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Design Opportunities in India
U.S. Architects Explore Design Opportunities in India Architectural Record, Nov. 1, 2012 In mid-October, more than 30 architects flew from points around the U.S. to Chennai, India, where they began a five-day, three-city trade mission organized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the U.S. Department of Commerce. The purpose of the mission was…
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Double Whammy
Would there be more women in architecture if there were more women in development? Architect, Sept. 2012 It was a brownfield site, an old car dealership in New Orleans’s Warehouse District. Five years ago, Angela O’Byrne, AIA, envisioned something more there: a mixed-use, 10-story, carbon-neutral redevelopment, the first of its kind in the city. She…
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A New Morning in Washington
The Architect’s Newspaper, June 20, 2012 It’s hard to pinpoint just when D.C. began to change, when a famously classical city took a second look at contemporary architecture and urban design, liked what it saw, and—even more surprising, given its ingrained traditionalism, many-layered regulatory processes, and vocal NIMBY groups—started building more of it. “Here’s the…
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Domestic Dissonance
The Architect’s Newspaper, May 29, 2012 The quotation that greets visitors to House & Home, a new exhibition at Washington’s National Building Museum, comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it…
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The Mechanic Theatre and Brutalism’s imperiled legacy
Today over at Architect magazine, I write about the convoluted and still unresolved saga of the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre, an important Brutalist structure designed by John M. Johansen. A member of the Harvard Five (along with Marcel Breuer, Philip Johnson, Eliot Noyes, and Landis Gores), Johansen was a protege of Walter Gropius who married…
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