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Today’s News - Thursday, August 1, 2019

EDITOR'S NOTE: Tomorrow and Monday will be no-newsletter days. We'll be back Tuesday, August 6.

●  ANN feature: Kristen Richards: Maestro, Please: Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, welcomes its first new facility in 25 years - to applause: The Linde Center for Music and Learning, designed by William Rawn Associates Architects with Reed Hilderbrand.

●  Pacheco reports on The Architecture Lobby and ADPSR call to "boycott the design of immigration detention and deterrence infrastructure" - the AIA's statement on the subject is welcome, but doesn't go far enough - the profession's commitment needs to be "about more than the enforcement of building codes."

●  Kripa & Mueller parse the "uptick in patent filings explicitly tied to border wall construction - we must respond to the advances in the construction industry which have matured in its wake. Efficiencies must not be gained at the expense of human dignity or lives."

●  Saudi Arabia unveils the massive Qiddiya giga-project, master planned by BIG, with 21 other big-name firms lined up - "considered a scoop" in light of some other big names who "withdrew their support for the [original] NEOM project in the wake alleged killing of Khashoggi."

●  Eyefuls of Rand Elliott Architects' design for the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center's new building in downtown Oklahoma City that will sport a "luminous, semi-reflective façade mirroring the constantly changing weather conditions."

●  Mondry cheers Sidewalk Detroit's "placemaking projects to advance spatial equity," including the 7th Sidewalk Festival, themed "Peace Power Utopia" and running August 1-3.

●  Eyefuls of West 8's redesign of 11 miles of South Baltimore's waterfront, "a city-backed plan to reengage locals with an underutilized section of the Patapsco River shoreline."

●  T. Jacobs parses new Australian research findings that "not all green spaces are created equal - when a neighborhood's green space leads to better health outcomes, it's the canopy of trees that provides most of the benefits."

●  Next City's "The Power of Parks," a powerful (must-read!) series "exploring how parks and recreation facilities and services can help cities achieve their goals in wellness, conservation and social equity."

●  Malo, on a less optimistic note, delves into a new report that finds that many (too many!) "American cities that set goals to slash planet-warming greenhouse emissions are lacking the data to measure their progress."

●  Kamin, on a brighter note, explores Palladio's home town of Vicenza: "If you want to break away from the crowds that make Venice a poster child for the term "overtourism" and you love architecture, there is one place you must go."

●  ICYMI: ANN feature: Duo Dickinson: Lesson Plan #2: A Time of Change: The coming technological changes in architecture will impose a full deconstruction of the way we educate architects, the second in our series on architectural education curated by Salingaros.

Weekend diversions

●  American light artist Villareal (of San Francisco "Bay Lights" fame) and British architects Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands show off the first four (of 15) London bridges in the "Illuminated River" public art project, "influenced by the palettes of Impressionist and English Romantic painters" (gorgeous!).

●  Quito cheers "Formgiving: An Architectural Future History from Big Bang to Singularity," a "sprawling, 14,000-foot-exhibition" at the Danish Architecture Center in Copenhagen, "jam-packed" with BIG's visions of everything + A Q&A with the "affable, analytical, and easy on the eyes" Ingles himself (he has a planetary master plan).

Page-turners:

●  Slessor says Hyde's "'Ugliness and Judgment: On Architecture in the Public Eye' strikes out beyond the shallow babble of style wars to examine the consequences of judgments of ugliness in architecture" ("a deliciously gossipy chapter" included).

●  Aliento x 2: Gameau's "2040: A Handbook for the Regeneration" is "something of an antidote to the existential despair and angst of watching the climate change ship sail closer and closer to the rocky shores of ecological collapse."

●  She gives thumbs-up to Thorpe's "One Planet' Cities - Sustaining Humanity within Planetary Limits" - "a stunning book that offers a holistic solution to the sustainability crisis on our hands. If the goal was to inspire through positive storytelling, he has well and truly succeeded."

●  Frank finds "The Venice Variations: Tracing the Architectural Imagination" by Psarra "fulfills a dreamy mission of aggrandizing the city's history and beauty while recognizing its fragility and potential demise because of climate change and overcrowding."

●  Bari cheers Pinto's "Plastic Emotions" not so much for the "romantic speculation" about an affair between Corbu and a young Sri Lankan architect - it is "most valuable for its portrait of Minnette De Silva - a woman so unquestionably intelligent and intriguing that it feels scandalous she should be so little known. It will make you want to seek out her work and remember her name."


  


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