Architecture and Cuisine

Food for Thought

November 1, 2003

The links between architecture and cuisine, which traditionally reveal the dominant flavors of a region, are breaking.

Architects often design the accessories of eating -- dishware, glasses, cutlery, dining tables and chairs – so perhaps it was inevitable that they would eventually take on the food itself. This summer in New York, Maya Lin organized an auction of architect-designed cakes to benefit the Greyston Foundation, a Yonkers-based non-profit organization that provides community services and also operates a bakery. Participants included Frank Gehry, Rafael Viñoly, Steven Holl, and Richard Meier. While the charity event was just good fun to serve a good cause, it became yet another opportunity for celebrity architects to show off their signature styles, in this case translated into another medium -- one that happens to be edible. Gehry’s sketches featured rolling waves of dough, a baker’s Bilbao. Not surprisingly, Meier’s submission was a "white cake." With icing substituting porcelain panels, his recipe is the gustatory equivalent of his High Museum in Atlanta.

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Multifamily Housing Design: Three Approaches for Growing Cities

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This webinar will explore current design practices, strategies, and materials used in multifamily housing projects and profile three unique projects:

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Wood Structures: An Impressive Renewable Resource

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This discussion will focus on how distinctive wood projects address several key issues, including cost, aesthetics, drivers, and design constraints and opportunities. We will describe the design constraints of the Temple Beth Tzedek project as well as strategies used for the University of Arkansas project to reduce its carbon footprint.

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