News

23 Tadao Ando wins AIA Gold Medal*
26 Examining WTC wreckage*

Departments

15 Editorial: Prize research*
17 Letters*
39 Dates & Events*
43 Archrecord2: For the emerging architect*
47 Correspondent’s File: LACMA by John E. Czarnecki, Assoc. AIA
51 Critique: Riff on Rem by Michael Sorkin
55 Exhibitions: Tadao Ando by Mildred Schmertz, FAIA
59 Snapshot: Ijburg Bridge by James S. Russell, AIA
192 Profile: Topher Delaney by Elizabeth Harrison Kubany*

Features

64 Drawing: The Creative Link by Sophia A. Gruzdys
Architectural schools shouldn’t jettison courses in drawing, as an analysis of the work of several innovative architects shows.
72 Design Intelligence and the New Economy by Michael Speaks
It may look as if the landscape changed after 9/11, but features of the new economy are alive and shaping architectural practice.

Projects

80 Graduate House, University of Toronto, Ontario
by Suzanne Stephens*
Morphosis
Modernist housing typologies combine with a brash energy to
signal this dormitory’s gateway status.
86 Allston Library, Boston by Robert Campbell, FAIA*
Machado and Silvetti Associates
More a community center than a place for books.
92 The Eden Project, Cornwall, England by James S. Russell, AIA*
Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners
With domes that bubble out of Cornwall’s ruined landscape, Nicholas Grimshaw’s botanical vision emerges with a sci-fi twist.
100 Guggenheim Las Vegas Exhibition Hall, and Hermitage Guggenheim Gallery, Las Vegas by Clifford A. Pearson*
Office for Metropolitan Architecture
High culture meets lowbrow America head-on.

Building Types Study 805

111 Essay: Transportation by James S. Russell, AIA
114 JFK Terminal 4, Queens, New York by Sarah Amelar*
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
120 ICE Station, Frankfurt, Germany by James S. Russell, AIA*
Bothe Richter Tehrani
124 Portland International Airport, Portland, Oregon
by Sheri Olson, AIA*
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca
New: For additional transportation projects, go to Building
Types Study at www.architecturalrecord.com. The monthly expanded Web BTS features project descriptions, photographs,
drawings, statistics, and links to people and products.

Building Science & Technology

131 New Ways to Build Better, Faster, Cheaper
by Sara Hart*
Architects Steve Kieran and James Timberlake use technology transfer to rewrite the laws of conventional wisdom in design and construction.
141 Digital Architect: Virtual design studios by Jerry Laiserin, AIA*

Lighting

147 Introduction
149 Creative Uses
150 Nordic Light Hotel, Stockholm by William Weathersby, Jr.*
Designers wash a Nordic hotel’s interiors with a paint box of light.
158 Toys “R” Us, New York City by Nayana Currimbhoy*
The theatrically lit landscape of a flagship toy store beckons.
163 Lighting Products

Products

167 Wood flooring
171 Product Briefs
176 Product Literature

48 What’s at architecturalrecord.com
178 AIA/CES Self-Report Form*
180 Reader Service*
182 Manufacturers’ Spotlight
190 Classified Advertising*