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The article provides information on upcoming exhibitions in Los Angeles. The first exhibition, "Views of Planet City," presented by the Southern California Institute of Architecture, imagines a future where all of humanity lives in a single city, leaving the rest of the Earth for rewilding. The second exhibition, "Thom Mayne: Shaping Accident," showcases a new body of work by architect Thom Mayne that explores how technology can influence the art-making process. The article also includes information on new products in the fields of interior finishes, furnishings, specialty products, doors, and windows. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses commitment of architects to designing sustainable buildings that contribute to waste minimization and the zero waste philosophy. Topics explored include the municipal solid waste generation in the U.S. based on the U.S. Environmental Protection and Agency (EPA) data, the climate change mitigation and waste reduction targets of various U.S. cities, and the infrastructure-related strategies that allow waste recovery for recycling or reuse.

The article features architects Monica Ponce de Leon and Nader Tehrani, founders of the Office dA. Their firm, known for its precision of presentation and methods of design and construction, employs digital modeling and computer numerical control (CNC) milling, together with hand drawing. According to Tehrani, he and Ponce de Leon used to draw everything before discussing with their team.

Looks at the plans for the presentation of documents pertaining regarding the work of 20th century architects to the Library of Congress by I.M. Pei. Information on the presentation; Information on Pei; Details on some of Pei's designs.

The article discusses the lack of information available regarding how buildings designed with sustainability in mind actually perform. It is suggested that post-occupancy evaluation (POE) could be a powerful tool for gathering such information. Gathering data on resource consumption, lighting levels, acoustics, and occupant surveys could identify things that work or need refinement.

The article features architectural designers from Madrid, Spain, César Jiménez de Tejada Benavides and brother and sister María and José María Hurtado de Mendoza Wahrolen. Representing their estudio entresitio, they built a complex program in Daimiel where they used a series of long parallel terraces as their own designs. Entresitio's approach is said to be anticontextual wherein the work of the firm aims to stand out rather than blend in.

The article discusses the adoption of interactive envelope systems or small robots that patrol building facades, regulating energy usage and indoor conditions, in architectural projects. While these systems are fashionable and possibly advantageous, its adoption has been slow. Primary concerns of skeptical architects include worrying that operable components are magnets for value-engineering or foreseeing them being unplugged and later stripped off their buildings due to poor performance of deficient maintenance. Still there are supporters of the technology. First is that it would be easy for architects to analyze an operable shade with daylight analysis tools. Another is the solid performance of photosensors, lighting controls and solar-tracking devices.

The article focuses on the dependence of architects and researchers on building process to manage the flood of products, materials, and options. Building process usually refers to the methodology, often inventive and personal, that the architect relies on to steer a project from concept to completion. Associate professor John E. Fernandez argues that our knowledge base must be expanded to include advances in materials science and engineering.

Despite its name, Son-O-House is not a house but a permanent public artwork that is both a pavilion and sound installation. Located on the outskirts of Son en Breugel in the Netherlands, it represents the second joint venture by NOX Architects and Dutch composer and media artist Edwin van der Heide. NOX, headed by Lars Spuybroek, first collaborated with Van der Heide on the FreshH20 eXPO pavilion on the island of Neeltje Jans, in the Netherlands. Visitors to the 3,229-square-foot, interactive Son-O-House must not only stoop to enter some areas of the building, they must also watch out for the uneven concrete floor.

Archiving project information was once merely a matter of collecting, organizing, and filing away paper drawings, each one created anew as design progressed. Chicago, Illlinois based architect Kristine Fallon, president of Kristine Fallon Associates, heads the project, which involves a team of architects, academics, museum curators, and technology experts who are reviewing the challenges of maintaining digital archives and will ultimately provide recommendations for best practices. To combat obsolescence of archival documents, a proposed global registry could alert architects to digital file types that are in danger of disappearing and provide a way for architects to reformat their files.

The article provides information on architectural firm King Roselli Architetti, formed by principals Jeremy King, Andrea Ricci and Riccardo Roselli based in Rome, Italy. The work they did for ES Hotel was a significant decision for their position in Roman architecture. The firm has designed and redesigned other hotels for international resort companies.

The article discusses the recognition and importance given to young architects and designers employed in big architectural firms. The democratic business strategy employed by most large firms with their projects, was defined. Architecture firm annex5 benefited from hiring young architects. Young architects interviewed for the article are: Ross Wimer of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Ko Makabe of Kohn Pedersen Fox, Benjamin Ward from Gensler and Mark McVay from SmithGroup.

This article discusses the use of build-design by architects and clients. Design-build proponents say changes have occurred largely because many more clients and industry members came to feel that the design-bid-build's enforced separation fostered conflicts among the various parties holding separate contracts with the client, thus fueling litigation and increasing overall costs. One of the biggest fears architects have about leading a design-build project is the increased risk associated with construction. While the tasks traditionally associated with architecture are insurable, work occurring on a construction site is not.

This article describes how clients impact the outcome of museum architecture. The article begins by identifying several factors involved in the proliferation of museum architect. Next, the author presents several examples to illustrate what a difference a client can make concerning the outcome of museum architecture.

This article focuses on the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), the green-building rating system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council. Today, LEED has virtually become a household word. More and more projects have been registered, and LEED ratings increasingly find their way into marketing brochures distributed by developers, building owners, architects, and contractors. The rating system is divided into six categories. Now that LEED has been available in one form or another for some five years, it's appropriate that the system has been reviewed externally and internally for various purposes.

This article informs that when architect Aldo Celoria began designing a home for his sister in Castel San Pictro, within the Swiss canton of Ticino, he was still a student at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland. Although the 3,770-square-foot house would look completely unlike the neo-Tuscan home next door, town authorities apparently recognized the merit of Celoria's scheme, and accepted it over a din of protest. Castel San Pietro — near the Italian border and not far from Mendrisio, where Celoria was born in 1969 — is a sleepy town with a population of 1,800.

This article discusses various issues related to architectural technology, and reports that by using the latest high-technology tools, preservation architects find the right balance between celebrating a building's treasured history and allowing it to live on into the future. Preservation architects clearly walk a fine line between the realities of the past and the needs of the present, all the while establishing reasoned and consistent justification for their actions for future generations who will one day inherit these cultural legacies. The article further focuses on architectural renovation of San Francisco's Conservatory of Flowers.

The article informs that splendor of the Pantheon in Rome, attributed to Emperor Publius Aelius Hadrianus Hadrian, lies in both its architectural form and its engineering virtuosity: a rational domed cylinder of reinforced concrete that soars to a height that equals its diameter, reaching 143 feet at its oculus. Thanks to Joseph Aspdin's invention of portland cement in 1824 and Joseph Monier's introduction of the reinforcing bar in 1867, the 20th century was an era of intense technological progress in both concrete and steel. Trial-and-error engineering no longer takes place on-site or requires knowledge of precedent. So extensive is the innovation in concrete that now a discussion of the material requires a new vocabulary of modifiers. INSET: Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete.

The article discusses the trade of exporting architecture jobs. The practice of paying less-expensive workers located beyond the borders of the U.S. to do tasks once done here by architects and interns is extremely controversial. A representative of a U.S.-owned drafting service that sends some of its work abroad spoke extensively to the periodical about the practice, but several days later asked that the company not be named in this article. Other offshore providers were willing to speak about the practice, but said they could not reveal the names of the architecture firms for whom they work. To be fair, U.S. architects have made millions selling their services abroad for decades. INSET: ARCHITECTURAL RECORD'S Offshoring Questionnaire.

The article focuses on environmental aspects of wiring in buildings. Architects generally, do not pay attention to this aspect of building. The term wire refers to an individual strand of material that conducts electrical current, whereas cable refers to two or more wires twisted together. Virtually all wire and cable used in buildings is wrapped in plastic insulation, and most of these components are made by bundling multiple insulated wires together, sheathing them in an additional outer jacket. In general terms, power cables in commercial buildings must be either sheathed in metal armor or protected within metal conduit. INSETS: The Fluorine Debate;Greener Wiring: A Checklist for Action.

This article presents information on the design of a building in 497 Greenwich Street of New York City. Using bent glass and a fluid approach to geometry, architect Winka Dubbeldam created a curtain wall with depth, a street front that envelopes space as much as it separates inside from out. Set on the western edge of SoHo, which had retained a gritty industrial demeanor until recently, the building at 497 Greenwich Street injects a rousing dose of 21st-century Modernism while engaging the past. The new structure rises alongside and then extends over its six-story, 19th-century neighbor to the south, drawing the older brick building into an architectural tango. While Now York City developers have been riding a booming residential market over the past several years, almost all of the apartment towers they've built have been numbingly formulaic in terms of floor plans and exterior design. By inserting a new building on the street and incorporating the empty six-story warehouse next door, the architect could create 23 living units and provide space on the ground floor for an art gallery or stores, as well as a small fitness center and meeting room for the residents. Although the curtain wall faces west, laminated glass, UV film, and exterior metal fins reduce the impact of the sun.

Recent discussions about innovations in prefabrication and modular or unitized construction methods generally focus on the aesthetics and economics of the final product. The process, or rather processes, of reaching the end tend to be described generically, as if all programs can be addressed the same way. The terms also describe a range of building products, such as the production of structural insulated panels and exterior insulation and finish systems, both of which are ubiquitous in commercial and residential building. The projects here can be described as component-based design, a term that lacks the preconceived notions associated with prefabrication. With the wealth of materials at hand, and the vision of what they can do, the editing skills of an architect in making material design decisions is very important. It is not the materials that are new. Aluminum has been around since 1807, glass since 4,000 B.C. It is the understanding of these components and the consideration of how they can be used together that opens up the design.

Optical reciprocities between ball and bleachers overwhelmingly determine the design of sports buildings. Architects typically derive the diagram for arenas from wrapping walls around optimal lines of sight to generate a box of a bowl. At Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois however, Boston architect Benjamin Wood, Carlos Zapata working with Lohan Caprile Goettsch as the master planner, recently broke free of convention, scoring an end run into new precedent. When architects Wood and Zapata received the commission to update Soldier Field as a $385 million state-of-the-art venue for the Chicago Bears football team, the architects faced the challenge of fitting a new, 62,000-seat bowl within the old one.

Viennese architect Georg Driendl likes to name the houses he designs after the sun. His Solar Box, for instance, combines an orthogonal, glazed section with a 19th-century home. Solar Deck, a concrete-and-glass structure, has wraparound balconies on two levels. The Solar Tube House, in the northwest outskirts of Vienna, Austria, stands out as the most inventive and visually intriguing of the series. Rising to a metal-clad, glass-fronted tubular form, the building is like a telescope topping an amply glazed rectangular volume. Neither its name nor form are frivolous. Driendl was inspired by the humble tubular skylight, a device that channels sunlight indoors by means of a rooftop collector, reflective pipe, and diffuser. His novelty was to envision the entire house as a solar collector, one that needs little heating, cooling, or electric illumination.

For a new generation of American architects, stymied by the vagaries of the domestic economy, China represents potential salvation, a constantly expanding marketplace that welcomes their expertise, with projects challenging conventional experience and scale. The overall market is enormous, consider that in 2003, China leaped from fourth to third place among construction economies, leading hungry architects to yearn for room at the Chinese banquet. For eight days, the author tagged along as firm chairman Bradford Perkins, who, in a 30-year career, has engaged clients throughout the world, made the rounds of clients in Nanjing, Shanghai, and Beijing. Brad Perkins, a sometimes contributor to this magazine, has written suggestions for other architects interested in working in China. INSET: Brad Perkins's 10 Tips for China.

In the early 1990s, architects and engineers at the forefront of the preservation movement were troubled by the problems still faced by historic buildings, particularly historic house museums. Unfamiliar with the dynamics of old construction and eager to satisfy a range of often conflicting requirements for artifacts and occupants, many well-intended owners and designers unwittingly undermined historic fabric when they inserted new systems into existing buildings. While this approach should be applied to any historic project, the complexity will be different for each building, depending on its construction and function. By starting with what the building delivers and intervening only to eliminate the extremes, those buildings that do require additional adjustments will be subjected to less stress and the mechanical equipment will be smaller that will be an advantage in old buildings, which typically have little service space to spare.

This article focuses on 2003 Business Week/Architectural Record Award for architecture. As CEOs increasingly think of the design of their company's buildings as a way to achieve strategic corporate goals, scientists are demonstrating that highly effective working environments don't happen by accident. Resulting from clearly articulated goals, good building design can significantly enhance the well-being and productivity of workers. Architects can fulfill this objective by creating environments that sustain occupants in the many positive ways evidenced by the winning designs. Many factors determined by the design of buildings, including exposure to nature and daylight, air quality, temperature, noise, ergonomics, and opportunities for social gathering, relaxation, and exercise affect occupants' performance and well-being.

This article presents information on events related to architecture. From functional tableware to singular exhibition works, the shows of Steuben's Modern Moment in New York City features almost 200 objects from important international museum and private collections. Estrangement New York City is an exhibition of photographs by architect and photographer Suchitra Van. National Design Triennial 2003: Inside Design Now New York City is a review of cutting-edge trends and future horizons in design practice, from architecture, interiors, and landscape design to product design, graphic design, fashion, and new media.

Over the last couple of decades, museum building has entailed an irony for many working artists. Now there is Dia: Beacon, which makes a powerful case for the Museum Without Architects. By entrusting the transformation of a former package-printing plant in Beacon, New York, to Robert Irwin, an artist, the Dia Art Foundation disdained the prevailing trophy-museum ethos a typically iconoclastic move for this quirky yet influential institution. Achieving an ineffable, unself-conscious quality may seem like the most quixotic of occupations for artists, but Dia admirably helps them make their case.

Major North American transit projects typically arc engineered for movement alone, with stations looking about as glorious as roadside rests. Vancouver's new Millennium Line, by contrast, puts an important new emphasis on designing destinations. The line's guiding force was Lecia Stewart, who served as president of Rail Transit Project 2000 (RTF), the company formed by the provincial government of British Columbia to build the $715 million line. First built for the Expo 86 world's fair, the Millennium Line adds 16 miles to a SkyTrain system that had grown to 20 miles with 20 stations. The standardized station designs of the earlier SkyTrain segments established the line as a brand with commuters, according to Stewart, who describes herself as a "frustrated architect with a general business background

The article analyzes key design considerations and product attributes, as well as provide guidance in designing partitions. The process starts with the understanding that there are six primary factors. They are fire resistance, acoustical performance, structural capacity, moisture, abuse resistance and aesthetics. A good designer must look at all facets to determine the best possible design solution. Fire resistance is determined by local code requirements. The codes will establish if the materials in the partition can be non-combustible and, when installed in a system, what the hourly fire resistance must be. Next in the design process is determining the size of the stud needed to obtain the 18 toot height. Then, they need to determine what the partition requires in terms of sound performance. The single number system that is used to determine sound attenuation in a partition is Sound Transmission Classification.

To Erik Hemingway, a peripatetic architect who for the past few years has been based in the Detroit area, architecture is a movable feast. Hemingway earned his undergraduate degree in architecture at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. He accepted a teaching assignment at the Lawrence Technical University, Cranbrook near Detroit. He formed a company called Hemingway + Associates with partner Allison Warren. INSETS: A short story about Erik Hemingway;Beyond the humming refrigerator.

Discusses the architecture of Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas by the architect Tadao Ando. System for illumination of the fort; Creation of spaces in the gallery pavilions giving equal importance to vistors and art; Facilities for the watching vistors in the entry lobby and staircase of the fort; Design and arrangement at the galleries to accommodate works of art. INSETS: THE MODERN BEEFS UP A CULTURAL DISTRICT THAT'S STILL A WORK...;Ando turns concrete and structural elements into works of art.

Suggests ways for architects to determine the sustainability of green products used in architecture. Questions related to choice of products; Considerations for the choice of the material; Efforts employed by researchers for developing holistic methods of the product determination; Innovations in the carpet material used in architecture.

Focuses on the excellent work by London, England-based female architect Zaha Hadid. Projects to be handled by Hadid in 2003; Attitude reflected in Hadid's work; Honor offered to Hadid from Queen Elizabeth in December 2003.

Interviews architect Michael Graves, Gold Medalist in the 2001 Honor Awards program of the American Institute of Architects. Profile; Contribution in elevating the recognition of architecture in the public consciousness; Comment on his fame and recognition and how it may influence his goals and ambitions in the field of architecture.

Interviews Zurich, Switzerland-based architect Santiago Calatrava. Career background; Process of formulating and developing design ideas; Calatrava's use of sketching to develop design ideas; Impact on contemporary architecture.

Presents an American Institute of Architects continuing education article on natural ventilation of buildings. How building design can take advantage of natural cooling; Controlling comfort with natural cooling; Benefits and disadvantages of using natural ventilation for cooling. INSET: Getting cool help for architects..

The article discusses the factors to consider when applying water-resistant barriers (WRB). The problems associated with the code language for WRB are mentioned. The three basic methods to achieve a double of WRB are explained. Also explored are the responsibilities of a contractor, architect or a consultant when applying or installing WRB.

Presents an interview with architect Frank Gehry, recipient of the American Institute of Architects' (AIA) Gold Medal award. Pressures brought by success; Commitment to his work and art; Office staff; Reasons for doing production work; Design process.

The article presents an interview with Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Ban discusses his work with disaster-stricken areas, how he selects which disaster-torn area to work with, and what inspired him to take on relief work. Ban also discusses his work with nongovernmental organizations and offers advice to architects who wish to become involved with relief efforts.

The article focuses on profile of Top Young Professionals in the architecture, engineering and construction community according to career achievement and involvement in construction industry. Topics discussed include Dinesh Allam of construction firm Sundt Construction who involved preconstruction of concrete element, Garren Echols of Sundt Construction and Lindsey Feola of Gensler who has been licensed architect.

Presents information on the relationship between architects and contractors. Reference to a panel discussion among five contractors; Comments from J. Glenn Little, an executive vice president, Turner Construction Company; Mention of the Construction Financial Management Association's 1997 Construction Industry Annual Financial Survey.

The article features San Francisco, California-based architectural firm Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW), founded by couple Dan Spiegel and Megumi Aihara. Information on the house designed by Spiegel for his parents in Menlo Park is provided. In 2014, the firm was chosen to design an expansion of a Depression-era house tucked into a Golden Gate Heights hillside.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of meeting Modernism architects in Paris, France during his birthday in June 8, 1974.

The article reports that the industrial coatings business of PPG Industries Inc. has published an eight-page white paper that compares the environmental, economical, and performance advantages associated with the application of liquid and powder coatings on architectural aluminum. The white paper provides a review of historical factors that have made liquid coatings the choice of architects in North America and powder coatings the prevailing option in Europe.

This article presents information on Technology in Construction conference in Orlando, Florida, in January 2004. designers posed that question to each other about building information modeling (BIM), long billed as the technological sine qua non for efficient and cost-effective design and construction. But most designers, it seems, are taking a wait-and-see attitude about BIM--interested in its benefits, but hesitant to adopt it unless assured of Building information modeling (BIM) is the latest rebranding of a 25-year-old idea that architects should create intelligent 3D models instead of paper drawings to communicate design ideas and guide construction.

The article discusses the work of architect Christian Unverzagt of the architectural and graphic design studio M1/dtw in Detroit, Michigan. His education at the University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning is discusses as is his work on the "Michigan Architecture Papers" (MAP) journal. His interdisciplinary approach to architecture, graphic design, and typography is discussed.

Reviewed by Richard Korman IN THE FALL of 1817, architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe had reached his breaking point. The incident, as described by Latrobe's wife, Mary, in a memoir, and recounted in Baker's valuable new biography, says much about its subject's stressful and combative work life and sense of himself. You can say that Latrobe was one of America's first professionally trained architects, and that his legacy is one of an uncompromising and long-suffering champion for his profession and its vision and stewardship of the built environment. [Extracted from the article]