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What Next: William F. Baker

January 16, 2011

William F. Baker is the structural engineering partner for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and has been involved in projects such as the Burj Khalifa and James Turrell’s Roden Crater.

Design Vanguard 2011 Features

January 1, 2011

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A fault line runs through the architectural profession separating academics from practitioners, thinkers from doers, those who imagine from those who build.

Polishing Stirling

Alexander Gorlin, FAIA

December 16, 2010

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Within Louis Kahn’s burnished steel jewel box, the Yale Center for British Art at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, is a remarkable exhibition of the recently forgotten British architect Sir James Stirling.

Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP Architects

A Tokyo-based architect demonstrates a knack for handling materials and fitting buildings into their natural and urban contexts.

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

December 16, 2010

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In Japan, where few buildings are made to last, trees are mostly dispensable, and real estate remains among the world’s priciest, most architects simply nod politely to the notion of context.

Standardarchitecture

This firm pursues multiple narratives in projects of very different scales, attitudes, and settings.

Aric Chen

December 16, 2010

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When architect Zhang Ke set up Standardarchitecture in Beijing, he chose the name because “it sounds neutral. It doesn’t imply any specific form,” he says.

W.PA/Works Partnership Architecture

An Oregon practice thrives by devising design-driven schemes that meet the needs of its developer clients.

Charles Linn, FAIA

December 16, 2010

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William Neburka describes the founding of W.PA/Works Partnership Architecture, the firm he and Carrie Strickland started five years ago, as “kind of a shotgun marriage. Carrie and I didn’t really know each other when we started the office.”

De Leon and Primmer Architecture Workshop

A pair of Harvard-educated architects find acceptance in Kentucky while drawing inspiration from the state's tobacco barns and vernacular buildings.

Ingrid Spencer

December 16, 2010

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There are some people who fashion their lives in response to happy accidents. Neither Roberto de Leon, Jr., AIA, nor M. Ross Primmer, AIA, is one of those people.

HHF Architects

A trio of young architects just a few years out of school launch a practice with work around the world.

Josephine Minutillo

December 16, 2010

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The Swiss have long held a reputation for creating products of impeccable precision. Tilo Herlach, Simon Hartmann, and Simon Frommenwiler, partners in the Basel-based HHF Architects, have found early international success by turning that stereotype on its head.

Iv'n Ju'rez & Patricia Meneses

A pair of designers working from Spain and Mexico explore the intersections between art and architecture, shelter and clothes, and the human body and space.

David Cohn

December 16, 2010

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Working first together and now separately, Iván Juárez and Patricia Meneses bring two distinct sensibilities to their architecture.

L.E.FT

L.E.FT distills politics into design at different scales, using utopian experiments to inform real-world projects from beleaguered Beirut to the turf wars in our own homes.

Laura Raskin

December 16, 2010

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With the name of their design firm — L.E.FT — Makram el Kadi and Ziad Jamaleddine tip us off to their ideology and offer a partial clue pointing to the location of their first New York City office, on the Lower East Side.