NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Buildings consume roughly 40 percent of the energy consumed in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Even more staggering to consider, improving the energy efficiency of commercial and industrial buildings by 10 percent would be equivalent to removing 30 million cars off the road. Intended to raise awareness of energy efficiency as it relates to the built environment--and ultimately, our cities--is a new exhibition called Buildings=Energy (E=BLDGS), opening Oct. 1, 2011, at the Center for Architecture, home to the AIA New York chapter. The exhibit, which runs through Jan. 21, 2012, explores how the myriad choices designers, planners and engineers make have the power to change energy consumption on a large and impactful sc...
, by Gabrielle Esperdy, is reviewed.
This is an edited version of an essay, "Who Should Have a Hand in Building a New Financial Architecture?" written by Jessica Walker Beaumont, AFSC Economic Justice Program Analyst, Arnie Alpert, AFSC New Hampshire Program Coordinator, and the rest of the AFSC Economic Justice team. The original was posted at www.afsc.org/EconomicJustice/US. President [George W. Bush] invited the leaders of twenty nations with the largest economies (known as the "G20" nations), plus representatives of the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the Financial Stability Forum, to participate. French President Nicolas Sarkozy is calling for a follow-up session in about 100 days. A historic window of opportunity is opening that depends on pressure from public opinion for a ...
Buffalo is accustomed to hosting large conferences, but there's something special about the one that begins Wednesday and runs for four days. For the first time, the annual conference put on by the Washington, D.C.-based National Trust for Historic Preservation, the nation's pre-eminent preservation organization, is coming to Buffalo.
Russian gangs tussling in St. Petersburg; the demolition of an apartment building just outside of Paris; and a massive circular- shaped housing project in Kiev, Ukraine, may seem like three very different things. But for Berlin-based artist Cyprien Gaillard, they all have something in common. As subjects in front of his lens, they all are anachronisms. Having medieval undertones, these buildings and events could have happened or existed at any time over the past 15,000 years. They are all part of Gaillard's video "Desniansky Raion," currently on display in "You Are Here: Architecture and Experience," the latest exhibit to fill the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art.
Accreditation systems can be analyzed in terms of the designer’s choices in three dimensions. One dimension is purpose of accreditation, where purpose may relate to program quality or quality of outcomes. The second dimension consists of types of accreditation norms used to achieve these purposes. There are five principal types of norms available in this dimension: process-quality norms, output norms, powerallocation norms, self-determination norms, and consumer-protection norms. The third dimension consists of degree of regulation, which includes prescriptiveness or extensiveness of regulation. A sound accreditation system will make choices along each of these three dimensions. Understanding the range of possible structures helps one design, revise, and effectively analyze accreditatio...
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