Water is power. That’s the belief of a team of architects, artisans, faculty and students from the University of Maryland, whose WaterShed entry into next week’s Solar Decathlon seeks to prove the point. “Some people on the planet use three gallons a day,” said Amy Gardner, one of the team’s...
Students and faculty at Appalachian State in Boone, N.C. are taking to heart the self-suffient spirit of the pioneers who settled here long ago. A core team of 30 has reinterpreted the hardy perseverance of those who came before them in The Solar Homestead, their entry in the upcoming Solar Decathlon....
If you lived thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt, chances are you spent a lot of time and money preparing to banish death and welcome immortality, whether you were pharaoh or pauper. And beginning in October, an exhibit at the Frist Center in Nashville, curated by the Brooklyn Museum’s Edward Blieberg,...
This one’s all about the swoosh. It’s called Haus in Rodaun, and it’s by a Viennese firm known as Caramel Architects. It was designed for a family with one child in the suburbs of Vienna, on a 500-meter site with a grassy meadow. It consists of four levels, three above ground and one below,...
A childhood growing up in Spain led architect Lewin Wertheimer to fulfilling a lifelong dream of designing and building a home in Andalucía. Actually, the Venice, Calif.-based architect built three homes there: one for his mother, and two townhomes, mirror images of each other, as investment rentals....
Brazil is on a design roll, and Roberto Cocenza is riding its crest. He’s director of BOOMSPDESIGN 2011, the international design conference scheduled for Aug. 31 – Sept. 2 in Sao Paolo, with an international lineup of the design world’s rock stars slated to participate. About 500 people will...
Let’s just call it New England Modern. Team Massachusetts’s entry in the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon competition in late September expresses itself in a traditional vernacular with a contemporary sensibility. “We wanted to create something that was marketable to New England, particularly...
Sometimes the best offense is a strong defense. In the case of the city of Dura-Europos, defending itself against a siege by the Sasanian Empire in 256 A.D., a tactical act – though a failure in the short term – has led to its immortality. Preparing for an onslaught of warriors from the ancient near-Eastern...
Ever had a hankering to see your work follow in the footsteps of Stanley Tigerman, Aldo Rossi, Architectonica, Bernard Tschumi, Mitchell Mauk and Michael P. Johnson? Now’s the time, and here’s the opportunity: Confindustria Ceramica, the Association of Italian Ceramics, has joined forces with Architizer,...
If you’re going to publish a book on New England iconography, why not reach for the stars and get Norm Abram of “New Yankee Workshop” to write the foreword? That’s author Bruce Irving’s logic for his new book, anyway. It’s likely a strong strategy for the award-winning producer of “This...
