An excerpt of the 2013 Legend Michael Graves, FAIA, op-ed in The New York Times, from September 1, 2012, titled “Architecture and the Lost Art of Drawing”
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The supply chain in the American textile industry severely contracts as demand for product grows
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Janson Goldstein designs an edgy new retail concept for one of fashion’s most recognized brands
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Furniture- and industrial-design aficionados will find out in "A Taxonomy of Office Chairs" (Phaidon, 2011), a new book authored by Jonathan Olivares
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Two sustainability experts with the GSA’s Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings outline key aspects of the resilient workplace, which can be applied to any office
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Keys to creating a work environment that appeals to Millennials without alienating Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers
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Art in public buildings must reflect both the vision of the artist and the mission of the architecture
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How should planners and designers determine size, configuration, shape and capacity of educational spaces to support student success?
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Traditional and non-traditional places of worship are designed to engage and inspire
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"Designing for Health" is a monthly, Web-exclusive series from healthcare interior design leaders at Perkins+Will that focuses on the issues, trends, challenges, and research involved in crafting today's healing environment
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How can designers do their part to ease the stress of flying?
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A collection of the industry's best designs from the past year
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Involving nurses in healthcare design can help designers build better projects
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Combining lean design with two emerging healthcare delivery models are changing the way healthcare is provided to its patients.
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Contemporary technology gives preservation a boost
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There are a significant number of buildings in the repositioning market today, and an ever-increasing interest from developers to create highly marketable and financially viable building assets.
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Utilizing BIM for a high-profile commercial interiors project reaped big dividends for Microsoft and SmithGroup
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As the pace of change in modern life accelerates, library design is changing too.
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A Q&A with Dr. Marie Puybaraud, director of global workplace innovation for Johnson Controls, about the generational challenges facing designers of corporate workspaces today.
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What office design characteristics are needed for today’s challenging corporate environment?
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Some of today’s mixed-use projects are using public libraries as anchors—with good results.
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The need to optimize office real estate, paired with today’s on-the-go work style, means traditional office workstation designs are on their way out.
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Efficiency trumps entitlement in law office design, as law firms face the realities of the new economy.
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The convergence of advanced technologies that is currently shaping our society demands a more holistic, collaborative approach synthesizing infrastructure and design to realize complete integration.
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Perkins+Will interior design director and principal Joan Blumenfeld, FAIA, LEED AP ID+C, debates the similarities of interior and urban design.
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For more meaningful progress on green building, sustainable design and sustainable operation must become more intertwined
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From ceiling to floor, clients today are asking designers to find innovative ways to incorporate this natural element without breaking the bank.
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Female Designers Comment (1970): While they acknowledge that desks designed exclusively for females are economically unsound, four top female designers think that desk designs should take into account distinctive feminine needs.
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From 1963: Although the image of the space planner has begun to come into focus, there are still a good many blurry physiognomic details.
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Contract magazine presents a look at the evolution of design over the last half decade in celebration of its 50th anniversary.
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Autodesk, Inc. exemplifies using IPD strategy to complete two redesign
projects.
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HLW presents its 2009 "Rules of Thumb for Interior Construction"
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Philip Freelon, David Adjaye, Max Bond, and Hal Davis of SmithGroup found
collaboration key to landing one of the most coveted commissions of the
decade—the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Acoustics are a critical aspect of building design. But how candesigners make the connection between their drawings of a future spaceand the aural experience of its future users?
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New Ruralism meets New Urbanism in an effort to create truly sustainable communities and an architecture based on the land
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