描述
SEPTEMBER 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE STUDIO PRIZE
2017 Studio Prize The Winners of The 2017 Studio PrizeOur jury selected these six studios as some of the most compelling in U.S. architectural education today.
2017 Studio Prize Studio Prize: Mining AppalachiaThird-year master’s students at the University of Virginia School of Architecture investigate breathing new life into the site of a historic, but now defunct, coal mine.
2017 Studio Prize Studio Prize: Vagabond, Nomadic House (Imagination + Construction + Experience)First-year master’s students at the Université Laval Faculty of Planning, Architecture, Arts and Design investigate solutions that would give once-nomadic Inuit populations in Québec agency in designing new settlements.
2017 Studio Prize Studio Prize: Real Fictions CairoThird-year master’s students from the University of Pennsylvania developed schemes to adapt existing infrastructure in Cairo, Egypt, to create new public spaces and recapture lost sites in the crowded city.
2017 Studio Prize Studio Prize: Natural TendenciesFirst-year B.Arch students at Woodbury University investigate the building blocks of materials, tectonics, and modeling.
2017 Studio Prize Studio Prize: Urbanism After ExtractionMaster’s students in architecture and urban planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology investigated possible post-industrial transformations of a former mining region in Poland.
2017 Studio Prize Sloan Award: Toronto Ravine Re-CreateA University of Toronto master’s studio in landscape architecture, urban design, and architecture reexamined the fundamental relationship between water and the city.
2017 Studio Prize The Winners of The 2017 Studio PrizeOur jury selected these six studios as some of the most compelling in U.S. architectural education today.
2017 Studio Prize Studio Prize: Mining AppalachiaThird-year master’s students at the University of Virginia School of Architecture investigate breathing new life into the site of a historic, but now defunct, coal mine.
2017 Studio Prize Studio Prize: Vagabond, Nomadic House (Imagination + Construction + Experience)First-year master’s students at the Université Laval Faculty of Planning, Architecture, Arts and Design investigate solutions that would give once-nomadic Inuit populations in Québec agency in designing new settlements.
2017 Studio Prize Studio Prize: Real Fictions CairoThird-year master’s students from the University of Pennsylvania developed schemes to adapt existing infrastructure in Cairo, Egypt, to create new public spaces and recapture lost sites in the crowded city.
2017 Studio Prize Studio Prize: Natural TendenciesFirst-year B.Arch students at Woodbury University investigate the building blocks of materials, tectonics, and modeling.
2017 Studio Prize Studio Prize: Urbanism After ExtractionMaster’s students in architecture and urban planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology investigated possible post-industrial transformations of a former mining region in Poland.
2017 Studio Prize Sloan Award: Toronto Ravine Re-CreateA University of Toronto master’s studio in landscape architecture, urban design, and architecture reexamined the fundamental relationship between water and the city.
PROJECTS
1330 Brook Street ResidenceStudio 804
1330 Brook Street ResidenceStudio 804
FEATURES
Education Reinventing Architectural EducationChristopher Hawthorne explores what a new generation of architecture school deans, the rise of the Free School in Los Angeles, and online courses by Gehry and Hays reveal about the democratization of the profession.
Policy Trump and the Labor ShortageHow the President’s immigration policies threaten to make an existing worker shortage in the construction industry even worse.
Historic Preservation A Postmodern PredicamentWill the renovation of the Portland Building compromise its historic integrity?
Education Reinventing Architectural EducationChristopher Hawthorne explores what a new generation of architecture school deans, the rise of the Free School in Los Angeles, and online courses by Gehry and Hays reveal about the democratization of the profession.
Policy Trump and the Labor ShortageHow the President’s immigration policies threaten to make an existing worker shortage in the construction industry even worse.
Historic Preservation A Postmodern PredicamentWill the renovation of the Portland Building compromise its historic integrity?
TECH + PRACTICE
Best Practices Should Your Firm Establish a Hiring Budget?Hiring experts lend some advice on how to be more efficient in attracting the best new talent, and how not to break the bank in the process.
Next Progressives Paul Preissner ArchitectsThis Chicago firm seeks to make the ordinary seem strange.
Innovative Detail Toranoko Nursery Laminated Veneer Lumber RoofTakashige Yamashita Office sandwiches LVL between plywood sheets for this 3.5-inch-deep roofed structure near Mount Fuji.
Products How to Specify a Direct/Indirect LuminaireARCHITECT has put together some tips for selecting and specifying these versatile fixtures.
Best Practices Should Your Firm Establish a Hiring Budget?Hiring experts lend some advice on how to be more efficient in attracting the best new talent, and how not to break the bank in the process.
Next Progressives Paul Preissner ArchitectsThis Chicago firm seeks to make the ordinary seem strange.
Innovative Detail Toranoko Nursery Laminated Veneer Lumber RoofTakashige Yamashita Office sandwiches LVL between plywood sheets for this 3.5-inch-deep roofed structure near Mount Fuji.
Products How to Specify a Direct/Indirect LuminaireARCHITECT has put together some tips for selecting and specifying these versatile fixtures.
RESIDENTIAL
Hill College House RenovationMills + Schnoering Architects
Real Estate Alison and Peter Smithson’s Sugden House Hits the Market For the First TimeBuilt in 1956, the Grade II-listed house is for sale for $1.6 million.
Products Three Screen-Printed Wallpapers Embellished With Expressive LinesVibrant prints on clay-coated paper invigorate residential spaces.
Hill College House RenovationMills + Schnoering Architects
Real Estate Alison and Peter Smithson’s Sugden House Hits the Market For the First TimeBuilt in 1956, the Grade II-listed house is for sale for $1.6 million.
Products Three Screen-Printed Wallpapers Embellished With Expressive LinesVibrant prints on clay-coated paper invigorate residential spaces.
AIA ARCHITECT
AIA Feature A Tale of Two CitiesSeattle and Taipei, an ocean apart, both offer innovative solutions to geographical challenges.
AIA Perspective World Company Inc.The “One Belt, One Road” initiative takes the lead in global infrastructure.
AIA Feature A Tale of Two CitiesSeattle and Taipei, an ocean apart, both offer innovative solutions to geographical challenges.
AIA Perspective World Company Inc.The “One Belt, One Road” initiative takes the lead in global infrastructure.
FRONTS
Exhibitions LACMA Celebrates Cultural Exchange Between California and MexicoStarting this September, “Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915–1985” explores how 20th-century design movements shaped the cultural scenes of both places.
Awards The Seven Winners of the 2017 AIA Healthcare Design AwardsProjects by Marlon Blackwell Architects, NBBJ, Forum Studio, CannonDesign, Johnsen Schmaling Architects, Kliment Halsband Architects, Philips Design, and Anderson Mikos Architects received recognition across four categories.
COMPETITIONS Team led by WHY Wins Ross Pavilion International Design CompetitionThe project will bring new life to the West Princes Street Gardens while respecting the historic landscape and nearby Edinburgh Castle.
Books Chicago Architecture Foundation Publishes Graphic Novel “No Small Plans”The illustrated book follows teens of past, present, and future Chicago, with the aim to inspire students get to know and take care of their city.
Exhibitions The Getty Research Institute Looks at the Transformation of the South American MetropolisThe Los Angeles art research organization draws on architecture and photography to present the social and cultural changes of these cities and how they formed an identity separate from their colonial origins.
Books Portman PicturesHarvard GSD’s dean, Mohsen Mostafavi, and photographer Iwan Baan collaborated on a new book about architect John Portman.
Exhibitions LACMA Celebrates Cultural Exchange Between California and MexicoStarting this September, “Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915–1985” explores how 20th-century design movements shaped the cultural scenes of both places.
Awards The Seven Winners of the 2017 AIA Healthcare Design AwardsProjects by Marlon Blackwell Architects, NBBJ, Forum Studio, CannonDesign, Johnsen Schmaling Architects, Kliment Halsband Architects, Philips Design, and Anderson Mikos Architects received recognition across four categories.
COMPETITIONS Team led by WHY Wins Ross Pavilion International Design CompetitionThe project will bring new life to the West Princes Street Gardens while respecting the historic landscape and nearby Edinburgh Castle.
Books Chicago Architecture Foundation Publishes Graphic Novel “No Small Plans”The illustrated book follows teens of past, present, and future Chicago, with the aim to inspire students get to know and take care of their city.
Exhibitions The Getty Research Institute Looks at the Transformation of the South American MetropolisThe Los Angeles art research organization draws on architecture and photography to present the social and cultural changes of these cities and how they formed an identity separate from their colonial origins.
Books Portman PicturesHarvard GSD’s dean, Mohsen Mostafavi, and photographer Iwan Baan collaborated on a new book about architect John Portman.
EDITORIAL
A Fitting Memorial in CharlottesvilleIn the wake of the white-supremacist terror attack in Charlottesville, Va., Ned Cramer argues, it is even more pressing that the University of Virginia build the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers.
A Fitting Memorial in CharlottesvilleIn the wake of the white-supremacist terror attack in Charlottesville, Va., Ned Cramer argues, it is even more pressing that the University of Virginia build the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers.
