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Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein, formerly of architecture practice Gillespie Kidd and Coia, are to be awarded honorary degrees conferred by the University of Glasgow on behalf of The Glasgow School of Art.
Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein have been chosen by The Glasgow School of Art to receive honorary degrees this year for their impact on Scottish architectural culture, their considerable academic involvement at The Glasgow School of Art and the revival of interest in their work following the exhibition Gillespie Kidd and Coia: Architecture 1956 - 1987 at The Lighthouse, Scotland's centre for Architecture and Design.
Professor Seona Reid, Director of The Glasgow School of Art, said: "I am really delighted to announce Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein as recipients of honorary degrees conferred by the University of Glasgow on behalf of The Glasgow School of Art.
"I cannot think of any architects living in Scotland today who have had more influence on both architectural design and architectural education than Andy and Isi.
They brought to post war Britain a fresh, new architectural language, establishing Gillespie Kidd and Coia as one of the 20th century's leading architectural practices, as witnessed at the recent exhibition at the Lighthouse."
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Columbia Theological Seminary trustees will gather on the campus April 1 to celebrate a "ground-blessing" at the site of a new $9.6 million student residence hall that is expected to enhance on-campus community life.
Designed by architecture firm Lord, Aeck & Sargent, the 60-bed residence hall will feature a variety of sustainable design strategies.
The building is registered with the U.S. Green Building Council and is targeted for LEED1 silver certification.
Construction will begin on the four-story, 34,000-square-foot structure this spring and should be completed by spring 2009.
"This new residence hall, badly needed by our students, is a critical part of our plan to keep Columbia competitive not only with other theological schools but with other professional schools for the most talented leaders of the 21st century," said Laura Mendenhall, Columbia president.
The new residence hall is expected to use approximately 50 percent less energy use than a conventionally constructed facility.
To improve energy efficiency, lighting strategies will include motion sensor switching, energy efficient lamps and generous amounts of daylighting.
"We sited the building to enhance its energy efficiency," said Meg Needle, AIA, LEED AP, a Lord, Aeck & Sargent associate who is serving as project manager during the design and construction of the residence hall.
"In orienting the facility, we minimized its east and west exposures to reduce sun angles, thus reducing unwanted glare and heat gain."
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Columbia Theological Seminary to Celebrate Ground-blessing for New, Green Residence Hall
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The third annual Dwell on Design Conference + Exhibition, debuting in Los Angeles, June 5-8, 2008 will constitute the largest design show in the West.
With over 50 speakers, the conference will offer the most diverse subject matter related to modern design ever presented live in Los Angeles.
Exclusively moderated by Dwell editors, the 13 panels will feature a roster of incredibly talented and diverse people ranging from legislators to practitioners to activists will be discussing everything from urban gardening, to a mandated LEED program for Los Angeles, to why there are so few developers who love good design.
The conference follows two parallel tracks but participants are encouraged to partake in all discussions.
The conference opens with conversation specifically devoted to the future of Los Angeles, with panels including LA Grows Up: Dealing With Density and Los Angeles LEEDs the Way?, which explores what a mandated LEED program means for the city.
A highly anticipated panel moderated by Dwell Senior Editor Amber Bravo will explore Immortality Through Product.
A focus will be on the process of bringing products to market and the way in which design skills may be wrapped into a product that reaches a broader audience than a designer might access through design as a service.
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June Dwell on Design Conference Announces Extensive Speaker Line-up
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Ever since our cities became areas of continuous interaction and ever-expanding exchange the term "exotic" - understood as counterpart to the "local", the "native" or even the "authentic" - has become a rather vague term.
Who - in actual fact - is still able to distinguish between the one and the other, between the exotic and the local?
Who would be interested anyway?
Yet, once again, there seems to be an increasing fascination with, and interest in, importing and seeing certain urban elements from other parts of the world in our own cities.
There are, apparently, more Japanese people visiting the fake Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas than the original in Paris.
What makes this displacement so interesting today?
MONU9 investigates what the term exotic actually means for our cities and how exotic urban elements appear, what they look like, and how they may influence our cities.
In any case, exotic urban features appear more and more as an inexhaustible source for progressive urban design ideas.
When the exotic influenced the appearance of the "Art Nouveau" at the end of the 19th century, it might today have the power to create an "Urban Nouveau".
MONU invites daring concepts, mind-stretching speculations and ground-breaking new strategies about the topic "Exotic Urbanism" for next issue.
Submissions may be essays, photography, art projects or design concepts that trigger the term "exotic" in the urban context.
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The Rabih Hage Gallery will showcase an architectural project as part of the London Festival of Architecture.
The Gallery will exhibit a Pavilion designed by Rabih Hage Design Studio and built by EOS Electro Optical Systems Ltd.
This inspirational architectural project explores the possibility of using additive layer manufacturing (also referred to as e-Manufacturing or rapid manufacturing) technology within the built environment.
The exhibition will examine the potentials of how the industrial process of e-Manufacturing might restructure the practice and making in architecture.
The ability of technologies such as laser-sintering to build models and full-scale architectural projects directly from CAD files will be examined for this ground breaking exhibition.
The project will include the design of a multifunctional exhibition pavilion built using e-Manufacturing.
The pieces to be exhibited will comprise of a section model and one external element of the pavilion at a scale of 1:1.
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Fast Forward: E-Manufacturing in Architecture
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