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Designing For Future Building Adaptive Reuse Using Adaptstar, Sheila Conejos, Craig A. Langston

Craig Langston

Designing future buildings with embedded adaptive reuse potential is a useful criterion for sustainability. Adaptive reuse is an emerging and significant design strategy that supports global climate protection and emissions reduction. Building adaptive reuse is a viable alternative to demolition and replacement; it entails less energy and waste, and can offer social benefits by revitalizing familiar landmarks and giving them a new lease of life. This paper describes the development of a new rating tool known as adaptSTAR, suitable for assessing future adaptive reuse potential at the time a building is designed. This paper reports on the methodology used to …

Owen Jones' The Grammar Of Ornament, John Jespersen

Kresten Jespersen

No abstract provided.

Form And Meaning, John Jespersen

Kresten Jespersen

As did Owen Jones, Bloomer argues for a modern style of ornament to decorate a modern architechture. Based on formal laws rather than theories of classical or naturalism imitation, conventionalization can be seen as being explicitly modern. More-over, deriving from the work of ornament, these laws are dependent on intrinsic rather than extrinsic principles.

Owen Jones And The Conventionalization Of Ornament, John Kresten Jespersen Ph.D.

Kresten Jespersen

Owen Jones, an architect and theorist of ornament, is best remembered as an ornamenter of distinction. His theory and practice of conventional ornament, his powerful color, and his original forms which had their origins in the ornament of the Alhambra substantiate the claim that he was the greatest ornamenter of his age. The book analyzes the theory of conventionalization as it applies to ornament, color, architecture and interior design. In particular, the book explores repose as the psychological and spiritual outcome of his ornament.

Expand What Exists: A Contrast With Old And New, M. Monica Gillen

M. Monica Gillen

Architects work with clients to think carefully about ideas and plans both as a big picture and through the details. As the staff at OPN Architects Des Moines studio considered these items for their own work space, the process became a series of discussions about a space they would create.

Refurbished And Restored: A New Home For Members Of The Iowa State Bar Association, M. Monica Gillen

M. Monica Gillen

The restored home of the Iowa State Bar Association (ISBA) is the public face for the organization. With a renovation plan in 2006, the ISBA purchased property at 625 E. Court Ave. in Des Moines.

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 …

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 …

Information Technology And Architectural Practice: Knowledge Modeling Approach And Bim, Ajla Aksamija, Mir Ali

Ajla Aksamija

This paper presents recent developments in information technologies and their impact on architectural design. It presents a practical technique for knowledge-based information modeling extending the currently prevailing Building Information Modelling (BIM) to include information beyond the building elements, and to foster analysis during the design process. Interactive web-based application for information discovery and design analysis is discussed as a case study. The application integrates several aspects of the early schematic design, and is intended for demonstration of integrated design factors.

Centum Homines: The Prototype Of The Alexander Mosaic And The Military Museum In The Hellenistic World, Peter Nulton

Peter E. Nulton Ph.D.

Although it is generally accepted that the Alexander Mosaic copies a painting of the 4th Century BCE, the attribution of this prototype has never been settled. Numerous attempts have been made to associate it with painters recorded in Pliny's Natural History, notably Philoxenos of Eretria, and Alexander's court painter, Apelles.

If the painting were the work of any artist whose name survives, as strong a case can be made for Aristeides of Thebes as for Apelles or Philoxenos. Since Pliny's comment that Aristeides painted a battle against the Persians follows his treatment of the works of Apelles, he is likely …

Iowa Architect: Promoters And Believers Usher Transformation For Trade And Inhabited Areas Around Iowa, M. Monica Gillen

M. Monica Gillen

The Neighborhood Development Corporation (NDC) has been involved in varying commercial development projects, which include multifamily rental housing, hotel and retail and business development. Plans have included a mix of new construction and transformation of existing, often historic, buildings.

A Culture Served: A Neighborhood Evolves And The Economy Revitalizes, M. Monica Gillen

M. Monica Gillen

The La Plaza on Grand Avenue in Des Moines seeks to generate retail stability for Hispanic and Latino residents and economic movement in the area.

Iowa Architect: Promoting The Noteworthy Design Of Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow, M. Monica Gillen

M. Monica Gillen

To create, fashion and construct is to design. Ideas begin in the mind and are brought out through various acts of creativity, including but not limited to drawings and writings. An underlying theme governs the process and the plan becomes the means for articulating its execution.

From Object To Installation In Bruno Taut’S Exhibit Pavilions, Kai K. Gutschow

Kai K. Gutschow

This paper, part of a JAE special issue on "Installations by Architects," investigates the artistic and philosophical origins of Bruno Taut’s Glashaus (1914) exhibit pavilion in order to reinterpret the famous building as an experimental, free-standing “installation” that rose above being merely a pragmatic exhibition space. In close collaboration with the critic Adolf Behne and the Expressionist poet Paul Scheerbart, Taut designed a three dimensional manifesto for a utopian “glass architecture” that sought to express “a higher passion to build.” Both the collaborative construction process he envisioned and the radical new experiences inside were intended as vehicles to greater cultural, …

An Ames Icon: A New Building And Expansion To Iowa State Center, M. Monica Gillen

M. Monica Gillen

The Bergstrom Indoor Training Facility in Ames, Iowa, has changed the rules of the practice game and how that game is played by Iowa State University athletics.

The Culture Of Criticism: Adolf Behne And The Development Of Modern Architecture In Germany, 1910-1914, Kai K. Gutschow

Kai K. Gutschow

This dissertation investigates the early career of the German architectural critic Adolf Behne (1885-1948) and the crucial role he played in defining and promoting an early vision of modern architecture. During the particularly vibrant cultural moment in Germany before World War I, Behne became intent on finding artistic and architectural alternatives to what he perceived as the elitism, materialism, and decadence of Wilhelmine society. Influenced by the cultural program of the Socialist party, Behne believed that modern art had to be made accessible to all, and that modern architecture must be grounded in a "social conscience." The theories of Expressionist …

One Room For Living: A Display For Fixtures, Finishes And Fine Art, M. Monica Gillen

M. Monica Gillen

If the commission is to design a living space, then trust is imperative. If an architect could imagine a dream project, then that exercise might come with a directive from the client to "have at it." According to Marc Moen, developer and the owner of a newly remodeled loft in the vibrant downtown area of Iowa City, he said exactly that to Tim Schroeder AlA, of Neumann Monson Architects. Moen's and partner, Bobby Jett's relationship is historically tested and based on certain expectations that the architects have met consistently.

Entries "Germany,” “Frankfurt,” “Taut, Bruno,” And “Werkbund Exhibition, Cologne 1914”, Kai K. Gutschow

Kai K. Gutschow

No abstract provided.

Interview: Stan Allen *88, Rebuilding America, Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham, Eric Lubell

Ludmilla D Pavlova

Interview with Stan Allen, Dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture, discussing why Princeton is so well represented among the finalists for the World Trade Center competition and how the University and its faculty has influenced architecture and architectural discourse.

Prehistoric Modernity: The Architecture Of Frank Gehry, Ian Rae

Ian Rae

No abstract provided.

Restructuring Architecture’S History: Historicism In Karl Bötticher’S Theory Of Tectonics, Kai Gutschow

Kai K. Gutschow

Paper in conference proceedings.

Contribution To “Purnell Architecture Spurs Debate About Style”, Kai K. Gutschow

Kai K. Gutschow

No abstract provided.

Exhibition Review Of “Macht Und Monument, Moderne Architektur In Deutschland 1900-2000,” At Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt, Kai Gutschow

Kai K. Gutschow

No abstract provided.

Review Of Adolf Behne, Modern Functional Building, Ed. Rosemarie Haag Bletter (Getty 1996), Kai K. Gutschow

Kai K. Gutschow

No abstract provided.

The Mosque: History, Architectural Development & Regional Diversity, Ed. By Martin Frishman And Hasan-Uddin Khan (Review), Roberta Dougherty

Roberta L. Dougherty

Review Of Exhibition Catalogue Reform Und Tradition: Moderne Architektur In Deutschland 1900 Bis 1950, (Hatje 1992), Kai Gutschow

Kai K. Gutschow

No abstract provided.

“Revising The Paradigm: German Modernism As The Search For A National Architecture In The Writings Of W.C. Behrendt”, Kai Gutschow

Kai K. Gutschow

No abstract provided.

Owen Jones' The Grammar Of Ornament: Field Theory In The Post-Modern Studio, Kresten Jespersen

Kresten Jespersen

A suggested use of Owen Jones's great encyclopedia of ornament for the contemporary architectural studio. the article is the outcome of a course given for the students in the Undergraduate Architecture Program by Prof. Kent Bloomer and myself in 1984.

Form And Meaning: The Conventionalization Of The Leaf Ornament, Kresten Jespersen

Kresten Jespersen

As did Owen Jones, Bloomer argues for a modern style of ornament to decorate a modern architecture. Based on formal laws rather than theories of classical or naturalistic imitation, conventionalization can be seen as being explicitly modern. Moreover, deriving from the work of ornament, these laws are dependent on intrinsic rather than extrinsic principles.

Mcgill College, William Notman

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