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Eco-conscious home offers smart green features

January 1, 2009

…a home a joy.” For more information, see www.mkd-arc.com and www.msichicago.org/whats-here/exhibits/smart-home/. Shelby Gonzalez is a freelance writer based in Bolinas, Calif. Her feature on Renzo Piano’s green-roofed California Academy of…

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Professional Awning Manufacturers Association publishes new reference guide

January 1, 2009

…engineering references, flammability requirements and briefs on design loads, material choices and general design considerations for awnings and canopies. For more information and to obtain a copy, visit www.awninginfo.com….

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Tension revisited—3: ForTen 3000

January 1, 2009

…on Windows and a trial version is available at: www.forten32.com. Aaron Westre is a recent graduate of the Master of Architecture program at the University of Minnesota College of Design….

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Conference: Textile Roofs 2009

January 1, 2009

…and practical realization of architectural membrane structures, to be held in Berlin at the Technical University of Berlin from June 11 – 13, 2009. For more information, visit www.textile-roofs.de….

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Exhibition: Fashioning felt

January 1, 2009

…The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present a comprehensive overview of the varied uses of felt in contemporary design. The exhibition, which will take place March 6…

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Artists and architects create unique works for GLOW

January 1, 2009

…shift in light was accompanied by a corresponding two-layer sound composition created by sound artist Andreas Pasieka from Moers. This is Heshmati’s second fabric-clad light piece; his first, created for…

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Strip malls turned on end

January 1, 2009

…Winners of a competition to redesign strip malls were announced by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona. Launched by the museum in late 2007 to inspire…

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Designing fabric structures

September 1, 2008

…databases and libraries. Spend some time with pen, paper and some stretch nylon. If you understand the basic concept of double curvature and the common forms of the cone, barrel…

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2008 ACADIA conference to cover biological processes and computation

September 1, 2008

…Diaz Moreno & Efran Garcia Grinda, co-founders and directors of AMID (CERO9); Sanford Kwinter, writer and architectural critic; François Roche, founder and architect of R&Sie, Paris; and Philippe Rahm, founder…

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Dome houses Made in Berlin exhibition

September 1, 2008

…the DMY International Design Festival Berlin 2008. The goal of the project was to highlight Berlin as an international and sustainable city of design. For more information, visit www.zendome.com….

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