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Home » Authors » Charles Linn, FAIA

Charles Linn, FAIA

Charles Linn is a Kansas City–based writer and architect and a former deputy editor of Architectural Record.

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Continuing Education: Colleges & Universities

Continuing Education: Colleges & Universities

Charles Linn, FAIA
November 1, 2019
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With ambitious performance goals, a set of buildings at Amherst College, the University of Chicago, and the National University of Singapore foster collaboration and reflect changing values.


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KU Medical Center

KU Medical Center Health Education Building by CO Architects

Kansas City, Kansas
Charles Linn, FAIA
July 9, 2018
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A teaching facility in Kansas is the poster child for the future of health-care education.


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BNIM Offices at Crown Center by BNIM

BNIM Offices at Crown Center by BNIM

Kansas City, Missouri
Charles Linn, FAIA
June 4, 2018
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BNIM's transformation of its own new space in an Edward Larrabee Barnes building in Missouri leads to a more productive studio.


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Commentary: One-Hit Wonders

Charles Linn, FAIA
January 16, 2011
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If a client asks you to imitate yourself, is that the sincerest form of flattery? If you ever think that the architecture business has gotten too tough, you can always lay down your mouse, pick up a guitar, and go into pop music. Architects are problem solvers, right? The best make their livings predicting what people need and what will appeal to them. They produce materials lists and instruction sheets, then contractors follow them, a ribbon is cut, and euphoria ensues. illustration © Norman Hathaway So it shouldn’t be too hard for us to figure out which noises will inoculate
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What Next: William F. Baker

Charles Linn, FAIA
January 16, 2011
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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.


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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.”

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Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center

A beautifully daylit infill addition between a hospital and an office building harvests precious space for diagnostics, treatment, and surgery.
Charles Linn, FAIA
October 16, 2010
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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s dense web of mostly older buildings at its 20-acre campus in Upper Manhattan is not unusual for medical complexes constructed over many decades.


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Back by Popular Demand: AutoCAD for the Mac

Charles Linn, FAIA
September 3, 2010
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Autodesk announced on August 31 that it has released AutoCAD 2011 for Macintosh, along with AutoCAD WS, a mobile app that will allow users to share their AutoCAD designs in the field using iPhones, iPads, and iTouches. Image courtesy Autodesk “What this does,” says Autodesk spokesman Noah Cole, “is give anyone with an iOS device or a modern Web browser the ability to view, edit, and collaborate on an AutoCAD DWG file. We imagine that people on the construction site can carry around an iPad as opposed to carrying around a roll of blueprints.” AutoCAD WS joins two other Autodesk
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More Profitable Than Ever

Charles Linn, FAIA
August 16, 2010
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Two architects talk candidly about how they turned their business around even before the recession. In 2007, Marvin Meltzer, AIA (far right), a partner in an extremely successful New York City multifamily housing practice, began going through the sort of business transition that no one should ever face. David Mandl, his business partner and principal of their firm, Meltzer/Mandl Architects, for over a decade, was diagnosed with terminal cancer. When an engineering firm interested in buying the business began going over the books, Meltzer and David Carpenter, AIA (near right), who had been helping to run the business in Mandl’s
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Top 250 Architecture Firms 2010: Income Belly Flops; Firms Swim for Work Offshore

Top 250 Architecture Firms’ 2009 revenue fell dramatically, while foreign work was stable.
Charles Linn, FAIA
July 16, 2010
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Top 250 Architecture Firms’ 2009 revenue fell dramatically, while foreign work was stable.


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