AIArchitect This Week | March 7, 2008

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aiarchitect | volume 15 the news of america’s community of architects

march 7, 2008



Special Edition: Saving Our Future by Building on Our Past Preserving Modern Architecture in the Postmodern World Preserving Modern Architecture: What, Why, Where, and How? Modern Buildings: A More Nuanced Notion of Worth


Modernism’s Siren Song, Restored Iconic Belluschi Structure Receives Landmark Status—and a Renovation The Pittsburgh Civic Arena: Memory and Renewal


Rehabilitation of Henry Wright’s Ramirez Solar House For the People: Preserving Wright’s Usonian Houses The Neutra House: Adaptive Reuse and Relocation of One of “Three Small Houses in an Orchard” Preserving Kahn’s Bath House


TWA Corporate Headquarters Rockets to New Use Pfeiffer Architects Helps Washington State U Renovate Its Student Union Building and Pursue LEED Accreditation Four Buildings Under the Gun
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	AIA STORE Recording Historic Structures, 2nd Edition CONTRACT DOCUMENTS Questions Regarding the AIA Contract Documents 2007 Update? CORNERSTONE PARTNERS What Is a Cornerstone Partner?			CES What Is AIA Florida up to? AIA ADVANTAGE Professional Resources: MASTERSPEC® AIA TRUST Cover Personal and Business Expenses if Disability Strikes

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Defusing Boomer Building Time Bombs
We might be at the dawn of one of the greatest periods of reconstructive surgery ever. And Contributing Editor Michael J. Crosbie, PhD, AIA, is not talking here about nose jobs and facelifts. All across the country there are buildings that were designed and constructed sometime between Eisenhower’s first term and Nixon’s final helicopter ride off the South Lawn that are detonating in a dazzling display of self-destruction, he says.
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Theodore H.M. Prudon, PhD, FAIA is the founding president of DoCoMoMo/US (The Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites, and Neighborhoods of the Modern Movement), the U.S. chapter of the international organization dedicated to preserving Modern structures.
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Discussion strings this week:
Transforming AIA HQ
What to Save?
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