The Architect's Newspaper September 2019
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In Memoriam: César Pelli
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In Memoriam: Cristiano Toraldo di Francia
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China’s infrastructural geopolitics
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ICYMI Eavesdrop Highlights Marketplace
Drawing Rooms
Forced Labor, Forced Out
Sam Jacob’s Cartoon Museum opens with a bang. See page 8.
A new group of experts wants to eradicate modern slavery in the built environment.
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The 2018 Global Slavery Index estimated that 24.9 million people around the world are enslaved in forced labor. Although the practice underpins much of the global 21st-century building economy—for example, the index noted that of all imports to the United States that are at risk of being produced under conditions of modern slavery, timber was the fifth largest by value—its invisibility to many in the U.S. has kept the issue from attracting widespread professional attention. But as consumers become more concerned with where their pants are being made, who grows their coffee beans, and their electricity use, it’s reasonable to expect them to demand that the architecture they inhabit is realized without slave labor, too. The U.S. garment industry—which last year imported $47 billion worth of slave-produced pieces from China, India, Thailand, and Vietnam, among other countries— has been slowly responding to awareness around its corrupt continued on page 20
Studio Visit: Akoaki
The Detroit firm talks about what’s driving its work in the Motor City. See page 18.
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Deans List The country’s newest architecture deans on their visions, role models, and mascots. academic institutions teach and address issues related to the built environment for years to come. But in an era of collaborative learning and community engagement, what does deanship look like? AN asked eight of the country’s new deans about their plans for the future of their schools and their discipline. Here’s what they have to say. continued on page 12
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For many architecture and design schools across the United States, 2019 marks a shift in institutional leadership. From Charlotte to Berkeley, new deans will assume the helms of some of the country’s most challenging—and exciting—programs. The deans will have the opportunity to shape design pedagogy and practice in significant ways, potentially guiding how
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2019 Best of Products Awards See page 33.
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