Housing and the 99 Percent

Occupy Wall Street and We Are the 99 Percent have spread rapidly, capturing and personifying the national unease about deepening economic inequality and the waning of the American dream. Architectural historian Jonathan Massey explores how housing — along with the various governmental and banking policies that structured home ownership across the decades — has worked to reflect and mediate, to promote and endanger that dream.
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Displacements: Arquine Architecture and Design Conference

The 13th annual conference hosted by the art, architecture and design magazine Arquine will be held March 12-13 in Mexico City.
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An Interview with Jacques Herzog

In 1978 Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron founded their office in Basel. Since then the partnership, which now employs more than 350, has designed a series of landmark projects, from the Tate Modern in London to the National Stadium — the bird's nest — for the Beijing Olympics. Recently Jacques Herzog talked with historians Hubertus Adam and J. Christoph Bürkle about the challenges of maintaining a creatively vital practice and confronting the new challenges of urbanization.
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Louis Curtiss and the Politics of Architectural Reputation

Louis Curtiss practiced architecture in Kansas City around the turn of the 20th century, producing, says Keith Eggener, a series of innovative buildings "comparable in their creative eclecticism" to those of contemporaries like Bernard Maybeck and Bertram Goodhue. Yet unlike those celebrated architects, Curtiss remains relatively obscure, his works neglected. And the reasons, Eggener argues, have less to do with artistic merit than with various extrinsic factors that have long controlled the politics of professional reputation.
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University of Maryland WaterShed Project Finds Permanent Home

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Building After Auschwitz

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WEEKLY EMAIL: FEBRUARY 15, 2012
FEATURED THIS WEEK : JONATHAN MASSEY Housing and the 99 Percent Occupy Wall Street and We Are the 99 Percent have spread rapidly, capturing and personifying the national unease about deepening economic inequality and the waning of the American dream. Architectural historian Jonathan Massey explores how housing — along with the various governmental and banking policies that structured home ownership across the decades — has worked to reflect and mediate, to promote and endanger that dream. READ MORE
PLACES EDITORS Displacements: Arquine Architecture and Design Conference The 13th annual conference hosted by the art, architecture and design magazine Arquine will be held March 12-13 in Mexico City. READ MORE MARC ANGéLIL, JøRG HIMMELREICH, HUBERTUS ADAM & J. CHRISTOPH BüRKLE An Interview with Jacques Herzog In 1978 Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron founded their office in Basel. Since then the partnership, which now employs more than 350, has designed a series of landmark projects, from the Tate Modern in London to the National Stadium — the bird's nest — for the Beijing Olympics. Recently Jacques Herzog talked with historians Hubertus Adam and J. Christoph Bürkle about the challenges of maintaining a creatively vital practice and confronting the new challenges of urbanization. READ MORE FROM OUR SPONSORS Being sustainable has never been so profitable. See how the country's most innovative companies are improving their bottom line by staying the course on sustainability. Look into Sappi's paper mills that are setting a new standard for environmental responsibility. Find out more about Sappi here >> Order a copy of eQ003 >> Download a PDF copy >> Learn to be a design critic through SVA's D-Crit program.Design as subject matter, criticism as a literary genre and the range of tools with which to practice design criticism. Watch videos of presentations by the Class of 2011 >> The D-Crit Program >> SVA Website >> GEORGIA TECH Georgia Tech Selected as National University Transportation Center More than $7 million in federal, state and private grants will fund the U.S. Department of Transportation initiative, which brings together a consortium of universities in the Southeast to advance research and technology. READ MORE ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY How Public Is the Good? Symposium The Design School hosts a transdisciplinary design symposium at the Tempe Center for the Arts on March 7. READ MORE KEITH EGGENER Louis Curtiss and the Politics of Architectural Reputation Louis Curtiss practiced architecture in Kansas City around the turn of the 20th century, producing, says Keith Eggener, a series of innovative buildings "comparable in their creative eclecticism" to those of contemporaries like Bernard Maybeck and Bertram Goodhue. Yet unlike those celebrated architects, Curtiss remains relatively obscure, his works neglected. And the reasons, Eggener argues, have less to do with artistic merit than with various extrinsic factors that have long controlled the politics of professional reputation. READ MORE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND University of Maryland WaterShed Project Finds Permanent Home The innovative project, which won the 2011 Solar Decathlon, has been acquired by the electric utility Pepco to serve as a public model and energy testing facility. READ MORE MITCHELL SCHWARZER Building After Auschwitz Is it possible to identify a type of Jewish architecture? An architecture that has to do not necessarily with Jewish programs, like synagogues or Holocaust memorials, but instead with Jewish architects and how their various works have been shaped by the historical memory of exile? Mitchell Schwarzer reviews the new book Building After Auschwitz, which grapples with this thorny question. READ MORE		BECOME A FAN ON FACEBOOK \| FOLLOW US ON TWITTER The place to go for the latest and most trusted information regarding sustainability in our industry. eQ from Sappi >> D-Crit: Design as subject matter. Criticism as literary genre. Learn at SVA >> Jessica Helfand's book was a NYTimes book of the year. Buy it here >> Get Your Master's with the Masters Low Residence MFA for Designers, Illustrators, New Media Artists, Educators & Working Pros. >> PLACES ARCHIVE: WINTER 2001 Village Vices: The Contradiction of New Urbanism and Sustainability A critique of New Urbanism focusing not on its traditionalism but on the unsustainability of its planning models. READ MORE PARTNER SCHOOL University of Minnesota, College of Design The University of Minnesota’s College of Design is preparing the next generation of problem solvers. Through a unique commitment to sustainability, creativity and advancing technologies, the college is improving the way we interact with our world by designing new systems, new environments, new products, and new ways of living and working. Located in one of the major design cities and in one of the largest research universities in the U.S., the College of Design is a leader in multidisciplinary research, creative production, teaching and public engagement. The college encompasses the full range of design disciplines, including architecture, landscape architecture, apparel design, graphic design, interior design, product design, retail merchandising and housing studies. RECENT BOOKS RECEIVED American Glamour Alice T. Friedman Reading the American Landscape: An Index of Books and Images Lex ter Braak, David Hamers, Anne Hoogewoning, Erik de Jong, Frank van der Salm, Dirk Sijmons and Hanneke Schreiber Boomtown 2050: Scenarios for a Rapidly Growing City Richard Weller
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