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July 2012
Features
Dual Mode

An elegantly restored research library at UCLA brings the analog and digital worlds together.
Features
Out of the Water

In the aftermath of Katrina, a New Orleans library and
community center reinvents itself through sheer determination.
Features: Still Here
Features: Out of the Water
Features: Dual Mode
Features: Team Works
Features: History Lesson
Features: Connected
Features: The Valladolid Effect
Features: The Graphic Architect
Features: Women Outdoors
Features: Independent Thinking
Features: Channeling Albert Barnes
Features: Payback Time
Features: Who’s Afraid of Frank Gehry
Features: Patterns of Light
Features: From the Inside Out
Features: Exit the Classroom
Notes from Metropolis
Connected

Everywhere I look I see Web-like patterns.

Observed
The Valladolid Effect
The Graphic Architect
Women Outdoors
Independent Thinking

America
Channeling Albert Barnes

Tod Williams and Billie Tsien take on Philly’s most eccentric art collector.

On The Spot
Payback Time
Today, MArch graduates routinely rack up six figures in student-loan debt. Yet starting salaries for architects hover around $40,000. What would you say to a prospective student confronting this huge imbalance between the cost of architecture education and the earning power of newly minted professionals?

Perspective
Who’s Afraid of Frank Gehry

The architect finds himself under attack by right-wing culture warriors.

Materials
Patterns of Light

Five years in the making, Ingo Maurer’s wallpaper is a surprising application of LED technology.

Productsphere
From the Inside Out

The latest surfacing materials for interiors are more adventurous than ever before.

In Review
Exit the Classroom

Graduating design students cross disciplines to produce surprisingly mature solutions.

Reference Page
Reference Page


Still Here

A funny thing happened on the way to its predicted obsolescence.
The library became more popular than ever.


Team Works

Three emerging interior design firms have discovered the key to thriving in a challenging economy: collaboration.

History Lesson

The architect Piero Lissoni slips a thoroughly modern glass addition into a grand old building in the center of Amsterdam.

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