Today’s News - Tuesday, September 3, 2019
EDITOR'S NOTE: We're back in the real world (relatively speaking) after a week away - with lots of catching up to do!
● Moore mulls: "Where are the architects who will put the environment first? What would architecture look like if all involved really and truly put climate at the centre of their concerns - the whole attitude to construction has to change now" (great read!).
● Chandran considers "flat-packed cities - cities around the world are looking at high-rise wooden buildings" to reduce the use of concrete, "a major source of climate-changing emissions"; cement manufacturers are also "experimenting with lower-carbon concrete."
● Franco considers whether cross-laminated timber could be the concrete of the future," offering a Q&A with Jorge Calderón re: "some of the promising opportunities that CLT could provide."
● A look at how the "quirky bamboo pavilions" of Bali's Green School have "become a globally influential exhibition of one of this century's significant architectural trends," inspiring both established and young architects.
● Hall parses the pairing of London's Bartlett School of Architecture and the DisOrdinary Architecture Project for a new program "training visually impaired people to become architects - integrating the perspectives of people with a range of disabilities into the architectural design process from the outset will build better spaces for everybody."
● Smithson's Q&A with the U.S.'s newest architecture deans, who "share their visions, role models, and mascots" and their potential to guide "how academic institutions teach and address issues related to the built environment for years to come."
● Wainwright delves into the U.K.'s pitiful prisons and Bryden Wood's design for what is "supposed to be the ultimate flat-pack kit for incarceration" - alas, "it looks very much like business as usual - all the more galling given the extensive wealth of knowledge about how to design environments that are actually conductive to rehabilitation."
● Morgan bemoans the new RISD student center by WORKac - "a design disappointment" that "ought to be a major event" (you know it's a problem when "the biggest draw is the unisex lavatory").
● On a brighter note, Dibbs & Zhu take us "from concept to construction" of OMA's Taipei Performing Arts Centre: "The combination of its scale and magnified geometry makes it a curious, yet approachable spectacle - local and international observers will be waiting with bated breath to see if something akin to the 'Bilbao effect' replays."
● Gonchar parses Walter Hood's "ambitious revamp" of the Oakland Museum's terraced landscape - "intended to function much like a public park," but had "devolved" and "lost its vibrancy."
● Campbell-Dollaghan introduces us to the Nonuments Group, "devoted to mapping "forgotten, altered, or disappearing monuments - anyone in any country can submit their own nonuments for consideration" ("it's more than ruin porn").
● Brussat bemoans "the topic that dare not speak its name": Beauty: CNU "largely abandoned the traditional streetscapes that forged its transformation into a popular urbanist movement. Even Create Streets has succumbed - this 'can't we all just get alongism' must be overcome if beauty is to be achieved rather than merely advocated."
● What would he say about these visualizations of what six U.S. cities would be like if FLW, Robert Moses, L'Italien, and Jahn designed them!
● 53 projects from 31 countries make the Dezeen Awards 2019 architecture shortlist.
● Palestinian-Jordanian architect Rasem Badran wins the 2019 Tamayouz Lifetime Achievement Award.
● ICYMI: ANN feature: Nicholas Boys Smith & Roger Scruton: Lesson Plan #3: Beauty and Sustainability in Architectural Education: We were greatly heartened to see architecture students call for a curriculum change to address social, political, and ecological challenges, and we want to say something about how their proposals intersect with the work of the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission.
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Rowan Moore: Where are the architects who will put the environment first? Should we stop building airports? Return to mud and thatch? The climate crisis is an opportunity for creative thinking, but the values of architecture need a radical overhaul: ...what would architecture look like...if all involved really and truly put climate at the centre of their concerns? Painful choices may be required...Sustainable design...should be integrated into the art of architecture...the whole attitude to construction has to change now...Re-use is usually seen as less glamorous than building new, but it’s a good use of architects skills to find ways to adapt rather than replace. -- Architects Declare; Grimshaw Architects; Foster + Partners; Zaha Hadid Architects; Jeremy Till; Phineas Harper/Maria Smith/Interrobang; YYYY-MM-DD; Ma-tt-er- Observer (UK) |
Rina Chandran: Flat-packed cities: wooden skyscrapers sprout over concrete concerns: With concrete a major source of climate-changing emissions, cities around the world are looking at high-rise wooden buildings instead: Innovations such as glue-laminated timber, laminated veneer lumber, and cross laminated timber [CLT] are creating more uses for structural timber in residential and commercial projects...But with excessive logging and deforestation already a problem...it is important to balance demand for wood with "tighter regulations and more efficient management of forests"...cement manufacturers also have been experimenting with lower-carbon concrete. -- John Hardy; Eleena Jamil; Amy Chow- Place / Thomson Reuters Foundation |
José Tomás Franco: Is Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) the Concrete of the Future? Concrete has for decades offered us the possibility of shaping our cities quickly and effectively...Today, new timber technologies are beginning to deliver similar opportunities - and even superior ones...Q&A with Jorge Calderón, Industrial Designer and CRULAMM Manager re: some of the promising opportunities that CLT could provide architecture in the future.- ArchDaily |
Bamboo architecture: Bali’s Green School inspires a global renaissance: ...tropical jungle campus of quirky bamboo pavilions has become a globally influential exhibition of one of this century’s significant architectural trends...Ancient practices in China and Japan remain the gold standard for durable bamboo buildings...During the Green School’s first decade, a new generation of studios led by young Asian architects gained prominence and international awards for their creativity with bamboo...some long-established...architecture firms have completed projects with significant uses of bamboo. -- Linda Garland; Orin Hardy/Elora Hardy/Ibuku; Vo Trong Nghia/VTNA; H&P Architects; Nattapon Klinsuwan/NKWD; Chiangmai Life Architects; Bambooroo; Abin Design Studio; Mansaram Architects; Bambu Art; Atelier Sacha Cotture; HWCD; Penda/Chris Precht; Li Xiaodong; William Lim/CL3; Kengo Kuma; Arata Isozaki; Shigeru Ban; Foster + Partners; Renzo Piano- The Conversation UK |
Rachel Hall: Can blind people make great architects? Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL has been running an architecture workshop for people with visual impairments: For blind people...multi-sensory experience is their first impression of a space. And now a new programme is trying to harness that unique ability by training more visually impaired people to become architects...run by the DisOrdinary Architecture Project...founders believe that integrating the perspectives of people with a range of disabilities into the architectural design process from the outset will build better spaces for everybody...Bartlett’s...dean, Alan Penn...wanting to increase diversity in a profession he describes as a “monoculture” dominated by white architects... -- Chris Downey- Guardian (UK) |
Aaron Smithson: The country’s newest architecture deans share their visions, role models, and mascots: From Charlotte to Berkeley, new deans...will have the opportunity to shape design pedagogy and practice in significant ways, potentially guiding how academic institutions teach and address issues related to the built environment for years to come. -- Vishaan Chakrabarti/Practice for Architecture and Urbanism/PAU/UC Berkeley; Harriet Harriss/Pratt; Branko Kolarevic/New Jersey Institute of Technology/NJIT; Lesley Lokko/CCNY Spitzer School of Architecture; Brook Muller/University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte; Dan Pitera/University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture; Sarah Whiting/Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD); Meejin Yoon/Höweler + Yoon/Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning- The Architect's Newspaper |
Oliver Wainwright: Epic jail: inside the UK's optimised 'super-prison' warehouses: Inmate deaths are up by 20% in the UK, the most incarcerated nation in western Europe. Can prisons designed using virtual reality modelling undo the harm? ...architects Bryden Wood to promote their plans for HMP Wellingborough... Claiming to be the product of “the largest research project of its kind”, the designs have done away with Victorian-style gallery cell blocks, removed the bars from windows...supposed to be the ultimate flat-pack kit for incarceration by numbers, fine-tuned for efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Using virtual reality modelling, the architects tested countless layouts...details aside, however, it looks very much like business as usual...all the more galling given the extensive wealth of knowledge...about how to design environments that are actually conductive to rehabilitation. -- Roland Karthaus- Guardian (UK) |
William Morgan: New RISD Student Center a Design Disappointment in Providence: A new student center at the Rhode Island School of Design ought to be a major event. But, except for a curving facade of perforated metal bursting out the back of 20 Washington Street, there is little to alert Providence to RISD's latest building project...public [lobby] space is less than uplifting...characterless...the biggest draw...is the unisex lavatory. -- Dan Wood/Amale Andraos/WORK Architecture Company/WORKac- GoLocalProv.com (Rhode Island) |
Jason A. Dibbs & Damian Zhu: From Concept to Construction: Taipei Performing Arts Centre: One of the most hotly anticipated architectural projects of recent years...OMA’s design juxtaposes pure forms to create a dynamic structure...The combination of [its] scale and magnified geometry makes it a curious, yet approachable spectacle...Over a decade in the making and still under construction, [it] has already revitalized the urban fabric of the Shilin District...local and international observers will be waiting with bated breath to see if something akin to the ‘Bilbao effect’ replays...- ArcSpace |
Joann Gonchar: An Ambitious Revamp Aims to Connect the Oakland Museum’s Cascading Gardens with the Surrounding City: Over the past half-century...26,400-square-foot terraced landscape - intended to function much like a public park - lost its vibrancy. The gardens...have devolved...multidisciplinary museum...plans to break ground...on a roughly $20 million revitalization of its outdoor space designed by Walter Hood...revamp comes almost a decade after completion of a comprehensive renovation by...Mark Cavagnero Associates... -- Dan Kiley; Kevin Roche; Hood Design Studio- Architectural Record |
Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan: This map collects the world’s lost monuments. But it’s more than ruin porn: A group of artists is trying to capture the disappearing architectural monuments of the last century, from Baltimore to Belgrade: Nonuments Group, it’s a nearly 10-year-old collective devoted to researching and archiving forgotten, altered, or disappearing monuments...invites anyone in any country to submit their own nonuments for consideration.- Fast Company / Co.Design |
David Brussat: How to create great streets: ...the revival of beauty as a factor in architecture and planning faces opposition from organizations...ignoring or denying the relevance of beauty in place-making. Beauty has been for decades the topic that dare not speak its name...Congress for the New Urbanism...largely abandoned the traditional streetscapes that forged its early, lightning-swift transformation into a popular urbanist movement. Even Create Streets has succumbed...this “can’t we all just get alongism” must be overcome if beauty is to be achieved rather than merely advocated. -- Institute of Classical Architecture & Art- Architecture Here and There |
What Would 6 Cities of the United States be like if Frank Lloyd Wright or Robert Moses had Designed Them? ...ambitious ideas often come with a high price that cannot always be paid, causing some of the most exciting building, bridge, and tower designs to never evolve past archived plans...some of the most ambitious projects designed by world-renowned architects and planners...Marc L'Italien; Helmut Jahn- ArchDaily |
Dezeen Awards 2019 architecture shortlist reveals world's best buildings: It includes a cultural centre that doubles as public seating in Iran, a house in England made from recycled cork, and a thatched restaurant overlooking Peru's Sacred Valley...projects...from 31 countries ..53 architecture projects across ten categories...- Dezeen |
Rasem Badran Wins 2019 Tamayouz Lifetime Achievement Award: ...Palestinian-Jordanian architect...is the 2019 recipient of...the most coveted honor from the Tamayouz Excellence Award program...prize celebrates the achievements of individuals who have made significant contributions towards humanity and the advancement of architecture and the built environment. -- Dar Al-Omran- ArchDaily |
ANN feature: Nicholas Boys Smith & Roger Scruton: Lesson Plan #3: Beauty and Sustainability in Architectural Education: We were greatly heartened to see architecture students call for a curriculum change to address the social, political, and ecological challenges of our time, and we want to say something about how their proposals intersect with the work of the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission.- ArchNewsNow.com |
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