描述
OCTOBER 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE CLIMATE IS CHANGING. SO MUST ARCHITECTURE.
Climate Change The Climate Is Changing. So Must Architecture.Carbon dioxide causes global warming. Buildings emit almost half of the carbon dioxide in the U.S. That has to stop.
Climate Change Insurance and Climate Change: Risk too Great to IgnoreWashington state insurance commissioner Mike Kreidler discusses how regulators, policy providers, and architects can work together to prepare and protect the built environment.
Climate Change Attaining the AIA 2030 Commitment BenchmarksARCHITECT spoke with five signatory firms about how they attained such energy savings—and why it matters.
Climate Change Material Strategies for Sustainable ConstructionNext-generation material approaches must increasingly address material effects both within and beyond an architectural project.
Climate Change Education and the Performance ImperativeAli Malkawi and Gordon Gill discuss their recent Harvard GSD studio and the need for heightened climate awareness in architecture schools.
Climate Change The Proven Value of Resilient DesignHouston’s recently completed Buffalo Bayou Park weathered the flooding of Hurricane Harvey with limited damage, thanks to the foresightedness of Page and SWA Group.
Climate Change ASU’s High Standard for High-Performance BuildingArizona State University’s campus architect explains the Tempe, Ariz., institution’s sustainable development process.
Climate Change What It Takes to Go Net-ZeroArchitects share their experiences in net-zero building, from persuading uncertain clients to dealing with extreme weather.
Climate Change A Brief Climate Change Reading ListSix books that present the truths and consequences of our global addiction to fossil fuels.
Climate Change Insurance and Climate Change: Risk too Great to IgnoreWashington state insurance commissioner Mike Kreidler discusses how regulators, policy providers, and architects can work together to prepare and protect the built environment.
Climate Change Attaining the AIA 2030 Commitment BenchmarksARCHITECT spoke with five signatory firms about how they attained such energy savings—and why it matters.
Climate Change Education and the Performance ImperativeAli Malkawi and Gordon Gill discuss their recent Harvard GSD studio and the need for heightened climate awareness in architecture schools.
Climate Change The Proven Value of Resilient DesignHouston’s recently completed Buffalo Bayou Park weathered the flooding of Hurricane Harvey with limited damage, thanks to the foresightedness of Page and SWA Group.
Climate Change A Brief Climate Change Reading ListSix books that present the truths and consequences of our global addiction to fossil fuels.
FEATURES
Critique The Past (and Future) of HousingStudio Ma’s Lakeside project at Princeton recalls an early modernist ethos.
Exhibitions The Return of Pacific Standard TimeChristopher Hawthorne on what the latest iteration of this exhibition series reveals about the hall-of-mirrors cultural relationship between L.A. and Latin America.
Equity The High Line Network Tackles GentrificationCan a group of urban park projects around the country inspire equitable development instead of displacement?
Critique The Past (and Future) of HousingStudio Ma’s Lakeside project at Princeton recalls an early modernist ethos.
Exhibitions The Return of Pacific Standard TimeChristopher Hawthorne on what the latest iteration of this exhibition series reveals about the hall-of-mirrors cultural relationship between L.A. and Latin America.
Equity The High Line Network Tackles GentrificationCan a group of urban park projects around the country inspire equitable development instead of displacement?
PROJECTS
Michigan Lake HouseDesai Chia Architecture
Michigan Lake HouseDesai Chia Architecture
TECH + PRACTICE
Best Practices How to Convince a Client to Go GreenArchitects discuss techniques for promoting sustainability and building performance in a project.
Innovative Detail Detail: Essex Business School Geodesic Dome RoofThe timber structure designed by BDP tops a 60-foot-diameter theater for the Essex Business School in Colchester, England.
Next Progressives French 2DThese sisters were inspired by their shared lack of depth perception when selecting a name for their Boston-based firm.
Products Three Potentially Game-Changing Product PrototypesManufacturers propose material innovations using sustainable practices.
Best Practices How to Convince a Client to Go GreenArchitects discuss techniques for promoting sustainability and building performance in a project.
Innovative Detail Detail: Essex Business School Geodesic Dome RoofThe timber structure designed by BDP tops a 60-foot-diameter theater for the Essex Business School in Colchester, England.
Next Progressives French 2DThese sisters were inspired by their shared lack of depth perception when selecting a name for their Boston-based firm.
Products Three Potentially Game-Changing Product PrototypesManufacturers propose material innovations using sustainable practices.
RESIDENTIAL
Bajes Kwartier MasterplanOffice for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)
Product Clopay’s Modern Garage Doors Both Shield and ImpressThese energy-efficient garage doors are elevated through sleek design.
Exhibitions A Reflection on Moshe Safdie’s Uncompleted Habitat Puerto RicoArtist David Hartt created an exhibition exploring the stopped housing experiment, currently on view at Chicago’s Graham Foundation.
Bajes Kwartier MasterplanOffice for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)
Product Clopay’s Modern Garage Doors Both Shield and ImpressThese energy-efficient garage doors are elevated through sleek design.
Exhibitions A Reflection on Moshe Safdie’s Uncompleted Habitat Puerto RicoArtist David Hartt created an exhibition exploring the stopped housing experiment, currently on view at Chicago’s Graham Foundation.
AIA ARCHITECT
AIA Feature Planning for the InevitableWhy architects need to both slow global warming and prepare for sea level rise.
AIA Feature Why Can’t We Understand Water?It’s time to think about water before catastrophe strikes, not after.
AIA Feature Transforming a MetropolisMiami’s unique opportunity to revolutionize how Americans handle climate change.
AIA Feature Water as a Basic Human RightOur relationship with water can be either life-enriching or life-depleting.
AIA Feature Connecting Global and Local SolutionsWater is life, which means its risks are our world’s risks
AIA Feature Planning for the InevitableWhy architects need to both slow global warming and prepare for sea level rise.
AIA Feature Why Can’t We Understand Water?It’s time to think about water before catastrophe strikes, not after.
AIA Feature Transforming a MetropolisMiami’s unique opportunity to revolutionize how Americans handle climate change.
AIA Feature Water as a Basic Human RightOur relationship with water can be either life-enriching or life-depleting.
AIA Feature Connecting Global and Local SolutionsWater is life, which means its risks are our world’s risks
FRONTS
Books John Cary Releases New Book, “Design for Good: A New Era of Architecture for Everyone”Published this month, the book features 20 recently built projects, from healthcare to religious spaces, by firms such as MASS Design Group, Perkins+Will, and Sharon Davis Design.
Exhibitions Mark Lamster’s Exhibition “The Island That Nobody Knows” Opens in BostonThe photography show curated by the architecture critic explores the industrial architecture of the city’s waste management plant.
Critique Columbus ReconsideredCan Exhibit Columbus help spur a renewed appreciation for this Midwestern epicenter of Modernism?
Awards Laurie Olin Announced as the 17th Laureate of Vincent Scully PrizeThe Philadelphia-based professor, author, and landscape architect will be recognized for his profound spaces and scholarship.
Education Projects AIA Announces Winners of 2017 Education Facility Design AwardsThe institute’s Committee on Architecture for Education recognized 12 projects in eight states and China.
Exhibitions A More Focused Chicago Architecture BiennialThis second iteration of the design-centric, city-wide exhibition learns important lessons from the first, but still there’s further to go.
Exhibitions A Reflection on Moshe Safdie’s Uncompleted Habitat Puerto RicoArtist David Hartt created an exhibition exploring the stopped housing experiment, currently on view at Chicago’s Graham Foundation.
Books John Cary Releases New Book, “Design for Good: A New Era of Architecture for Everyone”Published this month, the book features 20 recently built projects, from healthcare to religious spaces, by firms such as MASS Design Group, Perkins+Will, and Sharon Davis Design.
Exhibitions Mark Lamster’s Exhibition “The Island That Nobody Knows” Opens in BostonThe photography show curated by the architecture critic explores the industrial architecture of the city’s waste management plant.
Critique Columbus ReconsideredCan Exhibit Columbus help spur a renewed appreciation for this Midwestern epicenter of Modernism?
Awards Laurie Olin Announced as the 17th Laureate of Vincent Scully PrizeThe Philadelphia-based professor, author, and landscape architect will be recognized for his profound spaces and scholarship.
Education Projects AIA Announces Winners of 2017 Education Facility Design AwardsThe institute’s Committee on Architecture for Education recognized 12 projects in eight states and China.
Exhibitions A More Focused Chicago Architecture BiennialThis second iteration of the design-centric, city-wide exhibition learns important lessons from the first, but still there’s further to go.
Exhibitions A Reflection on Moshe Safdie’s Uncompleted Habitat Puerto RicoArtist David Hartt created an exhibition exploring the stopped housing experiment, currently on view at Chicago’s Graham Foundation.
