
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Book Review: How to be a Useful Architectural Critic: Alexandra Lange's Perspicacious Primer Points the Way
"Writing about Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities" - use it often and you'll never think of the word "critic" pejoratively again.
by Norman Weinstein January 26, 2012 | 
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Good Deeds: Multi-Service Center South, St. Vincent de Paul Society, San Francisco
Q&A with Susie Jue, vice president of philanthropy for IIDA NC, about the Chapter's pro bono project to renovate the city's largest homeless shelter.
by Kenneth Caldwell December 22, 2011 | 
(© David Wakely) |
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Best Architecture Books of 2011
10 Books Sparking Creative Inspiration Plus Escapist Fare for Financially Fickle Times
by Norman Weinstein December 16, 2011 | 
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One-on-One: We architects are politicians: Interview with Giancarlo Mazzanti
"Now is the time to think of how architecture can change the world. We architects can assume that role and make a real difference in how people live and behave."
by Vladimir Belogolovsky December 13, 2011 | 
(©Sergio Gomez) |
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INSIGHT: At the Intersection of Medicine, Technology, and Design: Hybrid Operating Rooms
Technology has enabled the transformation of classic operating rooms into dynamic, multi-purpose environments - requiring a new design approach for architects.
by Ross A. Cole, BAM Architecture Studio December 6, 2011 | 
(Jim Fiora Studio) |
Call for entries: ArchNewsNow / MOO Competition
If you could hand your business card to one person in the world, who would it be?
by ArchNewsNow December 1, 2011 | 
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"Unbuilt Washington": The National Building Museum explores some breathtakingly beautiful and some simply bizarre proposals to shape - or re-shape - America's capital
From a pyramid honoring Abraham Lincoln and a Modernist Ponte Vecchio for the Washington Channel Bridge to height limits, two architect/curators discuss the eye-opening array of what-might-have-been architecture and urban design projects that would have made Washington, DC look very different today (and tomorrow). November 22, 2011 | 
(National Archives, Washington, DC) |
Michael Sorkin: Architectural Critic as Scam Scanner and Urban(e) Design Sage
Sorkin's "All Over the Map," a sprawling miscellany of recent essays on buildings and cities, a triumph of enlightened nay-saying and affirmation.
by Norman Weinstein November 11, 2011 | 
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Mixing It Up with Elders: An Interview with Byron Kuth and Liz Ranieri
"In its current state, the senior living industry is all about isolating senior communities from the larger communities around them. We're proposing a very different social structure."
by ArchNewsNow October 18, 2011 | 
(Kuth/Ranieri Architects) |
You Survived Part 2: Mapping the Path to your Next Project and a More Predictable Workload
It is essential to establish a specific, easy, and brief Go/No Go decision process, allowing you to quickly determine where to invest limited marketing resources.
by Michael Bernard, AIA, and Nancy Kleppel, Assoc. AIA October 4, 2011 | 
(David R. Tribble) |
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When a Train Rumbles Past this Recording Studio, Nobody Hears It: SubCat Studios by Fiedler Marciano Architecture
Syracuse, NY: A downtown cultural redevelopment project has rapidly established itself as a catalyst to rebrand and revitalize the city's core by promoting a supportive environment for the arts within the downtown area.
by ArchNewsNow.com September 30, 2011 | 
(Chris Cooper) |
INSIGHT: Small-Scale Solution to Alternative Energy Resistance
Why the assumption that an industrial-scale response is required to produce green energy in the vast quantities required to power this country is wrong.
by Peter Gisolfi, AIA, ASLA, LEED AP September 27, 2011 | 
(Robert Mintzes) |
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Book Review: Pencils that Refuse to Die: Meditations about New Books on Architectural Drawing
Three recent books dealing with architectural drawing by pencil you need to read: "Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing: Slow Food for the Architect's Imagination" by Marco Frascari; "The Architect's Sketchbook" by Will Jones; and "Robbie Cornelissen: The Capacious Memory" by Lex ter Braak and Edwin Jacobs
by Norman Weinstein September 23, 2011 | 
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One-on-One: Architecture that leads to a point: Interview with Daniel Libeskind
"Every building, every city should have a story."
by Vladimir Belogolovsky September 20, 2011 | 
(©Studio Daniel Libeskind) |
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Book Review: "One Million Acres & No Zoning": Lars Lerup's Outrageous Encomium to Houston Instructs and Infuriates
This isn't some dryly academic reconfiguration of trendy urban planning theory. I recommend it for the intrepid.
by Norman Weinstein August 18, 2011 | 
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One-on-One: Architecture of Emotion and Place: Interview with Bartholomew Voorsanger, FAIA, MAIBC
The architect's aspiration to create expressive, dynamic spaces is absolutely the key to his work.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky August 17, 2011 | 
(©Voorsanger Architects PC) |
