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Engaging Students in Smart-Building Design: Illinois Institute of Technology New Student Residence Halls by Dirk Denison Architects
Chicago: Performance-calibrated building design and student-centric spaces will give students control over their environment and generate performance data to be shared with university and architectural communities beyond the IIT campus.
by ArchNewsNow June 11, 2009 | 
(Dirk Denison Architects) |
Book Review: A Subversive Book Every Architect Needs: "Architect's Essentials of Negotiation" by Ava J. Abramowitz
Supposedly architects don't need negotiating skills along with other communication skills because great design "sells itself." How lovely that an AIA legal counsel created this definitive book to shatter that thin myth.
by Norman Weinstein June 5, 2009 | 
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WORDS THAT BUILD: Translate Images Into Touching Performances
Tip #15: Cultivate communication with clients that translates architectural imagery into experience at their fingertips.
by Norman Weinstein June 2, 2009 | 
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WORDS THAT BUILD: Emphasize Words with Lasting Resonance
Tip #14: Cluster symbolic and mythically-charged keywords in communication with clients.
by Norman Weinstein May 6, 2009 | 
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Stylish Stacking: Container Housing Project by Group 41
Salt Lake City, Utah: Shipping containers will jump off the rails to form an innovative multifamily apartment complex near a commuter rail station.
by ArchNewsNow April 28, 2009 | 
(Group 41) |
Book Review: A Perspective from One Elevation: "Conversations With Frank Gehry" by Barbara Isenberg
Gehry's conversations offer portraits of an astute listener as well as talker, an architect as aware of his flaws and limitations as of his virtues.
by Norman Weinstein April 21, 2009 | 
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Op-Ed: Designing the New Public/Private Model
Greater government involvement in design can be an opportunity - if done correctly. That requires architects to be to be at the table from the beginning.
by Peter Schubert April 16, 2009 | 
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One on One: Elusive Architecture: Interview with Kengo Kuma
"I want to create a condition that is as vague and ambiguous as drifting particles. The closest thing to such a condition is a rainbow."
by Vladimir Belogolovsky April 14, 2009 | 
(Daici Ano) |
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Book Review: Tripping Out to London and Paris
Time to become a homebody, shop frugally, eat in, and take a virtual tour led by Sam Lubell
by Sam Hall Kaplan April 8, 2009 | 
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WORDS THAT BUILD: Re-invent Green Communication
Tip #13: Try the spectacular 2-step program to cut fat and reduce telltale signs of greenwash.
by Norman Weinstein April 2, 2009 | 
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Op-Ed: CAMP Notes
Forget Don Fisher. Do we want the art or not?
by Kenneth Caldwell April 1, 2009 | 
(WRNS Studio) |
When Your New Job is to Find Your Next Job
Some practical suggestions for opening new doors of opportunities in difficult times.
by Marjanne Pearson March 19, 2009 | 
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Happy Ending for the Little Beach House That Could
Venturi and Scott Brown watch their Lieb House sail by
by Kristen Richards March 16, 2009 | 
(Kristen Richards) |
Q&A: Public Architecture Co-founders John Peterson and John Cary
by Kenny Caldwell March 13, 2009 | 
(Cesar Rubio for Public Architecture) |
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WORDS THAT BUILD: Taking Advantage of Interruptions in Architectural Communication
Tip #12: Cogent communicators exploit opportunities offered by interruptions.
by Norman Weinstein March 4, 2009 | 
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Op-Ed: Life After Ada: Reassessing the Utility of Architectural Criticism
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 March 2, 2009 | 
(lesather / flickr) |
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Exhibition Review: "Yes is More": BIG at DAC, Copenhagen
Though the firm's housing projects are amazing and their enthusiasm is great, the comic book graphics are a bit much - it's hard not to roll your eyes, but definitely worth the roll.
by Terri Peters February 27, 2009 | 
(Danish Architecture Centre) |
Loud on the Outside, Quiet on the Inside: Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) by Grimshaw and Davis Brody Bond Aedas
Troy, NY: How do you "ground" a 221,200-square-foot building on a 30-degree slope? And how do you acoustically carve out grand venues that are designed for digital technology and electronic performance? Structural and MEP engineer Buro Happold explains.
by Craig M. Schwitter, P.E. February 5, 2009 | 
(Kristen Richards) |
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WORDS THAT BUILD: Faceting Architectural Communication
Tip #11: Effective communication evolves out of cross-reflective details.
by Norman Weinstein February 3, 2009 | 
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Community Building: Saratoga Avenue Community Center by George Ranalli, Architect
Brooklyn, New York: A new community center re-imagines public architecture and what civic buildings represent.
by ArchNewsNow January 14, 2009 | 
(Paul Warchol) |
