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Archinect's Lexicon: "Information Architecture"

Archinect

For this installment, we're featuring a term that featured heavily in a book by recent Archinect interviewee Molly Wright Steenson , and which was coined by upcoming Archinect interviewee Richard Saul Wurman. It involves designing, creating, and managing the structural design of shared information systems.

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COTE Book TALK: People, Planet, Design

SW Oregon Architect

I attended the latest Committee on the Environment (COTE) book talk hosted by AIA Oregon back on February 8. The virtual presentation, produced by Island Press, featured author Corey Squire , AIA and his new book People, Planet, Design: A Practical Guide to Realizing Architecture’s Potential.

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New AS+GG book explores design process behind world’s tallest towers

Archinect

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) has published a new book charting the firm’s design and delivery of some of the world’s tallest structures. Titled Supertall | Megatall: How High Can We Go? , Central Park Tower by AS+GG. To go back and see something that was done 15 years ago, and how that's weathering, or how.

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Archinect's 2022 Holiday Gift Guide

Archinect

This year, our team's recommendations range from must-read books, fun home goods, and our favorite coffee accessories to accompany Archinect's Brutal coffee. If you're looking for a book that's filled with easy-to-digest information about malls, their nostalgic appeal, and fabled history, this is the perfect book to add to your library.

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Oliver Wainwright on RIBA's '100 Women: Architects in Practice,' a new primer for industry-wide change

Archinect

In an industry where the gender pay gap has widened in recent years, where all-male panels at conferences are not unusual, and where macho culture still prevails on building sites, a book like this, sadly, still has a place. the clients who say they just can’t find women with the right experience.

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Sasaki will oversee redevelopment of Santa Monica Airport into park space for LA County

Archinect

A framework will come first in Phase One and precedes a draft of the project’s guiding principles in Phase Two, with the eventual naming of a study-informed ‘preferred scenario’ and alternative suggestions being produced by the end of Phase Three.

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The Fractals at the Heart of Indigenous African Architecture

ArchDaily

They have emerged as swirling patterns within the frontiers of mathematics, information technology, and computer graphics. Image © Musée de l'Homme Fractals are complex geometric shapes with fractional dimensional properties.