The 2009 convention's over, but before we wrap things up completely, I want to share a tour of Moscone West I was able to snag with Kevin Hart, a local San Francisco architect who worked on the project with Gensler from 1996 to 2003, when it opened. Convention centers are tricky: they want to be downtown, close to the

Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects celebrated their multiple awards this year with a Friday-night party in a penthouse suite at the Clift Hotel.

Richard Gage has come to the AIA convention on an unusual mission: to convince architects to demand a new investigation into why the Twin Towers collapsed on September 11, 2001.

A new program for accrediting the professionals who work on LEED projects was unveiled on November 20 at Greenbuild in Boston.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum celebrates the newly restored facade of its iconic Frank Lloyd Wright building just as it is about to announce its new director

Although the pool of professions that can be assigned to fictional characters by novelists and filmmakers is practically infinite, the choice of “architect” is fairly common. Why? Probably because it’s a shorthand way to identify the person as creative, brainy, successful, sexy (and, perhaps, a tad egotistical). With such a large rogue’s gallery to choose from, it wasn’t easy to pick my all-time top 5 favorites.

Architectural practice is in for a Change. At least, to gauge from the room filled with about 300 intent expressions of architects, owners, constructors, and building product suppliers and manufacturers this week in San Francisco gathered at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center. That word,