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Michael Maltzan is recognized as an architect of contemporary residences, including notable houses in Beverly Hills and Malibu, educational complexes, and buildings for art. Since 1995, his innovative architectural firm, Michael Maltzan Architecture, has earned such major commissions as MoMA QNS, New York, Kidspace Children's Museum, Pasadena, the Sonoma County Museum, and the Fresno Metropolitan Museum. Maltzan is also at work on two international projects: Ministructure 16, a park pavilion in Jinhua, China, and the redesign of urban space near the Garibaldi railway station in Milan, Italy.
The exhibition Michael Maltzan: Alternate Ground presents sixteen projects that collectively demonstrate Maltzan's design strategies: the grafting of new and old, sensitivity to topography, the prioritization of natural light, and the pleasure of promenade. The exhibition includes 200 models documenting the firm's design process. Like Maltzan's buildings, the exhibition invites circulation and exploration.
Michael Maltzan Architecture was commissioned to design the 2004-5 Carnegie International, on view at the museum through March 20.
Generous support for the exhibition catalogue Michael Maltzan: Alternate Ground has been provided by Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown. The exhibition and its programs are supported by The Overbrook Founda
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Diablo Publications announces the launch of Design for Living, the newest home magazine focusing on design inspiration, home style and award-winning architecture. The premiere issue, delivering to homes in April, highlights twelve of the Bay Area's top architectural designs from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) East Bay chapter home design awards.
Every issue of Design for Living features design-sophisticat ed content on trends, products, and ideas for enhancing life indoors and out. Editorial coverage encompasses a wide range of design and architecture styles from urban lofts to suburban estates and everything in between. With beautiful photography, expert-driven editorial, and a contemporary design sensibility, Design for Living inspires, motivates, and excites luxury homeowners.
Design for Living's distribution model targets homeowners in affluent communities throughout Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa and Solano counties. 25,000 copies are sent to million dollar homes in these areas effectively reaching upscale consumers. Additionally, AIA offers bonus circulation to 13,000 Bay Area architect and design professionals through their memberships, home and garden shows and other distribution outlets. This multi-tiered approach assures that Design for Living will reach a targeted and influential readership.
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Universities are learning that impressive architecture can woo students and give a new identity.
This is architecture as a marketing tool. As architect Rick Mather points out, "a defined architectural identity goes with a defined academic identity". Mather, who has worked on new master plans at the universities of East Anglia, Lincoln and Southampton, believes the campuses with the most architectural character and coherence from the building boom of the 1960s are the most memorable. The UEA's uncompromising ziggurats rising from the flat Norfolk plains say something about its pioneering status. More people have an image of Sussex's landscaped contours and warm, listed, brick buildings than, say, Lancaster or Essex.
That message seems to be filtering through - to university publicity departments at least. An online tour reveals "landmark" buildings cropping up on campuses all over the country. Surrey's new health and medical sciences building; Plymouth's medical school, Sheffield's chemistry department and Newcastle's Devonshire Building all aspire to be more than big boxes containing smaller boxes of lecture halls and labs. "On the whole, I think academic buildings in the sector are of a pretty high quality, and are cared about," says Paul Finch, acting chairman of the government's Commission for Architecture and the Buil
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Baghdad-born Zaha Hadid has won the international competition to design the Architecture Foundation's new centre for architecture to be built in Southwark Street.
A free public exhibition revealing the winning design for the £2.25 million freestanding building in Southwark from the eight-strong shortlist of diverse international talent, will run until 23 January at The Ragged School, 47 Union Street.
Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota announced the winning design at an event at The Ragged School on Wednesday night.
The foundation says that the new centre for architecture will be a place of energy, creative ideas and activity where the public can engage with the best contemporary architecture. Due to open in 2006 on the corner of Southwark Street and Great Guildford Street, the building will be the new home of the Architecture Foundation and will house exhibition space, events space, offices and a bar.
The building and the competition to design it have been made possible with sponsorship from Land Securities, the company behind the Bankside123 development being constructed on the former St Christopher House site.
It is claimed that Zaha Hadid's scheme will set the highest standard of design, creating dramatic and engaging architecture that will take The Architecture Foundation's programme and mission to a new le
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A program that's often mistaken for simply matching fabrics, colors, and patterns isn't easy, said interior design students, who claim more is involved with the major.
It involves designing spaces to improve quality of life, increase productivity and protect the health, safety and welfare of the public.
"Interior design is very research-oriented, " Dr. Rita Purdy, professor and chairwoman of the department of family and consumer sciences, said.
"The students must know what their clients want and what their needs are," she said.
According to Purdy, interior design is misunderstood because most people assume anyone can decorate.
From Jan. 28 to Feb. 1, the Foundation for Interior Design Education and Research reviewed Baylor's interior design program for possible accreditation. FIDER will determine whether Baylor's facilities meet interior design standards for education.
Accredited universities enable graduates of the interior design program to take the National Council for Interior Design Qualification application upon graduation.
This exam is similar to the bar exam or CPA exam in that once graduates have passed the NCIDQ, they become licensed and can legally call themselves interior designers.
"Design affects our society, so we do projects for all types of people," Fulton said.
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