As part of Archinect’s In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence series, Niall Patrick Walsh reported out from a conversation with Morehshin Allahyari about among other things a "re-figuring of the past…about technological relationships as well as the power relationships in which technology plays a role."
Niall also chatted with Miriam Hillawi Abraham "a multidisciplinary designer and researcher based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia".
NCARB and ARB released reciprocal licensure guidelines for architects in the US and UK. One of the first to comment was josephestefanos who has "just completed this process. Now…licensed in both countries, which is awesome! It's pretty seamless and quite easy procedure. It took almost 3 months start to finish." Contra some folks he argued "it's not BS. The codes are so close. It totally makes sense. In both countries, Architects go through some rigorous measures to get qualified. It used to take years and was an ambiguous process. Now it's just streamlined and more convenient."
In other NCARB related news they've "outlined a commitment to creating a diversified framework that offers multiple avenues for attaining architectural licensure."
MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects completed an oceanside home on Nova Scotia’s South Shore. Which got Chad Miller and kenchiku quibbling over the cost and whether the "two-and-a-half-story house" really qualified as "modest".
Some of the economic indicators aren’t looking great. That includes the October AIA ABI and Rider Levett Bucknall’s (RLB) latest crane index report. To The_Crow it was all suggestive "And so it begins…"
Per the Chicago Sun-Times, Google’s forthcoming $280 million renovation of the James R. Thompson Center will include significant alterations to the exterior. reallynotmyname was disappointed "Google is certainly well funded enough to cover the cost of rebuilding Jahn's original vision using today's envelope technology. That would be the right move here…The original Jahn color scheme is integral to the building and should be retained."
Responding to the master plan for rebuilding in Turkey’s southeastern Hatay province (following the devastating 7.8 magnitude Turkey-Syria Earthquake), ae_0 opines "A genuine reconstruction, emergency response and recovery plan would have involved local Turkish architects (where talent and dedication is plenty) and international collaboration at least with the Japanese who are experts on the matter and have been through this so many times."
The NYT reported that the new owners of the Flatiron Building plan to convert it into approximately 40 units of luxury housing. Gary Garvin found a floorplan as well as a photo of a "Nice corner office with a view".
In October we lost, Beverly Willis, Harriet Pattison and Anthony Vidler. R.I.P. Regarding the later, Wayde Tardif eulogized "This is really too bad. I liked Tony; his mischievousness, his wit, and his great contributions to critical architectural thought."
Recently(ish) Jesse Gates was working on a "Beverly Hills Home Renovation". Later in November, Norman Fellows shared an update on their "Dukeries Thinkbelt" project.
You are in luck if looking for work and you live in, or are interested in relocating to; Atlanta, Boston, Durham, Minneapolis, Nashville and Washington DC. Or maybe consider public service, as Corpus Christi, Texas is hiring a City Architect.
Swati Goel, a doctoral student of Clemson’s Ph.D. in Planning, Design and the Built Environment is the Foundation for Health Environments Research (FHER) 2023-24 Griffin/McKahan/Zilm (GMZ) Graduate Fellow. Her focus is on "how the built environment of a pediatric intensive care unit facilitates or deters family and staff participation and engagement during family-centered rounds that occur every morning."
Work by Felecia Davis and her team of Computational Textiles Lab (SOFTLAB) researchers is on view through Feb. 11, 2024, at the Design Center of the University of Quebec at Montreal.
Both FIT and Antoinette Westphal College at Drexel University are hiring faculty with an expertise in Interior Design. Otherwise, the University of Hong Kong has multiple openings for "Tenure-Track" faculty.
ARteMiss, who is a licensed architect, got curious about folks feelings around snitching on "a guy who presents himself as an architect, but has no credentials." Chad Miller was in favor of it but advised sticking to straight facts no embellishment "If you've been found to have lied about the complaint most licensing boards will punish you worse than than if you were practicing without a license." Many seemed to agree with Non Sequitur who argued "That piece of paper is the bare minimum...CEU is bare minimum to keep license. Standards are important and those who can't meet that low bar don't get to skip the line."
Though natematt clarified "it’s pretty well established that the only time people ever really get disciplined is if they are doing something more explicitly illegal, such pretending to be licensed to get business or stamping drawings."
c.k. wanted to know "why is Hempcrete so damn hard to make more mainstream!" Janosh answered "It's a relatively new industry with a lot of supply chain issues" but also they are "using it on a residential project and it has a lot of promise." Wood Guy added "One problem is that there are several different construction techniques or products that fall under the ‘hempcrete’ umbrella. The more traditional methods are very labor-intensive and prone to mold if not done properly, but perform very well when they are done properly. A friend of mine wrote one of the bibles on it". So if you are interested check out 'Essential Hempcrete Construction: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide'.
Finally, boispotus was interested in suppliers of "rounded or filleted corner windows/window frames" but not "RV Grade". Most folks figured that to match the example would require "a custom fabricated window" with at least one having gone that route themselves using "large commercial curtain wall companies". taz offered up another approach "You could glaze in a rectangular IGU and fake the radiused corners with an interior and exterior surrounds."
ICYMI, The Center for Land Use Interpretation released The Coast Realty Archive Map. The archive was created from "the contents of Coast Realty, a small real estate office which operated out of a storefront on Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles from the 1950s to the 1990s". It includes "thousands of obsolete real estate listings on letter-sized sheets of paper, most dating from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s" and the website highlights various categories such as Dingbat Apartments, buildings featured in films and even includes some contemporary side-by-side, rephotography.
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