July 25, 2008
  AIA Philadelphia Opens Center for Architecture
AIA Philadelphia last month opened its Center for Architecture, an 8,000-square-foot adaptive reuse of a 100-year-old industrial loft structure. The center, located on the ground floor in the downtown building, will serve as the new home for AIA Philadelphia, its Bookstore and Design Center, and the Community Design Collaborative organization. The center, with its inviting glass front, encourages architecture students and the public to enter the bookstore and provides a venue for interaction with AIA members.

IPD Overcomes the Divergence of Design and Construction
"The future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed," said Autodesk Vice President Phillip Bernstein, FAIA, July 9 at the Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Quoting science fiction writer William Gibson, Bernstein was explaining the slow-to-take-hold yet impending revolution of integrated project delivery.

ADVENTURES IN ARCHITECTURE: THE SERIES
Il Duomo: Brunelleschi and the Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore
Episode 7: The Machines
Return with us to the 15th century as we accompany Filippo in his quest to solve the technological challenges of lifting the dome materials high into the air. We will experience his triumphs in designing and constructing equipment that outlasted the great master himself; accomplishments that a young Leonardo da Vinci would later admire and record with his drawings. Join Jim Atkins, FAIA, as we look at the great machines that would change architecture; inventions that would enable and perhaps launch the beginning of that golden age known as the Renaissance.

 

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