Articles by Laura Raskin

Snapshot: Light Pavilion

January 16, 2013

“How many works does an architect need to build to be valid? One,” said Steven Holl recently, referring to the late Lebbeus Woods's only permanent structure, Light Pavilion, which is embedded in (and juts out from) one of five towers that make up Holl's Sliced Porosity Block in Chengdu, China.

Laura Raskin

January 11, 2013

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The 600,000-square-foot project will break ground in the new city of Tianjin, China, in spring 2013. At a December lecture at New York City's Cooper Union, Steven Holl spoke about the swiftness with which his Tianjin Ecocity Ecology and Planning Museums were designed and approved—as opposed to the 15-year gestation period for his Knut Hamsun Center in Hamarøy, Norway. He sketched the ecology museums on August 31, 2012, the designs were approved on November 2, and construction of the 600,000-square-foot project is set to begin this spring, said Holl. The museums, which the architect said are visually dependent on each

Laura Raskin

December 17, 2012

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Photo courtesy Carlos Zapata Studio Carlos Zapata’s design for a 12,000-seat soccer stadium in Cité Soleil, Haiti. Carlos Zapata, who designed Chicago’s Soldier Field football stadium with Benjamin Wood in 2003, has just unveiled his design for a pro bono stadium in Cité Soleil, Haiti. The 12,000-seat soccer stadium will include an attached school and sports complex in a phased development. The project, dubbed Phoenix Stadium, will be used by underprivileged youth—and eventually a new professional team seeded, in part, by the best of them—in what is considered to be Haiti’s poorest and most dangerous slum. It is being spearheaded

Waccabuc House

Husband and wife Chan-li Lin and Denise Ferris design a modern house with a dramatic structure in Waccabuc, New York.

Laura Raskin

December 16, 2012

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Based in New York City, Chan-li Lin has worked for Rafael Viñoly Architects for 22 years, focusing on large projects.

Laura Raskin

December 16, 2012

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A husband-and-wife team has gone back to basics, studying the material and structural innovations of centuries past to create new systems for building. Lonn Combs and Rona Easton, married in life as well as in practice, have spent the last year living and working in Rome. Combs won a Rome Prize in Architecture in 2011 and, with Easton, has been studying Italian architect and engineer Pier Luigi Nervi’s groundbreaking innovations with concrete. In a way, their time in Rome has been a mirror of their practice in recent years. Just as they are taking the time now to “slow down

The Architecture of Architecture Schools

Laura Raskin Asad Syrkett

November 19, 2012

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As Marc Treib writes in an essay in Joan Ockman's Architecture School: Three Centuries of Educating Architects in North America, architecture-school buildings haven't changed much from their early-20th century design roots:

Brous Scherer House

James Gauer, with Bildsten + Sherwin Design Studio, creates a small house with an early modernist feel in Santa Barbara, where Spanish Colonial still reigns.

Laura Raskin

November 15, 2012

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Situated on a skinny lot at the edge of downtown Santa Barbara, California, architect James Gauer’s 1,500-square-foot Brous-Scherer house is an anomaly in a town known for its code-enforced adherence to the Spanish Colonial style.

Laura Raskin

November 6, 2012

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Muji design director Kenya Hara launches a line of starchitect-designed dog houses. Architecture fans and dog lovers unite! Sou Fujimoto - Boston Terrier On November 20, Kazuyo Sejima, Shigeru Ban, Sou Fujimoto, Toyo Ito, Kengo Kuma, and six other renowned architects will launch the results of a project kept under wraps for months: a line of breed-specific dog houses commissioned by Muji design director Kenya Hara, who has also designed an abode (for the Toy Poodle). Some of the environments—"house" is a loose term here—will be sold through an accompanying website. Others are meant to inspire DIY copies: download a

Wissioming2

Robert Gurney’s Wissioming2 is a suburban refuge outside bustling Washington, D.C., with Mondrian-inspired windows and cubic volumes nestled in the Maryland woods.

Laura Raskin

October 16, 2012

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While Washingtonians haven’t exactly led the pack in their desire for modern residences, Robert Gurney, a D.C.-based architect, says that has dramatically changed since he began his practice in 1990.

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Street Smart: How to Create a City Within a City

Laura Raskin

October 16, 2012

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Cleveland's three largest employers'Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, and University Hospitals'sit just shy of East Cleveland, the most bombed-out part of town, where foreclosures and population decline have taken the highest toll.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 0.1 IACET CEU

This course highlights the benefits, applications, and design potential of expanded mesh and perforated metal in creating sustainable, inspiring architectural projects.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/Elective; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 0.1 IACET CEU

This webinar offers strategies to develop next-gen leaders, enhancing value, retention, and resilience for architecture firms.