The Architect's Newspaper July/August 2022
Q&A: Bruce Mau talks S,M,L,XL, Massive Change, and Mau— plus hope page 11
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A competition aims to recognize the Black history and future of Africatown page 14
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In L.A., AN visits with John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects page 24
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Thomas Phifer and Partners shelters an artwork by Richard Serra page 26
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Eavesdrop In Construction Case Studies Marketplace Highlights
Safety Amid Uncertainty
THIS IS AMERICA
Carter Design Associates updates an Austin Planned Parenthood clinic in time for the post–Roe v. Wade era. Read on page 9.
Reset, on view at the Center for Architecture in New York, offers collectively designed visions of community. Read on page 30.
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Midjourney Madness
Otherworldly images generated by artificial intelligence are blowing up internet feeds everywhere. AN investigates. Read on page 12.
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Architects Bartlett Respond to Breakdown IPCC’s Findings and Beyond In April, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its Working Group III’s Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. The report’s contents strengthened the case made by the previous two segments of IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) for extensive, accelerated action against greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. These prior reports established the basic science and found that climate changes so far appear at the high end of previous estimates. The Mitigation report explores what societal actors can—and must—do to slow the pace of global warming. UN secretary-general António Guterres minced no words in introducing the report, charging high emitters with “not just turning a blind eye [but] adding fuel to the flames. […] Climate activists are continued on page 7
“We break you and build you into a Bartlett Army,” one student was told during a crit at the U.K.’s most prestigious and influential architecture school, according to a recent report. The 119-page investigation by consultancy Howlett Brown, published in June, has lifted the lid on a “toxic culture” at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London (UCL) stretching back decades. In response, UCL has apologized for an “inexcusable and pernicious underbelly of bullying” and suspended several unnamed staff. The Bartlett controversy, which arrived months after controversy at SCI-Arc in L.A., is the latest reckoning over what UCL described as “longstanding problems with the culture of the architecture sector.” However, some senior industry figures have branded the report continued on page 10
Glass
Facades, skylights, and mirrored interiors—and more. Read on page 39.
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