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VOL. 19/NO. 2 APRIL 2006
Table of Contents
PROFILE
A Continuum of Ideas
The University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation offers an interdisciplinary program that integrates preservation, urban planning and design. This approach, as well as to the practical experience offered through its extensive international study programs and the nearby resource that is Washington, DC, has made the school a breeding ground for New Urbanist practitioners. By Kim A. O'Connell
FEATURE
Picking Up the Pieces
Throughout New Orleans, LA, both national and local preservation groups are moving quickly to try to save buildings and homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina. The first steps in saving the city's rich architectural legacy involve assessing the damage and stopping – or at least slowing – the plans for demolition. By Martha McDonald
PROJECT REVIEW
A New Sensibility
In the first of a series of project critiques, architect Steven W. Semes reviews Léon Krier's design for the recently completed Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL. The eclectic building, he argues, offers itself not as a rebuke to the Modernist buildings around it, but as a mediator.
By Steven W. Semes
RECENT PROJECTS
Adaptive Reuse: Architects' Showplace
A restoration by Norfolk, VA-based Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Co. has given the Virginia Center for Architecture a new home: a 1919 Tudor Revival mansion originally designed by John Russell Pope. The Richmond, VA, structure now includes a museum,
galleries, gift shop and offices and was converted without compromising its historic fabric.
Restoration: Cloisters Unveiled
Led by Walter B. Melvin Architects, of New York, NY, the six-year, ongoing restoration of The Cloisters, which houses some of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of artifacts from the Middle Ages, has the 1930s structure looking medieval once again.
Restoration: Courtly Gestures
Today's court tennis players can now enjoy the centuries-old game at the historic court at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, NJ, thanks to a renovation directed by Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects, LLC, of Princeton, NJ.
BOOK REVIEWS
How the West was Won
A History of Western Architecture, 4th Edition by David Watkin
Reviewed by David Mayernik
Roses and Domes
Visions of Heaven: The Dome in European Architecture by David Stephenson and The Rose Window: Splendor & Symbol by Painton Cowen
Reviewed by Nicole V. Gagné
Four Quests
Ralph Adams Cram: An Architect's Four Quests – Medieval, Modernist, American, Ecumenical by Douglass Shand-Tucci
Reviewed by Ethan Anthony
THE FORUM
Preserving Modern Architecture in the Postmodern World
By David N. Fixler, AIA, Principal, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, Architecture & Engineering, and President, DOCOMOMO-US/New England
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