Table of Contents - 2002 and newer

>> Articles 2001 and earlier


ArtGate:  Art Space, Parking Garage and Elusive Platonic Reality

aiaVT Newsletter, December 2005

An architectural competition seeks to get Burlington to think beyond quaint, cute and  comfortable


New Rest Area Expresses the Two Sides of Vermont

Valley News, November 12, 2005

On the northbound side of Interstate 89 in Sharon, a gateway building that is today's answer to Charles Follen McKim's Pennsylvania Station.


McLaughlin Cluster: A Different Sort of Dorm at Dartmouth

Valley News, October 11, 2005

The giant sponge Steven Holl designed for MIT gets awards, but Buzz Yudell's new dorm at Dartmouth will be better at absorbing students.


Nationwide Open House Looks at Solar Living

Valley News, October 1, 2005

A preview of one local stop on the national Solar Tour:  Jeff and Chris Plant's off-the-grid timber-frame home in Cornish Flat, NH.


cheap wall

A Public School for the 21st Century:  It's All About Green

Valley News, September 4, 2005

Hanover's new Richmond Middle School reflects virtuously green design, controversial green cladding and a lack of the green that always matters -- money.


The Beauty of the Strip

Valley News, March 27, 2005

A group of Dartmouth students and their plan to reinvent the notorious Route 12A retail district in West Lebanon owe much to Las Vegas. 


Improvidence

ArchitectureBoston, September-October 2004

What happens when architecture writers become tourists?

Let's just say the police were involved.


Tower Infernos

Seven Days, June 28, 2004

Vermont Argues the Aesthetics of Wind Power

Turbines to join barns and lighthouses as New England icons


Little Boxes Made of Ticky-Tacky

Valley News, March 15, 2004 (est.)

A review of Edward Tufte's The Cognitive Style of Power Point

He's from Yale, so at least it counts as New England.


Responsibility to the Land and the Place

Valley News, May 23, 2004

An interview with Dartmouth College Artist-in-Residence and Bainbridge Island, Washington Architect James Cutler


Not Deconstructivism but Shingles

aiaVT, May 2004

A review of The Distinctive Home by Jeremiah Eck

It's a book to keep the potential clients out of the McMansion


The Pursuit of Happiness at Work

Valley News, March 26, 2004

The new Norris Cotton Cancer Center is institutional architecture that was created as if employees really mattered.


Rapture in Reno:  A Desert Town Gambles on Architecture

Valley News, September 2003

Okay, the Nevada Museum of Art is not in Northern New England.  But this is the kind of architecture Northern New England needs.


A Modest Proposal for a 21st Century New Hampshire Icon

Valley News, May 2003

An op-ed column celebrating the demise of the

Old Man of the Mountain


From Bauhaus to Outhouse

SevenDays, April 2003

High design hits Interstate 89 with the Williston Rest Areas

near Burlington.


PSNH Energy Park in Manchester

What the Emperor Wore to the Awards Banquets

aiaVT, March 2003

A frank assessment of the 2002 edition of the Vermont and New Hampshire AIA awards.


Daniel Libeskind and the World Trade Center

AIA New Hampshire Forum, April 2003

Why the architectural news from New York is an occasion for dancing in the streets -- to the tune of an accordion.


Herzog & de Meuron
Seven Days, February 14, 2003

The renowned Swiss architectural duo get an archaelogical treatment at the Centre for Canadian Architecture in Montreal


Affordable Housing
Valley News, February 15, 2003
Is it possible to design affordable housing in the Upper Valley that is architecturally excellent?

cobbhill Cobb Hill Co-Housing
Valley News, November 2002
"Kit of Parts" architecture, in service of community building.

weese Harry Weese Tribute
AIA New Hampshire Forum, Fall 2002
An appreciation of the design genius behind the Washington Metro

exeter Phelps Hall
AIA New Hampshire Forum, Fall 2002
Philips Exeter Academy proves it is still a great architectural client

dmk Starr Library
AIAvt, 2002
Gwathmey Siegel at Middlebury College

dmk Peter Eisenman
AIAvt, 2002
An account of a smug visit to Dartmouth

folk American Museum of Folk Art
AIAvt, 2002
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien resurrect New York

dmk Above and Beyond
Seven Days, 2002
Building the case against sprawl in Vermont

anderson John Anderson Studio
Seven Days, 2002
An ice house transformed in Burlington

statehouse Vermont State House
Seven Days, 2002
Can Vermont's most important building grow correctly?

dmk Mies in America
AIAvt, 2002
Dispatch from the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal

mayor Heroic in Hanover
Valley News, 2002
Why artist Elizabeth Mayor and orthopedist Michael Mayor are the perfect architectural clients

sagan Danny Sagan and Alisa Dworsky
Valley News, 2002
"Rustic tech" in Tunbridge

skiway Dartmouth Skiway
Valley News, 2002
King and Queen (trusses) in timber-framing orgy

soro Chelsea Street Bridge
Valley News, 2002
Successful bridge architecture in South Royalton

champlain Champlain College
SevenDays, 2002
Contextual design in historic Burlington neighborhood

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