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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.

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.

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 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.

This article describes the work of architect Steven Holl. Some of his sketches were on display at the China International Gallery Exposition while other are contained at New York's Museum of Modern Art. His sketches offer Holl a way to get ideas down on paper. They may or may not be incorporated into his work but he enjoys the process.

This article reports that Japanese architect Shigeru Ban shared plans for a temporary museum on a historic West Side pier in New York City. The Nomadic Museum, opening in spring 2005, is designed to be easily transportable. It will display the photographic works of Gregory Colbert, whose show, Ashes and Snow, features large-scale photography and film projections on the subject of nature and man. The first museum of its kind, the Nomadic Museum's perimeter will be composed of 148 steel cargo containers constructed in a checkerboard pattern. Waterproof paper tubes will create roof and trusses. The museum's content will be able to be broken down and shipped in 37 cargo containers, while the remaining containers will be borrowed at the museum's future locations.

The look of natural stone, weathered oxidized steel, and even simulated wood grain were big trends among the Spanish ceramic tile showcased at the annual Cevisima trade forum in Valencia, Spain. More than 1,500 exhibitors attracted over 86,000 visitors from 140 countries to view a wide array of tile for commercial and residential use. Uchi from Saloni is inspired by the texture of Japanese rice paper. This ceramic tile series encompasses coordinating wall and floor tiles. The wall tile is produced in a 12" x 24" format, while the floor tile comes in 12" squares. Uchi offers light tones of ivory, cream, and gray. The series is complemented by a woven-rattan relief tile named Tatami, offered in 12" x 12" and 3" x 12" formats. Saloni, San Juan de Moro, Spain. www.saloni.com CIRCLE 206

Several stellar Japanese architects recently converged on Manhattan, New York, for a symposium at the Japan Society called "Technology and Tradition in Contemporary Japanese Architecture," co-organized by the periodical "Architectural Record." The conference was launched with a lecture by Fumihiko Maki, recently appointed architect for a new United Nations building and a tower at Ground Zero. The focus then passed to younger architects, including Ware Kishi , Kengo Kuma, and the ebullient Jun Aoki. Aoki, Shigeru Ban and Kazuyo Sejima are rising architects. Each has built or is about to build in Manhattan: Aoki's work for Vuitton on Fifth Avenue, Ban's Paper Arch at the Museum of Modern Art in 2000, and Sejima's New Museum envisaged for the Bowery.

Hewlett-Packard Co. has aimed new line of color printers at companies that occasionally need to print large-format documents but can't justify the cost of purchasing a machine. The DesignJet 100 model is a color multiformat printer targeted to the AEC market. It can print 4-color documents ranging from letter-size to D-size (24 inches by 36 inches), at a speed of up to 11 pages per minute for letter-size paper in draft mode. Though it is targeted to the graphic-design market, architects who need to print highly accurate color renderings and presentation photographs will find it useful.

Focuses on the changes in the architectural profession during its transition from a paper profession to a digital one. Generation gap which emerged between senior architects and junior staff; Concerns on the failure of younger architects to experience designing and drawing buildings by hand.

On July 20, the developer of the World Trade Center's planned 1,776-ft-tall Freedom Tower filed papers in opposition to a motion by Studio Daniel Libeskind, in which the architect claims it is owed $843,750 in design fees for the tower. In the papers, Silverstein Properties Inc. requests a court order for the parties to mediate the fee dispute. Daniel Libeskind is WTC master planner and design collaborator for the Freedom Tower. Before being sued, Silverstein had thought SDL had agreed to mediation, according to its spokesman, Howard J. Rubenstein.

The article focuses on the travels and works of architect Terrence J. Brown. Brown has documented his travels and experiences since student days at Montana State. In 1981, before returning to the U.S. from Central America, he spent more than a month traveling throughout the region, including in Honduras and Guatamala. In Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, he visited and sketched Uxmal and Chichen-Itza, Mayan urban centers. He captured the jungle-laced temples and steles with a crow-quill pen and India ink.

The article focuses on a pen design project of Cleto Munari in collaboration with architects and designers. Munari has invited architects Toyo Ito, Alessandro Mendini, Álvaro Siza Vieira and Oscar Tusquets to design a pen dedicated to any Nobel Laureate in Literature awardee. As part of the project's promotional campaign, a purchase of any limited-edition fountain or roller ball pen comes with the book "The Book of the 5 Pens," which shows the bond that writers and designers share with their use of ink.

Known for his spare, austere forms, Dutch architect Wiel Arets's work has been referred to as" industrial poetry." Lensvelt, the Dutch manufacturer of office furniture dedicated to contemporary design and production methods, enlisted Arets to design both its headquarters and a new product line. Echoing the rigid geometric forms of his buildings, the Stealth collection incorporates conference furniture, storage, and benches. The storage system was specifically designed to divide space while maintaining acoustic integrity to the open plan.

The article presents information on the flexible document holder, DokuMount, from Innovative Office Products Inc. The document holder is the first of its kind to help engineers, architects and industrial designers liberate their workspace from oversized blueprints and drawings. It features a floating radial arm that suspends large documents above the desk, freeing up desk space.