Lecture: Marcos Cruz

February 22, 2012, 2:32 am

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Marcos Cruz

Nurbsters, Foldsters and Neoplasmatic Architecture

Reinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium

Wednesday February 22, 2011 6:00 PM

Marcos Cruz is the Director of the Bartlett School of Architecture in London where he is also Studio Master of MArch Unit 20. His varied teaching activity as a researcher, tutor and critic has been carried out at many Schools of Architecture, including University College London, University of Westminster and University of California Los Angeles. Cruz studied architecture at the ESAP Porto, while also frequenting courses at the ETSAB in Barcelona. After moving to London he gained a master's degree in Architectural Design in 1999 and later a PhD by Design research in 2007. His investigations about Neoplasmatic Architecture, which focused on a contemporary discussion about the body and the impact of bio-technology on architecture, won the RIBA President's Medals Research Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in 2008. Cruz co-founded the atelier marcos...

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The University of Nottingham - Jubilee campus extension by Make Architects

February 22, 2012, 2:32 am

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The first phase of the Jubilee Campus expansion project delivers a remarkable new environment for research, study, business and leisure to be enjoyed by both the university and the city of Nottingham as a whole.

Three new buildings and the Aspire sculpture signal the transformation of a former industrial site and create a new identity for the campus. Dramatically angular in form, International House and the Amenities Building emerge from the landscape like natural landforms and feature dynamic facades clad in red and brown terracotta tiles randomly arranged for maximum visual impact.

The Sir Colin Campbell Building houses a range of facilities for new businesses, and straddles the main campus road to forge a physical link between the academic and business and enterprise zones of the campus. A cladding of zinc shingles emphasises the sinuous curves of the structure and establishes the building as a distinctive new focal point for the campus.

All buildings feature high-perform...

an architecture of memory lane

February 22, 2012, 2:32 am

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Eisenhower Memorial, Washington D.C., 2012

Gateway Visitor Center and Independence Mall, Philadelphia, PA, 1996

Denver Civic Center Cultural Complex, CO, 1991-95

US Pavilion Expo '92, Seville, Spain, 1989-92

Welcome Park, Philadelphia, PA, 1982

BASCO Showroom, Philadelphia, PA, 1979

Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, Washington, D.C., 1978

Best Products Catalog Showroom, Oxford Valley, PA, 1978

Bicentennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1972

National Collegiate Football Hall of Fame (Competition), 1967

FDR Memorial Park Competition, Washington, D.C., 1960 

 

PUBLIC|PRIVATE : UB Inclusive Design Research Group

February 22, 2012, 2:32 am

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Contributed By: Courtney Creenan, M.Arch + M.UP Student

 

Getting inside Buffalo, New York’s grain elevators has been on many a University at Buffalo architecture student’s to-do list.  This past fall, students in the Inclusive Design Research Group were able to not only tour the facilities, but work inside the Marine A Grain Elevator, which is now a part of the newly incorporated Silo City complex. 

The studio focused on a topic often overlooked in the architecture field: the public bathroom.  Students had to design innovative, responsible, inclusive, and clever responses to potential event spaces proposed along with their public bathroom design.  Some projects challenged current bathroom practices and stigmas.  Others integrated the event space programming into the bathroom to create more atmospheric experiences than normally found in a typical bathroom through the use of repurposed materials, lighting affects, and acoustics. 

Although many projects were very detailed in...

Brad Pitt’s foundation to help redevelop Bancroft School

February 22, 2012, 2:32 am

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A bond forged in storm-ravaged New Orleans between actor Brad Pitt and a local architecture firm is bearing fruit in Kansas City — and may show the path forward to reusing dozens of empty schools. The long-closed Bancroft School at 4300 Tracy Ave. will be renovated into affordable apartments and a community center with the aid of the Make It Right Foundation founded by Pitt...

Clemson selects Allied Works and e.e. fava for new architecture center building

February 22, 2012, 2:32 am

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The school announced Friday that it has selected Allied Works Architecture of Portland and e.e. fava architects, etc. of Charleston to design a new three-story building at George and Meeting streets. Richard Goodstein, dean of Clemson's College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities, said the firms were chosen "because of their deep experience in urban design, their commitment to sustainability and their demonstrated sensitivity to place and context."

Openarch, smart home prototype

February 22, 2012, 2:32 am

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Openarch is a real prototype of a smart home. The first home designed from scratch to incorporate a digital layer connecting the house and its elements to the Internet. Its inhabitants lead a new digital and connected life. It is flexible and thanks to its ability to transform, it can adapt to any condition that the user requires.

New director to take over reins of The Glass House

February 22, 2012, 2:32 am

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The Glass House and The National Trust for Historic Preservation have announced Urbach's appointment as Director of the historic site. "I can hardly imagine a place more full of potential than the Glass House," said Urbach. "It has long contributed to culture by bringing together art, architecture, landscape and people in significant and inventive ways. That is exactly what I hope to foster."

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Sympathy for the Suburbs

February 22, 2012, 2:32 am

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Foreclosed, a new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, shows ways of radically rethinking suburbia, homeownership and housing. But are such drastic measures what the suburbs really need?

Also, see on Archinect: The CRIT: Thoughts on MoMA's Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream

Editor's Picks #251

February 22, 2012, 2:32 am

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Reacting to the Beach & Howe Tower proposal in Vancouver by Bjarke Ingels Group holz.box argued "still beats 90% of what's out there. i'd love to see this built."

x architekten’s OASIS, Pastoral Care Voestalpine project, a polygonal, built landscape is featured in the latest ShowCase.

With her latest edition of CONTOURS titled Urbanism, Housing, and the Economy, Sherin Wing examined the significance of the fact that housing and mixed-use projects in East Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America are rapidly increasing. She then went on to question "what are some strategies that firms or individuals working in these nations are taking now? And what are some of the pervasive difficulties and issues stemming from the inherent economic and social factors?"

Patrick Decaix of Twoto; art director, designer and flash developer for large-scale online campaigns and web specials, is profiled in Archinect’s latest Working out of the Box.

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Jonathan Glancey wrote his last article as the Guardian’s architecture and design correspondent, after 15 years on the job. Donna Sink commented "But what really matters today is the creation of good homes fo...

Chicago Public Housing after Cabrini-Green

February 22, 2012, 2:32 am

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The saga of Cabrini-Green compels us to engage some hard and fundamental questions. It is not enough to ask: who benefits from public housing redevelopment? We must also ask: how we measure such benefits and who gets to do that measuring?

When the last of the Cabrini-Green towers was demolished by the Chicago Housing Authority a year ago, where did the residents go? Urban historian Lawrence Vale looks at the politics and policies of subsidized housing in the city and interviews the developer of the mixed-income "village" that replaced the old public housing projects (and excluded many of their residents).

Swiss Architect Takes First Prize at Bab Al Bahrain Competition

February 22, 2012, 2:32 am

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Winners have been announced at the Bab Al Bahrain Open Ideas Competition with the proposal "Pearl Dive" by Swiss architect Lukas Lenherr taking home the $15,000 First Prize. [...] Significance was added to this competition by the recent political events that have taken place across the region, encouraging questions about social representation, public identity, urban integration, sense of place, and historic importance.

Woodbury School of Architecture's Norman Millar elected ACSA president

February 22, 2012, 2:32 am

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Woodbury University's Norman Millar elected ACSA president

(Burbank, CA - February 21, 2012) Woodbury University and its School of Architecture are honored to announce that the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) elected Norman Millar, AIA, dean, Woodbury University School of Architecture, as president of its prestigious organization. The appointment recognizes Millar's extraordinary leadership and forward-thinking vision. 

"Norman's vision of the architect-citizen as designer and cultural builder is particularly relevant as architectural practices transform," says Kenneth R. Nielsen, Ed.D., president, Woodbury University. "Woodbury congratulates Norman on his election as ASCA president and is proud of his role in helping architecture students achieve their educational and professional goals while expanding into new areas of architectural specialization and alternative practice."

Founded in 1912 to advance the quality of architect...

App's glowing arrows guide you around a new building

February 22, 2012, 2:32 am

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Developed by Jaewoo Chung at MIT's Media Lab, Guiding Light consists of a wearable badge with magnetic sensors and a software app that makes use of a projector built into many Samsung smartphones to cast arrows onto the ground in front of you as you walk. The system relies on a map of the building based on fluctuations in its magnetic field, created by the presence of steel in the walls, floor and ceiling. In tests, Guiding Light was able to determine a user's position to within a metre.

Maya Lin says the Earth has lessons to teach us

February 22, 2012, 2:32 am

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the exhibition at the Carnegie is not about the Vietnam memorial or other moving memorials she has done since. Instead, this is a straightforward presentation that wants to lead us to meditate about rivers, seas, lakes, land forms and other elements in the natural environment. What we see here are her persistent efforts to find sculptural forms that will get us to care more about the world around us. All of her recent work, in fact, seems to be an outpouring of her concerns for the environment.

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In Focus: Sam Javanrouh

February 22, 2012, 2:32 am

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In Focus is Archinect's series of features dedicated to profiling the photographers who help make the work of architects look that much better. What has attracted them to architecture? How do they work? What type of equipment do they use? What do they think about seeing their work in blogs?

In this feature, we talk to Iranian-Canadian creative director and photographer Sam Javanrouh.

Portland Building still controversial after 30 years

February 23, 2012, 11:41 am

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“It had such a low budget. I was criticized for putting the windows in too small, but it got more expensive the more glass I had. I wasn’t the one who put the workers near the windows, limiting the light let in. Most people don’t realize I didn’t design the interior.” Despite proceeding to design award-winning buildings and products worldwide, Graves holds the Portland Building as one of his greatest achievements. He still enjoys talking about the sculpture that sits in front, Portlandia.

Cultural Center in Verdun by Saucier + Perrotte, Architectes

February 23, 2012, 11:41 am

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Earlier this month, we published the winners in the competition for a new cultural venue in Montreal's Verdun Borough with Les Architectes FABG taking home the First Prize. One of the four outstanding finalist entries was submitted by Montreal-based Saucier + Perrotte, Architectes which we present here in detail.

DEEP NORTH: Light, Snow, and Alvar Aalto

February 23, 2012, 11:41 am

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Rovaniemi: Home to the arctic circle, Santa Claus, reindeer, world class skiers, and of course, a wealth of Alvar Aalto works.

Excursion

As our colleagues Brian and Brownyn of the Red Herring mentioned in an earlier post, we traveled to the northern Finnish City of Rovaniemi for a study tour. This is the first component of what will be three excursions throughout Finland: the North (Lapland), the East, and ultimately the West. 

This was not your typical whirlwind of an architecture tour; the spirit of the excursion remained true to the nature of Lapland – relaxed, restful, and an escape from the schedule-obsessed pace of the city.  

A twelve hour night train sweeps us out of Helsinki, through the forests and up the coast into Lapland. By early morning we arrive, where we are greeted by Matti Rautiola, Rovaniemi native, our studio professor, and guide for the weekend.

Fortunately (and unfortunately) we arrive on a particularly warm (by arctic standards) and snowy weeke...

"It Reflects Her Obsession": OMA's Shohei Shigematsu on Building Marina Abramovic's Performance Palace

February 23, 2012, 11:41 am

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All the headlines talk about Marina and Rem, but his involvement is quite minimal, isn’t it? He’s involved, but I’m running the New York office. You know the media always has to say Rem just to catch people’s attention, but I appreciate if you don’t repeat that laziness. Of course Rem is involved, but as you can see he’s not here.