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2. PPG White Paper Compares Liquid and Powder Coatings.
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COATING processes ,COATINGS industry ,ALUMINUM ,ARCHITECTS - Abstract
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.
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- 2008
3. I.M. Pei presents papers to Library of Congress.
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ARCHITECTS - Abstract
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.
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- 1997
4. A Fresh Look At Palladio On Paper.
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Moonan, Wendy
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PEN drawing , *MANNERISM (Art) , *ARCHITECTS , *ART exhibitions - Abstract
Reports that a pen-and-ink drawing of a palace in Venice, Italy, is one of the many treasures that the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan, New York City, will show beginning March 11, 2004, when it opens "The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth". Drawings by the Mannerist architect Andrea Palladio; Proposal for a new Doge's Palace in Venice which was never used.
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- 2004
5. The New Urbanism Under Attack: Opposition to a Fact in the Ideologically-Identified Press.
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Passell, Aaron
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NEW urbanism ,ARCHITECTS ,MUNICIPAL officials & employees ,NEIGHBORHOODS - Abstract
The New Urbanism is a movement that began among architects in the early 1990s, opening quickly to planners, developers, and municipal officials. It is more than a neo-traditional, discursive effort to reform urban and suburban development in the United States, but also a development effort that has accomplished in excess of 700 neighborhood-scale projects around the United States at last count, slowly but steadily changing the metropolitan landscape.The rise of the New Urbanism is profitably understood as the construction of a fact in Bruno Latour's terms - a process of "translation" that enables the originator of a discovery or innovation to enroll an interested group to apply it and thus reproduce it, while maintaining control of its integrity. Opposition to such a fact must occur in similar fashion: building a group around a compelling counterargument that can be reliably reproduced.This paper explores evidence of opposition to the New Urbanism in the ideologically-identified press, both conservative and liberal. It explains the failure of criticism to produce significant obstacles to the New Urbanism's progress in terms of its failure to build a coherent "counter-fact." This failure is attributed to the necessary complexity and comprehensiveness of the New Urbanism itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
6. MAPPING THE GREEN BUILDING INDUSTRY: HOW LOCAL ARE ARCHITECTS AND GENERAL CONTRACTORS?
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Cidell, Julie
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SUSTAINABLE buildings ,ARCHITECTS ,CONSTRUCTION contractors ,CONSTRUCTION industry ,METROPOLITAN areas - Abstract
This paper is an empirical analysis of the geography of the green building economy within the United States, based on the location of the architects and contractors involved in producing green buildings in a selection of metropolitan areas. An overwhelming percentage of both architects and contractors are locally-based, suggesting that rather than green building expertise clustering in a few cities, it has diffused nationwide. This has positive implications for the spread of knowledge about how to build more sustainably and also suggests that economic geographers need to broaden their study of the architecture industry beyond iconic buildings in world cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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7. Between brotherhood and bureaucracy: Joseph Hudnut, Louis I. Kahn and the American Society of Planners and Architects.
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SHANKEN *, ANDREW M.
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ARCHITECTURAL design ,ARCHITECTURE ,ARCHITECTS ,HOUSE construction ,WORLD War II - Abstract
This article details the formation and demise of the American Society of Planners and Architects, the first serious attempt to organize modern architects in the United States and a failed attempt to usurp the domain of planning from planners. The ASPA formed around Joseph Hudnut in 1943 as a vehicle for post-war planning and as an alternative to the American Institute of Architects, and dissolved in 1948 as the building boom made theoretical experiments in planning superfluous. The essay explains its failure in terms of shifting paradigms of professionalization in architecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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8. ITALY CREATES. GIO PONTI, AMERICA AND THE SHAPING OF THE ITALIAN DESIGN IMAGE.
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Dellapiana, Elena
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EXHIBITIONS -- Finance ,AMERICAN business enterprises ,MUSEUMS ,INDUSTRIALIZATION ,ARCHITECTS - Abstract
Copyright of Res Mobilis is the property of Universidad de Oviedo, Servicio de Publicaciones and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2018
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9. THE GREENING OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES.
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Foreman, Stacey
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GOVERNMENT purchasing ,PURCHASING ,PROFESSIONS ,ENGINEERS ,ARCHITECTS - Abstract
A reprint of the article "The Greening of Professional Services," by Stacey Foreman, which appeared in the August/September 2011 issue of "Government Procurement" is presented. Ways in which cities and counties in the U.S. can implement an environmentally preferable purchasing (EPP) policy that covers professional services are discussed. Approaches to greening procurements for services from engineers, architects and others are also addressed.
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- 2011
10. Practical Knowledge and Occupational Control: The Professionalization of Architecture in the United States.
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Brain, David
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ARCHITECTURAL design ,SOCIAL structure ,EXPERTISE ,PROFESSIONAL practice ,VOCATIONAL guidance - Abstract
An analysis of the formation of a discipline of architectural design in the United States in the first part of the 19th century emphasizes the relationship between the substantive content of professional expertise and the social structure of professional practice. As a newly constructed practice of design was threatened by broad changes affecting the structure of occupational control, explicit professnalizing projects emerged from the ideological organization of professional work itself This paper identifies limitations of the market monopoly model and outlines an alternative view that focuses on the way the rhetorical dimensions of professional work organize the efforts of actors within a self-reproducing structure of occupational control Analysis of the production of practical knowledge opens up new directions for research, incorporating the cultural dimensions of work into a macro structural account of a profession and the processes of professonalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1991
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11. The Art Institute of Chicago examines how best to archivedigital design data.
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Joch, Alan
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ARCHITECTS ,ARCHIVES ,MUSEUMS - Abstract
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.
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- 2004
12. Architecture.
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Haskell, Douglas
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ARCHITECTURE ,ARCHITECTS ,RENTAL housing ,CONDOMINIUMS - Abstract
What sort of a home was Karl Munichreiter, the shoe- maker of Vienna, defending when they dragged him out heavily wounded, and, wounds and all, took him to the scaffold to be hanged? Reports from the victors say that this home-assuming that be was captured in one of the workers' "strongholds" was a fort. They say that clever leaders planned them in this fashion, because the big structures dominated the industrial centers where the workers worked, and because the walls were capable of stopping rifle bullets. Yet any house in Vienna will stop bullets if built of masonry, and so will any house in America if the masonry is not just a veneer. And machine-gun emplacements in apartment houses-see the peace-time papers of Chicago or New York.
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- 1934
13. Frederick Law Olmsted: Launching the Nation.
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Fridlington, Robert
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LANDSCAPE architecture ,LANDSCAPE gardening ,LANDSCAPING industry ,ARCHITECTS ,PLANNERS - Abstract
This article presents a biography of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Olmsted is remembered today as the father of U.S. landscape architecture. Central Park in New York is probably his best-known work, but he left many monuments to his greatness as an artist. He created lovely parks in the urban jungles of cities throughout the country, he designed university campuses from Yale to Stanford and California, and he fashioned dozens of other scenic landscapes, including Capitol Hill in Washington, D. C.
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- 1966
14. Symposium showcases Japanese architecture.
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Ryan, Raymund
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ARCHITECTS ,SOCIETIES ,CONFERENCES & conventions - Abstract
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.
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- 2004
15. The Rise of Modern Architecture in Postwar America: Class and Spatial Roots of Aesthetic Change.
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Gartman, W.
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MODERN architecture ,ARCHITECTS ,BUSINESS enterprises - Abstract
Modern architecture was pioneered in the 1920s by architects in Central Europe, but it did not become prominent in the United States until the 1950s. This late adoption is explained by the social and spatial transformations of American society. Modern architecture was the ideological expression of the quest of the professional-managerial class for power, symbolizing the rationality and technology that this class believed should rule society in the place of capital. This style was not prominent early in the U.S. because by the 1920s the professional-managerial class had already become integrated into capitalist corporations and hence needed no independent ideological expression of its ambitions. The emerging mass market in America forced architects working for corporations to cater to the demand of working Americans for entertainment in urban buildings to cover over the rationality and technology of their standardized work. After World War II, however, the social and spatial arrangements of classes in America changed. The managerial revolution displaced capitalists and entrepreneurs and gave the professional- managerial class control of corporations. It thus sought to express its governing rationality in sober, modernist headquarters. This architectural style was now accepted in urban centers by working Americans because most had moved to the suburbs, where they used their market power to demand a landscape of consumer diversion that countered and compensated for the symbols of technocratic work downtown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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16. The "Mad" Engineer: L'Enfant in Early National Philadelphia.
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SMITH, RYAN K.
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CIVIL engineers ,ARCHITECTS ,MANSION design & construction ,ARCHITECTURE ,HISTORY of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ,EIGHTEENTH century - Abstract
The article presents an examination into the work and influence of the French architect and civil engineer Pierre Charles L'Enfant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the final decade of the 18th century. Details are given outlining the history of L'Enfant's travels and residency in the United States in the 1780s and 1790s, his work designing the mansion of the politician and businessman Robert Morris, and an overview of mistakes and miscalculations made by L'Enfant within his designs.
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- 2014
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17. Prologue: Before 1800.
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ARCHITECTS ,PAINTING ,DRAWING - Abstract
The article looks into some portraits of architects before 1800 in Europe and the U.S. The works of some architects including Thomas-Germain-Joseph Diviver, John Francis Rigaud, and Cesare Ripa. Also tackled are some earlier Western architects' portraits that show the subject in the act or interrupted in the act of drawing.
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- 2013
18. Why building information modeling isn't working ... yet.
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Sanders, Ken
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CONSTRUCTION contracts ,ARCHITECTURAL design ,INFORMATION modeling ,CONSTRUCTION industry ,ARCHITECTS - Abstract
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.
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- 2004
19. The Shampay House of 1919.
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Jin-Ho Park and March, Lionel
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ATTRIBUTION of architecture ,INTELLECTUAL property ,ARCHITECTS ,ARCHITECTURE ,TWENTIETH century - Abstract
The Shampay House of 1919 has been commonly understood to be the very last of Frank Lloyd Wright's cruciform Prairie houses. It was planned to be erected in Beverly Hills, Illinois, but the client withdrew amid legal acrimony at the design stage. In this period, when Wright was frequently in Tokyo working on the Imperial Hotel and other commissions in Japan, Rudolph M. Schindler was left in charge of Wright's offices in the United States. While the Shampay House clearly comes out of Frank Lloyd Wright's studio, so that ownership of the design is not in question, this paper traces the controversy--between the two architects themselves as well as subsequent commentators--concerning the authorship of the project. The evidence presented unambiguously determines who conceived the design, the degree of Wright's involvement in its development, and the original contributions that Schindler brought to it. Previously unknown and unpublished blueprints and extracts from correspondence between Wright and Schindler are used extensively in the discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2002
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20. Kips Bay Decorator Show House 1999.
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Lewis, Julia
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ARCHITECTS ,INTERIOR decorators ,DECORATOR showhouses - Abstract
Features architects and designers' design highlights from the 27th Kips Bay Decorator Showhouse in New York City. Includes Peter Vaughn/Albrizzi Design; Alexa Hampton/Mark Hampton, Inc.; Dakota Jackson; James Rixner.
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- 1999
21. Bringing Shelter Up to Date: III. Why Don't We Do It?
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Haskell, Douglas
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HOUSING ,URBAN planning ,CONSTRUCTION costs ,ARCHITECTS ,ENGINEERS - Abstract
In thinking about a home, one might place on one side of the balance all the favorite desires. The average American would like his home capacious, comfortable, well serviced and in addition, how he would like to have it air-conditioned, not to say streamlined. The few people who are more subtle than the average want gardens, playgrounds for the children, security from traffic and distance from noise, and a sense of peace and ease. A home in such terms would arouse a feeling of desire all strive hard for luxuries, not necessities. Over against these desires, as the source of their satisfaction, stand the national resources, the factories, the workers, engineers, and planners who combine to make up the capacity of the plant. And in the U.S. this capacity is adequate. The housing movement began its attack on these irrelevant costs with what economies the technical ingenuity of planners and architects could devise in the field. To circumvent high land costs it devised better layouts, and against high construction costs it devised "large-scale operations."
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- 1934
22. Frank Gehry's High-Tech Secret.
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Palmeri, Christopher
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ENGINEERING ,CONSTRUCTION industry ,CONSTRUCTION ,ARCHITECTS ,COMPUTER software ,ARCHITECTURE ,BIOGRAPHIES ,DESIGN - Abstract
Profiles Canadian architect Frank Gehry. His desire for fundamental change in how buildings come to be; Formation of a new business, Gehry Technologies; Modification of CATIA design software originally developed for the aerospace industry by Dassault Systemes of France; Performance of the software which allows for better costs controls with 3D imaging of proposed buildings; Purpose of the corporation; Example of Gehry buildings; Other projects under development. INSETS: A Clearer View;Frank Owen Gehry.
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- 2003
23. Back to Babel.
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ARCHITECTURE competitions ,ARCHITECTS - Abstract
Focuses on the progress of an architectural competition for rebuilding the World Trade Center in New York City. The live television and radio coverage of the December press conference, which was held in the recently restored Winter Garden of the World Financial Center, across the street from Ground Zero, allowed the general public a rare opportunity to witness how architects make their pitch.Daniel Libeskind's intense, theatrical proffer quickly cut to the emotional heart of the matter, beginning with his tale of arriving by ship in New York harbor as the son of Holocaust survivors, awed by the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan skyline like generations of grateful immigrants before him. Though all the new Ground Zero proposals in one way or another demarcate the footprints of the Twin Towers, Libeskind's design is by far the most dramatic evocation of the disaster. As could have been foreseen, Norman Foster's scheme was technologically proficient, environmentally sensitive, sleekly finished, structurally logical, and more than a bit cold, a deficiency that he effectively countered with his persuasive presentation. If one predominant theme emerged from the presentations, it was not gardens in the sky or footprints on the ground, but immense--not to say insane--height. Five of the schemes would be taller than the World Trade Center, and four of them, including Libeskind's and Foster's, would become the tallest buildings in the world. The alternative to a gargantuan approach was laid out in the concept advanced by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). Other designs.
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- 2003
24. THE FRANK GEHRY EXPERIENCE.
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Lacayo, Richard and Levy, Daniel S.
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ARCHITECTS ,BUILDINGS ,MUSIC museums ,DESIGN - Abstract
Focuses on architect Frank Gehry. Design of his building, the Experience Music Project, which opened in Seattle, Washington in June 2000; Triumph of his Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Appreciation for his design formulations; Background on Gehry's family and career highlights. INSET: A New Rock-'n'-Roll Sensatioin Makes Its Debut.
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- 2000
25. Long Night's Journey Into Day.
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Julien, Claude
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RESEARCH ,CONSUMER goods ,EDUCATIONAL technology ,ARCHITECTS ,TECHNOLOGICAL innovations - Abstract
Americans faith and innovative zeal swept away all obstacles and surmounted all difficulties. The American achievement shines out for all to see, an affluent society, an unparalleled military and economic strength, a school population of 59 million in a country of 204 million, scientific research that leads the world, a technology which has succeeded in putting man on the moon, and an abundance of consumer goods, as well as of writers, poets, artists, architects. In short, U.S. is a civilization, a culture, a way of life, and a way of looking at the world and the future.
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- 1971
26. Will Success Spoil Aspen?
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rnst, P. G.
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CULTURE ,ARCHITECTS ,TREES ,WATER ,SOCIAL history - Abstract
The article presents information on social conditions at Aspen, Colorado. Strangely enough, the people of Aspen are indifferent to the beautification of the city. Not long ago, some Aspen architects decided that the planting of more trees would be a good idea. But when they approached the store and restaurant owners, only a few agreed to spend $12.50 for a tree. This seems all the more shocking because retail sales amount to $9 million a year. Despite Aspen's riches and cultural aspirations, the county library has sufficient funds to keep open only a few hours a day. And even more important there is still no adequate water-purification plant.
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- 1966
27. Kruech & Olsen.
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ARCHITECTURAL design , *ARCHITECTS , *ARCHITECTURE - Abstract
The article describes the architectural design projects of American architectural firm Krueck and Olsen, including the Meitus House and the Marriott Painted Apartment in Chicago, Illinois. The firm's projects are manifestation of latent expressionism. The paper provides relevant photographs, floor plans and architectural renderings of the projects.
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- 1989
28. Deborah Berke & Associate.
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ARCHITECTURAL design , *VERNACULAR architecture , *ARCHITECTS , *ARCHITECTURE - Abstract
The article describes the vernacular architectural design projects of American architect Deborah Berke. The first houses designed by Berke are linked with the rise of the new beachfront town of Seaside, Florida. She designs vernacular housing rather than vernacular-style houses. The paper provides relevant photographs, floor plans and architectural renderings of her projects.
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- 1989
29. Steven Holl.
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ARCHITECTURAL design , *ARCHITECTS , *ARCHITECTURE - Abstract
The article describes the architectural design projects of American architect Steven Holl. Holl believes that architectural principles form a fulcrum between codified practices and free intervention. The paper also provides relevant photographs, floor plans and architectural renderings of his projects.
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- 1989
30. Architecture.
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McQuade, Walter
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ARCHITECTURE ,ARCHITECTS ,URBAN planners ,ARTISTS - Abstract
Chicago, Illinois has long been a more vivid city architecturally than New York. There is even a heritage of architectural heroes there. One was Uncle Thin Burnham, who said, "make no little plans," and who, himself, made some grand ones. Another was Louis Sullivan, probably still America's greatest artist in architecture, whose Chicago business buildings, among them the Carson Pine Scott department store in the Loop, Chicago, are in their way as deep and unknowable as Greek temple ruins. There are a number of other Chicago architects, who became great characters in their community, and whose buildings did so as well.
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- 1962
31. Punk in the Avenue Gabriel.
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Young, Stark
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ARCHITECTS ,ARCHITECTURE ,ROMANTICISM in art ,EMBASSIES ,OFFICE buildings - Abstract
Presents information about an architect who does not have any sound idea about architectural designs. Criticism of the U.S. embassy's architecture in Paris, France by the architect; Exploitation of art critics by the journalistic system under which they work; Criticism of the American Government Office Building located in Avenue Gabriel; Glimpses of romantic architecture that can be found on the third floor of the building.
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- 1933
32. Wellington Reiter takes to the air.
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Fortmeyer, Russell
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INTERNATIONAL airports ,ARCHITECTURAL design ,ARCHITECTS - Abstract
The article describes the architectural design of Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona. The airport's importance to the city's economy and culture inspired Wellington Reiter, an architect and dean of Arizona State University's College of Design, to sketch out a vision of its future. The architect conceived the highway pipeline into the airport as both a sort of utopian entry and a darker surveillance system.
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- 2007
33. Le Corbusier and Postwar America: The TVA and Béton Brut.
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BACON, MARDGES
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ARCHITECTS ,ARCHITECTURE ,HISTORY - Abstract
The article discusses the life and projects work of architect Le Corbusier especially in postwar America. Topics include Le Corbusier's encounter with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Le Corbusier's association with the former leader in the French Resistance Eugène Claudius-Petit and the preparations and expectations of they visit to the U.S.
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- 2015
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34. How Is LEED Faring After Five Years in Use?
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Solomon, Nancy
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SUSTAINABLE building design & construction ,ARCHITECTS ,MARKETING ,PAMPHLETS ,CONTRACTORS ,CONTRACT labor - Abstract
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.
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- 2005
35. Are We Exporting Architecture Jobs?
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Solomon, Nancy B.
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ARCHITECTURE ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,ARCHITECTURAL firms ,ARCHITECTS ,ARCHITECTURE & technology - Abstract
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.
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- 2005
36. Boston architects Wood + Zapata stir up controversy at Chicago's SOLDIER FIELD, inserting a Modern stadium into a Classically styled arena.
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Glovannini, Joseph
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SPORTS facilities ,ARCHITECTURAL design ,ARCHITECTS - Abstract
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.
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- 2004
37. From the Field: China Business Blitz.
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Ivy, Robert
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ARCHITECTS ,MARKETPLACES - Abstract
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.
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- 2004
38. DIA:BEACON, a collaboration of artist Robert Irwin andarchitect OpenOffice, asks: Do museums need architecture?
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Russell, James S.
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MUSEUM buildings ,ARCHITECTS - Abstract
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.
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- 2003
39. For and about the new generation of architects.
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ARCHITECTS ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,BUSINESS partnerships - Abstract
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.
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- 2003
40. Michael Graves.
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Ivy, Robert
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ARCHITECTS ,ARCHITECTURAL awards - Abstract
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.
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- 2001
41. ARCHITECTURE SIG COLUMN.
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Byrnes, Stephanie C.
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ARCHITECTURAL libraries ,INDEXES ,ARCHITECTS ,ARCHITECTURAL firms ,PRESERVATION of library materials - Abstract
Presents news briefs concerning architectural libraries in the U.S. as of February 1982. Availability of an index to architects and architectural firms; Provision of information on architectural office libraries in the December 1981 issue of "Professional Services Management Journal"; Update on the Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records.
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- 1982
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42. newsdesk.
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Barreneche, Raul and Kim-Jamet, Sheila
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INTERIOR decoration ,SCULPTURE exhibitions ,ART museums ,MENTORING ,ARCHITECTS ,BENEFIT auctions ,NONPROFIT organizations - Abstract
Presents news briefs on interior decoration in the U.S. as of September 4, 2004. Information on the exhibition "Isamu Nogachi: Master Sculptor," organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Hirschborn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; Launch of Mentoring: Beyond IDP for architects by the Emerging New York Architects Committee; Background on the BowHaus benefit auction of the nonprofit organization Puppies Behind Bars.
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- 2004
43. Lars Lerup.
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ARCHITECTURAL design , *ARCHITECTS , *ARCHITECTURE - Abstract
The article describes the architectural design projects of American architect Lars Lerup. His projects are all attempt to strip away the overlay of stale associations which intervene between man and the brute facts of his architecture. The paper provides relevant photographs, floor plans and architectural renderings of his projects.
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- 1989
44. Neil Denari.
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ARCHITECTURAL design , *ARCHITECTS , *ARCHITECTURE - Abstract
The article describes the two architectural design projects of American architect Neil Denari. The first is tabletop demonstration engineering while the second is an extensive diagram that conventionally includes airbrush illustrations with keyed lists and tables of components. The paper provides relevant photographs, floor plans and architectural renderings of the project.
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- 1989
45. Steven Harris.
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ARCHITECTURAL design , *ARCHITECTS , *ARCHITECTURE - Abstract
The article describes the architectural design projects of American architect Steven Harris. His projects vary considerably, usually taking cues from local characteristics of siting, lot configuration or landscaping. The paper provides relevant photographs, floor plans and architectural renderings of the project.
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- 1989
46. Reiser & Umemoto.
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ARCHITECTURAL design , *ARCHITECTS , *ARCHITECTURE - Abstract
The article describes the architectural design projects of American architects Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto. Their design of the Mnemonic Theater is an attempt to emulate the directness of hope and ambition in reconnecting the language, gesture and form with a spirit of vitality equal to the past. The paper provides relevant photographs, floor plans and architectural renderings of the project.
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- 1989
47. Diller & Scofidio.
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ARCHITECTURAL design , *ARCHITECTS , *ARCHITECTURE - Abstract
The article describes the architectural design projects of American architects Liz Diller and Ric Scofidio. Their projects explore the latency of actions in architectural forms and their investigations go beyond conventional expectations of forms. The \ paper provides relevant photographs, floor plans and architectural renderings of the project.
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- 1989
48. Expanding Collaboration in Academia: Case Study of the Development of Construction Products.
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Holley, Paul W. and Ben Farrow, C.
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CONSTRUCTION projects ,TEAMS in the workplace ,INTELLECTUAL property ,CONSULTANTS ,ARCHITECTS ,CONSTRUCTION industry - Abstract
Much of the twentieth century featured construction projects in the built environment developed through significant specialization within design and construction sectors. Several different project delivery schemes have evolved in the last quarter century that focused on a collaborative approach. In academia, this parallel shift toward collaboration has been slower, but students (and faculty) are beginning to learn to value their counterparts' perspective. This case study explores a new way that collaborative academic efforts can be expanded beyond the constructor-architect paradigm. Focused on the improvement of productivity and safety in construction, an ongoing 5-year effort between programs in construction management and industrial design at a major U.S. university produces new construction products and tools. The study explores the iterative development of the program, investigates the process employed, and details how collaboration in academia can play a role in the improvement of tactile construction processes, and in doing so, create intellectual property (IP) and the potential for licensure. In addition to IP, the program has produced extensive research opportunities for faculty, expanded relationships with industry partners, and provided validation of the research through the patenting of products. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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49. Engineering and technology students' perceptions of courses.
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Mativo, John, Womble, Myra, and Jones, Karen
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ECONOMIC change ,CURRICULUM ,TECHNOLOGY education ,HIGH school students ,ARCHITECTS - Abstract
As cultural, social, political and economic changes take place, the secondary or high school curriculum should reflect and respond to changing needs and aspirations of students. Technology Education has been proactive in this arena as it has transformed over the decades to meet ever-changing societal needs. The most recent change to the discipline has been to add engineering and, as a result, adopting a new name and curriculum-Engineering and Technology Education. The added component and name change in Technology Education is causing discussions about what the new direction means, what professional preparation changes will be incurred, and what work graduating students will be prepared to do. In light of these changes, this study investigated perceptions of high school students in the United States of America about engineering and technology courses they take. To investigate whether students' perceptions are in accord with current changes in Engineering and Technology Education, 316 students enrolled in engineering and technology courses in Georgia schools that have an affiliation with the Georgia Engineering and Technology Education Association (GETEA) were surveyed. According to data analyses, students' perceptions can be divided into two factors. Educational Value of Course (factor 1) was extracted from statements measuring the degree to which the courses prepare students for employment and provide them with information regarding future employment. Personal Relevance of Course (factor 2) was derived from statements measuring students' perceptions about links between engineering and technology education and their personal lives. Such findings suggest these students valued their engineering and technology courses, planned to continue their education, made good grades, and had varied types of career expectations for jobs such as design engineers and architects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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50. Myth, Modernity, and Mass Housing: The Development of Public Housing in Depression-Era Cleveland.
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DONNELLY, JENNIFER
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GREAT Depression, 1929-1939 ,ARCHITECTS ,PLANNERS ,HOUSING ,PLANNED communities ,PUBLIC housing ,HISTORY - Abstract
During the Great Depression planners and architects in Cleveland, Ohio, initiated sweeping housing reforms, and by 1943 seven public housing estates had been constructed across the city. The initial success of these residences solidified Cleveland as an important vanguard in the history of public housing in the United States. At the center of the myths and realities of housing reform was the notion that modern dwellings could alleviate the social and urban conditions of impoverishment. The symbolic burden of this vision was placed on the residents of public housing, whose corporality became the pivotal space of modernization and reform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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