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...Bryant is not your typical home buyer. She is very poor, and previously lived in a decrepit shack with openings large enough to allow animals to walk through. But Mockbee, 55, is not your average architect. A recent recipient of a "genius" grant from the MacArthur Foundation and an architecture professor at nearby Auburn University, he is a man with a mission. Rural Studio finds people and communities in need of buildings and, using inexpensive and unusual materials, designs structures that are practical and affordable, but at the same time unconventionally beautiful...
...complete redesign of the center by architect Henry N. Cobb in May led to new enthusiasm for the project by commission members...
While I admire landscape architect Julie Bargmann for seeing beauty in lands littered with mine refuse and in acid-laced waters, I hope her obeisance to the scars of the Industrial Revolution doesn't portend future parks. Bargmann has created a restorative park from an archaeological, environmental and artistic standpoint, but parks are also needed for physiological and psychological reasons. The mind is not rested looking at highly troubled landscapes. ANNE LUSK Ann Arbor, Mich...
...abandoned coal mine in Vitondale, Pa., she is creating what she has dubbed a "regenerative park" to capture the horror and the beauty of its industrial legacy. "New parks aren't all that different from the tradition of [Frederick Law] Olmsted parks," says Bargmann, 42, referring to the architect of New York City's Central Park. "Olmsted was actually constructing places that were part of urban life. Our culture is now one of postindustry. Parks need to express that aspect of our culture...
...Most architects make paper drawings, then use design software to visualize those as walk-through images. But Lynn's "paperless" practice brings computers in more radically and from the start. Using programs developed for auto designers and film animators, Lynn can find his way into twisting forms. "You define space in the computer with curves," he says. "Usually an architect would draw points, and connect lines and planes with them. With these programs, we've shifted to thinking of space as the sheltered enclosures of a flexible handkerchief." One thing that makes Lynn new is that he knows why they...