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Photo of the Week: Reflecting on Austin Architecture Snapped this while downtown last weekend. How many different architectural styles can you see reflected (literally) in this building? See larger imageExplore Austin Architecture...
Photo of the Week: Reflecting on Austin Architecture - Austin Archives Photo of the Week: Reflecting on Austin Architecture - Snapped this while downtown last weekend. How many different architectural styles can you see reflected (literally) in this building? See larger imageExplore Austin Architecture...
Design-In Marathon On October 8, from 8:00 am to midnight, eighty pros and emerging talents will give free presentations on a variety of architectural themes during AIA's New York Design-In Marathon. The event kicks off the City's first annual Architecture Week, which.
Ford's Theater This week in 1863, architect and builder James J. Gifford laid the cornerstone for John T. Ford's new theater in Washington, DC. A little more than two years later, on April 14, 1865, it would become the scene of one...
Chicago Architecture and WWII This week the Art Institute began presenting an exhibition entitled "1945: Creativity and Crisis, Chicago Architecture and Design of the World War II Era." An overview: "Nineteen forty-five was a pivotal year that marked not only the end of the...
Conflict resolution: Daniel Libeskind describes the challenge of designing a building intended as a commemoration of war but informed by our endless struggle Architecture is a communicative art. All too often, however, architecture is seen as mute. Buildings are understood as disposable consumer items whose ......(Continue Reading) A bit of rough: William Cook explains why brutalism, that most provocative assault on suburban sentiment, is now cherished again - Architecture Week/2 Throughout the Thatcherite Eighties and Majorite Nineties, they were the buildings we all loved to hate. But over the past few years, something quite ......(Continue Reading)Crystal balls: Paul Finch on why transparency does not guarantee a clearer view - Architecture Week/3 - Brief Article "I can see right through you"; but transparency is not always a mark of approval. Yet in recent years, a cult of transparency has emerged within government ......(Continue Reading)Gig-E Bolsters Cable's Video-On-Demand Arsenal - Charter Communications' decision last week to employ a gigabit Ethernet network architecture GIG-E BOLSTERS CABLE'S VIDEO-ON-DEMAND ARSENAL.(Charter Communications' decision last week to employ a gigabit Ethernet network architecture)...(Continue Reading)The third, two-week, Glenn Murcutt International Architecture Master Class took place 13-27 July, with 32 participants.(New South Wales)(Brief Article) June was a busy month for London's architectural community. Not least due to the staging of the eighth annual Architecture Week, but also because of ......(Continue Reading)
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