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isamarcotulli — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:07:45 +0000

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Citings

News: Sally Walsh Lecture, Brazil Tour, Houston Initiatives, Anything That Floats, Mission Impossible, Mike Simonian the Impractical
Calendar
Transit: Proposal for Central Station

Features

Time Warps: Finding Houston in Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen
By Christof Spieler

A Story of Him, Him, and Him
By Brian Hammer

3 Chinese Architects on Tradition, Innovation, and Business: Conversations with Pei Zhu, Wang Shu, and Qingyun Ma
By Julia Mandell

Freedom and Architecture: An Interview with Feminist Economist Amartya Sen
By Raj Mankad

Cultured City: Forward to the Past: The Politics of Reappearance in Shanghai
By Steven Lewis

Taming the Concrete Dragon: An Interview with Scott Slaney
By Thomas Colbert and Raj Mankad

Readings

One Hundred Million Acres & No Zoning by Lars Lerup
Review by Kayte Young

MFAH Selects: New Books on Architecture and Design

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The Farmer is the Man
By Shannon Stoney

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Raj Mankad — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:46:17 +0000

Table of Contents

Citings

News: Spring Lecture Series, San Antonio Tour, Brazil Tour, The Concrete Whisperer, Pablo Ferro Packs the House
Calendar
Architecture: The Menil Café COMMUNITY: Rice Centennial House

Features

“What am I Looking at, Jack? What am I Looking at?” An Introduction to the Special Section on 9/11
By Terrence Doody

The Pictures I Could Not Take: We Have to be Able to Imagine What We Know
By Sally Gall

The Pictures I Had to Take: Because I Knew Words Would Fail Me
By Jack Stevens

Three Novels of 9/11: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Good Life, and Let the Great World Spin
By Terrence Doody

9/11, Houston, and Salman Rushdie: On the Other Side of Fury
By Rich Levy

Placemaking from the Bottom Up: An Introduction to Writing & C/Siting Houston
By Jane Creighton and Carl Lindahl

Shapes of Tradition: Accessing Insider Vision to Understand Architecture
By Carl Lindahl

Exile and Live Oaks: Stories Whispered from the Trees
By Farnoosh Moshiri

The Old Sixth Ward Historic District: Or As We Used to Call it, Del Sesto
By Gwendolyn Zepeda

Insider Visions Photo Well
By Jack Thompson, Rose Kuo, and Lawrence Lander

Keeping the Ghosts Happy: William B. Travis Elementary School
BY Robin Reagler

America Varshe America Kande: Hinduism, Ornament, and the Suburban Box
By Raj Mankad

East Side Ruins: Delighting in Unscripted Spaces Along Buffalo Bayou
By David Theis

Que Huong Supermarket: Rewinding 2600 Travis Street
By Long Chu

Sugarhill Recording Studios: The Story of a House
By Roger Wood

Readings

Art and Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil
Reviewed by John Pluecker

MFAH Selects: New Books on Architecture and Design
By Bernard Bonnet

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Ano Demo-Ni: The Death of Central Presbyterian Church
By Ben Koush

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Raj Mankad — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:43:15 +0000

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Citings

News: RDA Visits Dallas, Long Dawns in Helsinki, High Schoolers Float Past Professionals, China is Big
Letters
Calendar
Architecture: WORKac’s New Angles on the Blaffer
Food: The Agile Food Truck
Musings: Why It Never Gets Dark in Houston
Community: Workshop Houston’s Beat Shop
Economy: Haus Coop Fosters Alternative
Sustainability: An Interview with Bina Agarwal

Features

One Hundred Years of Rice: Contemporary Responses to Tradition
By Mark Cottle and Sabir Khan

Buried Concrete: Is the Re-sculpting of Sims Bayou a Cause for Celebration?
By Raf Mankad

Street of Dreams: Is a Bigger Airline a Better Airline?
By Susan Rogers

Public Art in Four Acts: Houston Arts Alliance Negotiates a Babel of Critics and Patrons
By Matt Johnson

Readings

Review: Architecture as Revolution: Episodes in the History of Modern Mexico by Luis E. Carranza
By Monica Savino

MFAH Selects

New Books on Architecture and Design

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Houston Aleph
By Harbeer Sandhu

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Katie Plocheck — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:35:35 +0000

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Citings

Gala: RDA Honors Art Storey
Photo Essay : The New Natural
News: Home Tour, Sally Walsh Lecture, Spotlight Prize, Anything That Floats
Letters
Calendar
Disaster: What Lessons Learned
Community: Talking Fashion Design

Features

Sidewalks, Steps, and Labyrinths: Navigating Houston in a Wheelchair
By Kelly Moore

An Honest Look at Downtown: The Center of Houston Has Come A Long Way
By Kelly Klaasmeyer

Glass House on a Concrete Canyon: Highway 288 Serves as an Unlikely Front Yard
by Joe Self

Zone-ing Around: Our City’s Ad System of Zoning is No Game
by John Mixon

Food for Thought: Mapping Houston Neighborhoods Reveals a Great Divide
by Susan Rogers

Readings

Hill Contry Deco: Modernistic Architecture of Central Texas by David Bush and Jim Parsons
by Anna Mod

MFAH Selects
Books on architecture and design for all types

Readings

Literary Houston by David Theis (ed.)
by Hank Hancock

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Taking Houston to the Cutting Edge of the Local Food Movement
by Laura Spanjian

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Katie Plocheck — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:21:58 +0000

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Citings

News: New Orleans Five Years Later, Tour Dallas and Helsinki, RDA Gala
Letter
Calendar
Community: Pedro Portillo on the Chopper Shop
Sustainability: John Fernandez on Urban Metabolism

Features

Hidden fabrication: Navigating the Underground World of Houston’s Manufacturing Industry
By José Solís

Still Made in America: Houston is a High-Tech Hotbed for Industry and Fabrication
By Kelly Klaasmeyer

The Business of Craft: The Creative Hurdles and Triumphs of the Independent Fabricator
By Jose Solis

Timelessness is a Veneer: New Technologies and Management Transform Brochsteins
By Allyn West

St. Joe Brick: The Architectural Iconography of Houston Begins in a Louisiana Clay Pit
By Hank Hancock

Roundtable on Fabrication
By Cameron Alexander, Joe Meppelink, Andrew Vrana, Keith Jennings, José Solís, and Raj Mankad

Visualize-Simulate-Fabricate: A Look at Where Building Information Modeling Could Take Us
By Douglas Oliver and Christof Spieler

Readings

Review: TexStone Counters
By Allison Parrott

Hindcite

Boots and the Fabrication of Houston’s Identity
By Jose Solis