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  • Thom Mayne Wins 2013 AIA Gold Medal

    The designer of the new Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas was once better known for his iconoclasm. No less provocative today, the winner of the 2013 AIA Gold Medal has done some of his best work for the federal government's Design Excellence Program.

     
  • Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects Wins 2013 AIA Architecture Firm Award

    Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects won the AIA's highest honor for an architecture firm, a prize commending their often spiritual, always textural works, which include the recently relocated Barnes Foundation museum in Philadelphia.

     

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    Scaling Up

    Jumping social engagement's divides.

     
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    The Fixers

    Urban Charrette connects Tampa and the design community.

     
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    Center Stage

    Architecture centers fill the gap between design matters and the public interest.

     

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    Pencils Down

    Being an engaged voter has never been easier for architects.

     

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    Lines of Inquiry

    An architecture student going where the evidence takes her.

     
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    Lean on Me

    The last in a three part series on balancing design and business.

     
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    Playing Defense

    Part two in a three-part series on balancing design and business.

     
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    Rules of Engagement

    Part one in a three-part series on balancing design and business.

     
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    Best-Laid Plans

    Energy modeling is for everyone and all buildings benefit.

     
  • Aging In Place

    Sustaining the General Services Administration’s modern sensibilities

     
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    Reverse Brain Drain

    Keeping architecture relevant is about keeping it real.

     

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    Keeping Tabs

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    Return to Form

    Chattanooga's next chapter at the intersection of design and economic renewal.

     
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    Field Survey

    Where are the gaps in preservation education?

     
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    Well Rounded

    As hospital campuses grow, how can they simultaneously shrink their environmental footprints?

     
  • Pivot Points

    Adapting prisons for a changing social landscape.

     
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    Tipping Point

    Two bike-share programs look to set a standard for healthier cities.

     
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    New Amsterdams

    As water levels and the risk profiles of major coastal cities rise, new experts are meeting the challenge.

     
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    Reverse Engineering

    Modeling future scenarios in an ongoing energy crisis.

     
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    Joplin’s Return

    Rebuilding in a recession's and a tornado's wake.

     
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    Design Doctrine

    Fifty years on, the GSA's "Guiding Principles" have become a working theory on good design.

     
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    Material Culture

    How much do you know about the materials that you're using?

     
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    Booster Seats

    Beyond the business of bricks and mortar, public service is more than an elective for some architects.

     
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    Accentuate the Positive

    Salutogenic design may be the key to turning sustainability into more than a buzzword.

     

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  • Data from the Decline Revealed

    Data from the decline revealed: AIA chief economist Kermit Baker discusses the difficult past few years unveiled by the Institute's 2012 Business of Architecture Report.

     

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    LEED Platinum adaptive re-use in Boston Harbor: User-generated architecture by CBT Architects.

     
  • When Materials Are Not Enough

    Asif Khan's pavilion for Art Basel, commissioned by Swarovski and using 1.5 million crystals, captures the light phenomenon parhelia, but disappoints architecturally.

     
  • New Self-Healing Plastic Also Conducts Electricity

    If you've ever dinged your smartphone or laptop, then you might be interested in self-repairing plastic that behaves more like human skin, developed by scientists at Stanford University.

     
  • A Monument to Our Favorite Resource?

    The Great Pyramid of Gaza may soon be replaced in height by a sculpture of 410,000 oil barrels: a tribute to Islamic architecture or a tribute to our dependence on oil?

     
  • A Zero-Energy Seismic Sensor

    Student Daniel Tomicek has developed a sensor that uses the kinetic energy created by an earthquake to monitor and report damage to buildings and infrastructure without needing electrical energy, Blaine Brownell reports.

     
  • Book Mountain: An Old Archetype for a New Era

    Despite, or maybe because of, the rise of the e-book, libraries are reinventing themselves. MVRDV's new library in Spijkenisse, Netherlands, organizes a literal mountain of books in a glass enclosure.