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Doing Good and Doing Well

Craig Kellogg, October 1, 2009

Brad Pitt would seem to be a patron with money to burn. After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Pitt phoned a number of architects he admired and asked for help with prototype houses for displaced Ninth Ward residents. More
AIS Lends Extreme Makeover: Home Edition a Helping Hand

Nicholas Tamarin, September 2, 2009

Affordable Interior Systems donated office furniture to The Fishing School in Washington D.C. as part of the seventh season of the ABC reality series. More
United, They Sit

Craig Kellogg, September 1, 2009

Gender and sexuality studies. Latino studies. American studies. Each sounds like an embattled militia in some academic guerilla war. However, those fields and several more peacefully coexist in New York University's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, and Lewis. More
In the Shadow of Versailles

Seth Sherwood, August 1, 2009
Talk about a French paradox. For decades, half of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Versailles—a prestigious school of fine arts, founded in the late 18th century near the famous château—languished in a charmless 1950's concrete annex at complete odds with the lovely things created inside it. More
Walk with Me

Cassie Walker, August 1, 2009
Joseph Rosa sidles up to the security guard standing next to Patricia Urquiola's felt-flowered Antibodi chaise longue. "No one has touched anything, have they?" he asks in a voice that sounds parental, not just curatorial. Who can blame him? The curator of architecture and design at the Art Institute of Chicago, Rosa worked with Renzo Piano Building Workshop to fashion this corner of the Modern... More
Big Man on Campus

Nicholas Tamarin, August 1, 2009

Heatherwick Studio designed the Aberystwyth Arts Centre at Aberystwyth University in Wales, eight small buildings nestled among the pine, oak, and birch trees. Seven of the eight 850-square-foot structures contain two identical studios; the eighth one is a single. More
Finalists Named in Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom

Nicholas Tamarin, July 27, 2009

Eight teams were named finalists in Architecture for Humanity's biannual contest to create innovative classroom designs. More
F&S Partners Merges With SmithGroup

Nicholas Tamarin, July 1, 2009

Effective yesterday, the 40-person office in Dallas carries the name of SmithGroup/F&S. More
Students of History

Mairi Beautyman, July 1, 2009
In 1937, architect Emil Herzig completed a cultural-studies department for what is now called the Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig in the central German city that English speakers know as Brunswick. The term "cultural studies" actually meant promoting Nazi philosophy. Today, aside from educational functions, the U-shape brick complex is a historic landmark bearing w... More
Always in Fashion

Edie Cohen, June 1, 2009
By our count, Clive Wilkinson had completed three previous projects for California's Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, in Irvine, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The San Diego location, newest to the fold, came in at number four. No, Wilkinson corrected us. The number is closer to 14 or 15 if you factor in all Clive Wilkinson Architects's interventions, large and small, since the... More
Rafael Viñoly Architects Completes UCSF Cancer Research Building

Nicholas Tamarin, June 1, 2009

The Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building will open at the University of California San Francisco on June 2. More
AIA and ALA Name Library Award Winners

Nicholas Tamarin, March 16, 2009

Eight firms will be honored by the American Institute of Architects and the American Library Association with the 2009 Library Building Awards. More
Unconventional Wisdom

Laura Fisher Kaiser, March 1, 2009

Alfred Zollinger and Sandra Wheeler have a reputation for not taking things at face value. Designing "Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video" at New York's International Center of Photography, the husband-wife partners poked fun at environmental orthodoxy by constructing giant Ecotopiaries. More
Higher Learning

Alan G. Brake, March 1, 2009

Sometimes sustainability is about getting back to basics. For the renovation of Slocum Hall, home to the Syracuse University School of Architecture, Garrison Architects cleared away the clutter and, in the process, discovered a passive cooling system built right into the structure of the 1918 building. More
Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Alice Tully Hall Opens

Sheila Kim, February 22, 2009

Following an extensive renovation, the hall is the first major completed component of the redevelopment of New York's Lincoln Center. More
Renzo Piano Designs Massive Cultural Facility

Nicholas Tamarin, February 13, 2009

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens, topping out at more than 2 million square feet, will house the National Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera. More
The Zoo Story

Maria Shollenbarger, January 1, 2009

The Grosser Garten is Dresden's crown jewel. It became a public garden in 1814, occupying roughly three quarters of a square mile in the center of the eastern German city. Wide pedestrian paths crisscross the manicured landscape, and the zoo has long been a source of particular pride and joy. More
San Jose Library Installs Photovoltaic Art Glass

Nicholas Tamarin, December 26, 2008

The new Pearl Avenue Branch in San Jose, California is staking claim as the first municipal space in the United States to feature public art that combines art glass and photovoltaic cells in an architectural application. More
Clive Wilkinson Architects

Meghan Edwards, December 1, 2008

Successful design marries the past with the present. Perhaps the same can be said for a successful ad campaign. Regardless, it's what Interior Design Hall of Fame member Clive Wilkinson did at this advertising and communications graduate school. More
Building a "High Performance School of the Future, Today"

From Building Design + Construction, November 24, 2008

From Building Design + Construction: Designed by the design firm Project FROG™, the high-performance green building system is a fully functional classroom that showcases advanced technologies and sustainable systems now available for the educational sector in North America. More

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