Photo courtesy SHoP Architects “We’re basically focusing on digital integration services, but we could go as far as construction management advisory services,” says Jonathan Mallie of SHoP Construction, a newly founded spin-off of SHoP Architects. New York-based SHoP Architects made what might seem like a counterintuitive move early this month. The 12-year-old firm—best known for the meditative Hangil Book Hall (2004) in Seoul, South Korea, several high-profile New York residential projects, and still-shaking-out plans for Manhattan’s East River Waterfront and South Street Seaport—has decided to put itself at the forefront of the profession-wide push for greater design-build project integration, not

Cambridge, Massachusetts, architect Kyu Sung Woo, FAIA, has had an eventful summer.

When asked how he would improve the American Institute of Architects, George H. Miller, FAIA, offers a mantra. “Communication, communication, communication,” he says, insisting that the organization needs to evolve into a stronger public voice for good design. A partner at Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners, Miller recently received an opportunity to put his philosophy into practice. At this year’s annual AIA convention, he was elected to take over as the institute’s president in 2010. Image courtesy Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners "We've always been concerned with environmental design, but now I think the pressure to step it up is

Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA, describes the contemporary moment in architecture as one of uncertainty and potential, with previous dogmas delimiting how architecture is practiced no longer governing the profession. He also contends that the American Institute of Architects needs to become nimble enough as an organization to help its membership adapt to new realities of practice. Malecha hopes to shape it into a more adaptable organization when he assumes the AIA presidency next year. (Read an interview with George Miller, 2010 AIA president elect, here) Photo courtesy NC State University College of Design “I have been watching the architectural office

Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, director of the Aspen Art Museum in Aspen, Colorado, considers space the only thing holding her institution back from an ambitious long-term goal. “We want to become the best non-collecting museum in the world,” she says. Photo © Karl Wolfgang / Courtesy Aspen Art Museum Aspen Art Museum board of trustees president Nancy Magoon, museum director Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, and Shigeru Ban. “The museum is looking for a unique gathering space,” says the architect. Founded in the late 1970s in a converted hydroelectric plant, the museum currently has 7,000 square feet of exhibition space, which the director

Photo © Eileen Barroso / Courtesy Columbia University “It was out of a fascination with what the digital revolution is doing about collapsing the distance between the designing board—the designing computer—and the site of fabrication,” says Barry Bergdoll of his motivation for organizing Home Delivery. The Museum of Modern Art has turned an empty lot on West 53rd Street in Manhattan into a playground of innovative building technology. Before it becomes the ground floor of a tower designed by Jean Nouvel, the skyscraper-flanked site is playing host to five full-scale prefabricated homes designed by contemporary architects. Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas