Rounding out the final month of 2019, Paul Petrunia paid a Studio Visit to Bestor Architecture. Orhan Ayyüce was already a fan
"Barbara is really a good Los Angeles architect. She knows the nomenclature of LA architecture and does creative and fun things with them...One time I walked around a few blocks with Barbara Bestor near her office and really enjoyed looking at houses in the neighborhood and talk about them with her."
Plus, Managing Editor, Antonio Pacheco featured Sarah Whiting in her second appearance on the Deans List. The last time Archinect spoke to Dean Whiting, she was the Dean at Rice University, now Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard University.
Responding to the news that a project team led by Diamond Schmitt Architects and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects were tapped to transform David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, thisisnotmyname argued "Closing the arcade and trashing the sculpture is supremely stupid and philistine. Tod and Billie were sad when their Folk Art Museum got destroyed, but they don't seem to mind wrecking other people's work."
Sean Joyner offered a Workplace team tip: Express gratitude. b3tadine[sutures] agreed "We don't talk about this in school, or in the profession; Radical[?] Kindness. It's an Us vs. Them attitude...We are not the enemy, this is not a competition..."
Everyday Architect opined that if AIA or NCARB are at all "serious about title protection, they'll make an issue of this on a national stage. If not, they should start to advocate for deregulating the title...I'm pointing out that AIA and NCARB will go out of their way to make sure a recent graduate doesn't have anything even remotely relating to architect or architectural in a title...not in their portfolio, resume, website, or *gasp* business card...until they become legally licensed to practice. Yet, on this matter, the confirmation of an engineer to carry the title and head the federal agency, Architect of the Capitol".
Built in 1961, John Lautner's Hollywood Hills Wolff Residence recently went up for sale, with a $6.5 million asking price. Wine CaveMAN reported in "checked Wolffy out recently and I just hope whoever buys it gets someone like Marmol Radziner to renovate it back to its glory days. It's not completely lost by any means but as with all older buildings it needs to be pushed in the right direction."
The American Institute of Architects (AIA), ABI scored at 51.9 for November, signaling the second month of modest growth for the industry following a somewhat depressed summer. Business conditions also improved across much of the country in November, with firms located in every region except the Northeast seeing billings growth for the month.
Stay tuned for the December 2020 numbers, out January 22...
ICYMI, don’t forget to check out Archinect’s Year in Review. Did you know, that #139 of Archinect Sessions, with “Olson Kundig's Alan Maskin on Icons and Architecture for Children” was the most popular episode of the year?
Lake House in Wilkesboro, NC by ARCHITECTUREFIRM and Miner Road in Orinda, CA by Faulkner Architects are just two of the latest top ten projects (in no particular order) on Archinect's Pinterest board Houses.
Alex_A_G highlighted the work of computational engineer Kayleigh Houde and a recent Climate Emergency Hackathon co-hosted by BuroHappold's London and New York offices, with guests from SHoP and Ennead Architects as well as a group of students from Chalmers University in Sweden.
Last month, Francisco Perez Vilchis was working on a San Pablo Farmacia
If you are looking for a new job in Texas, there are at least 8 open positions in Austin (not counting some internships). Plus others in; Arlington, Dallas, Fort Worth or Houston.
Professor of art education and African American studies and interim director of Penn State's School of Visual Arts B. Stephen Carpenter II has been named the new dean for the university's College of Arts and Architecture.
University of Pennsylvania Professor David Leatherbarrow was awarded the 2020 Topaz Medallion by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).
If you are looking for a job in academia, but aren’t interested in moving to Arlington, Texas consider applying to either;
The Design School at ASU for a Lecturer in Architecture, which is accepting applications until Feb 9th. Or to OSU’s Knowlton School for a tenure-track position in architecture focused on innovative design research in emerging digital technologies. Better hurry though, as review of applications will begin on January 20, 2020.
With "the madness of final reviews...beginning" batdinger needed advice on the "best way to clean edges for laser cut museum board?"
Multiple folks first recommended adjusting "the laser power/speed settings to reduce the burn". However, if too late for that, applying hydrogen peroxide, gesso, white flat krylon or using rottenstone powder.
Archlandia restarted their earlier thread, with an update on Unicorn Bed, a project from Guerilla / Kevin Cavenaugh and DAO Architecture. Fellow, Portland resident threeohdoor countered criticism of the project "Guerilla Dev is an awesome little company, one who's model I wish will be introduced throughout the country" while tduds reminded us all "Let's not forget the purpose of this thread... I wanna see strange construction in other cities too!". So Erik Evens offered up 2434 Lincoln Blvd a 7,208 SF Office Building in Venice, CA. Later, Almosthip7 posted an entry not from the "town I live in, it is in a town nearby."
Finally, Volunteer pointed out there is a FLW home "On the market for $3.4 million. (2801 Burnham Boulevard, Minneapolis)". Chad Miller shared that it is "really f'ing cold in the winter! I've visited a few times, brrrrr!" Archie-Bunker added more positively "I've visited this on a consultant trip a while back, apparently it was a one-off FLW did near the end of his career. Needless to say it was amazing to see a more intimate side of his work and the interesting proportion used; the carport's fascia seemed like it couldn't have been more than 6 and a half feet high, for scale…"
Back in November, Daniel Davis (previously Director of Research at WeWork, and a senior researcher at CASE) published some thoughts on What ‘The Future of The Professions’ Reveals About the Future of Architecture.
The piece is inspired by his reading of ‘The Future of the Professions’ by the father and son duo of Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind. He concludes;
"The Susskinds point to two potential futures: in the first, professionals continue working much as they have, but they focus more on standardization, systematization, and specialization; in the second, they introduce systems that entirely displace the work of traditional professionals through things like automation and disintermediation...It’s easy to see architects thriving in the first future because it’s a continuation of what they’ve always been doing: exchanging time for money. The only difference is that they’d be doing it more efficiently, which is why standardization, systematization, and specialization are all obvious next steps for the industry. The second future is harder to imagine because it requires a new profit model. No matter how badly architecture firms want to be product companies, it’s hard to imagine them escaping their habit of selling time for money"
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