ICYMI, for the latest entry in the Dean's List series Katherine Guimapang interviewed Cal Poly Pomona's new dean of the College of Environmental Design, Mary Anne Alabanza Akers.
The International Code Council is revising their code development process with changes starting in 2024. Both Janosh and Chad Miller felt it was "good news" as "Hopefully it will encourage more architects to participate in the process. It's often much easier to make positive changes in the building codes at the ICC level than it is locally".
British architect Sir David Chipperfield will get the 2023 Pritzker Prize. Most ‘Nectors think it is "Well deserved!" and pandahut even offered first a paean and later a rap, to the "bare essentials" and "precision" of his firm’s work.
A survey by students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design found most architectural tasks (they reviewed data for 36 tasks across 6 project phases) can be done remotely. Will Galloway reflected
"Our office works 50-50 remotely since covid. It works for a lot of things but not all…Even with great tools like MIRO, which we continue to use in our office, the loss of peer interaction and ad-hoc group learning is clearly an issue that we can feel…My conclusion recently is that much can be done online once you are a pro, but not everything. And there are costs that seem to accumulate over time."
The long in-process (it began in 2000) overhaul of the UCLA Hammer Museum by Michael Maltzan Architecture has finally set a date for its public debut. Janosh was unclear "how all this Resnick money will actually improve the institution as a space for experiencing and understanding the artwork. Unfortunately this feels like another vanity capital campaign".
A new Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) was recently signed between the UK’s Architects Registration Board (ARB), the Architects Accreditation Council of Australia (AACA), and the New Zealand Registered Architects Board (NZRAB). Bench couldn’t believe "that the RAIC in Canada did not join the agreement."
Heatherwick Studio released details of their first commissioned public library project in the town of Columbia, Maryland. monosierra for one was not a fan seeing "something grotesque…Crude details…garish looking parodies".
Yet Will Galloway argued "At the very least this is a place that feels welcoming. Not a small thing...It is very attractive though, unlike modernism at its height, an architecture that regular people can get behind…At the very least it can accommodate visitors and it is open enough to change. The rest is about community programming".
R.I.P. Rafael Viñoly at 78 and Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) co-founder A. Eugene “Gene” Kohn at 92. Regarding the former kjpn remarked "The Tokyo forum is an awe inspiring building; he leaves a rich legacy as an architect. I think his firm’s best work possesses that kind of sophistication and formal curvature."
Back in early March, Selim Senin was working on BBS Mosque, while Karl Jankowski shared pictures of a few older projects including: Bunkerlofts Köln, LW Würselen and Pixelpark.
Construction started on Cooke Fawcett Architects’ transformation of Cockpits maker space in Creekside, Deptford.
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Mass Support explores the legacy and contemporary relevance of the Stichting Architecten Research (SAR). Currently an updated version of the exhibition is on view (until May 7th, 2023) at the Spitzer School of Architecture at City College, City University of New York (CCNY). On April 26th, an international, virtual symposium on flexibility,resident input, and modular building in contemporary architecture will complement and extend the exhibition’s themes.
The exhibition Minerva Parker Nichols: The Search for a Forgotten Architect now on view at the University of Pennsylvania. It showcases the story of Minerva Parker Nichols (1862–1949) who was the first woman in U.S. history to practice architecture independently.
Students at University of Detroit Mercy, released a call for submissions for their journal Dichotomy. Abstracts for the 27th edition titled Gather are due May 1, 2023.
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Taubman College at University of Michigan is accepting applications to be the next chair of their Architecture Program. If interested make sure to submit all the required materials by September 5, 2023.
Bench is considering applying to a local 501.c3 and asked for some insight from those who have served on non-profit boards "associated with the market sector your work tends to focus on?" Based on being "a founding board member of our state's Passive House group" Wood Guy noted "most NFPs have similar priorities. If you don't have money or connections, you would need more than just an interest; a willingness to work your butt off or needed skills such as bookkeeping or law would be acceptable for consideration."
As to what the responsibilities might entail reallynotmyname answered "could run the gamut from actively running the non-profit on a daily basis to complete disengagement. It depends a lot on the extent to which the organization is run day-to-day by professional staff that are not board members". Either way c recommended Bench "go for it…Sounds like you’re keen on it for all the right reasons, an org would be lucky to have you."
taz linked to Oliver Wainwright’s "Scathing at best" critique of EOM-ville. midlander was fascinated by the building "it's a very pure exercise in irrational structure and unprogrammed space…clearly this building has more embedded carbon than necessary to build an equivalent area of typical office space...there will always be a place for projects that exceed the baseline - the question is only whether this qualifies as the kind of extraordinary work that deserves such excess." Yet graphemic was of the mind it should just have been ignored "I dislike the review simply because it affirms EOM's own vision of his buildings' impact on Culver City.". Similarly samolddoctor believes "I think his clients see EOMs work as a wacky billboard for selling culver city real estate. If my suspicion is right, EOM has indeed succeeded…In the end it is just another symbol of capitalism regardless of the pseudo intellectual texts EOM may choose to quote. Massive sculpture to help sell real estate."
Finally, in case you needed the reminder MagnusO published Dear Architects, Stop Working For Free. tduds agreed adding "A fairly significant part of my job involves both law and finance. That in addition to all the other important knowledge I need to balance in order to make a building work. We're doing ourselves a disservice by not putting our industry on the level of similarly educated professionals." Jovan Millet also took the opportunity to put in a plug "To be clear, the best way to improve your conditions in the workplace will always be unionization."
square. zoomed out a bit "the real source of the problem is who controls the money; there's a lot of work to do within architecture to creating better working conditions and pay (especially through unionization), but at the end of the day money is more and more concentrated in the hands of people who determine architecture's value through choosing who they hire, how much they will pay them, and what the service is they are looking for."
The Hustle Architect aka @VitruviusGrind reported in "Live From** The Traditional Architecture Gathering 2023, Now Through Sunday. All Updates, News, And Observations Will Be In This Thread. *Tweeting, Mostly **It's A Zoom Event So Right Now I'm Just At The Same Desk I Sit At Most Days."
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