A two-year-old organization dedicated to preserving and documenting Modernism on Cape Cod has achieved its first success. This month, the Cape Cod Modern House Trust (CCMHT) will welcome visitors to the Kugel/Gips House, which it restored and updated with the help of volunteers including Fox Diehl Architects. The 2,200-square-foot residence was designed by Charles Zhender, one of the most prolific Modernist architects on the Cape during the 1960s and ’70s. Photo ' Eric Youngren/courtesy CCMHT The Kugel/Gips House was designed by Charles Zhender, one of the most prolific Modernist architects on the Cape during the 1960s and '70s. Related Links:
Photos courtesy MIR Related Links: Duany Designs Prefab Houses for Haiti First MIR Homes Complete Make It Right Unveils New Designs In 2007, actor Brad Pitt’s organization, Make It Right, unveiled its plan to build new homes in New Orleans’ devastated Lower Ninth Ward and hired a roster of modern architects to conceive the designs. Since then, lot owners have been selecting designs by David Adjaye, Shigeru Ban, KieranTimberlake, Trahan Architects, and other locally and internationally renowned architects. Yet future homeowners have not embraced the schemes equally. In fact, none had selected the floatable 1,000-square-foot, single-family house conceived by Morphosis
With perhaps the exception of the architecture of the Machine Age, buildings across history have collaborated with nature. Tara and its southern kin wouldn’t sport generous porches if their makers hadn’t recognized the need to deflect direct sunlight from interiors.
In 2009, just two months after the Dutch- and Chinese-born architects Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu established their office Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO–IL) in Brooklyn, the pair was recommended to compete in the MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program, which gives emerging designers the opportunity to design the courtyard entrance of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. “We submitted our very thin portfolio then, but we were not selected as one of the five finalists,” Idenburg recalls. Images courtesy SO-IL SO-IL won this year's MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program. Related Links: P.S.1 Goes Organic with WORK's Public Farm 1 At New York's
The January 12 earthquake that struck Haiti has galvanized the architecture community to lend its support, but the disaster has particularly resonated among African-American practitioners, some of whom are of Haitian descent.
Invited Architects to Brainstorm with Developers Pugh + Scarpa won the 2010 AIA Architecture Firm Award in part for its ability to deliver design excellence to low-income communities. Its affordable housing project Step Up on 5th, in Santa Monica, provides 46 studio apartments for mentally disabled and formerly homeless occupants above ground-floor commercial spaces; and the much-honored Colorado Court complex in the same city houses 44 low-income residents, sheltering them from the sun behind an extensive array of photovoltaic panels. Indeed, founding partner Lawrence Scarpa, AIA, says his firm’s work with community developers is the exception to the norm: “By
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, school rankings are influencing prospective students’ decisions on where to apply, and architecture firms’ decisions on whom to employ. RECORD looks at this year’s survey and asks people in academia and the profession what it all means. Every FALL since 1999, DesignIntelligence — the bimonthly journal of the Design Futures Council (DFC), a Washington, D.C.—based think tank whose executive board includes representatives from some of America’s most widely known design firms, schools, and manufacturers — has published rankings of the best architecture schools in the nation. Each year, as the public cracks open the latest
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, school rankings are influencing prospective students’ decisions on where to apply, and architecture firms’ decisions on whom to employ. RECORD looks at this year’s survey and asks people in academia and the profession what it all means. THE MAN BEHINDTHE NUMBERS James Cramer, Hon. AIA James Cramer, Hon. AIA: Perhaps best known to architects as the chief executive of the American Institute of Architects from 1988 to 1994, Cramer founded Greenway Group in 1982 and launched it as a fully staffed organization shortly after leaving the AIA. His Atlanta-based firm operates a management consultancy that