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Albert Kahn in Detroit: Building the Modern World

By Michael H. Hodges

Wendy Moonan

May 6, 2019

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Albert Kahn, "the man who built Detroit," gets his due in this new book by Michael H. Hodges.

Michael Van Valkenburgh and David Adjaye Win International Landscape Competition for Detroit’s West Riverfront Park

Victoria Newhouse Alexander Gorlin, FAIA

April 10, 2018

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The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy named the pair winners of a $50-million competition to redesign a 22-acre park along the Detroit River.

Detroit Foundation Hotel by McIntosh Poris Associates

Detroit

Jennifer Conlin

March 11, 2018

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A Michigan firm turns a former fire department headquarters into a popular destination.

French Coal Town Takes Cues from Detroit at Saint-Etienne Biennial

Janelle Zara

April 3, 2017

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The 10th edition of the International Design Biennial of Saint Etienne focuses on the theme Working Promise: Shifting Work Paradigms.

Detroit: The Remix

Motown thrums with new architecture and construction—but will the investment trickle down to the city’s forgotten neighborhoods?

Cathleen McGuigan

April 1, 2017

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Detroit was never a beautiful city, but it had a muscular grandeur—broad boulevards radiating from its riverfront core, stolid stone-faced office towers crowding its downtown streets.

Michigan Modern: Designed That Shaped America

Edited by Amy L. Arnold and Brian D. Conway

Wendy Moonan

March 1, 2017

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This book, edited by Amy L. Arnold and Brian D. Conway, makes the case that Modernist architecture and design was developed in Michigan, not imported from Europe.

Re-Roof & Recover with Expanded Polystyrene

Credits: 1 AIA LU/Elective; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 IACET CEU

May qualify for learning hours through most Canadian architectural associations

This presentation will help attendees analyze the key physical properties of the different EPS products used in roofing applications. Students will compare the economic advantages of using EPS in different roofing applications to alternative insulations options. The course will provide students with the opportunity to investigate the features and benefits of different EPS products: standard, faced, composites and to which roofing applications they are used.

Professional Roundtable: Perspectives on Glass and Glazing in Design

Credits: 1 AIA LU/Elective; 1 AIBD P-CE

May qualify for learning hours through most Canadian architectural associations

Join us for this round table discussion that will address the full range of architectural and design issues that can be solved with the latest advances in glass and glazing technology. You will hear various perspectives on the use of glass from Nick Bagatelos, founder and president of Bagatelos Architectural Glass Systems, Thomas Culp, engineering and strategic consultant and owner of Birch Point Consulting, and Urmilla Sowell, advocacy and technical director for the National Glass Association.

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Albert Kahn in Detroit: Building the Modern World

Michael Van Valkenburgh and David Adjaye Win International Landscape Competition for Detroit’s West Riverfront Park

Detroit Foundation Hotel by McIntosh Poris Associates

French Coal Town Takes Cues from Detroit at Saint-Etienne Biennial

Detroit: The Remix

Michigan Modern: Designed That Shaped America

Architectural Record

2019 July

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