Lindy Eichenbaum Lent is the executive director of the Civic Center Conservancy, a nonprofit organization working to revitalize downtown Denver's 12-acre Civic Center Park.
Sarah Broughton is a principal at the architecture firm Rowland+Broughton (R+B). Her practice was named the AIA Colorado's 2009 Young Firm of the Year.
Curtis Fentress is the founding principal of Fentress Architects, which he started in 1980, after stints in the offices of I.M. Pei and Kohn Pedersen Fox.
The dramatic white interior of the University of Helsinki's new main library, by local firm Anttinen Oiva Architects, is striking for its curving travertine-marble staircase, its Finnish furnishings, and the oval-shaped voids the architects carved out of the center of the floor plates.
Edited by Stefan Al. Hong Kong University Press, 2012, 216 pages, $25. Where All Your Stuff Comes From Open this book and you cannot help but think of Great Leap Forward, the 2001 tome generated by Rem Koolhaas and his colleagues at the Harvard Design School Project on the City. Both books are university-based, research-driven, essay-enhanced, muddy-photography-filled studies of urbanism in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), the manufacturing center of China. The dozen years between Great Leap's “initial overview” and this “critical evaluation” have been filled with enormous progress (or, some say, regress). In Factory Towns of South China, editor
By William H. Fain. Glendale, California: Balcony Press, 2012, 160 pages, $35. In this thoughtful and concise new book, William Fain answers the question in his title by anticipating that his car, given the opportunity, would ask, “Why do you make such a fuss over me? Why do people spend so much of their resources on me? Why do architects and city planners give such high priority to me in their designs for neighborhoods and downtowns?” Using his home city Los Angeles as an example in a series of linked essays, Fain describes how the car—having dominated past urban development
A Client for All Seasons: Laura Bush took a lead role in the design of the new presidential library, as she did once before with the family ranch house. With the George W. Bush Presidential Center by Robert A.M. Stern Architects opening in Dallas this month, it is worth taking a look at another architectural commission from “W.” The rarely seen ranch house in Crawford, Texas, was designed by David Heymann of Austin in 1999. A vacation house, of course, is very different in scope and intent from a presidential library. But the two architects involved in each project agree
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