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Audio Library
Spotlight on Design: Mikyoung Kim
Spotlight on Design
May 6, 2015
Landscape architect Mikyoung Kim, FASLA, merges contemporary materials and technologies to create places that heal and enliven the public realm. Principal of the Boston-based firm Mikyoung Kim Design, she shares her collaborative design approach in projects that include the ChonGae Canal Restoration in Seoul, South Korea; Crown Sky Garden at Chicago’s Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital; and the Pendulum Project at Dulles International Airport in Virginia.
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How The Arab Region Views World Heritage And The Islamic State’s Destruction Of It
April 17, 2015
Each week brings more tragic news from the Middle East, where the Islamic State has targeted heritage sites as a tactic of war. On a shocking scale. The West has been emphatic in its outrage. But ISIS is an organization that derives legitimacy from western condemnation; indeed it’s news-cycle driven pattern of destruction and condemnation seems to depend upon it. What is the attitude of the peoples of the Arab Region towards the idea of world heritage and this campaign of destruction? Is a counter narrative with credibility in the region possible, who should deliver it and what role can culture and heritage professionals play in supporting it?
US/ICOMOS in partnership with the National Building Museum, presented a talk on these urgent themes by Mounir Bouchenaki, director of the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage.
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Building Passive, Affordable Housing
Building in the 21st Century
April 15, 2015
In late 2013, the Washington, D.C. chapter of Habitat for Humanity began construction on six “passive” town houses in the Ivy City community in Northeast D.C. These homes, which incorporate elements of the Empowerhouse designed by students in the 2011 Solar Decathlon, employ building technologies such as solar heating and energy recovery ventilation and allow Habitat residents to consume significantly less energy while creating more affordable, sustainable lifestyles. Dan Hines, senior construction supervisor, and Andrew Modley, production manager, both at Habitat for Humanity, discuss the project design and construction.
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Chinatown Green Streets
Smart Growth
April 8, 2015
The Chinatown Green Street Demonstration Project, spearheaded by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and located in the Chinatown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., involves the design and installation of an interconnected series of vegetated systems to manage stormwater, beautify the public right of way, and enable safe access for all users of all ages and abilities. Deborah Steinberg, ASLA, representing the client, and Steven Spears, ASLA, representing the design team, explain how this project aims to become a world-class model for green and complete streets. This program is presented in April in celebration of National Landscape Architecture Month.
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Design for Health and Hope
Generative Space Series
April 2, 2015
Discover the recently-opened Conway Health and Resource Center at Community of Hope in Bellevue, which provides homeless and underserved families in Southwest D.C. with resources to become healthy, stably housed, well-educated, and financially secure. Project designers Tamara Cavin, IIDA, and David Cordell, ASID, of Perkins+Will outline the importance of the evidence-based interior design principles employed at this LEED Silver center, which include maximum daylighting and flexible “universal” rooms to accommodate myriad clinical functions and patient demographics.
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Small and Sustainable
Building in the 21st Century
March 17, 2015
Brian Levy commissioned the first Minim House in 2013. Working closely with Foundry Architects on the design and Element Design+Build on the construction of the tiny house, Levy went on to found Minim Homes LLC to make the plans for and completed versions of micro homes with cutting-edge sustainable technologies widely available. Levy speaks about these technologies, including off-grid electric and water, cooling, heating, and air quality systems appropriate for small dwellings.
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Beatrix Farrand
Portraits in Design
March 15, 2015
Beatrix Farrand (1872–1959) was an American landscape architect whose career included commissions to design nearly 110 gardens for private residences, estates and country homes, public parks, botanic gardens, and college campuses. Few of these projects survive, including Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C.; the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden, on Mount Desert, Maine; and elements of the campuses of Princeton, Yale, and Occidental. Lynden B. Miller, a public garden designer in New York City and director of The Conservatory Garden in Central Park, speaks about the life and work of Farrand, who was the only woman among the founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
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People Habitat
Smart Growth
March 4, 2015
Elements of our built environment—homes, workplaces, neighborhoods, cities, and regions—must work in harmony with each other and the natural environment in order to be sustainable. Longtime smart growth leader Kaid Benfield, author of People Habitat: 25 Ways To Think About Greener, Healthier Cities, shares eight key thoughts about better communities, including why cities sometimes don't matter as much as we may think, how green housing developments may be no such thing, why Americans don't walk much anymore and why, ultimately, sustainability must come from the heart.
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Sharon Davis Design: Needs Beyond Architecture
Women of Architecture
March 4, 2015
Sharon Davis, principal of the New York-based Sharon Davis Design, emphasizes social justice, economic empowerment, and sustainability in such projects as the Women’s Opportunity Center in Rwanda (completed June 2013), which has been featured in Architectural Record and Metropolis and which earned the 2011 World Architecture Festival Award for Best Future Educational Project.
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Off the Rails - Part 4: Q&A
Smart Growth
February 23, 2015
The Arlington County Board’s decision to cancel the Columbia Pike Streetcar challenges both proponents and opponents of the project to find other mass transit solutions for the area. Stewart Schwartz, executive director, Coalition for Smarter Growth, and Peter Rousselot, spokesman for Arlingtonians for Sensible Transit, discuss the pros and cons of streetcars, bus rapid transit, and the steps to achieve a mixed-use, walkable, bikeable, and transit-oriented community.
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