Oobject Has A Great List of 8 Super Skinny Buildings

www.oobject.com has a great list of skinny buildings. Check them out here oobject » 8 super skinny buildings

My favorite so far is the Haussmann building in Paris

Dewey Decimal System for Architecture

·         720 Architecture

o       720.8 Architecture with respect to kinds of persons

o       720.9 Historical, geographic, persons treatment

·         721 Architectural Construction (structure)

·         722 Ancient & Oriental Architecture - Architecture to ca. 300

o       722.004 Italian Architecture 

·         723 Medieval - Architecture from ca. 300 to 1399

·         724 Modern - Architecture from 1400

·         725 Public Structures

·         726 Buildings For Religious Purposes

o       726.002 Great Abbeys In Britain

·         727 Buildings For Educational & Research Purposes

·         728 Residential & related Buildings

o       728.7 Vacation houses, cabins, hunting lodges, houseboats, mobile homes

o       728.8 Large and elaborate private dwellings

o       728.812 Castles in Wales

·         729 Design & Decoration of structures & accessories

Click the link below for a view of an old 1906 book: 

An extension of the Dewey decimal system of classification applied to architecture and building

http://www.archive.org/stream/extensionofdewey00rickrich#page/n1/mode/2up

The American Institute of Architects - Architecture Week 2010

National Architecture Week Kicks Off Architecture Week 2010       April 11-17

To showcase that tool all architects have, the AIA is launching Architecture Week 2010—a year-long virtual spotlight on the legacy and power of design and architects’ contributions to communities across the nation. Focusing on the tagline, Design Matters, Architecture Week 2010 will take place on the AIA’s social networking sites, Facebook and Twitter.  Click here to see the AIA's webpage.

The American Institute of Architects - Architecture Week 2010, Practicing Architecture

ArchitectureWeek Magazine - Free Downloads

Architectureweek Magazine offers Free architectural software and product-related downloads, courtesy of their  sponsors...  click here to view.

ArchitectureWeek - Download Center - 2010.0331

Third-party Certification Bodies Being Phased Out

According to Green Building Law Update the Green Building Certification Institute's (GBCI) is phasing out the use of third party certification bodies over the next two years.  Read the article here.


RIP LEED Certification Bodies : Green Building Law Update

Museum of the San Fernando Valley (MSFV)

The Museum of the San Fernando Valley has a Board-level Conservation Committee and maintains an emergency contact list to immediately notify individuals and organizations who have a stake in historic preservation.


If you wish to add your name and contact information to The Museum's Conservation list, please them at: 
1 (818) 347-9665

Visit thier blog at MSFV

AIA Los Angeles Spring Home Tour

AIA Los Angeles Spring Home Tour

VENICE | SUNDAY APRIL 11TH | 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

AIA member: $65.00 | Non-member: $75.00

Featuring homes by designers:

• Trevor Abramson, FAIA & Douglas Teiger, AIA - Abramson Teiger Architects
• Barbara Bestor, AIA - Bestor Architecture
• Glen Irani, AIA - Glen Irani Architects
• Patrick Tighe, AIA - Tighe Architecture

Tours are SELF-DRIVEN. AIA|LA encourages you to support sustainability and bike between homes!

Architects/Designers and Docents are available at each home to answer questions.

Limited tickets available day of tour for $85.

Home Tours - AIA / Los Angeles

'London Eight' - SCI-Arc - Los Angeles

English architect Peter Cook, Cook invited five architects who currently teach at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London to participate in a show at SCI-Arc along with a protege of their choosing.


The show will feature three-dimensional objects, bas-relief pieces, handmade and digital drawings, and collages.

SCI-Arc

960 E. 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

10 a.m. - 6 p.m. (ends May 16th)

'London Eight' - SCI-Arc - Los Angeles, CA 90013 | Find Local Los Angeles

'Vivarium' - SCI-Arc - Los Angeles

From the LATimes.com's arts & culture gallery:

Juan Azulay, a member of the SCI-Arc faculty and the director of L.A. architecture firm Matter Management, explores the relationship between technology, media and environmental preservation with this experimental installation. "Vivarium" consists of a monolithic sunken pyramid housing a collection of organisms that are variously real, robotic or simulated. This self-contained ecology will grow and self-stabilize throughout the exhibition period of three months.

Opening reception Friday, March 26, 7 p.m.-9 p.m. Exhibition discussion with Azulay and SCI-Arc director Eric Owen Moss on Friday, April 9, 7 p.m. Held in the SCI-Arc Gallery.

SCI-Arc

960 E. 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

10 a.m. - 6 p.m. (ends May 16th)

'Vivarium' - SCI-Arc - Los Angeles, CA 90013 | Find Local Los Angeles