by Craig Webb as told to Jade Chang – July 20, 2007 via MetropolisMag.Com
Craig Webb, a partner and project designer at Gehry Partners, discusses several of the challenges and the innovative solutions involved in the creation of New York’s Inter­ActiveCorp headquarters. The full story from our June issue can be found here.
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by David Sokol – November 26, 2007 via MetropolisMag.Com
Responsible vehicular design is taken to task at the Art Center College of Design.
In March 2005, Stewart Reed had a homecoming to southern California. The 1969 transportation-design graduate of Art Center College of Design returned to Pasadena to take on the chairmanship of the department. Although Reed [...]

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by Martin C. Pedersen – November 7, 2007 via MetropolisMag.Com
One of the challenges in covering sustainable design is its inherent complexity. To get beyond the superficial forces mere journalists like us wade into the deep and uncharted waters of product engineering and (god forbid) chemistry. So, where do you begin? How do you organize such [...]

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by Elizabeth A. Evitts – October 23, 2007 via MetropolisMag.Com
For the first time in the history of the Solar Decathlon competition, a European team has taken top honors. German students from Technische Universitat Darmstadt beat out 19 other collegiate teams in the Department of Energy’s third Solar Decathlon held on the National Mall in Washington [...]

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by Alysha Brown – September 27, 2007 via MetropolisMag.Com
Alain de Botton has written about everything from Proust (How Proust Can Change Your Life, 1997) to love (Essays in Love,1993) to travel (The Art of Travel, 2002). In his most recent book, The Architecture of Happiness, the writer, who also moonlights as a philosopher, producer, and [...]

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