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"UNBUILT WASHINGTON" EXHIBIT
Published on 2012-01-24 09:40:00
National Building Museum, Washington, DC November 19, 2011 - May 28, 2012 Imagine that you are traveling into Washington, D.C., from northern Virginia. As you approach the Potomac River, you see the tall, craggy, medieval-looking towers of the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial Bridge looming in the foreground, largely blocking the view of the National Mall beyond. As you reach the end of the bridge, now you can clearly see the enormous pyramid that was built to honor Abraham Lincoln. Going around to [..]
Michael Graves wins 2012 Driehaus Prize
Published on 2012-01-24 09:30:00
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CONFERENCE: RECONSIDERING POSTMODERNISM
Published on 2011-09-16 09:18:00
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11-12, 2011 Co-Sponsored by the Schools of Architecture of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Miami Reconsidering Postmodernism will gather leading scholars, practitioners, and critics for a rigorous round of lectures, film tributes, and panel discussions. The fully scheduled two-day conference coincides with the 30th anniversary of Tom Wolfe’s seminal publication
Column: 'Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White'
Published on 2011-06-08 09:58:00
May 26, 2011 7:23 AM from Architecture Here and There by David Brussat The photograph above shows the office of McKim, Mead & White in 1892, celebrating its victory in a competition to design the Rhode Island State House. The firm was on top of its profession in America, and rarely deigned to participate in competitions. In the case of the job in Providence, victory came through the sort of social connections set forth in Mosette Broderick's exhaustive, if not quite exhausting, 581-page book Tr [..]
Steven Semes this Thursday in Newport
Published on 2011-05-16 07:58:00
- Free lecture by Steven Semes this Thursday in Newport
New Beaux-Arts Atelier Announced
Published on 2011-04-01 08:58:00
via Programs — Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America. March 18, 2011 The Beaux-Arts Atelier is a non-accredited, one-year intensive program in the study of architectural design following in the method of the École des Beaux-Arts. Students will receive in-depth instruction in an atelier setting while also pursuing coursework in observational drawing, architectural drafting, systematic design methodology, the classical orders, geometry and proportion, traditional methods of a [..]
Is Landscape Urbanism the new New Urbanism? The RPA continues the debate
Published on 2011-03-31 08:50:00
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Architects Experimenting on the Poor (Again)
Published on 2011-03-29 11:40:00
from The Civitas Chronicles
Why Hire an Architect?
Published on 2011-02-10 12:27:00
Architects are more than building designers—they are men and women who create the spaces in which we live, work and play. Architects are creative problem solvers who translate the requirements of an owner into a three dimensional form by visualizing the design and communicating it, both verbally and in drawings, so that it can be built.
No matter what kind of project you have in mind, you should speak with an architect who is a member of