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Do The New Requirements For The Use Of Energy Efficient Lighting Design Mean The End Of Creativity, Dr. Karolina M. Zielinska Oct 2009

Do The New Requirements For The Use Of Energy Efficient Lighting Design Mean The End Of Creativity, Dr. Karolina M. Zielinska

Dr. Karolina M. Zielinska-Dabkowska, IALD, IES, CIE, RIBA

This paper addresses issues strongly connected to recent environmental discussions which are currently taking place in Europe, Asia, America, Australia and other parts of the world about global warming, the Greenhouse Effect, light pollution and other negative impacts artificial lighting has on our planet and what can be done about it. The author also attempts to answer indirectly two of the most important questions for lighting designers, which are: • What is the future of the lighting designers profession? Will that future be bright? • Is it still possible to create amazing, aesthetically pleasing lighting solutions, in line with functional …


Reinventing Airspace: Spectatorship, Fluidity, Intimacy At Pek T3., Alberto Pepe Jun 2009

Reinventing Airspace: Spectatorship, Fluidity, Intimacy At Pek T3., Alberto Pepe

Alberto Pepe

In this article, I explore the contemporary practice of air travel conceptualizing airports as socio-technical mobilities. Drawing both from the notion of “space” posited by Michel de Certeau and that of “non-place” by Marc Augé, I argue that the supermodern nature of air travel has generated forms of crisis that have embedded themselves in the architecture and the modus operandi of contemporary airports. Airports are necessarily located in a physical and tangible sense, yet their function is so tightly coupled with transience, mobility and spectatorship, that they bring anthropological accounts of “place” to unprecedented extremes. In this article, I analyze …


Care, Conservation And Maintenance Of Historic Jewish Property, Samuel D. Gruber Dr. Mar 2009

Care, Conservation And Maintenance Of Historic Jewish Property, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.

Samuel D. Gruber Dr.

Final report of the international seminar held in Bratislava, Slovakia, March 17-19, 2009 that addressed pressing issues of restitution, care, conservation and use of Jewish immovable property in Europe.


Environmental Healthy Requirements In Residential Buildings: Amman As A Case Study, Philadelphia University Jan 2009

Environmental Healthy Requirements In Residential Buildings: Amman As A Case Study, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.


Review Of The First American Women Architects, Madeleine K. Charney Jan 2009

Review Of The First American Women Architects, Madeleine K. Charney

Madeleine K. Charney

Book review of The First American Women Architects by Sarah Allaback, which traces the personal and professional lives of seventy-six women pioneers in the field of American architecture.


Aftermath: Alpha Chi Omega Sorority: Progress Materializes From Adversity, M. Monica Gillen Dec 2008

Aftermath: Alpha Chi Omega Sorority: Progress Materializes From Adversity, M. Monica Gillen

M. Monica Gillen

The role of an architect on any project is some combination of design, coordination and consultation. Every project is different as are the circumstances which surround them. In the case of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority, on the campus of the University of Iowa, Iowa City, the house was destroyed by a tornado that tore through town on Aprill3, 2006. Razing and rebuilding in the aftermath would require close coordination with the architect, builders, local building authorities and the Sigma Chapter members in effort to satisfy the various recovery criteria specific to the locale, including budget constraints, current building safety …