march 14, 2008
  Legacy Architecture: The Locus of Community, Art, Economics, Environment
The landscape architecture firm Design Workshop orchestrates their projects within a four-ringed comprehensive and collaborative approach that balances the elements of art, community, economics, and environment. The projects that are most successful, Chair Kurt Culbertson says, are the ones that fall in the center of the Legacy rings, where the elements are in balance. The theory is the outgrowth of an academic notion of practice that led the designers to form their partnership 35 years ago.

Project Watch: Pittsburgh’s Baum-Liberty Mixed-Use Development
Developers to build “live-stay-work-play” complex
DOC-Economou is in the preliminary design phase of a mixed-use complex at the site of a former car dealership on two main arteries in Pittsburgh’s historic Bloomfield and Shadyside neighborhoods. The 1.2 million-square-foot project will feature upscale townhouses and condominiums; a multilevel interior arcade with offices, a medical facility, and retail space; and a high-quality hotel. It’s all part of a $230–$250 million development of a “live-stay-work-play” complex in the SouthSide Works.

Frances Hesselbein Calls for Leadership at Grassroots
Grassroots keynote speaker asks the AIA to lead, build alliances in a time of social change
Frances Hesselbein, founding president and chair of the Board of Governors of the Leader to Leader Institute, gave a rousing keynote address on February 22 at the 2008 AIA Grassroots Leadership and Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C. Hesselbein is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998 for being a pioneer for women and diversity for her role at the Leader to Leader Institute, formerly the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, and as chief executive officer of the Girl Scouts from 1976–1990. Hesselbein discussed the importance for architects to be leaders of social change and to build alliances with other organizations.

 

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