 AIA Indiana Honors Four Firms with 2009 Design Awards
AIA Indiana recently honored four Indianapolis architecture firms at its annual design awards ceremony during the 2009 AIA Ohio Valley Region Convention. CSO Architects received an honor award for the Bartlett Reflection Center on the campus of DePauw University in Greencastle, BSA LifeStructures won a merit award for an addition and renovation of Second Presbyterian Church, Ratio Architects received a citation award for Indianapolis International Airport Operations Center, and Axis Architecture + Interiors received a citation award for the design of an Indianapolis downtown home. 
 Howeler + Yoon’s Eco-Pods Bring (Green) Industry Back to the City
For some architects, today’s convergence of economic catastrophe with greater awareness of sustainable design has prompted a reactionary vision of architecture based on humility, restraint, and timidity. Buildings that use earth berm walls to hide into hillsides using the simplest, unrefined materials can re-teach the design community how to create enclosure that once again exists in balance with nature and the economy. But, by relying on design techniques first forged by pre-agricultural humanity, they give little indication of how architecture can express its own sense of sustainable modernity.
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