Category Archives: Architecture

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Bringing Students into School Design

By Rusty | Published: July 13, 2014

Last week the Hampton Roads Green Building Council organized a tour of the Floyd E. Kellam High School in Virginia Beach. Designed by HBA Architecture & Interior Design, Inc., the building is anticipated to meet receive LEED Silver certification, and will host some 2,000 students in an example of 21st century learning in practice. Featured […]

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Custom Residential Architects Network: CRANtv

By Rusty | Published: February 19, 2014

A group of architects from the American Institute of Architects , all specializing in custom residential design, seeing a need for a knowledge community focused exclusively on residential architecture, formed the Custom Residential Architects Network or CRAN for short.

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December 2013 Architecture Billing Index

By Rusty | Published: December 6, 2013

The American Institute of Architects has published the October 2013 Architecture Billing Index (ABI.)

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Architecture Exchange East 2013

By Rusty | Published: December 3, 2013

This year, I had the opportunity to attend the Architecture Exchange East conference. Here is a quick summary of the courses I attended.

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Denise Scott Brown, Sexism, and the Pritzker Prize

By Rusty | Published: June 19, 2013

This brings us to the firm Venturi Scott Brown & Associates, and more specifically the awarding of the 1991 Pritzker Prize to Robert Venturi. The exclusion of his longtime partner and spouse, Denise Scott Brown, was immediately controversial. Brown did not attend the award ceremony in protest. The reason given at the time indicated that the award only honored indivual architects. This is a particularly weak argument, given the 1988 joint recognition of Oscar Niemeyer and Gordon Bunshaft.

Over two decades later, a couple of Harvard Graduate School of Design students, Arielle Assouline-Lichten and Caroline James, launched an online petition demanding that the Brown be retroactively acknowledged for her contributions. It’s worth noting, the petition was to recognize Brown’s contributions, not to retroactively award the prize to Denise Scott Brown.

Last Friday, the Pritzker Architecture Prize Committee delivered its official response to the petition. The already notable outrcy from the architectural community, including the signatures of nine past laureates, has only gotten louder. The nuances of the response are calculated, and Lord Peter Palumbo appears to have tried valiantly to diffuse the situation without giving into the demands of the petition.

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