GSD News Archive: July 2008
Prof. Toshiko Mori shares views on architecture, education, and inspiration >> [Metropolis magazine; July–August, 2008]
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| GSD class of 2008 graduates are among top ten finalists for SOM Prize.
Maria Arquero de Alarcon, MLAUD ’08, and Annie Barrett, MArch 1 ’08, were among the ten top finalists out of 101 submissions for the 2008 SOM Prize that was granted on July 24 in San Francisco. The SOM Prize is a $50,000 travel and research grant awarded annually by the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Foundation. The jurors were: Stanley Saitowitz, Stanley Saitowitz Architects; Jim Jennings, Jim Jennings Architecture; Henry Urbach, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, SFMOMA; Anne Fougeron, Fougeron Architecture; and Craig Hartman, SOM (jury chair). |
 Prof. Michael Hays and GSD alumna presents at the Whitney Museum’s Buckminster Fuller Exhibition
Related: Metropolis magazine article, July 2008 >> |
| Aga Khan Award for Architecture Exhibition Tenth Cycle acclaimed by ArchitectureBoston
[ArchitectureBoston; July-August 2008] Read article >> (adobe pdf file) |
| From diagram to architecture: Tate Modern extension redesigned by Profs. Herzog and de Meuron
The redesigned extension to the Tate Modern contemporary art museum in London launched today, shows Jacques Herzog moving from what would effectively have been a built diagram of stacked boxes—his first attempt of two years ago—into something considerably more smoothly sculpted. It’s turning into architecture.
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GSD faculty receive a grant to research Pearl River cities Margaret Crawford, Professor of Urban Design and Planning Theory, and Marco Cenzatti, Lecturer in Urban Planning, have received a grant from the Harvard China Fund and Harvard’s Asia Center for a four year study of “Villages in Development.” |
| Profs. Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti’s graduate student housing honored as a 2008 notable project.
2008 Notable Projects: Dormitories >> [Architype Review; July 2008, Vol. 3 No. 3] |
| Prof. Jacques Herzog defends his “Bird’s Nest” Olympic stadium in Beijing
Star architect Jacques Herzog, the man behind the new Olympic Stadium in Beijing, tells Spiegel his arena is a subversive place where people can meet in locations not easily monitored by officials. He also defends his decision to build for a regime criticized for human rights violations. more >> [Der Spiegel.com; July 30, 2008]
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| Prof. Alex Krieger cites values of successful cities; to lead Plan Baton Rouge masterplan
Alex Krieger of Chan Krieger Sieniewicz in Cambridge, Mass., will lead the second phase of Plan Baton Rouge, assuming the contract is signed. Krieger, the former chairman of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, believes there are about eight common values all successful downtowns embrace. When one reviews these factors in the context of downtown Baton Rouge, it’s obvious there’s a lot of work left to do. more >> [BusinessReport.com; July 30, 2008]
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| Prof. Rem Koolhaas to design new Prada Foundation headquarters
The Office of Metropolitan Architecture, which is led by the visionary Dutch architect, has been commissioned to oversee the transformation of an early 20th-century industrial complex at Largo Isarco, in Milan, into the Prada Foundation’s new headquarters. more >> [Art+Auction; July 25, 2008] |
| Prof. Farshid Moussavi’s office to design MOCA in Cleveland
Strong design of uptown project bodes well for Cleveland’s future; the City’s Museum of Contemporary Art plans to build a new home for itself at the tip of the Euclid-Mayfield Triangle, marking the western entry to the district. The design for the building, still under wraps, is by Farshid Moussavi, from the highly innovative London firm of Foreign Office Architects. more >> [Cleveland Plain Dealer; July 27, 2008]
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Profs. Herzog and de Meuron create an icon that reaches beyond the Olympics >> National Stadium lies beyond Beijing’s Fourth Ring Road, at the northern end of the imperial axis that cuts through Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. But it can be seen almost everywhere in the capital. Billboards, magazines, television ads, soda cans, clothes, hats, and ashtrays bear the likeness of Herzog & de Meuron’s woven-steel building, reflecting the propaganda, marketeering, and pure fascination that surround the city’s Olympic centerpiece. [Architectural Record, July 2008] Related: Guardian UK, July 6, 2008 Washington Post, June 22, 2008 |
GSD students postulate a radical new vision for Lee, MA >> [Berkshire Eagle; July 15, 2008] Related: Berkshire Homestyle magazine |
