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The Skin of the DeYoung

Underlying the design of the new DeYoung Museum is the idea that it should be integrated into the natural landscape...
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Exceptional Residential: AIA East Bay

In Autumn 2004, The American Institute of Architects, East Bay launched Exceptional Residential: Bay Area Regional Design Awards (ExRes), a...
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What the Drawings Don’t Show: Four Recent Buildings

Anshen + Allen was commissioned to design an addition to an existing physical sciences building, designed by John Carl Warnecke,...
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Drafting Culture

A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver and a bee puts to shame many an architect in...
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Construction Documents in China: SOM’s Experience

Ask any architect who has developed a set of construction documents to describe “what constitutes a thorough set of construction...
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Working in the Midst of Construction

A survey of design and construction periods in Japan (as reported in Shinkenchiku) shows that about 20 percent of projects...
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Legal Considerations of BIM

Building Information Modeling (BIM) can significantly change the way projects are designed and delivered. As this technology is used and...
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Reorganizing Around BIM

The resistance to building information technology that I’ve heard reminds me of a survey of architects using computers in 1988,...
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Imbedded Knowledge

Any architect who has the opportunity of working on an older building usually asks if any original drawings exist. Sometimes...
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Imbedded Knowledge: Editor’s Comment

While we were working on this issue on construction documents, a holiday greeting came in over the wires from Winzler...
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Coda: For Richer, For Poorer . . .

From: BPALA@aol.com | Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:04:52 EST I wish I could find a picture of what the...
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. . . and Counting

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic....
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Editorial Board, 2019-2024

Shannon Calder
Lucy Campbell, MLIS
Leigh Christy, FAIA
Anne Cotter, AIA
Tim Culvahouse, FAIA, Editor
Nicki Dennis Stephens, Hon. AIA
Andres Diaz, AIA
Wyatt Frantom, FAIA

 

Alan Hess
Lisa Matthiessen, FAIA
Ian Merker, AIA
Mark Miller, FAIA
Tibby Rothman, Hon. AIA|LA
Simon Sadler, PhD
Maxine Ward, AIA

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