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Julie Lasky Takes on New Role as ?The New York Times? Home Section Deputy Editor
: Julie Lasky, formerly of Design Observer, is now deputy editor of ?The New York Times? Home & Garden section.
Fri, 18 May 2012 14:15:09 -0700.

Chicago architect and mentor Reinhard Plaut dies
Chicago-area architect Reinhard Plaut died of complications of melanoma on April 18, Graydon Megan reports in the Chicago Tribune . He was 78. Plauts, known for his role in designing the economical apartment buildings called four-plus-ones, worked under architect Jerome Soltan after earning a degree in architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. While there, he met Ludwig Mies van ...
Fri, 04 May 2012 07:56:50 -0700.

Architecture Billings Index Reverts to Negative Territory
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After five months of positive readings, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) has fallen into negative terrain.
Tue, 22 May 2012 12:18:35 -0700.

Introducing the District Architecture Center
Home to AIA|DC and the Washington Architecture Foundation, the District Architecture Center is a storefront gateway to D.C.'s architecture community.
Fri, 18 May 2012 09:05:19 -0700.

Famed architecture critic gets her own critique
Paul Goldberger reviews Alexandra Lange?s new book in an architecture critic-on-critic match-up. Goldberger, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, plays nice, generally praising Lange?s new work, Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities . The book, which Goldberger compares to a textbook or ?how-to? on critiquing architecture, is unique in that it?s not just an ...
Fri, 04 May 2012 07:57:09 -0700.

2012 Washington UNBUILT Awards - Could Be: The AIA|DC Awards for Unbuilt Architecture Exhibition Now Open
The Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA|DC) is pleased to announce the exhibition opening of Could Be: The AIA|DC Awards for Unbuilt Architecture today at the District Architecture Center?s SIGAL Gallery. Open from May 3 - June 30. (PRWeb May 04, 2012) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9477516.htm
Fri, 04 May 2012 14:34:55 -0700.

Brutalism and the Tea Party
Goldberger?a busy guy?takes to the pages of Vanity Fair with a defense of Paul Rudolph?s Orange County Government Center. Part paean, part plea, Goldberger?s argument acknowledges respectfully that many of Rudolph?s users can?t stand his buildings. It?s unfair for fans of Brutalism to dismiss his critics as uneducated; the buildings are a legitimate burden for disabled users, for example. The ...
Fri, 04 May 2012 07:57:01 -0700.

New NASA building gravitates toward green
William McDonough + Partners has designed Earth?s first high-performance space station for NASA, Karissa Rosenfield reports for ArchDaily. The 50,000-square-foot office building, located in Moffett Field, Calif., is modeled after the adjacent NASA Ames Campus?s wind tunnels. ?Inspired by the wind tunnels ? and the images of NASA satellites, the exoskeleton approach gives the building increased ...
Fri, 04 May 2012 08:11:09 -0700.

No Precedent: Architectural League Prize Winners Announced
Young practices blur boundaries and push precedents aside.
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:29:29 -0700.

Perkins+Will Addition Brings More Life to Johns Hopkins Hospital
Phillip Kennicott writes in ?The Washington Post? that architecture firm Perkins+Will?s $1.1 billion addition to Johns Hopkins Hospital is on par with their other work. In his review of the hospital, Kennicott compliments the firm?s efforts to bring cheer to the dismal facility. But the new lively hues and plants aren?t enough to mask the morbid fact that some of those who enter the building may ...
Wed, 09 May 2012 14:30:12 -0700.

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