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Ferron, Hélène. "Au 182, rue de l’Université : un journaliste américain à la Porte de l’Enfer d’Auguste Rodin." Romantisme 202, no. 4 (December 11, 2023): 65–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/rom.202.0065.

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En 1889, Truman Howe Bartlett, journaliste américain, publie une dizaine d’articles consacrés à la figure d’Auguste Rodin dans le journal The American Architect and Building News . Richement documentés, ils sont issus des visites successives de l’homme au sein des ateliers du boulevard Vaugirard et au dépôt des marbres de la Rue de l’Université où le sculpteur élabore La Porte de l’Enfer . L’article se propose d’étudier la manière dont Bartlett se sert de l’espace physique de l’atelier comme scène d’énonciation et en renouvèle le topos littéraire alors en vogue. Le journaliste présente l’artiste dans son élément et rend accessible au public américain une œuvre encore interdite à ses contemporains en France. C’est ainsi grâce aux visites de l’atelier et à sa description que le chef-d’œuvre de la Porte et le mythe qui s’y rattache prennent progressivement corps.
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Abreu e Lima, Daniele. "Max Rosenfeld, The Home Architect." Architectural History Aotearoa 5 (October 31, 2008): 13–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/aha.v5i0.6761.

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1949 marks the beginning of a radical change in the relation between New Zealanders and their homes. The new government at that time began encouraging home ownership in opposition to the existing policy of renting state houses. In those days, one of the most influential architects in the country was Max Rosenfeld, a Czech immigrant who became known mainly through the Auckland magazine The Weekly News. Rosenfeld hadn't produced any iconic building or brought any revolutionary aesthetic style. Nevertheless his contribution to New Zealand domestic architecture was tremendous, though today he is hardly ever mentioned. This paper proposes to shed light on the work of this architect focusing on his participation in The Weekly News publication which started in 1949. For almost a decade Rosenfeld became known as the "Home Architect" following the name of his magazine column. His ideas and architectural advice became very popular and his publications inspired owners and helped builders to familiarize themselves with the Modern way of living and building. Rosenfeld is mainly quoted in reference to the popularization of New Zealand plan books, a kind of publication renowned for containing projects made to fit just about any taste, budget and site. Seen with disdain by some, those books were, nevertheless, the most efficient vehicle for the dissemination of architecture into the everyday life of ordinary Kiwis. In that sense Rosenfeld can be seen as one of the essential contributors to the modern building practice we find in New Zealand, which decisively influences the way Kiwis live today.
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Joch, Andreas. "Community Eludes the Architect? German Architect Planners, American Democracy, and the Question of Community Building in Transatlantic Perspective." Journal of Urban History 42, no. 6 (October 27, 2016): 1029–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144216675041.

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Gitler, Inbal Ben-Asher. "Reconstructing Religions: Jewish place and space in the Jerusalem YMCA Building, 1919-1933." Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 60, no. 1 (2008): 41–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157007308783360543.

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AbstractThis paper discusses the representation of Jewish religion and culture in the architecture of the YMCA Building in Jerusalem, a prominent edifice built by the New York architect Arthur Loomis Harmon for the American YMCA. Within it, Jewish place and space were reconstructed as part of an architecture planned to promote Jewish, Christian and Moslem co-existence through an American secular cultural curriculum and a Christian vision of peace.
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Bhattacharjee, Suparna. "Nation Building in Indonesia: Role of President Sukarno." Spectrum: Humanities, Social Sciences and Management 7, no. 1 (December 15, 2020): 21–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.54290/spectrum/2020.v7.2.0003.

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Nation building became a challenge for many nations of Asia, Africa and Latin America. It was not only a process of a political economic or social restructuring of an erstwhile colony-it was much more to do with creating an identity of a sovereign nation. In post-colonial societies, nation building implies that its citizens have formally been bestowed with nationality. The nationality or nation-ness of a sovereign nation is the cultural artifacts of a particular kind (Anderson, Benedict, 1883). It needs delicate handling as it involves a process of integration and reconstructing of a new sense of unity and belonging. In a multi-cultural society, the issue of integration assumes complexities as it entails integration and accommodation of diverse entities into a common framework. Many nations have failed in that process. Indonesia is one such country which is diverse in every sense of the term. On top of that its vast geographical spread posed serious challenges before the process of nation building. The article is an attempt to examine the issues that came across before the architect of modern Indonesia-president Sukarno and how he had cope up with that. How Indonesia was able to curve out a mechanism to deal with its multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious realities, is what the paper seeks to explore.
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Balmori, Diana. "George B. Post: The Process of Design and the New American Architectural Office (1868-1913)." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 46, no. 4 (December 1, 1987): 342–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/990273.

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This article deals with an American architect, George B. Post, and the organization of his office. Post's practice was one of the earliest to be conducted as an office rather than an atelier. It was also the first large architectural practice based on what came to be considered the prototypical American building, the office tower. The article examines the organization of Post's office, the way work was done, the building types designed, and the nature of its clients. It concentrates on the design process of one particular building, the Western Union Telegraph Building in New York, which was pivotal not only for this practice but for American architecture. The Western Union Telegraph Building was an early example of the national corporate headquarters and, if it was not the first skyscraper, then it certainly was its immediate precursor.
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Miscamble, Wilson D. "Rejected Architect and Master Builder: George Kennan, Dean Acheson and Postwar Europe." Review of Politics 58, no. 3 (1996): 437–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034670500020143.

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This article uses the relationship between George Kennan and Dean Acheson as a lens to track a classic debate over the main lines of postwar American foreign policy, especially in regard to Europe and over such related issues as negotiations with the Soviets, German unification, and the size of and necessity for American conventional and nuclear forces. It clarifies that Kennan did not play the role of powerful architect whose planning provided the blueprint and instructions for building the structure of U.S. policy in Europe. Dean Acheson proved the essential builder of the structures which provided the framework for American foreign policy for four decades. In the process, this article clarifies the nature of the personal and professional dealings of the two men over the period from the end of World War II until Acheson's death in 1971.
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Myjak-Pycia, Anna. "Forgoing the architect’s vision: American home economists as pioneers of participatory design, 1930–60." Architectural Research Quarterly 25, no. 1 (March 2021): 17–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135521000142.

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The phenomenon of participatory architectural design is thought to have emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s in Europe. In 1969, Giancarlo De Carlo, one of its main advocates, presented a manifesto in which he asserted that ‘architecture is too important to be left to architects’, criticised architectural practice as a relationship of ‘the intrinsic aggressiveness of architecture and the forced passivity of the user’, and called for establishing ‘a condition of creative and decisional equivalence’ between the architect and the user, so that in fact both the architect and the user take on the architect’s role. He also argued for the ‘discovery of users’ needs’ and envisioned the process of designing as planning ‘with’ the users instead of planning ‘for’ the users.1 In the same year, De Carlo began working on a housing estate in Terni, Italy that involved future dwellers in design decisions. Among other participatory projects carried out around that time were Lucien Kroll’s medical faculty building for the University de Louvain (1970–6) and Ottaker Uhl‘s Fesstgasse Housing, a multi-storey apartment block in Vienna (1979).
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Amarouch García, Ismael. "La Embajada de Estados Unidos en Madrid y la arquitectura moderna de posguerra." VLC arquitectura. Research Journal 8, no. 2 (October 29, 2021): 61–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/vlc.2021.14640.

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Between 1950 and 1955, the United States Embassy in Madrid was planned and built on the former Huerta de Cánovas estate. This building has already been studied in its pioneering and controversial implementation in the Paseo de la Castellana. Some reference has also been made to the link between Mariano Garrigues, the Spanish architect who directed the construction works, and North America. This article goes deeper, however, into some issues that have not yet been explained; in particular, the aim is to reveal how a prototype of the International Style was adapted to local circumstances. For this purpose, both foreign sources related to the North American architectural office (Foreign Building Operations, FBO) and local sources related to the Spanish architect are used. Likewise, graphic analyses are carried out to complement the available information and to focus on aspects of the site, construction, and spatial organization. The analysis is not limited to the general aspects of the building. Its link with post-war modern architecture is increased with considerations of site, structure and furnishing. The final assessment falls somewhere between absolute adherence to modern ideals and local mediation.
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Choudhury, Bayezid Ismail. "Jatio Sangsad Bhaban or National Assembly Building and Sustainability." Journal of Engineering Science 11, no. 2 (December 22, 2020): 127–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jes.v11i2.50904.

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Designed by American architect, Louis I. Kahn, the Jatio Sangsad Bhaban (JSB) or National Assembly Building of Bangladesh is a world-renowned iconic building situated in Bangladesh. Louis I. Khan was commissioned to design the JSB during the period before the term ‘sustainable’ was coined. In sustainable term it has controversial standing due to its cost, social and participatory aspects. However, it still stands as one of the masterpieces that represent hope and aspiration of the people of Bangladesh. This paper intends to look at the JSB through the lens of ‘sustainability’ to ascertain the degree of sustainability it has or has not achieved considering three tenets of sustainability, namely environmental, social and economic. Journal of Engineering Science 11(2), 2020, 127-132
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Books on the topic "American architect and building news"

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author, Harris Gale, ed. American Telephone & Telegraph Company Building, 95 Broadway (aka 195-207 Broadway, 2-18 Dey Street, 160-170 Fulton Street), Manhattan: Built 1912-16, addition 1920-22 : William Welles Bosworth, architect. New York, N.Y.]: Landmarks Preservation Commission, 2006.

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author, Postal Matthew A., ed. New York Curb Exchange (incorporating the New York Curb Market Building), later known as the American Stock Exchange, 86 Trinity Place (aka 78-86 Trinity Place, 113-23 Greenwich Street), Manhattan: Built: 1920-21, 1930-31 : architect(s) ; Starrett & Van Vleck. New York]: Landmarks Preservation Commission, 2012.

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author, Harris Gale, ed. Williamsburgh Savings Bank (Broadway) (now Republic National Bank), first floor interior consisting of the main (175 Broadway) entrance vestibule; the 1875 banking room, including the dome; the balcony above the main entrance vestibule; and the fixtures and interior components of these spaces, including but not limited to, wall and ceiling surfaces; floor surfaces; doors; balustrades; railings; ventilation grilles; decorative metalwork; clocks; the exterior of the vault in the 1875 banking room; and attached decorative elements; 175 Broadway, aka 161-175 Broadway and 834-844 Driggs Avenue, Borough of Brooklyn: Built 1870-75 ; architect, George B. Post ; mural decoration, Peter B. Wight. New York, N.Y.]: Landmarks Preservation Commission, 1996.

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author, Harris Gale, ed. American Telephone & Telegraph Company Building, first floor interior, consisting of the lobby spaces and the fixtures and components of these spaces, including but not limited to, wall and ceiling surfaces, floor surfaces, the steps adjoining the Dey Street entrances, staircase C, benches, entrance doors, revolving door enclosures, columns, grilles, doors, railings, chandeliers, wall clocks, and mailboxes: 195 built 1912-16 : addition 1920-22 : William Welles Bosworth, architect. New York, N.Y.]: Landmark Preservation Commission, 2006.

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author, Kurshan Virginia, and Kirby, Petit & Green, eds. American Bank Note Company Office Building, 70 Broad Street (aka 70-72 Broad Street, 30 Beaver Street and 1 Marketfield Street), Manhattan: Built 1907-1908 ; architects Kirby, Petit & Green. New York, N.Y.]: Landmarks Preservation Commission, 1997.

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Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program., ed. Today in history. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1997.

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author, Dolkart Andrew, ed. 555 Edgecome Avenue Apartments (Roger Morris Apartments), 555 Edgecombe Avenue Borough of Manhattan: Built 1914-16, architect Schwartz & Gross. New York, N.Y.]: Landmarks Preservation Commission, 1993.

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author, Robins Anthony, and Harris Gale author, eds. Bohemian National Hall, 321-325 East 73rd Street, Manhattan: Built 1895, 1897, architect William C. Frohne. New York, N.Y.]: Landmarks Preservation Commission, 1994.

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author, Kurshan Virginia, ed. Bryant Park Studios, 80 West 40th Street a/k/a 1054-1056 Avenue of the Americas, Borough of Manhattan: Built 1900-01; architect Charles A. Rich. New York, N.Y.]: Landmarks Preservation Commision, 1988.

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Moore, Christopher Paul, 1952- author and Dolkart Andrew author, eds. Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 140-148 West 137th Street, Borough of Manhattan: Built 1923-25 : architect George W. Foster, Jr. New York]: Landmarks Preservation Commission, 1993.

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Book chapters on the topic "American architect and building news"

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Koslosky, John-Erik. "Building Better Competitive News Environments." In Issues in Contemporary American Journalism, 161–65. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003315605-25.

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Baker, Jean H. "This New American." In Building America, 35–71. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190696450.003.0003.

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Chapter 2 begins with Latrobe’s emigration to the United States in 1796 and includes his exciting journey on the Eliza. He spent three and a half years in Virginia. After only a few months in Norfolk he moved to Richmond, the capital. There, he met Bushrod Washington, the president’s nephew, who introduced him to George Washington and arranged a visit to Mount Vernon. Socially, Latrobe benefited from his membership in the Freemasons, a connection that helped him in business as well. However, he continued to chafe against the common belief that an architect was an unnecessary expense, with most buildings requiring only skilled carpenters. Seeking more opportunities as an architect, Latrobe moved to Philadelphia. Here he built the Bank of Pennsylvania, a structure that brought him recognition, and the Philadelphia water supply system, a project that was hampered by his inability to match his artistic vision with financial reality. In Philadelphia, Latrobe met and married Mary Elizabeth Hazlehurst: a wife whom he adored, a woman who treated her stepchildren as if they were hers, a physical and intellectual partner who created the nurturing and intimate family he had never known.
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Baker, Jean H. "Introduction." In Building America, 1–7. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190696450.003.0001.

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This introduction presents Benjamin Latrobe as a rebel who left the Moravian Church and remade himself as an architect and engineer in the United States. It emphasizes his rapid ascension as an architect and engineer in the new republic as well as his very American penchant for speculation. The themes in this short introduction are his constant moving, his chronic debt, and his commitment to buildings that expressed American exceptionalism and connected the United States to the admired republics of ancient Greece and Rome. The introduction also previews the themes of the book: his life spent in motion, his chronic debilitating headaches along with his optimism and resilience, and his family as a sanctuary. It establishes the six cities he lived in as important background for his struggles and discusses the monumental National Endowment for the Humanities project that published his letters and drawings.
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"Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Berlin. Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Zurich. New York Times, New York. The American Architect and Building News, New York. The Builder, Londres. Wiener Bauindustrie-Zeitung, Vienne." In Concours pour le musée des Antiquités égyptiennes du Caire 1895, 51–56. Publications de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/books.inha.6897.

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Cornog, Evan. "Introduction." In The Birth Of Empire, DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769—1828, 3–11. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195119497.003.0001.

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Abstract The success of DeWitt’s father and uncle had paved the way for this charmed as cent. His upbringing instilled in him a set of qualities that help account for both his triumphs as an architect of innovative government policies and his failures as a politician. Raised in comfort, educated at the best schools, welcome in the most exclusive homes in New York, the young politician had many advantages. Growing up amid the ferment of revolution and nation-building, he had a sense of fitness to command that was wedded to a seriousness of purpose, a cognizance of the high stakes involved in the nation’s early politics. But along with these good qualities he possessed a self importance, haughty bearing, and hostility to criticism that eventually alienated many of his closest allies. As his friend James Renwick put it, ‘There was hardly any distinguished individual of our state who has not at one time been opposed to Clinton, and at another united with him in pursuit of the same political object.
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Rozario, Kevin. "Making Progress: Disaster Narratives and the Art of Optimism in Modern America." In The Resilient City. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195175844.003.0006.

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As the philosopher Martin Heidegger once revealed, there are etymological affinities linking the words building, dwelling, and thinking. The history of language, in this instance, teaches a profound lesson: that building is never simply a technical exercise, never solely a question of shelter, but also inevitably a forum for dwelling on life; it is nothing less, in many respects, than a form of thinking. Louis Sullivan famously described the architect as “a poet who uses not words but building materials as a medium of expression.”Certainly, when we build we are telling stories about the world, sculpting the cultural landscape even as we remold the physical one. But if buildings tell stories, it is also true that stories make buildings. When offices, stores, and homes are suddenly and unexpectedly annihilated, it is necessary not only to manufacture new material structures but also to repair torn cultural fabrics and damaged psyches. With this in mind, I propose to explore the relationship between the rebuilding of cities with mortar and bricks and the rebuilding of cultural environments with words and images in the aftermath of great urban disasters—a double process neatly caught in the twin meanings of the word reconstruction as “remaking” and as “retelling.” The reconstruction of events in our minds, the stories we hear and tell about disasters, the way we see and imagine destruction—all of these things have a decisive bearing on how we reconstruct damaged buildings, neighborhoods, or cities. Construction, in this sense, is always cultural. We cannot build what we cannot imagine. We create worlds with words. We build stories with stories. Certainly we cannot build with any confidence or ambition without some faith in the future. So when we consider the extraordinary endurance of American cities over the past couple of centuries when confronting fires, floods, earthquakes, and wars, one of our tasks must be to ask how people have perceived and described the disasters that have befallen them. In this chapter, I will examine the role of disaster writings and what I amcalling a “narrative imagination” in helping Americans to conceive of disasters as instruments of progress, and I will argue that this expectation has contributed greatly to this nation’s renowned resilience in the face of natural disasters.
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Larsen, Kristin E. "International Initiatives and Building a Legacy." In Community Architect. Cornell University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501702464.003.0008.

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This chapter considers Clarence Samuel Stein's legacy as a community architect, along with his postwar engagement in international initiatives in town planning. In the years after World War II, Stein found himself turning his attention toward international translations of his new town ideas. Communications with international architects, housers, and planners characterized this period, with a focus on specific projects, such as the new towns of Chandigarh in India and Stevenage in Great Britain, and broader community building concepts with housing and planning experts in places as diverse as Sweden and Israel. This chapter discusses Stein's travels in Europe to new towns as he completed documentation of his own visionary work in what would become Toward New Towns for America. It also describes Stein's involvement in town building projects in India and Israel and concludes with an assessment of his legacy in the areas of investment housing and communitarian regionalism and the influence of his community building concepts ranging from the Regional City to the Radburn Idea.
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Baker, Jean H. "Final Beginnings." In Building America, 189–227. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190696450.003.0007.

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Chapter 6 covers the last three years of Latrobe’s life. After being released from debtor’s prison, he moved to Baltimore. There he completed two major works—the Catholic Basilica and the Merchants Exchange, the latter the cause of a bitter conflict with another expatriate, fellow architect Maximilian Godefroy. Again lacking sufficient commissions, he moved to New Orleans to complete the municipal waterworks that he expected would make him rich. He died of yellow fever before its completion. His wife Mary discovered that Latrobe had put all his available money into the unfinished waterworks, leaving her and the children destitute. Their son John, in his final year at West Point, left school to support his family
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Larsen, Kristin E. "A Thinkers’ Network and The City Housing Corporation." In Community Architect. Cornell University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501702464.003.0004.

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This chapter focuses on Clarence Samuel Stein's collaborative approach to community design with a specific focus on the formation and initiatives of the Regional Planning Association of America (RPAA). It first provides an overview of Stein's early connections in housing policy and regionalism, along with his marriage to Aline MacMahon, before turning to the RPAA, conceived by Stein to address housing policy, community design, and regional planning, with the goal of building a Garden City. It also examines the City Housing Corporation's (CHC) community building and design strategy as well as its innovations in mortgage financing; the New York Housing and Regional Planning Commission's (HRPC) advocacy of a comprehensive housing program; the RPAA's participation in the 1925 International Town Planning Conference (ITPC) held in New York City; and the inception of the Radburn Idea. The chapter concludes with an assessment of Stein's advocacy of communitarian regionalism and metropolitanism and the CHC's demise during the 1930s.
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Fitch, James Marston, and William Bobenhausen. "Plan: The Instrument of Policy." In American Building, 299–328. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195110401.003.0010.

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Abstract A plan is many things, depending upon how one looks at it. From the point of view of society as a whole, a plan is an instrument of policy, a means of facilitating a certain line of action. Thus the plan of an American city, or entire metropolitan area, or region, may be regarded as an instrument of socioeconomic policy for the production and exchange of goods and ideas. The plans of individual buildings of which the city, or suburban satellite center, is composed are likewise expressions of smaller, individual policies. From the standpoint of the architect or physical planner, however, a plan is a representation of a horizontal plane passed through a building, city, or community. In this sense, a plan is a solution for a given line of action. It inevitably reflects the designer’s concept of how—within thelimits given—a certain amount of space may be best organized for the specific operation to be housed. For the people who live or work in the completed building or city, a plan is something else again. It is the schema of a control mechanism that, to a large extent, determines how happily they live or how well they work together.
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Conference papers on the topic "American architect and building news"

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Hwang, Irene. "Pivotal constructions of unseen events: Building the American dream." In 3rd Valencia International Biennial of Research in Architecture, VIBRArch. València: Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/vibrarch2022.2022.15200.

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Is important that architecture is the product of more than the aesthetic concerns of the architect and the practical concerns of the client. It straddles two realms: that of the fine arts and that of the highly practical and utilitarian. In its dual nature, architecture is most often cast as a high art; the outcomes of architectural thinking and making are celebrated, analyzed, and documented for their aesthetic significance as art objects. Architecture’s impact as a service, being practical and useful, are deemed less worthy by both the discipline and profession. Pivotal Constructions of Unseen Events reconstitutes a new reading of American history from 1871-2020, a period marked by tremendous national growth and building, alongside the rise of new shared ideas, practices, and customs that have shaped—and continue to shape—the structures of American society alongside the structures of its built environment.Through the construction of five narratives for five buildings of architectural origin, this research examines the social, technological, material, and economic forces that led to their emergence and construction, as well as the outcomes that arose in society afterward. Pivotal Constructions demonstrates—through the close reading of buildings—how to understand architecture as historical event rather than historical artifact. Whereby architecture’s historical significance is not solely as a static object (or artifact), but rather as something that happened and happens (an event), transforming and shaping history in unexpected and significant ways. This approach gathers and reassembles evidence of architecture’s historical significance, elements hence claimed by other narratives, absorbed by other disciplines, and told by other actors. This method of re-constructing architectural history, is meant to recapture a fuller gamut of architecture’s impact on and in society.For VIBRArch 2022, this author presents one of these narratives: “Building the American Dream”, the history of how the arrival in 1908 of the Gamble House (Greene and Greene Architects) played a part in the genesis of the single-family, detached house, which has become a potent and defining symbol of American values and morals.
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Hale, Mary E. "Tactics for Collaboration Across and Within Disciplines." In 111th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.44.

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While the architectural design process may be led by a figurehead architect, contemporary buildings are the result of vast teams of designers, engineers, and builders. They are furthermore influenced by social issues, local policy, and clients. Yet typical American architectural design pedagogy centers around design studios where students work individually on creative projects. This pedagogical style reinforces a fallacy of the genius architect, the heroic designer who designs and creates in a vacuum. This paper and presentation showcases a seminar designed specifically to subvert this paradigm and provide targeted collaboration skills and support to students as they work on inter- and intra-disciplinary teams on a creative project. Taught collaboratively between Northeastern University’s School of Architecture and New York University’s Tisch School of Dance, this course takes inspiration from historical collaborations between prominent experimental dancers and designers like Anna and Lawrence Halprin; Merce Cunningham, John Cage and a variety of designers; and others. During the first six weeks of the semester, architects and dancers prepare within their own disciplinary cohorts for collaboration. Architects learn from case studies in contemporary dance and set design; they learn hand drawing and sketching skills for quick ways of expressing their ideas; and finally they read, complete exercises from and discuss Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently, by Dawna Markova and Angie McArthur. Dancers also read this book. Following this preparatory period, architecture students are paired based on skill areas, interests and working styles discovered through the workshop. Then, architect pairs and dancers exchange portfolios of work before meeting remotely for a “speed-dating” style zoom session after which they rank their preferred collaborators. Teams are thus formed and the long distance collaboration between architect pairs and dancers begins. Together, architect-dancer teams envision and prototype a public performance through remote collaboration. Students draw from the methods in Collaborative Intelligence to address conflicts. Through this process, architecture students experience at a small but real scale the architectural design and delivery process from conceptual development to project completion with a focus on building collaboration tactics.
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Leach, James, and Kristin Nelson. "Informed Forms: Introducing Climate Response into the Early Design Studio." In 2020 ACSA Fall Conference. ACSA Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.aia.fallintercarbon.20.8.

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In an October 2017 article in Architect Magazine, editor Ned Cramer identified climate change as “the fundamental design problem of our time.”1 In the same article, he described the considerable impact – nearly 40% of annual world carbon emissions2 – that buildings contribute to this problem, and called for change in the industry. In February of 2019, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) publicly endorsed the Green New Deal, and in September, the AIA board ratified Resolution 19-11, referred to as The Big Move, which “declares an urgent imperative for carbon reduction.”3 This resolution also advances the development of the Awards Common Application, which will require the disclosure of building energy performance metrics, and will use the Committee on the Environment Top Ten Measures for ethical and responsible design, in the consideration of all AIA Design Excellence Awards submittals.4 These policy developments indicate a recognition within the architecture industry of the necessity to mainstream climate action and zero-carbon design. More recently, the 2020 National Architectural Accrediting Boards (NAAB) Conditions for Accreditation emphasize the same responsibility for educational institutions, identifying “Ecological Knowledge and Responsibility” as a key criteria of program evaluation (PC.3).5 This is reinforced by the addition of the requirements that student work demonstrate “the ability to make design decisions” while considering “the measurable environmental impacts” and “the measurable outcomes of building performance” within the framework of a successful architectural design project.
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Leach, James, and Kristin Nelson. "Informed Forms: Introducing Climate Response into the Early Design Studio." In AIA/ACSA Intersections Conference. ACSA Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.aia.fallintercarbon.20.08.

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In an October 2017 article in Architect Magazine, editor Ned Cramer identified climate change as “the fundamental design problem of our time.”1 In the same article, he described the considerable impact – nearly 40% of annual world carbon emissions2 – that buildings contribute to this problem, and called for change in the industry. In February of 2019, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) publicly endorsed the Green New Deal, and in September, the AIA board ratified Resolution 19-11, referred to as The Big Move, which “declares an urgent imperative for carbon reduction.”3 This resolution also advances the development of the Awards Common Application, which will require the disclosure of building energy performance metrics, and will use the Committee on the Environment Top Ten Measures for ethical and responsible design, in the consideration of all AIA Design Excellence Awards submittals.4 These policy developments indicate a recognition within the architecture industry of the necessity to mainstream climate action and zero-carbon design. More recently, the 2020 National Architectural Accrediting Boards (NAAB) Conditions for Accreditation emphasize the same responsibility for educational institutions, identifying “Ecological Knowledge and Responsibility” as a key criteria of program evaluation (PC.3).5 This is reinforced by the addi- tion of the requirements that student work demonstrate “the ability to make design decisions” while considering “the measurable environmental impacts” and “the measurable outcomes of building performance” within the framework of a successful architectural design project.
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Johnston, George B., and Wenbo Guo. "Cross Cultural Currents in Early 20th Century Chinese Architectural Practice." In 109th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.109.42.

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This paper considers the transplantation of the Western concept of architecture to China set against the backdrop of Western colonization from the mid-19th century. With the increasing presence of foreign populations, the urgent demand for a considerable number of new building types greatly spurred the Chinese construction market. Beyond consideration of the physical artifacts, this paper focuses upon the story behind the scenes, the mode of architectural production, and particularly how the intricate relationships among different professionals helped to shape the physical world. The West China Union University, constructed from 1915 through 1940s in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, serves as an apt case study to exemplify this process. A cooperative product of five missionary organizations from the United States, Britain and Canada, this project was designed by a British architect whose practice was based in England, super-intended on-site by an American architect, and constructed by local Chinese workmen. How were these professionals able to communicate and cooperate over such a long distance and across huge cultural gaps in architectural and building practice? This case study demonstrates that the relations among different actors in the field of architecture, specifically the tripartite interactions among client, architect and builder, were far more complex and nuanced than we might otherwise assume. This paper offers critical insights into the dramatic changes in the system of Chinese architectural practice under the sway of Western influence during the first half of 20th century.
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Marfella, Giorgio. "Seeds of Concrete Progress: Grain Elevators and Technology Transfer between America and Australia." In The 38th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. online: SAHANZ, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55939/a4000pi5hk.

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Modern concrete silos and grain elevators are a persistent source of interest and fascination for architects, industrial archaeologists, painters, photographers, and artists. The legacy of the Australian examples of the early 1900s is appreciated primarily by a popular culture that allocates value to these structures on aesthetic grounds. Several aspects of construction history associated with this early modern form of civil engineering have been less explored. In the 1920s and 1930s, concrete grain elevator stations blossomed along the railway networks of the Australian Wheat Belts, marking with their vertical presence the landscapes of many rural towns in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and Western Australia. The Australian reception of this industrial building type of American origin reflects the modern nation-building aspirations of State Governments of the early 1900s. The development of fast-tracked, self-climbing methods for constructing concrete silos, a technology also imported from America, illustrates the critical role of concrete in that effort of nation-building. The rural and urban proliferation of concrete silos in Australia also helped establish a confident local concrete industry that began thriving with automatic systems of movable formwork, mastering and ultimately transferring these construction methods to multi-storey buildings after WWII. Although there is an evident link between grain elevators and the historiographical propaganda of heroic modernism, that nexus should not induce to interpret old concrete silos as a vestige of modern aesthetics. As catalysts of technical and economic development in Australia, Australian wheat silos also bear important significance due to the international technology transfer and local repercussions of their fast-tracked concrete construction methods.
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Delgado, Ivan. "Unlearning Architecture(s)." In 2016 ACSA International Conference. ACSA Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.intl.2016.31.

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Much of an architect´s training occurs by a process of elimination. We must unlearn many things to learn the new ones; in our particular Costa Rican educational context learning to produce correct architecture seems to start with the assumption that most of what we see in our cities is wrong. But when it comes to construction we move between two traditions: the academic one and the informal one. These traditions seem to dismiss each other, an architect would consider the products of informality ingenuous, a person operating within the informal tradition in need of the materialization of the preconceived idea of a house would normally consider an architecta luxury. According to the National Architectural College 23% of overall construction lacked permits in 2014, a percentage slightly higher than the previous year, this nevertheless renders only partial understanding the phenomenon. Which of the two traditions accounts for the majority of what is built in this country? What significant informal knowledge percolates to the present after a much longer presence than formal education and how is it transmitted? What role does representation play in the informal tradition ? are instructions drawn or narrated ?… How do architects unlearn what they do not understand in full? A house designed by the author in the rural North of Costa Rica functions as a catalyst for further investigation on how the upbringing of an architect collides with more traditional ways of building. In a village where, no other architect has practiced before the author discovers several categories of construction, from the temporary huts vendors use to sell fruits and milking parlors, to houses that have been built following traditional “recipes”. The house learns lessons of practicality from these structures and is informed by their aesthetics. It also employs the old“vara” (0.84 m) as the unit of measurement in an attempt to make itself communicable to local builders. In practice, due to the lack of skill for reading formal construction drawings, the instructions to build the house end up being narrated rather than read. This paper will study informal construction in Costa Rica which is symptomatic of Latin America in general particularly in rurality where it occurs the most. It will collect information from specific cases on how decisions where made and how they were transmitted, and will look for ways to hierarchize them in order to identify which are part of a basic set of instructions (or recipe, meaning there can be small creative variations of the ingredients) and which take place as more significant deviations from those instructions. It will also propose ways to convey the graphic implications of this information that is compatible with the inflections that occur in the orality of these particular context, and finally it will put forward a discussion on ways for an architect to learn from and operate within it, anticipating that our built environment takes shape as a trade-off between both traditions.
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Sozer, Hatice, and Mahjoub Elnimeiri. "Sensitivity Factors in Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) System Cost." In ASME 2003 International Solar Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/isec2003-44231.

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Even though PV technology is new and expensive for the building industry today, and regardless of market development and technology advancement, a BIPV system cost can actually be reduced and its application can spread further into the building industry as this paper will manage to show. However, PV systems still have not been accepted by the building industry and consumers yet. According to the results of a survey by the workshop of Building Integrated Photovoltaic for Design Professionals which was sponsored by the National Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA), “a major barrier to analyzing renewable energy systems is assembling and presenting the technical and financial data to persuade a client that a BIPV would make economic sense.” [Wenger and Eiffert, 1996] This paper uses Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) for identifying BIPV system cost components and makes the connection between the findings of LCCA and the design process. It identifies specific quantifiable measures/variables that will be compared with a non-PV integrated building or different PV system applications by using the LCCA method that confirms cost related issues. Calculations of payback period as a result of LCCA gauge the sensitivity of these variables and show how some of them are significantly more important than others in reducing the pay back period. Offering an efficient approach for integration of PV into curtain wall also meets the long-term objective of the satisfaction of the building user.
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Gleeson, Andrew Ryan. "The Mies Mystique: Irreducible Opposites in the Work of Mies Van Der Rohe." In 108th Annual Meeting Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.108.79.

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A chronological historiography of Mies van der Rohe’s architecture uncovers a constant reassessment of his work by critics in changing eras. By the 1990’s he was reassessed as a more complex figure than previously understood. Publications, such as, The Presence of Mies, and, Mies in Berlin/America revealed new ways to conceptualize his work. Today he’s a well-worn symbol of the elite European architect in a necessary, refresh¬ing, and fruitful landscape of broader inclusivity. However, in the canon of Western Modern Architecture Mies is the most mysterious; an architect who conceals multitudes with his silence. Mies’s works are like tofu, his buildings act as tabula rasa in which new meanings can be absorbed within the constant, restless, and shifting tastes of architectural scholarship. Mies cultivated this mystery by saying one thing and doing another. Like Andy Warhol he reduced explanations of his design process to the point of rationalist banality. But a closer understanding of Mies’s philosophy betrays a much deeper surface. A new English translation of highlighted passages in Mies’s personal copy of Romano Guardini’s “Der Gegensatz” (The Opposite), gives a clue into how mysteries within Mies’s works are cultivated. For Mies, these passages revised the understanding of dualities as laid out by classic German philosophy. Hegel supported the synthesis of contradiction through a reposed resolution, but this passage declares an irreducible simultaneity present within paradox. Architecture is a relevant discipline for exploring dualities because it is a discipline steeped in both the rational and the spiritual, serving immediate and abstract needs. Reframing a transitional period in Mies’s career—the projects for the Ulrich Lange and Hubbe House—within the context of his meditations on Guardini reveals a new complexity embedded in the work. His quest to understand the nature of dualities is the underlying flavor of his work after the 1920s.
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González, Alexander, and Julie Waldron. "How to Integrate Ergonomics and Sustainability in Architecture Workshops?" In Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference. AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001332.

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The current challenges regarding climate variations and energy consumption rates are pushing designers, architects and engineers to create strategies to improve the efficiency of new systems, as well as those already existent. In this effort to find more solutions, systems are frequently over passing the limits of the human body; affecting its health, comfort, happiness and the positive perception of the built environment. This paper contains the design of a Workshop in “Sustainability + Ergonomics” in architecture teaching. The aim of this Workshop is to encourage undergraduate students to integrate the concepts of Sustainability and Ergonomics in their professional practice. The content of the course is divided in two: 1) learning the natural environmental phenomena and 2) understanding the human body response to environmental factors for buildings´ design, with a group of experts. In order to structure the aims of this Workshop, a review of the courses in Architecture Schools from Latin-American Universities was made, to verify the inclusion of Ergonomics and Sustainability topics. Subsequently, there was a selection of the main objectives in each field of study evaluated and according to this, a theoretical and practical exercise was designed which integrated the findings of the academic review.
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